casemans 2010 - The 4th ACM international workshop on context-awareness for self-managing systems (casemans 2010)

The 4th ACM international workshop on context-awareness for
self-managing systems (casemans 2010)

http://www.rn.inf.tu-dresden.de/hwn/2010/casemans/...

in conjunction with

The 12th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
http://www.ubicomp2010.org/

CFP

Autonomic execution of services is one of the features of context-aware
computing. The service execution may take place inside a simple mobile
device, a stand-alone application, a middleware, a network of all size
and type; or a physical smart environment. The main idea here is to
provide these systems with rich context information to undertake
intelligent decision-making. Participation or intervention in the
decision-making process by users or administrators of the systems is
required only when it is absolutely needed. The intelligent decision
making may refer to: (1) providing timely information to the user; (2)
protecting the system from a systematic attack or intrusion; (3)
updating and configuring relevant software so that it can function
optimally; and (4) reconfiguring a system when some internal and
external settings (policies) change.

Apparently, the above aspects bring together two research areas, namely, autonomic computing and context-aware computing. Whereas these two areas are complementary, so far, vital research issues pertaining to context-aware computing and autonomic computing have been addressed
independently.

The main aim of this workshop is to build a bridge between these two
areas by fostering discussions and collaborations among researchers and
practitioners of these two areas. We are particularly interested in
investigating context and self-adaptive behaviours.

This year, we are planning to make casemans 2010 very attractive by
introducing three paper sessions: (1) full papers session; (2) short
papers session; and (3) demonstrables. The full papers session focuses
on papers with solid research result. The short papers session (4 to 6
pages) will focus on visionary, insightful, critical and even controversial papers that encourage further research. The demonstrables
are very short papers (not more than 2 pages) and can be accompanied by
demos, attractive posters or videos that show aspects of
context-awareness and autonomic service executions.

Scope

Broadly speaking, the scope of the workshop can be described by the
following terms:

* Context-awareness and cloud computing

* Context-awareness and energy-efficient computing

* Context-awareness and smart spaces

* Context-awareness and service oriented computing

* context-awareness and wireless sensor networks

* Context-awareness and social networking

* Context-awareness and robotics

* Context-awareness and efficient multimedia content distribution

* Adaptive and context-based multimodal interaction

Information for Authors

The workshop proceedings will be published by the ACM and will be
indexed accordingly. The electronic version of the proceedings will be
made available online at the ACM Digital Library. Manuscripts should be
prepared according to the ACM Proceedings format. Please visit the ACM
template website. All paper submissions will be handled electronically by the Easychair. Note that submission is a two-stage process - authors need to register their paper first and then submit the final manuscript. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format and conform to the guidelines specified here.

Important Dates

* Paper submission: 20 June 2010

* Notification of Acceptance: 11 July 2010

* Camera-ready deadline: 18 July 2010

Workshop Organisers:

* Francois Siewe, De Monfort University, UK

* Noriaki Kuwahara, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan

* Waltenegus Dargie, Technical University of Dresden, Germany