MPAC 2005 Call For Paper : 3rd International Workshops on Middleware for Pervasive and Ad-hoc Computing

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                                CALL FOR PAPERS


                3rd International Workshops on Middleware for 

                        Pervasive and Ad-hoc Computing

                http://www.smartlab.cis.strath.ac.uk/MPAC/



                        A Workshop of Middleware 2005

                                Grenoble, France
                        November 28th - December 2nd, 2005

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         Workshop papers submission deadline: August 26th, 2005

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Problem Space
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Building on the success of the 2003 and 2004 workshops, this workshop seeks 
to 
build on the results presented in a special issue of the Journal for Personal 
and Ubiquitous Computing, and to develop a roadmap for research on the 
essential 
middleware abstractions and infrastructures for ad-hoc and pervasive 
computing in
general, and sensor-based services in particular. 

A synthesis of the discussion that took place in the MPAC 2003 and 2004 
workshops
has led to the identification of the following areas where pervasive and 
ad-hoc 
environments challenge existing middleware:

1. Middleware support for programming adaptation and the associated decision
   making process. 

2. Security, privacy and trust in pervasive environments and ad-hoc 
communities.
           
3. Benchmarks and frameworks for the comparative evaluation of middleware 
   approaches for pervasive and ad-hoc computing.

4. Middleware abstraction and infrastructures for sensor based services.

Although, the above challenges form a set of potential themes for the 
workshop, 
this list is by no means exhaustive. Consequently, the workshop seeks papers 
on 
the areas, but not limited to, listed below:

* Sensor networks: applications, infrastructure, middleware support and 
emerging 
  standards (OMG DDS, IEEE/NIST 1451.x, OSGi WireAdmin, JSR256 & 257 ?);

* Calculi for sensor data, and middleware support for their processing and 
  distribution;

* Sensor data mining;

* Component-based and service-oriented architectures, and design patterns for 
  sensor based services;

* Theoretical foundations and middleware support for context based adaptation 
  for mobile pervasive systems, and sensor-based services;

* New notations for specifying context-sensitive systems;

* Ad-hoc communities: applications, infrastructure and middleware support;

* Roles and responsibilities in ad-hoc communities; 

* Group management and communication support for ad-hoc communities; 

* Ad-hoc network communications, quality of service, management and 
middleware 
  support; 

* Service-connection middleware and architectures; 

* Support for zero configuration;

* Middleware for self-assembly, self-configuration, self-distribution and 
  autonomic computing in general; 

* Data management infrastructures for ad hoc and pervasive systems; 

* Trust, security, and privacy for pervasive systems and sensor based 
services; 

* Reliability and availability in pervasive systems and sensor based services;

* Technology trade-offs (agent infrastructures, mobile code systems, event 
  based middleware); 

* Resource discovery and management; 

* Implications of heterogeneity (addressing needs for protocol interaction 
  across technologies).


Submission
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The workshop format will be focused around submission of position papers of 
no 
more than 8 pages.  Please submit your papers in PS or PDF using the ACM 
proceeding format (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html) to 
the web site http://www-adele.imag.fr/mpac05/ocs.

Papers are solicited that present a view of the state of the art in a 
particular
sub-problem area, identify specific middleware challenges, and suggest 
potential 
avenues for exploration by proposing models, abstractions and infrastructure 
components addressing these challenges. Approximately two thirds of the 
workshop 
will be devoted to the presentation and discussion of these papers, while the 
remaining third of the time will be devoted to the development of the 
research 
roadmap. 

Papers will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the programme committee. The 
review process will be based upon identifying the relevance and potential of 
the 
position statement to contribute to the elaboration of the roadmap and to 
stimulate discussion. 

All accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library as well as in a 
hard-copy companion proceedings issued to the workshop participants.

Appropriate publication of extended versions of workshop submissions and the 
research roadmap along similar lines to the forthcoming special issue on 
middleware and systems software for pervasive computing of the Journal of 
Personal and Ubiquitous, is being investigated. 


Important Dates
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Workshop papers submission:                     August 26th, 2005

Workshop paper notification of acceptance:      September 23rd, 2005

Workshop papers camera-ready:                   October 14th, 2005

Workshop dates:                                 November 28th ? 29th, 2005


Programme Committee
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Roland Balter, Scalagent, FR
Christian Becker, University of Stuttgart, DE
Vinny Cahill, Trinity College Dublin, IE
Dan Chalmers, University of Sussex, UK
Domenico Cotroneo, University of Naples, IT
Simon Dobson, University College Dublin, IE
Didier Donsez, University Grenoble 1, FR [co-chair]
Markus Endler, PUC-Rio, BR
Daniel Hagimont, INRIA, FR
Valerie Issarny, INRIA, FR
Marc-Olivier Killijian, LAAS-CNRS, FR
Philippe Lalanda, University Grenoble 1, FR
Spyros Lalis, University of Thessaly, GR
Paul Marrow, BT Pervasive ICT Centre, UK
Cecilia Mascolo, University College London, UK
Nitya Narasimhan, Motorola Labs, US
Paddy Nixon, University College Dublin, IE
Vincent Olive, France Telecom RD, FR
Pierre Paradinas, CNAM, FR
Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde, UK [co-chair]
Ian Wakeman, University of Sussex, UK
Virginie Watine, THALES, FR