CALL FOR PAPERS

4th International Workshop "MOBILITY IN DATABASES AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS" http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/mobility/mdds2001/

in conjunction with 13th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'2001, http://www.dexa.org)

Date: 3 - 7 September, 2001 Location: Technical University of Munich, Germany

Please bookmark MDDS'2001 home page - http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/mobility/mdds2001/ and visit frequently for news.

Workshop proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press

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Together with wireless communication technologies portable computers and personal digital assistants (PDA) provide a pervasive base for mobile computing. As the mobile computing technology matures, millions of people will become mobile users communicating with one another and accessing various information resources. In business environments, the ability to access critical data regardless of location and time is even more crucial because corporate data must be available to applications running on mobile workstations.

On the other end of the spectrum, database and distributed systems are instrumental in managing distributed information resources in fixed and wireless network environments. Interoperability and standardization have become the major features. However, existing DBMS and distributed systems lack the mechanisms for dynamically changing the environment where applications execute and the way they communicate over a heterogeneous network. Mobile computing therefore involves mobility of users, hardware, software and data.

The focus of this workshop is on mobility issues in distributed systems and databases. The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners with mobile networking background, database research interests, advanced applications and distributed computing systems research and development skills to discuss all aspects of emerging mobile computing paradigm. Both the theoretical papers and papers reporting implementation and practical results are solicited. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

o - Data models for mobile information systems o - Impact of mobility in distributed applications o - Theoretical frameworks for mobility o - Software architectures for mobile distributed computing systems o - Wireless communications support for mobile applications o - Infrastructure for mobile computing research o - Object oriented technologies for mobile computing o - Mobile database management and mobility-aware data servers o - Operating system support for mobile computing o - Adaptability and content management o - Security models for mobile computing o - Mobile transaction and workflow management & models o - Management of network & mobile computers heterogeneity o - Data & process migration, replication and recovery o - Mobile agents and code o - Distributed mobile objects o - Wireless multimedia systems o - Mobile access to Internet and WWW services o - User interface management for mobile information systems o - Resource allocation and management in mobile computing environment

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: 28 February 2001 Notification of acceptance: 2 April 2001 Camera-ready copies: 1 May 2001 Workshop: 3-7 September 2001 (tentatively)

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original, previously unpublished work. Papers should be in English and must not exceed 5000 words. The cover page should include the name and affiliation of the author(s), contact address/es, e-mail, fax and telephone. The accepted papers will be 5 pages long in double-column format and will conform to IEEE guidelines. Authors are invited to send either 5 copies of their paper by courier mail or a (preferred) electronic submission (PostScript, Adobe Acrobat PDF, Microsoft Word) to

Arkady Zaslavsky (MDDS'2001 Workshop) School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, VIC 3145 Australia (e-mail): A.Zaslavsky@Monash.edu.au (phone): +61-3-9903-2479 (fax): +61-3-9903-1077

Please visit the MDDS'2000 web site for electronic submission instructions. The electronic submissions will be accepted from 1 February, 2001.

Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All papers will be refereed by at least three members of the International Program Committee.

WORKSHOP ATTENDANCE

Authors of accepted papers will be expected to present their work at the workshop. All attendees must register for the DEXA'2001 conference.

Details about the DEXA'2001 conference can be found at http://www.dexa.org

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Panos K. Chrysanthis University of Pittsburgh, USA Vijay Kumar University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA Arkady Zaslavsky Monash University, Australia

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (tentatively)

Karl Aberer GMD-IPSI, Germany Sujata Banerjee University of Pittsburgh, USA Bharat Bhargava Purdue University, USA Gordon Blair Lancaster Univ., UK Andy Bond DSTC, Australia Athman Bouguettaya Virginia Tech, USA Omran Bukhres Purdue University, USA Nigel Davies Lancaster Univ., UK Alex Delis New York Polytechnic University, USA Maggie Dunham Southern Methodist University, USA Beatrice Finance University of Versailles, France Abdelkader Hamerlain IRIT, France Jadwiga Indulska University of Queensland, Australia Gerti Kappel University of Linz, Austria Seng Wai Loke DSTC, Australia Sanjay Kumar Madria Purdue University, USA Stuart Morton Lucent Technologies, USA Todd Papaioannou Loughborough University, UK Evaggelia Pitoura Univ. of Ioannina, Greece Andry Rakotonirainy DSTC, Australia Peter Reiher University of California, Los Angeles George Samaras University of Cyprus Heinz Schmidt Monash University, Australia Zahir Tari RMIT, Australia David Tipper University of Pittsburgh, USA Ouri Wolfson University of Illinois, USA Victor Yodaiken New Mexico Institute of Technology, USA

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