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The 8th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS)

Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, September 19-21, 2011

Advances in the Web and mobile technologies offer new and exciting services to users in every walk of life including commerce, business, entertainment, education and science among others. These new developments however introduce many new challenging problems as users demand fast, easy and reliable access to the high volume of web information and services from anywhere, on any device and any platform. The International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS) aims to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of the mobile Web and information systems. It provides a forum for bringing together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share knowledge and experiences of the tools, techniques, technologies, models and methodologies that lead to better information and service provisioning in the mobile Web and information systems. The conference comprises various technical tracks which feature recent research in this important area.

* SOA and mobile Web information systems

* Context-aware services

* Mobile Web and cloud services

* Data management in mobile Web

* Mobile Web of things

* Mobile Web and social networks

* Quality of Service (QoS) management

* Mobile Web security and privacy

* Mobile commerce and business services

* Mobile Web design and development

* General track: Web and mobile information services

Important Dates: 

Submission Deadline April 4,2011 (extended) 

Author Notification May 15,2011

Author Registration May 30,2011

Final Manuscript Due June 15,2011

For details on paper submission guidelines, please check the conference website.

Publication:

All MobiWIS-2011 accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line and CD). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings.

Selected papers will also be published in the special issue of the International Journal of Service Oriented Computing and Application (Springer). 

MobiWIS 2011 Workshops:

First International Workshop on Smart Environments and Collective Intelligence for Disaster Management

The Fifth International Workshop on RFID Technology - Concepts, Applications, Challenges

Organizing Committees:

General Chair:

Ken Barker, University of Calgary, Canada

Program Chairs:

Muhammad Younas,Oxford Brookes University, UK

Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia

Advisory Committee:

Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA

Salima Benbernou, Universiti Paris Descartes, France

Athman Bouguettaya, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia

Fabio Casati, University of Trento, Italy

Jen-Yao Chung, IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA

Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia

Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK

Makoto Takizawa, Seikei University, Japan

Program Vice Chairs:

Patrick Brezillon, University Paris VI, France

Luis Carrico, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy

Irwin King, AT&T Labs Research, USA

Brahim Medjahed, University of Michigan, USA

Mohamed Mokbel, University of Minnesota, USA

Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA

Jukka Riekki, University of Oulu, Filand

Toyotaro Suzumura, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan

David Taniar, Monash University, Australia

Workshops Chairs:

Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE

Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia

Local Arrangements Chairs:

Nauman Aslam, Dalhousie University, Canada

Ramiro Liscano, University of Ontario, Canada

International Liaison Chairs:

Irfan Awan, Bradford University, UK

Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology,Japan

William Knottenbelt, Imperial College, UK

Publicity Chairs:

Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria

S.M.F.D Syed Mustapha, Asia eUniversity, Malaysia

Joyce El Haddad, University of Paris Dauphine, France

Awards Chairs:

Markus Aleksy, ABB AG, Germany

Kuo-Ming Chao, Coventry University,UK