[agents] Deadline Approaching: The 9th Int. Conf. on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS)

[Elhadi Shakshuki]

-------------- Call for Papers (deadline extended) ----------------------

The 9th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS)
                  Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, August 27-29, 2012

                                   http://www.mobiwis.org/2012/

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 relating to the theme of the conference. MobiWIS-2012 will be held in conjunction with the 3rd International Conferenceon Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2012) <http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-12/>.

Conference Tracks:
* Context-aware services
* Mobile cloud services
* Data management in mobile web
* Mobile Internet of things
* Mobile web and social networks
* Mobile networks, protocols and applications
* Mobile security, trust and privacy
* Mobile commerce and business services
* Mobile web design and development
* Location-based services
* HCI in mobile applications
* Mobile web P2P applications
* Middleware for mobile applications
* Mobile web for social and economic development
* Mobile web searching
* SOA and mobile web information systems
* General track

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: February 29, 2012 (extended)
Author Notification: April 10, 2012
Final Manuscript Due: May 10, 2012

For details on paper submission guidelines, please check the conference
website.

Publication:
All MobiWIS-2012 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. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP
(http://dblp.uni-trier.de/).

Selected papers of MobiWIS-2012 will also be published in the special
issues of the international journals.

Organizing Committees:

General Chair:
Victor C.M. Leung, University of British Columbia, 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, Universit? 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:
Mohamed Bakhouya, Helsinki University, Finland
Pascal Bihler, Universitat Bonn, Germany
Debmalya Biswas, Nokia Research, Switzerland
Ralph Deters, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Zhiming Ding, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Patrick Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
Ming Li, Deakin University, Australia
Tommi Mikkonen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA
Satish Narayana Srirama, University of Tartu, Estonia
Jakob Svensson, Karlstad University, Sweden
Philippe Thiran, University of Namur, Belgium
Yeliz Yesilada, University of Manchester, UK
Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia, USA
Hamidah Ibrahim, University Putra, Malaysia
Jingyu Zhou, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

Workshops Chairs:
Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria
Do van Thanh, Telenor Corporate Development, Norway

International Journals Coordinator:
Jian Yu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Local Arrangements Chairs:
Ramiro Liscano, University of Ontario, Canada
Bessam Abdulrazak, Sherbrooke University, Canada

Publicity Chairs:
Kaori Fujinami, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
Verdi March, HP Labs, Singapore

International Liaison Chairs:
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE
Jarek Gryz, York University, Canada

Awards Chairs:
Irfan Awan, Bradford University, UK
Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan