EPS 2013 - The 2nd International workshop on Engineering Pervasive Service Systems

The 2nd International Workshop on Engineering Pervasive Service Systems (EPS 2013)
Workshop Theme:
The applications of large Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Services (IoS), Internet of People (IoP) are gaining increasing attention in the smart city vision that covers smart transportation, e-health, smart building, social networking, and so on. IoT/IoS/IoP applications involve a large number of pervasive devices, which are usually limited by battery, memory, processing power, and are characterized by heterogeneities of their hardware, software, and networking capabilities. There arise a number of challenges for enabling pervasive services on such resource limited devices in these IoT/IoS/IoP applications, such as large scale of service management, security management, extension of the capabilities of pervasive devices, effective development of pervasive service systems, data management, event management, and QoS management, etc.
The resolving of these issues needs cross discipline research from Internet of Things and services, autonomic computing, service oriented computing, cloud computing, software engineering, pervasive and mobile computing, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, and so on. The EPS workshop will build a bridge between these related areas. We achieve this goal by fostering discussions and collaborations among researchers and practitioners of these communities. In the long run, this interdisciplinary discussion should encourage and support collaborations of pervasive services in the related research areas.
Researchers of software engineering, context-aware computing will be able to propose architectures, tools and runtime environment for context acquisition, modelling, representation, reasoning and management. Participants from the field of autonomic computing will be able to bring solutions to autonomous pervasive services in order to alleviate the management challenges of large scale IoT/IoS/IoP systems. Researchers from software engineering field will focus on pervasive services from the aspects of software components/connectors, architecture, dynamic configuration and adaptation of pervasive services. Cloud computing researchers will bring ideas on how to make use of the cloud infrastructure to enhance the capabilities of pervasive devices through for example, mobile or moving clouds.
The EPS 2013 workshop aims to build a bridge for multidisciplinary researchers to co-study the following topics, but not limited:
? Software engineering research on the development of pervasive services, e.g., autonomous pervasive service components, development environments for pervasive services, model driven development for pervasive services
? Enhancing the capacities of pervasive devices and pervasive services, using for example, mobile cloud computing platforms, new algorithms to support the migration of tasks between computing nodes, and so on
? Ways of improving the intelligence of autonomous pervasive service systems through different computing intelligence approaches
? New applications of pervasive services and IoT/IoS/IoP systems, like e-health, smart cities
Workshop Organisers
The organisers of the EPS 2013 workshop have a different research background due to their affiliation with different institutions in Europe and Asia. They are strategically positioned to appeal to and solicit papers from different research communities.
1. Weishan Zhang, Professor of Department of Software Engineering, China University of Petroleum, China
No 66 Changjiang West Road, Huangdao, Qingdao, 266580
Email: zhangws-AT-upc.edu.cn
Mobile: 18628012176
2. Klaus Marius Hansen, Professor of Department of Computer Science (DIKU), University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Njalsgade 128, bygn. 24, 5. sal, DK-2300 København S.
Email: klausmh-AT-diku.dk
WWW: http://www.diku.dk/~klausmh
Phone: (+45) 353-21399; Mobile: (+45) 63 712 721
3. Paolo Bellavista, Associate professor of DEIS, Università di Bologna, Italy
V.le Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna ? ITALY
Email: paolo.bellavista-AT-unibo.it
WWW: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista
Phone: +39 051 20 93866; Fax: +39 051 20 93073
4. Jiehan Zhou, Senior Researcher, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Oulu, Finland
Email: jiehan.zhou-AT- ee.oulu.fi
WWW: http://www.cse.oulu.fi/JiehanZhou
Phone: +358 294 482532
Technical Program Committee
? Klaus Marius Hansen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
? Joao Fernandes, Aarhus University, Denmark
? Paolo Bellavista, Università di Bologna, Italy
? Julian Schütte, Fraunhofer AISEC, Germany
? Su Yang, Fudan University, China
? Zhipeng Xie, Fudan University, China
? Tomoko Yonezawa, Kansai University, Japan
? Weishan Zhang, China University of Petroleum, China
? Yan Liu, Tongji University, China
? Yue Lv, Eastern China Normal University, China
? Gang Pan, Zhejiang University, China
? Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
? Jiehan Zhou, University of Oulu, Finland
Important dates
May 20th 2013 Paper and demo submission deadline
June 15st 2013 Notification of acceptance
June 25th 2013 Camera ready submission
Camera-ready instructions
The final paper and the signed copyright form are due on June 20.
This is a firm deadline for the production of the proceedings.
1. FINAL PAPER: Please submit the files belonging to your camera-ready paper using your EasyChair author account.
1) Login to Easychair
2) Click on the option `camera-ready' on the top of the page.
3) click on the option 'paper #x' on the top of the page (where x is the serial number of your paper).
4) Click on the `upload new version' in the menu on the right of the page.
You may upload your paper using one of two options:
(a) either a zipped file containing all your LaTeX sources
or a Word file in the RTF format, and
(b) PDF version of your camera-ready paper.
The page limit is 8 pages.