MCS 2013 - Mobile Computing Symposium

Mobile Computing Symposium
(http://www.cs.odu.edu/~nadeem/iwcmc2013/index.html)
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The proliferation of smart devices such as smartphones, tablets,
and eBooks, simultaneously with recent developments in sensing
capability, cloud computing, wireless communications, data
storage, middleware and software, is reshaping and revolutionizing
mobile computing systems. IWCMC Mobile Computing Symposium
aims to focus on state-of-the-art research in mobile computing
systems and applications. The objective of this symposium is to
serve as an international forum for experts from academia, industry
and government to exchange ideas and results on mobile
applications, services, and systems.
TOPICS of INTEREST:
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You are invited to submit original technical papers covering but not
limited to the following topics:
- Mobile, sensing, and social applications
- Tools for building and evaluating mobile systems
- Software Architectures for smart devices
- Infrastructure support for mobile systems
- Energy management for smart devices
- Data management for mobile applications
- Mobility and location management
- Operating systems and middleware for mobile systems
- Security and privacy in mobile systems
- Wearable computing and new mobile devices
- Context sensing, activity recognition and awareness
- Cloud-mobile system architectures and middleware
- Crowd-sourcing based mobile applications
- Location based services programming models and middleware
- User experience & interfaces for mobile applications
- Vehicular network applications and systems
- Local-area, Personal-area and Body-area networks and systems
- Sensor fusion, social sensing and reality mining
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
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Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers
by the deadline 15 December 2012 for publication in the IWCMC 2013
Conference Proceedings. All submissions should be written in English
with a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages (minimum 10-point
font) including figures, without incurring additional page charges
(maximum 2 additional pages, with over-length page fee).
Standard IEEE Transactions templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX
formats found at:
http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/pubs/transactions...
Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all submissions
must be done through EDAS at: http://edas.info/N13389
Selected papers will be further invited to be considered for possible
publication in one of five special issues in the following Journals:
1. Wiley Journal of Wireless Comm. and Mobile Computing (WCMC)
2. The Int. Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet)
3. The Int. Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Comm. Systems (IJAACS)
4. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
5. Peer-to-Peer Networking & Applications
IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Submission Deadline: 15 December 2012
Paper Acceptance Notification: 15 March 2013
Camera-ready Paper Submissions: 1 April 2013
Registration Deadline for Authors: 1 April 2013
COMMITTEE
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Symposium Honorary Chair:
Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA
Symposium Chair:
Tamer Nadeem, Old Dominion University, USA.