MUCS 2015 - 12th IEEE International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services MUCS 2015

12th IEEE International Workshop on
Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services
MUCS 2015
http://ubiquitous-management.org/mucs/2015
will be held as a full-day workshop on Monday, March 23, 2015,
as part of the
13th Annual IEEE Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
PerCom 2015 in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA (23-27 March 2015)
Scope
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Ubiquitous Communications and Services, as evidenced in pervasive computing
and smart space applications, present significant management challenges for
successful delivery of highly adaptive services across heterogeneous networks,
mobile networks, ad-hoc networks, sensor 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, intelligent support for user centric applications,
managing smart cities and smart grids, managing software defined networks.
Today’s management systems need to keep pace with the complexity,
heterogeneity and automation required by the pervasive computing vision.
Since 2003, the MUCS workshop has provided a very successful forum for
researchers and practitioners to explore the theoretic, technological and
organizational challenges, and to present advances in management techniques
and technologies for pervasive computing and smart space applications.
The workshop provides a single-track scientific programme containing a
blend of keynote presentations from leaders in research in this area,
peer-reviewed papers, a small selection of invited presentations, and a
topical panel discussion. The goal of the workshop is to investigate the
state of the art in managing pervasive/smart space applications from a
broad perspective.
Topics
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Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to)
- Management of the Internet of Things
- 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 Optimised Personalisation
- Management and Control of Mobile Ad-hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks
- Distributed Management & Collaborative Governance
- Provisioning and Maintenance of Quality of Service in Ubiquitous
Computing Environments
- User Interaction with Management of UbiComp and Pervasive Systems
- Managing Collaborative Pervasive Computing
- Management of Machine-to-machine Communications
- Policy Based Management
- Autonomic and Cognitive Management of Services and Communications
- Content Oriented Network & Service Management
- Management of Smart Spaces and Applications
- Management of Communications and Services for Smart Cities and Smart Grids
- Management of Software-Defined Networks
Paper Submission Guideline
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Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences.
Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research
are also encouraged.
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 here: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formattin...
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 (see website for email address):
Nicholas Race
Christine L Julien
Please submit your paper electronically in PDF format to EDAS
http://edas.info/N18431
Proceedings
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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.
Selected papers will be invited to be extended and submitted for a special
track in Elsevier's Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) Journal.
Important Dates
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Paper registration: Nov 19, 2014
Paper submission: Nov 26, 2014
Notification of acceptance: Jan 9, 2015
Camera-ready paper due: Jan 28, 2015
MUCS Workshop: Mar 23, 2015.