MUCS 2012

19-23 March 2012, Lugano, Switzerland 9th IEEE Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services

Call for Papers

9th IEEE Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services

Part of PerCom 2012, Lugano, Switzerland, 19-23 March 2012
Paper registration: Oct 25, 2011

The 9th International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services (MUCS 2012) will be held as a full-day workshop on March 19 or 23, 2012, as part of the 10th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications - PerCom 2012 in Lugano, Switzerland (19-23 March 2012).

Scope:

Ubiquitous Communications and related Services grow rapidly, presenting both users as well as providers with significant management challenges ranging from successful service delivery over heterogeneous networks to semantic interoperability between different offered services, including the mobile networks, ad-hoc networks, middleware, applications, and devices. Such challenges include: managing user-centric services and context services, extreme distribution and scalability, extensive system & network & semantic heterogeneity, ad-hoc formation and disassociation of systems and services, and intelligent support for user centric applications.

Today's management systems struggle to maintain operational requirements and to address structural as well as technological advances in pervasive communications, the complexity, heterogeneity, and automation required by the pervasive computing vision. MUCS 2012 provides a platform for researchers and practitioners to address the management of ubiquitous communications.

Topics of Interest

- Management of Federated Pervasive Environments
- Management of End-to-end Communications
- Context-aware Management and Configuration
- Knowledge Representation Techniques and Ontologies for Management of Pervasive Services
- Security, Privacy, and Trust Management in Pervasive Computing/Smart Spaces
- Context Identification, Retrieval, Prediction and Management
- Adaptive Technologies and Techniques for Services and Management
- Service and Network Management for Optimized Personalization
- Management and Control of Mobile Ad-hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks
- Distributed Management and Collaborative Governance
- Provisioning and Maintenance of Quality-of-Service in UbiComp environments
- User Interaction with Management of UbiComp and Pervasive Systems
- Managing Collaborative Pervasive Computing and Smart Space Applications
- Policy-based Management
- Autonomic and Cognitive Management of Services and Communications
- Content-oriented Network and Service Management
- Management of Smart Spaces and Applications

Paper Submission

Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged to be submitted to MUCS 2012. Authors are requested to submit papers limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11 conference format, and formatted in accordance with the IEEE Computer Society author guidelines. The templates can be found online. No-shows of accepted papers at the workshop will result in those papers NOT being included in the IEEE Digital Library. Direct your questions
to the Program Chairs:

Tom Pfeifer <t.pfeifer(at)computer.org>, Burkhard Stiller <stiller(at)ifi.uzh.ch>.Please submit your paper electronically in PDF format to EDAS []

Proceedings

Electronic proceedings will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore). Hardcopy proceedings will be published through the
Multicon Lecture Notes series with ISBN.

Important dates

Paper registration:           Oct 25, 2011
Paper submission:             Nov 02, 2011
Notification of acceptance:   Dec 21, 2011
Camera-ready paper due:       Jan 27, 2012
MUCS Workshop:                Mar 19 or 23, 2012

Organising Committee

General Chair

Declan O'Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Program Chairs

Tom Pfeifer, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich

Publication Chair

Sven van der Meer, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland

Steering Committee

Prof. Sajal Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Dr Tom Pfeifer, Waterford Institute of Technology
Dr Sven van der Meer, Waterford Institute of Technology
Dr Declan O'Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Dirk Pesch, Cork Institute of Technology
Prof. Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich