MobEA II

New York City, USA, May 18th , 2004

Collocated with WWW2004 conference

 

Emerging Applications for Wireless and Mobile Access

 

Final Program


Aim and Scope

 

We are in the midst of a mobile revolution. In order to realize the vision of pervasive mobile computing, the commmunications infrastructure and software platforms all require 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:

 

·  Peer-to-peer mobile computing

·  Security of mobile applications

·  Middleware platforms

·  User interface for mobile devices

·  Multimedia applications

·  Enterprise applications

·  Hybrid applications that transfer between cellular and wireless LAN systems

·  Standards and transition issues

·  Quality of Service (QoS) and Reliability issues

·  Performance studies of mobile applications

·  Context-Aware Services and Applications

 

The topics of interest are particularly important for the Spring 2004 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 26th, 2004 Extended to April 2nd

       Notification to authors: April 9th, 2004 

       Camera-ready copy due: April 29th, 2004.  

Papers will be published in workshop proceedings.


Late registration

Ends: May1 to Onsite, 2004


  Normal registration

Ends: April 10th - Apr 30th 2004


  Hotel reservation

Workshop-assigned rooms cut-off date: April 30th, 2004 

 

Paper Submission to rjana@research.att.com  or chen@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), Postscript or Word. The accepted papers will be published as part of the workshop proceedings.

 

Program Committee Members


TBD.

 

Organizing Committee Members:

 

 

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.

  Dr. Yih-Farn Chen – Technology Consultant at AT&T Labs Research. He received a Ph.D. degree

in computer science from University of California, Berkeley, an M.S. in computer science from University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University. He is a member of ACM and IEEE. Robin served as a Program Co-Chair of WWW2003 and was a guest co-editor of a special issue on Mobile Applications, IEEE Internet Computing. His research interests include mobile computing, middleware, software engineering, and World Wide Web.

 

 

Affiliation:

Dr. Rittwik Jana and Yih-Farn Robin Chen

AT&T Labs – Research

180 Park Ave

Florham Park, NJ, 07932

Email: {rjana, chen}@research.att.com

 

 

Workshop proceedings for 2003

MobEA I – Budapest, Hungary