[agents] The 8th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS) - Extended Deadline (Final) - April 30, 2011

[Elhadi Shakshuki]

                            --------------Call for Papers----------------------

The 8th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS)

               Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, September 19-21, 2011
                      http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobiwis-11/

Advances in the Web and mobile technologies offer new and exciting services to users in every walk of life including commerce, business, entertainment, education and science among others. These new developments however introduce many new challenging problems as users demand fast, easy and reliable access to the high volume of web information and services from anywhere, on any device and any platform. The International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS) aims to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of the mobile web and information systems. It provides a forum for bringing together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share knowledge and experiences of the tools, techniques, technologies, models and methodologies that lead to better information and service provisioning in the mobile web and information systems.   The conference comprises various tracks which feature recent research on mobile web and information systems.

* SOA and mobile web information systems
* Context-aware services
* Mobile web and cloud services
* Data management in mobile web
* Mobile Web of things
* Mobile web and social networks
* Quality of Service (QoS) management
* Mobile web security and privacy
* Mobile commerce and business services
* Mobile web design and development
* General track: Web and mobile information services

Organizing Committees:

General Chair:
Ken Barker, University of Calgary, Canada

Program Chairs:
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada
Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia

Advisory Committee:
Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
Salima Benbernou, UniversitÈ Paris Descartes, France
Athman Bouguettaya, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Fabio Casati, University of Trento, Italy
Jen-Yao Chung, IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK
Makoto Takizawa, Seikei University, Japan

Program Vice Chairs:
Patrick Brezillon, University Paris VI, France
LuÌs CarriÁo, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy
Irwin King, AT&T Labs Research, USA
Brahim Medjahed, University of Michigan, USA
Mohamed Mokbel, University of Minnesota, USA
Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA
Jukka Riekki, University of Oulu, Filand
Toyotaro Suzumura, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia

Workshops Chairs:
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE
Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia

Local Arrangements Chairs:
Nauman Aslam, Dalhousie University, Canada
Ramiro Liscano, University of Ontario, Canada

Publicity Chairs:
Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria
S.M.F.D Syed Mustapha, Asia e-University, Malaysia

International Liaison Chairs:
Irfan Awan, Bradford University, UK
Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
William Knottenbelt, Imperial College, UK

Awards Chairs:
Markus Aleksy, ABB AG, Germany
Kuo-Ming Chao, Coventry University, UK


Important Dates:
 March 15,2011 Submission Deadline
 May 15, 2011 Author Notification
 May 30, 2011 Author Registration Due
 June 15, 2011 Final Manuscript Due

Publication:
All MobiWIS-2011 accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line and CD). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings.