MOBS 2013 - International Workshop on Engineering Mobile-Enabled Systems (MOBS 2013)

The wide deployment of wireless networks and mobile technologies and significant increase of the number of mobile device users have created a very strong demand on various wireless-based mobile-based software application systems and enabling technologies. This provides many new business opportunities and challenges to wireless and networking service providers, mobile technology vendors, content providers and solution integrators. Living in a wireless world changes and enhances people¡¯s life in many areas, such as mobile communications, wireless information sharing and learning, m-commerce, home environment, and entertainment. Today, business organizations and government agencies face with new pressure for technology update in network infrastructures and enterprise solutions to support wireless connectivity and mobility.
To meet the increasing demand on various reliable wireless-based software application systems, business people are looking for innovative ideas to create diverse mobile-commerce applications and service systems, and engineers are looking for cost-effective engineering methods and efficient solutions to build high-quality wireless-based software and application systems. Therefore, today studying and solving technical issues in engineering wireless-based software and application systems is becoming a hot research subject for academic researchers and the industry community. The major theme of this workshop is engineering high-quality mobile-based application systems to support mobile users anywhere at anytime.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
Engineering topics:
System requirements engineering issues and methods for mobile-based system requirements analysis
Wireless-based system infrastructures, architectures, and service-oriented architectures
Design modeling, design patterns, and design issues and solutions in wireless-based systems
Mobile data transaction models, retrieval solutions, and caching and migration techniques
Analysis, design, and testing for system mobility, interoperability, performance, scalability ad reliability
Wireless system and application security, and mobile user privacy
Mobile client design for mobile user experience, personalization, customization, and interoperation
Testing methods, test models, coverage criteria, and tools
Performance validation techniques and metrics, evaluation models and processes, measurement tools and environments
Enable technology and solution topics:
Mobile database technologies and mobile data transaction services
Semantic web for Mobile Commerce
Location detection and discovery mid-ware and technologies
Wireless multimedia technologies, platforms, and solutions for wireless applications
Mobile platforms for client applications on mobile devices (J2ME, Symbian, etc.)
Middleware and agent technologies for mobile commerce and wireless service systems
Mobile service frameworks, mobile agent technologies and solutions
Applications, services, and experience topics:
Ubiquitous and pervasive computing systems
Novel m-commerce applications and services
Mobile portals and mobile search engines
Enterprise-based mobile applications and systems
Wireless advertising applications, services, and systems
Location and context-aware mobile commerce applications and services
Service platforms for mobile commerce (mobile web enterprise)
RFID enabled application systems
2D Barcode based mobile application systems
Mobile payment protocols, service systems, and platforms
Case-study, lesson learned and experience reporting