[agents] CFP RoSOC- M 2010

[Wathiq Mansoor]

New Dead line    19th February 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   New Dead line    19th February 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
SINTEF
Oslo, Norway
Email: dumitru.roman at sintef.no
Tel: +47 22067647

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