SEMA 2013 - Workshop on Software Engineering for Mobile Applications (SEMA 2013)

Workshop on Software Engineering for Mobile Applications (SEMA 2013)
With the increasing prevalence of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices providing significant computing power and interaction capabilities to users, mobile applications play an ever more important role in the product portfolio and/or application landscape of many companies. The development of such mobile applications and systems based on novel technology platforms with innovative hardware capabilities (sensors, input modes, etc.) poses new software engineering challenges that existing tools and methods provide no support for, such as:
Multiple hardware and software platforms
Many development frameworks and programming languages
Various mobile operator restrictions and features
Various app stores with different rules and tools
Very short development cycles
User interface opportunities and limitations
Complexity of interaction with sensors and cameras
Effective use of context
Security and privacy models and policies
Computational and storage limitations
Applications that depend on external services
Towards creating a more structured agenda for research and education in mobile software engineering, we also encourage contributions that highlight the distinguishing features of mobile specification, architecture, implementation and testing, which may require particular innovation or tools. We also solicit discussions of new knowledge and skills that practitioners will need to develop mobile applications efficiently and at high quality, and how these can be provided in mobile software engineering education.