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Workshop Program 
Accepted
Papers
Count on me: Lightweight
Ad-Hoc Broadcasting in Heterogeneous Topologies
Carl Ellis (Lancaster University),
Hugo Miranda (University
of Lisbon),
Francois Taiani (Lancaster University)
A Middleware Service for
Pervasive Social Networking
Sonia Ben Mokhtar (University College
London), Liam McNamara (University College
London),
Licia Capra (University
College London)
Spontaneousware: A
Middleware Framework for Ad Hoc Networks
Vando Batista (UFPE, Brazil), Nelson Rosa (UFPE, Brazil)
Body Sensor Networks: Can we
use them?
Pedro Brandao (University
of Cambridge), Jean Bacon (University of Cambridge)
Supporting Context Awareness
in Smart Environments: a Scalable Approach to
Information Interoperability
Alessandra Toninelli (DEIS -
University
of Bologna),
Paolo Bellavista (DEIS - University of Bologna),
Susanna Pantsar-Syväniemi
(VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland),
Eila Ovaska (VTT Technical Research Centre of
Finland)
Toward a Framework
Supporting Designers to Develop Tangible Devices
Hiroaki Kimura (Waseda
University), Tatsuo Nakajima (Waseda University)
Epidemic Protocols for
Pervasive Computing Systems – Moving Focus from
Architecture to Protocol
Martin Mogensen (University of Aarhus, Denmark)
Problem
Space
Building on the success of the previous editions of MPAC and MobMid, this event combines the
thematic areas of the two workshops and aims to develop a research
roadmap on essential middleware abstractions and platforms for pervasive mobile
and embedded systems.
In recent years, the rise of relatively powerful mobile
communication devices like mobile phones, mobile Internet devices, and
netbooks, as well as several types of embedded devices, like TV set-top
boxes, iPods, Kidle, etc, has enabled a wide spectrum of novel pervasive
applications, such as healthcare monitoring, sport tracking,
context-aware collaborative computing, etc. Moreover, with the rise of
cloud computing infrastructures developers have also started exploring
the possibility of empowering resource-constrained mobile devices with
such infrastructures offering unlimited storage and computing resources.
Developing practical applications for this kind of devices is
still in most cases a complex and time-consuming process. Many of the
existing applications have been built in an ad-hoc manner and without any
possibility for code reuse. As the number and type of mobile and embedded
devices, and pervasive applications increases, so does the need to enable
interoperability among them. Identifying appropriate middleware
abstractions and organizing successfully used protocols, algorithms, and
software modules into generic middleware platforms can facilitate
application development, foster software reuse, and enable rapid prototyping
of pervasive applications.
It is unclear and in many respects still an unexplored research
area to what extent traditional middleware services can be provided on
these devices. Porting existing middleware architectures to these new
computing platforms turns out to be often infeasible. Instead, a thorough
reconsideration of middleware abstractions and their supporting
infrastructure is needed to allow applications to make effective use of
the available computational power, memory, communication technologies,
integrated sensors, etc. An ideal middleware platform should be capable
of handling the resource constraints of these devices but at the same
time exploit their unique features such as availability of location
information, embedded sensors, mobility, spontaneous interaction,
context-awareness, etc.
Topics
The main topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:
1.
Device platforms
- Virtualization
technologies and applications
- Distributed Ensembles
- Interaction paradigms
and protocols
- Emerging mobile platforms
(e.g. Android)
- Virtual machines (J2ME,
.NET, etc)
2.
Networking
- Emerging wireless
technologies and platforms
- Experiences or case
studies with new technologies (WiMax, WiBree, LTE, etc) and devices
(MIP, UMPC, wearables, etc)
- Multi-link scenarios: WiFi,
Bluetooth, cellular network
- Quality of service and
network selection
3. Data issues
- Data formats and
encoding
- Availability and
durability of data in personal networks
- Synchronization of
personal devices with other consumer electronics (e.g. cameras, iPods,
etc)
- Data portability
4. Adaptability
- Context-awareness,
location monitoring
- Resource management,
cyber foraging, and energy-awareness
- Using cloud
infrastructures for computing-intensive tasks and data storage
- Autonomics and self-*
properties
5. Security and
Privacy
- Privacy preservation
and identity management for device-to-device interactions
- Security architectures
balancing risk and utility
- Trust management in
device ensembles
- Mobile device data
security
6.
Mobile Web
- Web architectures
(REST, Ajax)
in pervasive computing
- Context adaptation and
management in pervasive computing
- Mobile web scalability
and reliability in access
- Content adaptation on
mobile devices
7.
Applications
- Healthcare,
entertainment, games, mobile TV, smart spaces, etc.
- Mobile phones in sensor
and ad hoc networks
- Application development
on mobile and embedded devices
- Programming models
8.
Experiences and case studies
- Lessons from deployments
- User experiences
- Performance studies
Submission
Submissions
should not exceed 6 pages and should be formatted using the ACM
proceeding style (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html). Submission implies that at least one of the authors
will register and present the paper. Please submit your paper in PDF at http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/external/m-mpac2009/openconf/.
Papers should present a view of the state of
the art in a particular sub-problem area, identify specific middleware
challenges, and suggest potential avenues for exploration by proposing
models, abstractions and infrastructure components addressing these
challenges. Approximately two thirds of the workshop will be devoted to
the presentation and discussion of these papers, while the remaining
third of the time will be devoted to the development of the research
roadmap.
Papers will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the programme committee.
The review process will be based upon identifying the relevance and
potential of the position statement to contribute to the elaboration of
the roadmap and to stimulate discussion.
All accepted papers will appear in a special workshop
proceedings volume in the ACM Digital
Library.
The publication of the best workshop submissions and the research roadmap
in the style of previous events is under investigation.
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: August 10th 2009 (extended)
Notification of
acceptance: September 15th 2009
Workshop papers
camera-ready: October 1st 2009
Author
registration deadline: October 14th 2009
Workshop date: November 30th
2009
Programme
Committee
Paolo
Bellavista,
Universita di Bologna,
Italy
Gordon
Blair, Lancaster University, UK
Cristian
Borcea, NJIT, US
Renato
Cerqueira, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Dan
Chalmers, University of Sussex, UK
Domenico
Cotroneo, University of Naples, Italy
Didier Donsez, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble I, France (Publicity Chair)
Markus
Endler, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Roy
Friedman, Technion, Israel
Nikolaos
Georgantas,
INRIA, France
Fabio
Kon,
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Rene
Meier, Trinity College
Dublin, Ireland
Tatsuo
Nakajima, Waseda University, Japan
Nitya
Narasimhan,
Motorola Labs, US
Oriana Riva, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Workshop
Co-Chair)
Luis
Rodrigues,
Technical University of Lisbon,
Portugal
Romain
Rouvoy, Universite Lille 1, Fance
Patrick
Stuedi,
Microsoft Research, US
Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde,
UK (Workshop Co-Chair)
Venu Vasudevan, Motorola Labs, US
Luis Veiga, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
(Proceedings Chair)
Lin
Zhong, Rice University, US
For any questions about the camera-ready versions of the papers please contact the Proceedings Chair luis.veiga<at>inesc-id.pt (replace <at> with @)
If
you have any question then contact
Sotirios.Terzis<at>cis.strath.ac.uk (replace <at> with @)
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