CUTE 2013 - The 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Technologies and Applications (CUTE 2013)

Ubiquitous computing will require a new approach to fitting
technology to our lives. The advent of new computing devices, and the seamless
connectivity between these devices, thanks to diverse wired and wireless
networks, are enabling new opportunities for a user to perform his/her operation
all the time and everywhere. These seamlessly connected devices are ranging from
mobile handset to wearable computers. Also, it is expected that these devices
will become so pervasive that they will be embedded in the surrounding physical
environment, and transparent and invisible to a user. Such devices, whether
carried on by people or embedded into other systems, will constitute a global
internetworking infrastructure and likely to provide a new level of openness and
dynamics. Ubiquitous computing has as its goal the enhancing computer use by
pushing computational services out of conventional desktop interfaces into
physical environments, but effectively making them transparent forms and calm
mode of interactivity. Recent advances in electronic and computer technologies
have paved the way for the proliferation of ubiquitous computing and innovative
applications that incorporate these technologies.
This conference provides an international forum for the presentation and
showcase of recent advances on various aspects of ubiquitous computing. It will
reflect the state-of-the-art of the computational methods, involving theory,
algorithm, numerical simulation, error and uncertainty analysis and/or novel
application of new processing techniques in engineering, science, and other
disciplines related to ubiquitous computing. In this conference, several topics
on the specific themes for intensive discussions are also planned according to the areas of interest. We are inviting new and unpublished papers on, but not
limited to, the following topics:
1. Ubiquitous Communication and Networking:
- Ubiquitous wired and wireless networks,
- Ad-hoc networking
- Intelligent sensor network/RFID
- Ubiquitous/pervasive platform and middleware
- Automated, adapted and situated service
- Open service architecture
- Intelligent web service
- Mobile and ubiquitous multicasting
- Next-generation Internet & IPv6
- Mobile network (NGN/BcN)
- Wireless communication technology
- Optical networks
- Home networks
- Future Internet
2. Ubiquitous Software Technology:
- Context-aware acquisition and representation
- Context-aware media processing
- Context database/management
- Context framework and middleware
- Context analysis and utilization
- Context/Location-aware application
- Energy-aware system
- Resource-aware computation
- Self-aware computers and systems
3. Ubiquitous Systems and Applications:
- Distributed ubiquitous middleware
- Ubiquitous intelligent applications
- Ubiquitous intelligent systems
- Intelligence grid platform and service
- U-Health care system
- Smart appliances and wearable devices
- Haptic interfaces and interactions
- Design principles for multimodal systems
- Auditory and haptic displays
- Multimodal gaming and entertainment
- Novel systems and interactions using other modalities (e.g. taste, smell)
- Computer imaging and graphics
- Ubiquitous learning
4. Ubiquitous Security, Privacy and Trust:
- Information security and cryptography
- Security services/mechanisms/protocols in network/system levels
- Access control in network/system levels
- Identity, privacy, and trust issues in ubiquitous society
- Risk estimation and management
- Formal verification for security services & mechanisms/protocols
- Performance analysis for security services & mechanisms/protocols