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Workshop
Program 
Accepted
Papers
Exposing Position Uncertainty in Middleware
J.L. Jensen (Alexandra), M.B. Kjargaard (Aarhus
University), T. Toftkjar (Systematic A/S), K.R. Schougaard
(Aarchus
University)
Jano
– Specification and Enforcement of Location Privacy in Mobile and
Pervasive Environments
J. Simao (ISEL), C. Ribeiro (INESC
ID/ Technical University of Lisbon), P. Ferreira (INESC ID/ Technical
University of Lisbon), L. Veiga (INESC ID/
Technical University of Lisbon)
The Virtual Network System
J. Maatta (Aalto University), R. Jarvinen
(Aalto University), R. Luostarinen (Aalto University),
J. Manner (Aalto
University)
Beaconing support in Publish-Subscribe Middleware for
Vehicular Applications
V. Gianuzzi (DISI - Universita di Genova), A. Merlo (DISI
- Universita di Genova)
A Location Based Security Framework for Authenticating Mobile
Phones
L. Francis (Royal Holloway
University of London),
K. Mayes (Royal Holloway University
of London), G. Hancke
(Royal Holloway
University of London), K. Markantonakis
(Royal Holloway University of London)
Model-based Translucency in Middleware: Supporting Seamful Development
K.R. Schougaard (Aarchus University), J.L.
Jensen (Alexandra)
System Support for Anywhere Anytime Personal Computing
Environment
M. Al-Mutawa (University
of Colorado), S. Mishra (University
of Colorado)
Middleware Student Participation
Grants
The Middleware conference offers a number of Student Participation
Grants.
Check out the Grant Information
at the main Middleware 2010 website.
Visa Information
A visa is necessary to enter India.
Check out the visa information
at the main Middleware 2010 website.
Note that workshop presenters and organisers can receive an
invitation letter as described in the above web page.
Problem
Space
Building on the success of M-MPAC 2009
(that combined the previous editions of MPAC and MobMid),
this event aims to carry on development of a research roadmap on
essential middleware abstractions, platforms and applications for
pervasive mobile and embedded systems.
This year is marked by the resurgence of tablet devices (e.g. iPad and a myriad of competing products) that aim to
combine the performance of PCs with the portability and freedom of PDAs. This trend drives an increase in the popularity
of pervasive mobile and embedded computing. Recent years have also
witnessed the rise (and sometimes resurgence) of relatively powerful
mobile communication devices such as mobile phones, mobile Internet
devices and netbooks, as well as several
embedded devices, like TV set-top boxes, portable media players (e.g.
iPods), eReaders (e.g. Kindle), etc. These devices
have enabled a wide spectrum of novel pervasive applications, such as
healthcare monitoring, enhanced shopping applications/environments,
ad-hoc gaming, sport tracking, street navigation and observation,
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
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
- Identity federation
6.
Mobile and Social Web
- Web architectures
(REST, Ajax)
for 3-screen usage in pervasive computing
- Context and content
adaptation and management in pervasive computing
- Mobile web scalability
and reliability in access
- Content adaptation on
mobile devices
- Collaborative search
7.
Applications
- Healthcare,
entertainment, games, mobile TV, smart spaces, shopping, street
navigation, 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 8 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-mpac2010/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
is under investigation.
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: August 15th 2010 (extended)
Notification of
acceptance: September 15th 2010
Workshop papers
camera-ready: October 1st 2010
Workshop date: November 29th
2010
Programme
Committee
Paolo Bellavista, Universita di Bologna,
Italy
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
Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA, France
Paul Grace, Lancaster University, UK
Rene
Meier, Trinity College
Dublin, Ireland
Sonia
Ben Mokhtar, CNRS Lyon,
France
Sougata Mukherjea, IBM Research, India
Shrikant Naidu, Motorola India
Lab, India
Tatsuo
Nakajima, Waseda University,
Japan
Nitya Narasimhan, Motorola Labs, US
Aaron
Quigley,
HILT Lab, University of Tasmania,
Australia
Oriana Riva, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Luis
Rodrigues, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Romain Rouvoy, Universite Lille 1, France
Patrick
Stuedi, Microsoft Research,
US
Francois
Taiani, Lancaster
University, UK
Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde,
UK (Workshop Co-Chair)
Venu Vasudevan, Motorola Labs, US
Luis Veiga, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
(Workshop Co-Chair)
Ian
Wakeman, University
of Sussex, UK
If
you have any question then contact Sotirios.Terzis<at>cis.strath.ac.uk
(replace <at> with @)
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