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Subject: CfP: Workshop on M-Services Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 19:22:54 +0100 From: Willem-Jan vd Heuvel W.J.A.M.vdnHeuvel@KUB.NL To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on M-Services /Concepts, Approaches, Tools/

http://infolab.kub.nl/act/conventions/mserv2002/ Deadline: February 28, 2002 to be held in conjunction with The 13th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems Lyon, France, June 26-29, 2002 (http://lisi.insa-lyon.fr/~ismis2002)

Description The Internet is going through several major changes. It has become a vehicle of services rather than just a repository of information. Many organizations are already struggling to put their core business competencies on the Internet as a collection of loosely-coupled e-services. Customers, or other e-services, can simply retrieve them from the web and fuse them into combinations of new value-adding e-services in ways that could never be foreseen.

The advent of wireless technologies, such as palmtops and advanced mobile (PDA) telephones, has opened the possibility to deliver user-centered services on the spot, no matter where customers are located (anytime and anywhere). Companies that are eager to get engaged on the market of wireless e-services are facing complicated technical, legal, and organizational challenges. Despite the great interest in this area, a few number of scientific activities focus on the use, design, and development of wireless e-services also denoted by mobile services (m-services).

The purpose of this workshop is to understand the role of m-services in the wireless world. M-services can be viewed as a normal extension to e-services. Suggestions of suitable architectures, paradigms, technologies, etc. for m-services are going to be discussed in this workshop.

Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

- Advanced components (such as software agents) for m-services. - Wireless communication middleware and protocols for m-services. - Interoperability of m-services; location and integration of existing m-services; transition strategies; building added-value services by integrating existing ones; composition protocols. - Business models for m-commerce. - Security issues of m-services. - Reliability and adaptability of m-services. - Architectures and operational models. - Legal aspects of m-services. - Test beds and development environments, e.g. for location-based applications, etc.

Workshop organizers

Zakaria Maamar, zakaria.maamar@zu.ac.ae Software Agents Research Group@zu College of Information Systems, Zayed University PO. Box 19282, Dubai, U.A.E Phone: (971) 4 2082 461 Fax: (971) 4 2640 854

Wathiq Mansoor, wathiq.mansoor@zu.ac.ae Software Agents Research Group@zu College of Information Systems, Zayed University PO. Box 19282, Dubai, U.A.E Phone: (971) 4 2082 462 Fax: (971) 4 2640 854

Willem-Jan van den Heuvel, wjheuvel@kub.nl InfoLab Tilburg University PO Box 90153 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands Phone: (31) 13 466 2767 Fax: (31) 13 466 3069

Program committee Barbara Catania, University of Genova (Italy) Boualem Benatallah, The University of New South Wales (Australia) Brian Blake, Georgetown University (USA) Christoph Bussler, Oracle Corporation (USA) Dilip Patel, South Bank University (United Kingdom) Fahim Al Akhtar, Zayed University (U.A.E) Francois Louis Nicolet, (Switzerland) Jarle G. Hulaas, Centre Universitaire de GenËve (Switzerland) Jeff Sutherland, PatientKeeper, Inc. (USA) Jos van Hillegersberg, Rotterdam School of Management (The Netherlands) Laskri Tayeb, Badji Mokhtar University (Algeria) Manolis Koubarakis, Technical University of Crete (Greece) Michael Johnson, Macquarie University (Australia) Mohamed Ahmed-Nacer, USTHB (Algeria) Muhammad Sarfraz, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (SA) Rasheed Alzahrani, King Saud University (SA) Reinhard Riedl, University of Zurich (Switzerland) Walter Binder, CoCo Software Engineering GmbH (Austria) Weiming Shen, NRC-London (Canada)

Submission of papers

Authors who wish to submit to the workshop should send either PostScript or PDF versions of their paper by email to the workshop organizers (see above), or else provide a URL for an online version of the paper. Hardcopy submission is discouraged. Submissions should be no more than 4000 words length (approx. 10 printed pages). The first page of each submission should list the full contact details (including full name, postal address, email address, phone and fax number) of at least one author.

Important dates Deadline for submissions: February 28th Notification sent: April 15th Final papers due: May 15th The workshop: June 26th

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