[Acpc-l] ACM/IFIP EuroPar'2003 - Call for Papers

[Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare]

                  Call for Papers
  (Submission Deadline: February 9, 2003)

             Euro-Par 2003 - Topic 15
      Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing

                 Klagenfurt, Austria
                 August 26-29, 2003

     http://europar-itec.uni-klu.ac.at/

 * Description

       The development of small and powerful computing devices and,
       simultaneously, of wireless, mobile communication systems
       offers a great variety of new applications, summarized under the
       name of Mobile Computing. The phenomenal growth of those mobile
       computing devices, together with current trends in
       embedded systems and software, real-time interaction and
       omnipresent wireless networking fertilises the formation of a
       Ubiquitous Computing landscape, in which digital environments are
       aware of the presence of users, sensitive, adaptive and
       responsive to the users needs, habits and emotions and
       ubiquitously accessible for the user via natural interaction.

       This topic solicits papers dealing with the following mobile and
       ubiquitous computing elements: mobility, ubiquity,
       awareness, intelligence, and natural interaction. Mobility
       addresses solutions that help to make time, geographic, media and
       service boundaries less and less important. Ubiquity
       refers to a situation in which we are surrounded by a
       multitude of interconnected embedded systems, which are
       (mostly) invisible and moved into the background of our
       surrounding (workplace, building, home, outdoor). Awareness
       refers to the ability of the system to recognise and localise
       objects as well as people and their intentions. Intelligence
       refers to the fact that the digital surrounding is able to
       adapt itself to the people that live in it, learn from their
       behaviour, and possibly recognise as well as show emotion.
       Natural interaction finally refers to advanced modalities like
       natural speech- and gesture recognition, as well as speech-
       synthesis, which will allow a much more human-like
       communication with the digital environment than is possible today.

       The aim of the topic is to bring together, at Euro-Par 2003,
       computer scientists an engineers in the areas of wireless
       networking, mobile computing, and ubiquitous computing in
       order to present and share their ideas about the design and
       analysis of ubiquitous computing environments and the
       challenges imposed by the applications of mobile and
       ubiquitous computing.

 * Focus

       Mobile/wireless computing infrastructure
       Communication in mobile networks
       Mobility and QoS management
       Ad-hoc and personal area networks
       Media access techniques and terminals
       Ubiquitous/pervasive computing software architectures
       Ubiquitous access and context computing
       Smart devices and smart spaces
       Intelligent environments
       Sensors and actuators
       Positioning/tracking/authentication systems and technologies
       Mobile/ubiquitous/wearable computing scenarios
       Location-dependent/personalized wireless applications
       User interfaces and interaction models

 * Chairs

       Global Chair
            Prof. Max Mühlhäuser
            FG Telekooperation
            TU Darmstadt, Germany
            Email: max@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de

  Vice Chairs
            Prof. Azzedine Boukerche
            Department of Computer Sciences
            University of North Texas, USA
            Email: boukerche@cs.unt.edu

            Karin Anna Hummel
            Institute for Computer Science and Business Informatics
            University of Vienna, Austria
            Email: karin.hummel@univie.ac.at

       Local Chair
            Prof. Alois Ferscha
            Institute for Practical Computer Science, Software Group
            Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
            Email: ferscha@soft.uni-linz.ac.at

 * Euro-Par Mission and Details

       Euro-Par is well established as the premier annual European
       conference on all aspects of parallel and distributed
       computing. The conference normally attracts more than 300
       participants coming from universities, research centres and
       industry. Euro-Par 2003 will represent major themes in the
       categories of hardware, software, algorithms and applications.

       In common with previous years, Euro-Par 2003 will be organized as
       a number of parallel sessions on 19 topics for which papers are
solicited.

 * Submission Details

      All accepted papers will be available at the conference in the
      proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series.

 * Submission Key Dates

       Online submission site open: January 10, 2003
       Final date for submission: February 9, 2003
       Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2003
       Camera ready version: May 25, 2003