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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Esteemed colleagues, </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Please accept our sincere apology if you receive multiple copies of
this mail. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Due to numerous requests the deadline for paper submission is extended
until February 18, 2007. Please note the new deadlines in the CFP.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>CALL for PAPERS</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>ICPS’07: IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services
July 15-20 2007, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Istanbul</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region></st1:place></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>(www.icpsconference.org)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>SCOPE</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Pervasive services are emerging as the next paradigm for distributed
and mobile computing, in which services built out of pervasive infrastructure
and information, and are seamlessly available anywhere, anytime, and in any
format. This exciting new paradigm is the result of recent research and
technological advances in wireless & sensor networks, distributed systems,
Grid computing, mobile & agent computing and autonomic computing &
services.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services
(ICPS'2007), to be held in The Marmara Hotel, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Istanbul</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
provides a forum for researchers, engineers, application & service
developers and users to present their latest advances in the field of pervasive
services. Use cases and usage models for these pervasive services are of
particular interest to the conference. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>TOPICS</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Original contributions are solicited in all pervasive computing &
services research and applications. Contributions for industry and application
sessions are also solicited. Topics include, but are not limited to:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>* Pervasive and autonomous computing and architectures</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>* Mobile Computing</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>* Wearable Computing</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>* Smart Devices and Networks</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>* Wireless & Sensor Networks</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>* Middleware support for pervasive and mobile computing</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>* Pervasive computing and Management</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>* Speech processing / advanced computer vision</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>* User interfaces and interaction model</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>* Positioning and Tracking Technologies</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>* Programmable and active networks</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>* Service dissemination and discovery protocols</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>* Environments & algorithms for pervasive application development</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>* Runtime support for intelligent, adaptive agents</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>* Security services for applications in pervasive environments</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>* Programming paradigms for pervasive computing applications</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>* Pervasive computing applications requirements</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>* Performance measurement and Benchmarking</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>PAPER SUBMISSION</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>ICPS’2007 invites authors to submit original and unpublished
work. Please follow the guidelines on conference web site to submit
extended abstracts (10 pages maximum in IEEE double-column and PS or PDF
format). Questions concerning hardcopy submissions or any other issues may be
directed to the Program Co-Chairs. Submission implies the willingness of at
least one of the authors to register and present the paper.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>TUTORIALS and WORKSHOPS</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Tutorial and workshop proposals are solicited. Further information can
be obtained by contacting the Tutorials Chair or the Workshop Chair.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>PROCEEDINGS</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society
Press and distributed at the conference. Selected papers of best quality will
be published in a special issue of the Journal of Pervasive Computing and
Communications (JPCC) in 2007.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>IMPORTANT DATES</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>* Submission deadline: February 18, 2007</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>* Notification of acceptance: March 26, 2007 </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>* Final Manuscript due: April 30, 2007 </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>* Workshop proposals due: January 14, 2007 </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>* Tutorial proposals due: January 14, 2007</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>COMMITTEES</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>-----------</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>General Co-Chairs</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Fusun Ozguner, <st1:City w:st="on">Ohio State University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region> Buyurman Baykal, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Middle East Technical University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region></st1:place></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Program Co-Chairs</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Ali Akoglu, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of
Arizona</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Ozgur Ercetin, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Sabanci
University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region></st1:place>
</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Steering Committee</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA Mazin Yousif, Intel
Corporation, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Jean-Marc Pierson, INSA Lyon,
France Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Aris M. Ouksel, University of
Illinois at Chicago, USA</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Program Committee</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Alex Delis, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Univ. of Athens</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Greece</st1:country-region></st1:place></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Antonio Liotta, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of
Essex</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia Augusto Celentano,
University Ca'Foscari, Italy Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Greece
Claudia Roncancio, IMAG, France Cristian Borcea, New Jersey Institute of
Technology, USA Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, England Gianluca Moro,
Universiy of Bologna, Italy Gunter Haring, University of Vienna, Austria Hakan
Erdogan, Sabanci University, Turkey Hasan Cam , Arizona State University Helen
Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Hongbing Wang, Southeast
University, China Ibrahim Korpeoglu, Bilkent University, Turkey Iqbal Ahamed,
Marquette University, USA Jaafar Gaber, UTBM, France Jalal Almhana, University
Moncton, Canada Julie Mc Cann, Imperial College, UK Karin Hummel, University of
Vienna, Austria Karl Aberer, Ecoles Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne, SWI
Larry Kerschberg,George Mason University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis
Xavier University, Canada Marian Scuturici, INSA Lyon, France Martin S.
Olivier, University of Pretoria, South Africa Mine Kalkan, Istanbul Technical
University, Turkey Nazife Baykal, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Omer
Rana, University of Cardiff, UK Osman Balci, Virginia Tech, U.S.A Paul Roe,
Queensland University of Technology, Australia Pinar Yolum Birbil Bogaziçi
University, Turkey Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University Sara Tucci
Piergiovanni, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", IT Selim Balcisoy
Sabanci University, Turkey Simon Dobson, UCD, Dublin Sonia Bergamaschi,
Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, IT Sylvain Lecomte, University of
Valenciennes, France Torsten Eymann ,Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth Ufuk
Caglayan, Bogazici University, Turkey Xiaohui Gu, IBM, USA</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Publicity Co-Chairs </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Khalil Drira, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">LAAS-CNRS</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region></st1:place> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Haluk Topcuoglu, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Marmara
University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region></st1:place></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Yusuf Ozturk, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">San Diego State
University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Jong Hyuk Park, Hanwha S&C Co., Ltd., <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Korea</st1:place></st1:country-region></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Publications Chair</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Kelly Sutton, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Arizona</st1:PlaceName></st1:place></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Tutorials Chair</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Kun Yang, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Essex</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Workshop Chair</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Christos Douligeris, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Univ. of
Piraeus</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Greece</st1:country-region></st1:place>
</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Local Arrangements Chair</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Alptekin Temizel, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Middle East
Technical University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region></st1:place></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>-----------------------</span></font></p>
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