M-MPAC 2011 - 3rd International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive Mobile and Embedded Computing (M-MPAC'2011)

Building on the success of M-MPAC 2009 and 2010, this event aims to carry on development of a research roadmap on essential middleware abstractions, platforms and applications for pervasive mobile and embedded systems.

In recent year, tablet devices and operating systems have gained a prominent spot in the limelight, while the smart phone landscape continues to change with new offerings supporting a variety of sensors, higher resolution and bigger size screens, high definition video recording and playback, and enhanced gaming. Embedded devices like televisions, TV set top boxes, and game consoles have grown beyond their original functionality to home multimedia systems supporting enhanced networking (e.g. IP TV and DNLA), and novel user interaction through 3D displays, and movement detection based controllers. The pervasiveness of such mobile and embedded devices has given rise to a variety of novel applications, such as social web applications, enhanced shopping applications/environments, ad-hoc gaming, context-aware collaborative computing, participatory sensing, etc. Access to cloud computing infrastructures further enhances the capabilities of these devices offering additional opportunities for innovative applications and uses.

Despite these successes, software development for such devices and platforms remains largely ad hoc, while interoperability among applications, devices and platforms is largely elusive. Middleware has a key role to play in overcoming these problems. However, it still unclear what are the appropriate middleware abstractions and supporting infrastructures necessary for such applications. The resource constrained nature and mobility of such devices place unique requirements for middleware and necessitate the exploration of novel programming abstractions, and supporting services, while capabilities like location and context-awareness open new avenues for radical approaches in their development.

Topics

The main topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:

1. Device platforms

Virtualization technologies and applications
Distributed Ensembles
Interaction paradigms and protocols
Emerging mobile platforms (e.g. Android)
Virtual machines

2. Networking

Emerging wireless technologies and platforms
Experiences or case studies with new technologies (WiMax, WiBree, LTE, etc) and devices (MIP, UMPC, wearables, etc)
Multi-link scenarios: WiFi, Bluetooth, cellular network
Quality of service and network selection

3. Data issues

Data formats and encoding
Availability and durability of data in personal networks
Synchronization of personal devices with other consumer electronics (e.g. cameras, iPods, etc)
Data portability

4. Adaptability

Context-awareness, location monitoring
Resource management, cyber foraging, and energy-awareness
Using cloud infrastructures for computing-intensive tasks and data storage
Autonomics and self-* properties

5. Security and Privacy

Privacy preservation and identity management for device-to-device interactions
Security architectures balancing risk and utility
Trust management in device ensembles
Mobile device data security
Identity federation

6. Mobile and Social Web

Web architectures (REST, Ajax) for 3-screen usage in pervasive computing
Context and content adaptation and management in pervasive computing
Mobile web scalability and reliability in access
Content adaptation on mobile devices
Collaborative search

7. Applications

Healthcare, entertainment, games, mobile TV, smart spaces, shopping, street navigation, etc.
Mobile phones in sensor and ad hoc networks
Application development on mobile and embedded devices
Programming models

8. Experiences and case studies

Lessons from deployments
User experiences
Performance studies

Submission

Submissions should not exceed 6 pages and should be formatted using the ACM proceeding style (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html). Submission implies that at least one of the authors will register and present the paper. Please submit your paper in PDF at http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/external/m-mpac2011/op....

Papers should present a view of the state of the art in a particular sub-problem area, identify specific middleware challenges, and suggest potential avenues for exploration by proposing models, abstractions and infrastructure components addressing these challenges. Approximately two thirds of the workshop will be devoted to the presentation and discussion of these papers, while the remaining third of the time will be devoted to the development of the research roadmap.

Papers will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the programme committee. The review process will be based upon identifying the relevance and potential of the position statement to contribute to the elaboration of the roadmap and to stimulate discussion.

All accepted papers will appear in a special workshop proceedings volume in the ACM Digital Library.
The publication of the best workshop submissions and the research roadmap is under investigation.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: August 15th 2011
Notification of acceptance: September 29th 2011
Workshop papers camera-ready: October 10th 2011
Workshop date: December 12th 2011

Programme Committee

Paolo Bellavista, Universita di Bologna, Italy
Renato Cerqueira, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Dan Chalmers, University of Sussex, UK
Domenico Cotroneo, University of Naples, Italy
Didier Donsez, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble I, France
Markus Endler, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA, France
Rene Meier, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Sonia Ben Mokhtar, CNRS Lyon, France
Sougata Mukherjea, IBM Research, India
Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University, Japan
Nitya Narasimhan, Motorola Labs, US
Oriana Riva, Microsoft Research, US
Luis Rodrigues, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Romain Rouvoy, Universite Lille 1, France
Francois Taiani, Lancaster University, UK
Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde, UK (Workshop Chair)
Venu Vasudevan, Motorola Labs, US
Luis Veiga, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Ian Wakeman, University of Sussex, UK
If you have any question then contact Sotirios.Terzis-AT-cis.strath.ac.uk