Call for Papers    

(NEW DEADLINE) 

Scope

The increasing popularity of mobile devices (e.g., laptops, mobile phones, and PDAs), and advances in wireless networking technologies are enabling new classes of applications targeting environments characterized by being dynamic, mobile, reconfigurable, and personalized spontaneously. These applications and their targeted environments raise challenges to application developers, as they have to be aware of the variations in the execution context such as location, time, users’ activities, and devices’ capabilities in order to tune and adapt applications’ intended functionalities.

Developing and managing these types of applications that are context-aware would be extremely complex and error-prone if not supported by management facilities capable of acquiring, modelling, manipulating, reasoning, and disseminating context information. This is because application developers would have to deal with these issues in a proprietarily manner and consequently would be distracted from the actual requirements of the applications they are developing on one side and would hinder the interoperability of these context-aware applications on the other side. Unfortunately, current networking, computing, and management technologies do not fully support such model of automated adaptability based on context. The workshop will address these challenging issues focusing on exploring novel methods to manage context information targeting pervasive and mobile environments.  

Relevant topics

  • Novel algorithms for acquiring and disseminating context from physical and logical sensors.
  • Middleware and agent systems support to managing context in pervasive environments.
  • Innovative approaches for modelling, reasoning, storing, and manipulating context information.
  • Management of context information in deterministic and non-deterministic pervasive environments.
  • Facilities to provide persistence services based on context.
  • Exploiting new types of context information such as network-, social- and system-related context and approaches for managing these new types of context.
  • Managing multiple environments and processes of context exchange.
  • Methods of leveraging Internet service providers from passive carriers to context-oriented service providers addressing large scale pervasive environments.
  • Service discovery and invocation based on context.
  • Activity-based computing and its relation to the context aware mobile computing.
  • Context aware Mobile database transactions and query processing.
  • Evaluation metrics of the effectiveness of management techniques for context information.

Papers and Evaluations

Authors are invited to submit electronically original papers in PDF format to (mkhedr@site.uottawa.ca, wathiq.mansoor@zu.ac.ae). Papers length should not exceed 10 pages in LNCS camera-ready style (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). All papers will be reviewed. At least one author should attend the workshop to present the paper. A selected number of accepted papers will be expanded for inclusion in the International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications (http://juliet.stfx.ca/~jpcc/). 

For more information, contact one of the workshop chairs at khedr@aast.edu, wathiq.mansoor@zu.ac.ae, zakaria.maamar@zu.ac.ae, djamal.benslimane@liris.cnrs.fr.

Deadline

  • Submissions due: December 22, 2004
  • Submission due: January 10, 2005
  • Acceptance notification: January 22, 2005
  • Camera-ready papers submission: February 22, 2005
  • Workshop: May 9, 2005