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                          CALL FOR PAPERS

                          MOBIQUITOUS 2007 
The 4th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems:  
                Computing, Networking and Services
                      http://www.mobiquitous.org
                    August 6-10, 2007 - Philadelphia, PA

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The combination of mobile and ubiquitous computing is emerging as a promising new paradigm. Through the use of mobile devices and devices embedded in the surrounding physical environments, users can be provided transparent computing and communication services at all times and in all places. The complexity of providing such services stems from the fact that the communication devices and the objects with which they interact may both be mobile. The implementation of such a paradigm requires advances in wireless network technologies and devices, development of infrastructures supporting cognitive environments, discovery and identification of ubiquitous computing applications and services, and an understanding of the cross-layer interactions between all of these components. 
The Fourth Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems:

Computing, Networking and Services (Mobiquitous-07) will provide a forum where practitioners and researchers coming from many areas involved in ubiquitous solutions, design and deployment will be able to interact and exchange experiences needed to build successful ubiquitous systems. Areas addressed by the conference include applications, service-oriented computing, middleware, networking, agents, data management and services, all with special focus on mobility and ubiquitous computing.

PAPERS: Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, are solicited. 
Technical papers clearly identifying how the specific contributions fit to an overall working solution are particularly of interest. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following feature topics as applied to mobile and ubiquitous environments:

- Ubiquitous architectures, systems and applications
- Wearable computing and personal area networks
- Wireless technologies for mobile and ubiquitous
    (Bluetooth, ZigBee, 802.15.x, WiFi)
- Wireless Internet access in ubiquitous systems
- Ad hoc and sensor networks support for ubiquitous computing
- Reconfigurability and personalization of wireless networks
- Wireless/mobile service management and delivery
- Security, privacy and social issues of mobile and ubiquitous systems
- Service and knowledge discovery, matching and composition mechanisms
- Location-based services and tracking in ubiquitous environments
- Context- and location-aware applications
- Agent technologies in ubiquitous, wearable, and mobile systems
- Context modeling, services and frameworks
- Toolkits, testbeds, development environments, and languages for
     ubiquitous computing
- Rapid prototyping of ubiquitous applications
- Ontologies for mobile and ubiquitous computing
- Mobile and ubiquitous data management and processing
- Data replication, migration and dissemination in ubiquitous environments
- Queries, transactions and workflows in mobile and ubiquitous environments
- Multimodal interfaces (speech, video kinetic, tactile)

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All paper submissions will be handled electronically (see the conference web page for details). Authors should prepare an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of their full paper. Papers must not exceed 8 pages double column (US Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. The font size must be at least 10 points.

PUBLICATION: All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the international technical program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers of particular merit will be proposed for publication in the ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) journal.

WORKSHOPS: Four workshops will be run in conjunction with the conference.
The purpose of these workshops is to discuss work in progress and explore opportunities for new research related to mobile and ubiquitous systems: 
computing, networking and services. Proposals for workshops should be at most four pages in length and should be submitted to Dr. Suman Banerjee by February 1, 2007.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Workshop Proposal Deadline: February 1, 2007 
Paper Registration Deadline: March 13, 2007 
Paper Submission Deadline: March 20, 2007 
Notification of Acceptance: May 4, 2007 
Camera-ready Manuscripts due: June 4, 2007


CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

GENERAL CHAIR:
Guohong Cao, The Pennsylvania State University

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIR:
Robin Kravets, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
Anind Dey, Carnegie Mellon University
Hui Lei, IBM

WORKSHOP CHAIR:
Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin-Madison

DEMO CHAIR:
Hao Zhu, Florida International University

POSTER CHAIR:
Al Harris, Universita di Padova
Dong Xuan, Ohio State University

FINANCE CHAIR:
Karen Decker, ICST

PUBLICATION CHAIR:
Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue university

PUBLICITY CHAIR:
Antonio Capone, Politecnico di Milano
Wensheng Zhang, Iowa State University

LOCAL CHAIR:
Zhen Jiang, West Chester University of Pennsylvania

WEB CHAIR:
Hui Song, Penn State University

CONFERENCE COORDINATOR
Anna Rieger, ICST

STEERING COMMITTEE
Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net (chair)
Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento 
Tom La Porta, Penn State University 
Chiara Petrioli, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza"
Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland Baltimore County 
Michele Zorzi, Universita di Padova

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
See  http://www.mobiquitous.org

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