MobEA

Budapest, Hungary, May 20^th , 2003

Collocated with WWW2003 conference

Emerging Applications for Wireless and Mobile Access

Final Program

Aim and Scope

We are in the midst of a mobile revolution. Besides achieving pervasive mobile computing requires innovative theories, paradigms and applications in mobile data management. The objective of this workshop is to provide a single forum for researchers and technologists to discuss the state-of-the-art, present their contributions, and set future directions in emerging innovative applications for mobile wireless access.

The workshop will be organized in a manner designed to foster interaction and exchange of ideas among the participants. Besides paper presentations, time will be allocated to open discussion forums, informal discussions and panels. In addition to regular papers, vision or work-in-progress papers are also invited to stimulate debates on open problems and challenges. Proposals for panels are also solicited. Panel topics on emerging or even provocative topics that will generate lively discussions are especially welcome.

Topics of interest for technical papers include, but are not limited to the following:

· Security of mobile applications

· Mobile middleware platforms

· Design of user interface for mobile devices

· Mobile multimedia applications

· Mobile enterprise applications

· Peer-to-peer mobile computing

· Hybrid applications that seamlessly transfer between cellular and wireless LAN systems

· Emerging standards and transition issues

· Robustness and Quality of Service (QoS) issues

· Performance studies of mobile applications

· Location Aware Services and Applications

The topics of interest are particularly important for the Spring 2003 timeframe to align carriers’ deployment strategies and application/service providers’ needs. ROI has been low from many carriers’ perspectives for a variety of reasons one of which is the lack of innovative and appealing applications for the end user.

Submissions will be solicited and all papers are subject to peer review. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two peers and their collective comments will be taken into consideration to decide paper acceptance. We will maintain a rather high level of importance on the technical feasibility of the proposed applications for a telecommunications carrier managed service or a premise based enterprise deployment at large scale.

This conference will provide an international forum to discuss issues on emerging mobile applications both from a technical and business stand point. The chosen mix of papers will attract a large community of mobile application providers. The targeted audience will range from developers and technical managers to business level executives, providing a good mix of talent.

Workshop Deadlines:

Technical Papers

Submissions due: March 15^th, 2003

Notification to authors: March 30^th, 2003

Camera-ready copy due: April 9^th, 2003 -> Published in workshop proceedings

Late registration

Ends: May 15^th, 2003

Advance registration

Ends: April 15^th, 2003

Hotel reservation

Workshop-assigned rooms cut-off date: April 29th, 2003

Paper Submission to petrie@snrc.stanford.edu or rjana@research.att.com

Papers must be formatted according to the IEEE standard double-column format with a minimum font size of 10pt. The file template.pdf contains a sample.
If you are preparing your paper using Latex, you can find some Latex templates here.
All papers must be submitted as PDF (Portable Document Format) or Postscript. The accepted papers will be published as part of the workshop proceedings.

Program Committee Members

Organizing Committee Members:

Dr. Charles Petrie - Senior Research Scientist at the Stanford Center for Information Technology in the Computer Science Department, working on the FX-Agents Project. Topic: Virtual Enterprises using web services and agents. He collaborates with NEC, Intec W&G, France Telecom, HP, the Center for Integrated Facility Engineering (CIFE), and with the Knowledge Systems Laboratory (KSL) , and the Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Humboldt Universität, Berlin. He has a B.S. in Mathematics from LSU and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas. His advisor was Prof. Robert Simmons. He has published extensively in the field of knowledge representation, truth maintenance, constraint satisfaction, and inferencing architectures. He has served and continues as a reviewer, guest editor, and/or program committee member for IEEE, AIEDAM, CERA, AI, AAAI, IJCAI, ECAI, and CAIA. He has helped organize numerous conferences either in the form of Co-Chair or technically in the Program Committee board. He is also the founder of IEEE Internet Computing issue and a co-guest editor for the special issue on Mobile Applications. He is currently the Executive Director of the Stanford Networking Research Center.

Dr. Rittwik Jana – Principal Member Technical Staff at AT&T Labs-Research. He received a B.E degree in electrical engineering from the University of Adelaide, Australia, in 1994. He received a Ph.D. degree from the Australian National University in 1999. He worked as an engineer at the Defense Science and Technology Organization (DSTO), Australia from ’96 – ’99 and as a member of technical staff at AT&T Labs-Research, New Jersey from ’99 to date. He has been continuously working in the area of mobile and wireless communications for ten years covering aspects from physical layer modem design to application layer software development. His primary expertise fall in the areas of radio resource management, mobile service platform design and wireless channel modeling. He has served as a reviewer and a program committee member for numerous IEEE conferences and journals.

Affiliation:

Dr. Charles Petrie	Dr. Rittwik Jana
Executive Director,	Principal Member Technical Staff
Network Research Center	AT&T Labs – Research
Packard Bldg. #232	180 Park Ave
Stanford University	Florham Park, NJ, 07932
Stanford, CA 94305-9510	Email: rjana@research.att.com
Email: petrie@stanford.edu	Ph:+1 973 360 7205