[agents] CFP RoSOC-M 2010

Fri Jan 29 10:10:49 EST 2010

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CALL FOR PAPERS

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INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON THE ROLE OF SERVICES,
ONTOLOGIES, and CONTEXT IN MOBILE ENVIROMENTS
RoSOC-M 2010

http://www.jyu.fi/Rosocm10
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to be held on May 23, 2010, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on
Mobile Data Management (MDM 2010)

http://sce.umkc.edu/mdm2010/

SUBMISSIONS through:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rosocm2010

GENERAL OVERVIEW

Today, computers are changing from big, grey, and noisy things on
our desks to small, portable, and ever-networked devices most of us
are carrying around. This new form of mobility imposes a shift in how we
view computers and the way we work with them.

Services offer the possibility to overcome the limitations of individual
mobile devices by making functionality offered by others available to them
on  an "as-needed" basis. Mobile service-oriented systems offer
functionalities  and behaviors that can be described, advertised,
discovered, and composed by others. Eventually, they will be able to
interoperate even though they have not  been designed to work together.
This type of interoperability is based on the ability to understand other
services and reason about their functionalities and behaviors when
necessary.

A third dimension is added when taking context information into
account:Now, we are no longer dealing with the information system
any more, but the real world is intermingled with the computing and
will immediately affect and interact with the processing of data and
communication. The intermingling of the real world with computing has
lately been called Internet of Things. It can be seen as a step towards
Mark Weiser's vision about "Ubiquitous Computing" where the computing and
communicating components  and thus also the corresponding intelligence is
everywhere - like the air we breath - and serves us without a special
effort from our side. Keeping in mind that  distinguisable (portable)
devices will be used to access and provide the services in the IoT world
for years to come, we can also speak about MObile Internet of Things
(MIoT).

In this vein, the contextual and semantic aspects of mobile
environments have received insufficient attention from the research
community as the specific  intricacies and resource issues of mobile
environments have not been considered and in mobile data management only
limited attention has been paid to context and semantics, especially in
the context of MIoT.

In this workshop we plan to  address the interdisciplinary issues of the
domain and bring together researchers and industry attendees from mobile
data management, knowledge management/semantics, distributed systems,
service-oriented computing, and software engineering to discuss the common
interests, share and exchange expertise and results, appreciate each
other's results and contributions. The long-term goal is to provide
application developers with facilities (middleware, infrastructures, agent
systems, service platforms, etc.) that enable the development and
deployment of context-aware applications in mobile and pervasive
environments reaching out towards MIoT.

The RoSOC-M 2010 workshop is a follow-up edition of the RoSOC-M
'09 and RoSOC-M '08 workshops - that in turn was a joint event of the
previous MoSO and MCISME workshop series: MoSO'07, MCISME'07, MoSO'06,
MCISME'06 (see See http://events.deri.at/RoSOC-M/  )

TOPICS (included but not limited to)

We are particularly interested in papers that address different aspects of the Mobile Internet of Things (MIOT):

* Service-oriented architectures for the MIOT
* Languages and methodologies for describing the MIOT
* Discovery and matchmaking of ontology based services in the context of MIoT
* Adaptive selection of services in the MIoT
* Ontology management in mobile environments
* Contracting and negotiation with ontology-based mobile services (service level agreements)
* Approaches to composition of ontology based services in the context of the MIoT
* Invocation, adaptive execution, monitoring, and management of mobile services
* Interaction protocols ann conversation models for the MIoT
* Ontology-based security and privacy issues in the MIoT
* Applications of mobile service-oriented architectures
* Analysis and design approaches for  the MIoT
* Reasoning techniques for the MIoT
* Ontology-based policies for the MIoT
* Tools for discovery, matchmaking, selection, mediation, composition, management, and monitoring of services in a mobile world in particular tools that take context into account
* Mobile service development
* Acquiring and disseminating context information from physical and logical sensors
* Exploiting new types of context information such as network context, social context, and system context, and enabling infrastructures to support management of context information and semantics in mobile environments
* Community-based semantics in mobile environments
* Activity-based computing and its relation to context-aware mobile computing
* Context-aware mobile database transactions and query processing
* Semantic indexing, caching, and replication techniques for mobile environments
* Context-adaptive applications and algorithms
* Case studies

IMPORTANT DATES

Submissions: February 12, 2010
Acceptance: March 1 , 2010
Final copy: March 17, 2010
Workshop day: May 23, 2010

SUBMISSIONS through:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rosocm2010

WORKSHOP VENUE

Kansas City, Missouri, USA. The workshop is to be held in conjunction with
the 11th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2010).

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Yuki Arase, Osaka University, Japan
Klemens Böhm, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Erik Buchmann, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany
Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA, France
Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
Nafaâ Jabeur, Dhofar University, Oman
Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan
Takahiro Kawamura, Toshiba Corp, Japan
Antonio Liotta, Univ. of Essex, UK
Andreas Nauerz, IBM Research and Development, Germany
Vladimir Oleshchuk, University of Agder, Norway
Brahmananda Sapkota, DERI Galway, Ireland
Quanzheng Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia
Vagan Terziyan, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Ioan Toma, STI Innsbruck, Austria

To be expanded ..

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Birgitta König-Ries
University of Jena
Jena, Germany
Phone: +49 3641 9 46 430
Fax: +49 3641 9 46 302
Email: Birgitta.Koenig-Ries at uni-jena.de

Wathiq Mansoor
American University in Dubai
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Email: wmansoor at aud.edu

Dumitru Roman
University of Innsbruck / STI Innsbruck
Innsruck, Austria
Phone: +43 512 507 6463
Fax: +43 512 507 9872
E-Mail: dumitru.roman at sti2.at

Jari Veijalainen
University of Jyvaskyla
Jyvaskyla, Finland
phone +358 14 2603674
fax: +358 14 2603011
E-Mail: veijalai at cs.jyu.fi