AIMS & SCOPE

Together with wireless communication technologies portable computers and personal digital assistants (PDA) provide a pervasive base for mobile computing. As the mobile computing technology matures, millions of people will become mobile users communicating with one another and accessing various information resources. Mobile computing involves mobility of users, hardware, software and data.

The focus of this workshop is on mobility issues in distributed systems and databases. The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners with mobile networking background, database research interests, advanced applications and distributed computing systems research and development skills to discuss all aspects of the emerging mobile computing paradigm. Both theoretical papers and papers reporting implementation and practical results are solicited. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Data models for mobile information systems
* Impact of mobility in distributed applications
* Theoretical frameworks for mobility
* Software architectures for mobile distributed computing systems
* Wireless communications support for mobile applications
* Infrastructure for mobile computing research
* Object oriented technologies for mobile computing
* Mobile database management and mobility-aware data servers
* Operating system support for mobile computing
* Mobile transaction and workflow management & models
* Management of network & mobile computers heterogeneity
* Data & process migration, replication and recovery
* Mobile agents and code
* Distributed mobile objects
* Wireless multimedia systems
* Mobile access to Internet services
* User interface management for mobile information systems
* Resource allocation and management in mobile computing environment
 
The workshop will be organized in a manner designed to foster interaction and exchange of ideas among the participants.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: March 11, 2002 (EXTENDED)
Notification of acceptance: April 19, 2002 (EXTENDED)
Camera-ready copies: May 15, 2002
Workshop: September 2-6, 2002
 

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original, previously unpublished work. Papers should be in English, no more than 5 pages long and conform to the IEEE Computer Society Press guidelines (single-spaced, two-column format). The author guidelines can be found at

http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm

Authors should submit an electronic copy of their paper in ps or pdf format at

mdds02@cs.uoi.gr

Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All papers will be refereed by at least three members of the program committee.

WORKSHOP ATTENDANCE

Authors of accepted papers will be expected to present their work at the workshop. All attendees must register for the DEXA'2002 conference. Details about the DEXA'2002 conference can be found at conference web site

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Sanjay Kumar Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA.
Vijay Kumar, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA
Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece

STEERING COMMITTEE

Panos  K. Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Vijay Kumar, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA
Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Karl Aberer, EPFL-DSC, Lausanne, Switzerland
Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA
Sourav Saha Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech, USA
Maggie Dunham, Southern Methodist University, USA
Adrian Friday, Lancaster Univ., UK
Vana Kalogeraki, HP Labs, USA
Masaru Kitsuregawa, Univ of Tokyo, Japan
Kam-Yiu Lam, City Univ. of Hong-Kong
Yugyung Lee, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA
Seng Wai Loke, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Kirk Pruhs, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Peter Reiher, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Claudia Roncancio, ENSIMAG/LSR,France
Simonas Saltenis, Aalborg University, DK
George Samaras, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Ming-Chien Shan, HP, USA
Kian-Lee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois, USA
Vladimir I. Zadorozhny, University of Pittsburgh, USA

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

Workshop Program

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