============== UBICOMM 2012 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

UBICOMM 2012, The Sixth International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies

September 23 - 28, 2012 - Barcelona, Spain

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/UBICOMM12.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPUBICOMM12.html

- regular papers

- short papers (work in progress)

- posters


Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmitUBICOMM12.html

Submission deadline: May 24, 2012


Proceedings:

ISBN: 978-1-61208-236-3

Archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library at http://www.thinkmind.org

Printed version can be ordered at http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html

All publications will be submitted for major indexing.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a IARIA Journal: http://www.iariajournals.org


Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org


Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.


The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of
concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations,
running experiments, applications, and industrial case
studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers,
which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the
following, but not limited to, topic areas.


All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in
terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress,
Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and
Panels.


Before submission, please, check and comply with the Editorial rules:
http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html


UBICOMM 2012 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)


Fundamentals

Semantics of ubiquity; Ubiquitous knowledge; Knowledge discovery
   mechanisms; Profiling ubiquitous environments; Ubiquitous
   technologies for education, learning, and training

Mobility

   Ubiquitous computing; Wearable computing; Mobile computing; Nomadic
   computing; Mobile commerce; Mobile learning

Information Ubiquity

   Ubiquitous information appliances; Information retrieval and
   filtering; Context awareness; Control of ubiquitous data; Data
   management and processing; Data replication, migration and
   dissemination; Ubiquitous computing and Internet of Things

Ubiquitous Multimedia Systems and Processing

   Multimedia content recognition, indexing and search; Mobile
   graphics, games and entertainment; Ubiquitous multimedia
   applications and systems; Streaming mobile multimedia; Mobile media
   management; Multimedia ubiquitous platforms; Multimedia Indexing
   and Compression; Image and Signal Processing; Virtual reality in
   ubiquitous systems

Wireless Technologies

   Bluetooth; 802.11.x; 802.15.x; ZigBee; WiMax

Web Services

   Web 2.0; Semantic web; Web services; Ontology; Web Services
   evolution; Web Services applications

Ubiquitous networks

   Ubiquitous networks; Network management; Network performance
   evaluation; Networks and technology convergence; Internet access in
   ubiquitous systems; Ubiquitous mesh, ad hoc and sensor networks;
   RFID; Reconfigurability and personalization of ubiquitous networks

Ubiquitous devices and operative systems

   Design of devices for ubiquitous systems; Mobile devices; Wearable
   devices; Embedded systems; Operative systems for ubiquitous
   devices; Real-time operating systems and scheduling

Ubiquitous mobile services and protocols

   Frameworks, architectures, and languages for ubiquitous services;
   Queries, transactions and workflows in mobile and ubiquitous
   Networks; Algorithms for ubiquitous systems; SLA/QoS in ubiquitous
   services; Ontology based services; Location-based services;
   Protocols and interaction mechanisms for ubiquitous services;
   Mobile services and service convergence; Service discovery
   mechanisms; Tracking in ubiquitous environments; Measurement,
   control, and management of ubiquitous services; Design and
   development of ubiquitous services; Wireless/mobile service
   delivery

Ubiquitous software and security

   Ambient components; Agent technologies; Software for spontaneous
   interoperation; Dependability guarantees; Security; Key Management
   and Authentication; Trust; Privacy; Fault-tolerance; Multimedia
   Information Security

Collaborative ubiquitous systems

   Cooperative networks for ubiquitous systems; Cooperative
   applications for ubiquitous networks; Handheld and wearable systems
   for interaction in collaborative groups and communities; Ad hoc
   collaboration in ubiquitous computing environments; Awareness of
   collaboration and of work environment; Inherently mobile
   collaborative work

Users, applications, and business models

   Mobile user interfaces; Ubiquitous user-generated content (weblogs,
   wikis, etc.); Mobile and ubiquitous computing support for
   collaborative learning; User modeling and personalization; Context-
   and location-aware applications; Toolkits, testbeds, development
   environments; Tools and techniques for designing, implementing, &
   evaluating ubiquitous systems; Constructing, deploying and
   prototyping of ubiquitous applications; Evaluation of user models
   for ubiquitous environments; On-line analytical techniques;
   Human-computer interaction in ubiquitous computing environments;
   Ubiquitous e-Development (business, science, health, etc.); Case
   Studies; Emerging industrial/business/scientific ubiquitous
   scenarios; Ambient intelligence; Social issues and implications of
   ubiquitous system


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Thanks for contributing!


UBICOMM Advisory Chairs


Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain

Sathiamoorthy Manoharan, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Zary Segal, UMBC, USA

Yoshiaki Taniguchi, Osaka University, Japan

Ruay-Shiung Chang, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan


IARIA Publicity Board

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