MBC 2012 - The 2nd International Workshop on Mobile Business Collaboration (MBC2012)

The recent advancement of workflow technologies and adoption of the Service-Oriented Architecture
(SOA) has much facilitated the automation of business collaboration within and across organizations to
increase their competiveness and responsiveness to the fast evolving global economic environment. The
widespread of mobile technologies has further resulted in an increasing demand for the support of
Mobile Business Collaboration (MBC) across multiple platforms anytime and anywhere. Examples
include supply-chain logistics, group calendars, and dynamic human resources planning. As mobile
devices become more powerful, the adoption of mobile computing is imminent. However, mobile
business collaboration is not merely porting the software with an alternative user interface, but rather
involves a wide range of new requirements, constraints, and technical challenges.
= Topics of Interest =
This event intentionally seeks scientists, engineers, educators, industry people, policy makers, decision
makers, and others who have insight, vision, and understanding of the big challenges in Mobile Business
Collaboration. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the theoretical, technical, or empirical
aspects of the following:
? Principles, theories, models, challenges, legal, and social issues of MBC
? MBC requirements, design, implementation, and case studies
? Inter- and Intra-organizational integration for mobile platforms
? Mobile databases, services, and workflows
? Multi-databases, federated databases, parallel, and distributed Databases for MBC
? Temporal, spatial, and mobile databases for MBC
? Data mining and knowledge discovery for MBC
? Context and location sensitive applications
? RFID and sensor data management for MBC
? Service Level Agreements (SLA), quality, and reliability
? Web Services and ontology support for MBC
? Contents management and man-machine interactions for MBC
? Agent based technologies for MBC
? Virtual organizations and supply-chain issues for MBC
? Trust, reputation, security, and privacy in MBC
We strongly encourage submission of papers bridging the research in different fields and promoting mutual exchange and understanding of cross-field research results.
= Publication and Submission Details =
Papers have to present original research contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere. All manuscripts will be reviewed by members of the program committee based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. All papers accepted by APWeb’12 workshops will be published in a combined volume of Lecturer Notes in Computer Science series published by Springer. All submissions should be in English. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one author will attend the workshop to present the work. Papers should not exceed 12 pages in LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
Papers must be submitted to: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/MBC2012/Default....
= General Chair =
Jie Chao, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China
= Program Chairs =
Dickson Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, HK, China
Yi Zhuang, Zhejiang Gongshang, China
Ziang Wu, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China
= Program Committee = (tentative)
Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
Samuel P. M. Choi, The Open University of Hong Kong, HK, China
Eleanna Kafeza, Athens University of Economics and Commerce, Greece
Baihua Zheng, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Edward Hung, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK, China
Ho-fung Leung, Chinese University of Hong, HK, China
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, U.A.E.
Stefan Voss, University of Hamburg, Germany
Cuiping Li, Renmin University, China
Chi-hung Chi, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, China
Stephen Yang, National Central University, Taiwan, China
Ibrahim Kushchu, Mobile Government Consortium International, UK
Jidong Ge, Nanjing University, China
Huiye Ma, CWI, Netherlands
Pirkko Walden, Abo Akademi University, Finland
Raymond Wong, National ICT, Australia
Lidan Shou, Zhejiang University, China
Matti Rossi, Helsinki School of Economics, Finland
Achim Karduck, Furtwangen University, Germany
Xiangmin Zhou, CSIRO Canberra ICT Center, Australia
Hoyoung Jeung, EPFL, Switzerland
Zaiben Chen, The University of Queensland, Australia
Ruopeng Lu, SAP Research CEC Brisbane, Australia
Quanqing Xu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Mohammed Eunus Ali, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Zhenjiang Lin, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK, China