Call for Papers
First International Workshop on Managing Context Information in Mobile and
Pervasive Environments (MCMP�2005)
www.site.uottawa.ca/~mkhedr/MCMP05
In conjunction with The 6th International Conference on Mobile Data Management
(MDM'2005)
May 9, 2005 � Ayia Napa, Cyprus
Workshop Organizers
W. Mansoor, Zayad University, U.A.E
M. Khedr, University of Ottawa, Canada
D. Benslimane, Lyon 1 University, France
Z. Maamar, Zayad University, U.A.E
Programme Committee
P. Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy
U. Bellur, IIT, India
P.-A. Champin, Lyon 1 University, France
G. Chen, Dartmouth University , USA
B. Esfandiari, Carleton University, Canada
R. Garcia, UP, Spain
H. Harroud, University of Ottawa, Canada
G. Kouadri, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
S. Kouadri, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
T. Kanter, Ericsson, Sweden
T. Lemlouma, INRIA, France
J. M�ntyj�rvi, VTT, Finland
N.C. Narendra, IBM Software Labs, India
K. Pousttchi, University of Augsburg , Germany
A. Schmidt, University of M�nchen, Germany
D. Taniar, University of Monash , Australia
A. Vakali, University of Athena, Greece
Scope
The increasing popularity of mobile devices (e.g., laptops, mobile phones, and
PDAs), and advances in wireless networking technologies are enabling new
classes of applications targeting environments characterized by being dynamic,
mobile, reconfigurable, and personalized spontaneously. These applications and
their targeted environments raise challenges to application developers, as they
have to be aware of the variations in the execution context such as location,
time, users� activities, and devices� capabilities in order to tune and adapt
applications� intended functionalities.
Developing and managing these types of applications that are context-aware
would be extremely complex and error-prone if not supported by management
facilities capable of acquiring, modelling, manipulating, reasoning, and
disseminating context information. This is because application developers would
have to deal with these issues in a proprietarily manner and consequently would
be distracted from the actual requirements of the applications they are
developing on one side and would hinder the interoperability of these
context-aware applications on the other side. Unfortunately, current
networking, computing, and management technologies do not fully support such
model of automated adaptability based on context. The workshop will address
these challenging issues focusing on exploring novel methods to manage context
information targeting pervasive and mobile environments.
Relevant topics
� Novel algorithms for acquiring and disseminating context from
physical and logical sensors.
� Middleware and agent systems support to managing context in pervasive
environments.
� Innovative approaches for modelling, reasoning, storing, and
manipulating context information.
� Management of context information in deterministic and
non-deterministic pervasive environments.
� Facilities to provide persistence services based on context.
� Exploiting new types of context information such as network-, social-
and system-related context and approaches for managing these new types of
context.
� Managing multiple environments and processes of context exchange.
� Methods of leveraging Internet service providers from passive
carriers to context-oriented service providers addressing large scale pervasive
environments.
� Service discovery and invocation based on context.
� Activity-based computing and its relation to the context aware mobile
computing.
� Context aware Mobile database transactions and query processing.
� Evaluation metrics of the effectiveness of management techniques for
context information.
Papers and Evaluations
Authors are invited to submit electronically original papers in PDF format to
([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Papers length should not exceed 10
pages in LNCS camera-ready style. All papers will be reviewed. For more
information, contact one of the workshop chairs at [EMAIL PROTECTED],
wathiq.mansoor/[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Deadlines
Submissions due: December 22, 2004
Acceptance notification: January 22, 2005
Camera-ready papers submission: February 22, 2005
Workshop: May 9, 2005
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