CoPE 2009 - The First International Workshop on Cooperation in Pervasive Environments(CoPE 2009)

The First International Workshop on Cooperation in Pervasive Environments(CoPE 2009)
http://www.cse.nd.edu/~darts/cope.html
in conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2009 (http://www.percom.org)

The continuous emergence of powerful personal handheld devices and
smart phones are redefining the pervasive computing paradigms of the
past. The questions this workshop aims to discuss are:
* How does the ubiquity of personal communication devices enable and
support cooperative activities?
* What are the technical challenges that must be overcome to achieve
seamless cooperation?
* What are the challenges in discovering and disseminating content
given energy and form factor constraints of mobile devices?

The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers from
both academia and industry to foster a discussion on key research
challenges in content sharing and dissemination, cooperative
activities, mobile search, and security and privacy issues in
pervasive environments. Additionally, the workshop forum will provide
an opportunity to explore new business models and act as a soundboard
for discussing bold new ideas in the area. While the main purpose is
to promote discussions in the design of cooperation and sharing
architectures, protocols, algorithms, middleware, services, and
applications for wireless systems, it also aims at increasing the
synergy between academic and industry professionals working in this
area. We therefore seek papers that address theoretical, experimental,
and work in-progress at all layers of pervasive environments, with the
focus on realistic application scenarios. The workshop aims to address
cooperation from both an application as well as a system design
standpoint. From the application perspective, the workshop encourages
submissions of studies of prototypes or real-world systems, including
demonstrations of these systems. Cooperation in such applications can
take many forms, including multimedia communications, interaction with
embedded sensing devices, etc. From the system point of view, the
workshop will solicit submissions that discuss architectures for
cooperative systems, resource management techniques, security
mechanisms, and other middleware or systems approaches for realistic
pervasive environments. We will also encourage submissions on "brave
new topics" that present futuristic ideas that have never previously
been explored. Topics covered by the workshop will include, but are
not limited to, the following:

* Application design, case studies, prototypes, real-world-systems
* Middleware technologies to support cooperation
* Content sharing and dissemination in mobile environments
* Context- and location-awareness
* Efficient search for and dissemination of information
* QoS, scalability, and energy efficiency in realistic pervasive systems
* Security/privacy aspects of mobile cooperation
* Payment and bartering techniques
* Multi-radio and multi-channel devices
* Network protocols for cooperative computing
* Opportunistic sensing, networking, and cooperation
* Mobile search and content discovery

Submission Instructions:
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original
unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to
the workshop. Submissions should include an abstract, key words, and
email address of the corresponding author. The length of the papers
should be limited to 6 pages in standard IEEE camera-ready format
(double-column, 10-pt font). Submission of a paper should be regarded
as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of
the authors will register and attend the workshop to present the work.

Workshop Organizers:
Shivajit Mohapatra (Motorola Labs)
Christian Poellabauer (University of Notre Dame)
Aaron Striegel (University of Notre Dame)

Important Dates:
November 10, 2008: Paper due
December 19, 2008: Acceptance notification
January 7, 2009: Final camera ready paper due