[agents] CFP - Workshop on Services for Mobile Data Collection (MODAC2018)

[ruediger.pryss at uni-ulm.de]

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                              CALL FOR PAPERS
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    2018 Services for Mobile Data Collection (MoDac 2018) Workshop
                      in conjunction with
15th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing
			(MobiSPC 2018)
                     Gran Canaria, Spain
                   13th Aug - 15th Aug, 2018

     		http://modac2018.dbis.info/

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                Deadline for submissions: 10 April, 2018

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Service computing has fundamentally changed the development of  
software systems.
In this context, „the“ services provide methods, tools, and concepts  
that can be
used to easily create distributed and heterogeneous cutting-edge  
applications. In
line with this trend, the service-oriented paradigm is an enabler in  
many scenarios
where a huge amount of data has to be collected or processed. As a  
consequence,
services are commonly used in challenging data collection scenarios.

The widespread distribution of smart mobile devices constitutes  
another fundamental
trend. The use of smart mobile devices in daily life has raised many  
new opportunities
on one hand (e.g., novel data), but remains many question unanswered  
on the other
(e.g., security, addiction, etc.). In life sciences, for example,  
smart mobile devices
can be used to collect new kinds of data. As data is collected in  
daily life situations,
contextual data is only one direction that provides the base for a new  
kind of data that
can be evaluated. Another example for life science scenarios  
constitutes the moment-to-moment
variability of many phenomena that smart mobile devices can capture  
for the first time at
rather low costs. As service technology basically improves data  
collection procedures and
smart mobile device technology offers completely new data collection  
opportunities, their
combination is very promising. How data collection services can be  
efficiently deployed
to smart mobile devices or how infrastructural characteristics may  
change are only two
issues that have to be addressed. Furthermore,when realizing  
sophisticated mobile data
collection services, numerous new technical issues arise. For example,  
as many real-world
projects require the support of different mobile operating systems,  
platform-specific
peculiarities must be properly handled. Therefore, existing approaches  
often rely on
specifically tailored mobile services. As a drawback, changes to the  
data collection
procedure result in costly code adaptations. To remedy such drawbacks,  
new service-driven
approaches are required.

This workshop will serve as a forum to present and discuss original  
contributions, including
theoretical and empirical evaluations, as well as practical and  
industrial experiences, with
emphasis on results that solve open research problems when combining  
services and smart mobile
device technology to deal with challenges on data collection issues.  
On the other, the workshop
encourages researchers to submit position papers that pose a new  
direction or present a controversial
point of view on these subjects and related fields.

Topics of Interest (include, but are not limited to)
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Mobile Service Infrastructures
     Cross-platform Aspects
     Execution Middleware
     Monitoring
     Quality of Service
     Governance
     Cloud Aspects
     Offline-Management
     Reliability
     Recovery
     Availability
Mobile Crowdsensing Services
     Social Sensing
     Medical Sensing
     Vital Signs
     Environmental Issues
     Incentive Management
     Collaborative Learning
Mobile Service Data Collection Procedure
     Data Quality
     End-user Involvement
     Data Visualization
     Collection Instrument
     Mining and Analytics
     Addiction Management
     Recommender Systems
     Gamification Aspects
     Change Management
     Pattern Recognition
     Multilingualism
     Data Validity
     Interaction Patterns
     Sensor Aspects
     Wearables
Mobile Service Engineering
     Model-driven Issues
     Interface Design
     Scalability
     Performance Issues
     Versioning
     Evolvement
     Cross-platform Aspects
Mobile Service Security
     Security
     Privacy
     Trust
     Anonymization
     Pseudonymization
Mobile Service Scenarios
     Life Sciences
     Logistics
     Smart Cars
     Smart Cities
     Smart Factory
     Smart Government
     Predictive Maintenance
     Patient Empowerment
     Clinical Trials

Important Dates
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* Paper submission deadline: 10 April 2018
* Paper acceptance notification: 10 May 2018
* Camera ready of papers: 28 May 2018

Submission Guidelines
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Authors are requested to submit workshop papers reporting original research
results. The page limit for papers should not exceed 6 pages. Papers should be
prepared using Elsevier MS Word Template or Latex Template. Elsevier author
guidelines of Procedia are available at:
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/719435/description#description.

Authors are requested to submit their papers in PDF format only before  
the deadline,
see the MODAC 2018 website for further information:  
http://modac2018.dbis.info/.

Papers must be submitted via Easy chair using the following link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=modac2018

Inquiries about paper submission should be e-mailed to Rüdiger Pryss
(ruediger.pryss at uni-ulm.de) and include "MoDac2018" in the Subject line.

Reviewing and Publication
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All submissions will be formally peer-reviewed by at least 3 Program
Committee members. The authors will be notified of acceptance by 10 May
2018. At least one author of every accepted paper MUST register for the
Workshop and present the paper. All accepted papers will be published by
Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line

Workshop Chairs
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* Rüdiger Pryss
Institute of Databases and Information Systems,
Ulm University, Germany
e-mail: ruediger.pryss at uni-ulm.de

Workshop Program Committee
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(Full and Up-To-Date List To Be Advised on the Web)
*Manfred Reichert, Ulm University, Germany
*Franz Hauck, Ulm University, Germany
*Winfried Schlee, University Hospital of Regensburg, Germany
*Thomas Probst, Danube University Krems, Austria
*Myra Spiliopoulou, University of Magdeburg, Germany
*Johannes Schobel, Ulm University, Germany
*Marc Schickler, Ulm University, Germany
*Michael Stach, Ulm University, Germany
*Tim Mohring, Ulm University, Germany
*Felix Beierle, TU Berlin, Germany
*Ralph Bobrik, Swiss RE, Switzerland
*Patrick Neff, University Hospital of Regensburg, Germany