MOBS 2014 - Second International Workshop on the Engineering of Mobile-Enabled Systems

Mobile apps are becoming important parts of enterprise and mission-critical systems that make use of contextual information to optimize resource usage and drive business and operational processes. The number of users of mobile devices worldwide continues to increase.
Mobile apps and smartphones are only one instance of today's mobile computing technology. RFID tags, sensor nodes, and computing-enabled mobile devices are all components of the current mobile computing paradigm. These devices are being integrated into enterprise systems and mission-critical systems as a way to collect data in the field. Different from previous paradigms, data is no longer a discrete piece of information locally produced and distributed in servers; data is also produced, stored and used in the field, shared between mobile and resident devices, and potentially uploaded to local servers or the cloud ? a distributed, heterogeneous, context-aware, data production and consumption paradigm. What this means from a systems and software engineering perspective is that mobile devices and sensors are being integrated into IT solutions and re-shaping the way that systems are built. We call these systems mobile-enabled systems.
The goal of MOBS 2014 is to continue being the focal point and an ongoing forum for researchers and practitioners to share results and open issues in the area of software engineering of mobile-enabled systems.
Call for Papers
MOBS 2014 seeks contributions specifically related to mobile-enabled systems in which mobile devices are not “units”, but rather “nodes” of much larger systems:
Architecting mobile-enabled systems
Context-aware mobile-enabled systems
Methods and tools for engineering quality attributes such as availability, security and privacy in mobile-enabled systems
Verification and validation of mobile-enabled systems
Novel software architectures for scalably supporting data collection and synchronization across mobile devices
Simulation-based assurance and analysis for scalability, survivability, reliability and resilience of mobile-enabled systems
Cyber-foraging strategies for resource optimization in mobile devices
Data-driven computing
Online and offline debugging
Empirical studies, case studies and industry experiences
Generative approaches (e.g., models and DSLs) to assist in managing the complexity resulting from the heterogeneous composition of mobile-enabled platforms
Human-centered issues that drive the emerging trend of incorporating mobile computing into existing interfaces
The submission and review process will be done using EasyChair. Submissions must follow the IEEE formatting guidelines. All accepted papers will be published in the conference electronic proceedings and in both ACM Digital Library and IEEE Digital Library. To encourage discussion, the page limit for papers is 6 pages.