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Building on the success of the 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006
workshops, this workshop seeks to develop a roadmap for research on the
essential middleware abstractions and infrastructures for ad-hoc and
pervasive computing in general, and sensor-based services in particular.
Over the past decade, large-scale ad-hoc and pervasive computing
environments have grabbed the attention of the research community as
evidenced by the large number of research and development projects in the
area. However, despite considerable progress, the promise of pervasive
computing still remains elusive. The diversity in currently available
devices, networking infrastructure and information content has
complicated research efforts, forcing many projects to focus only on
point-examples of this technology.
This workshop is premised on our belief that underpinning middleware
mechanisms are central in weaving together the multitude of sensing,
computing, communication and information technologies. In this respect,
middleware for pervasive computing and ad-hoc networking provides two
core research areas. In particular, pervasive computing middleware will
allow you to take advantage of the resources in your environment to
tailor your services and applications for seamless access and
unrestricted mobility. Ad-hoc networking middleware will permit the
formation of ad-hoc communities for new applications. However, such
pervasive and ad-hoc environments pose some serious challenges to
existing middleware technologies and approaches.
A synthesis of the discussion that took place in the MPAC 2003, 2004 and
2005 workshops has led to the identification of the following topics of
interest for the workshop, this list is by no means exhaustive:
- Sensor networks:
applications, infrastructure, middleware support and emerging
standards (OMG DDS, IEEE/NIST 1451.x, OSGi WireAdmin, JSR256 &
257 …);
- Calculi for sensor
data, and middleware support for their processing and distribution;
- Sensor data mining;
- Component-based and
service-oriented architectures, and design patterns for sensor based
services;
- Theoretical foundations
and middleware support for context based adaptation for mobile
pervasive systems, and sensor-based services;
- Mobile device-centric
sensing platforms and services;
- New notations for
specifying context-sensitive systems;
- Ad-hoc communities:
applications, infrastructure and middleware support;
- Roles and
responsibilities in ad-hoc communities;
- Group management and
communication support for ad-hoc communities;
- Ad-hoc network
communications, quality of service, management and middleware
support;
- Service-connection
middleware and architectures;
- Support for zero
configuration;
- Middleware for
self-assembly, self-configuration, self-distribution and autonomic
computing in general;
- Data management
infrastructures for ad hoc and pervasive systems;
- Ambient information
systems and applications;
- Trust, security, and
privacy for pervasive systems and sensor based services;
- Privacy preservation
and identity management for device-to-device interactions;
- Reliability and
availability in pervasive systems and sensor based services;
- Middleware
infrastructures supporting novel applications of pervasive and
ad-hoc computing (e.g. advertising, healthcare, gaming, mobile TV,
etc.);
- Tangible computing
(surface computing, RFID/NFC, 2D and 3D barcodes);
- Experiences or case
studies with new technologies (WiMax, WiBree);
- Technology trade-offs
(agent infrastructures, mobile code systems, event based
middleware);
- Resource discovery and
management;
- Virtualisation
technologies and applications, especially for task migration;
- Implications of
heterogeneity (addressing needs for protocol interaction across
technologies).
Submission
The workshop format will be focused around submission of position papers
of no more than 6 pages. Please submit your papers in PDF, using the ACM
proceeding format (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html),
to the web site http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/external/mpac2007/openconf/.
Papers are solicited that 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 2 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 the ACM Digital Library as well as in a CD
companion proceedings issued to the workshop participants.
Appropriate publication of extended versions of the best workshop
submissions and the research roadmap along similar lines to the special
issue on middleware and systems software for pervasive computing of the Journal of Personal
and Ubiquitous Computing and IEEE Distributed Systems Online
is being investigated.
Important Dates
Workshop papers submission: August 10th, 2007 (Final)
Workshop paper
notification of acceptance: September 3rd, 2007
Workshop papers
camera-ready: October 6th,
2007
Workshop dates: November 30th,
2007
Programme
Committee
Christian Becker, University of
Mannheim, DE
Dan Chalmers, University of Sussex, UK
Paolo Costa, Vrije
Universiteit, NL
Domenico Cotroneo, University of Naples, IT
Simon Dobson, University College
Dublin,
IE
Didier Donsez, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble I,
FR
Markus Endler,
PUC-Rio, BR
Valerie Issarny,
INRIA, FR
Spyros Lalis, University of Thessaly, GR
Nitya Narasimhan,
Motorola Labs, US [co-chair]
Priya Narasimhan, Carnegie Mellon University, US
Steve Neely,
University College Dublin, IE [co-chair]
Paddy Nixon, University College
Dublin,
IE
Vincent Olive, France Telecom RD,
FR
Jon Robinson, University of Sussex, UK
Karsten Schwan,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
US
Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde, UK [co-chair]
Jean-Yves Tigli, Universite de Nice Sophia
Antipolis, FR
Venu Vasudevan, Motorola Labs, US Lin Zhong, Rice University, US
If
you have any question then contact either
Sotirios.Terzis<at>cis.strath.ac.uk (replace <at> with @)
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