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         The Second International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies  
             UBICOMM 2008  
           September 29 - October 4, Valencia, Spain  | 
       
     
     
     UBICOMM 2008
     General Chair
     Jaime Lloret Mauri,   Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
     Advisory Committee
     Miguel  Ferrando, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
       Han-Chieh Chao, National Ilan University, Taiwan
       Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA // Concordia   University, Canada
     Yuhua  Luo, University of Balearic Islands, Spain
     Ali Miri, University of Ottawa, Canada
     UBICOMM 2008 Technical Program Committee
     Co-Chairs:
       Narcís  Cardona, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
       Kwang-Cheng Chen, Taiwan National University, Taiwan  
     Special Area Co-Chairs:
       Debojyoti Dutta,  Cisco Systems, Inc., USA [Mobility] 
     Virginie Aimard, European Institute for   Education, Training and Competence,   EU
+Afrand Agah, West  Chester University of Pennsylvania, USA
+Jesus Alba, Polytechnic University of Valencia,  Spain
+José F. Aldana-Montes, University of Malaga, Spain
Olli Alm, Helsinki University   of Technology - TKK, Finland
Tomaz Amon, Bioanim, Slovenia
Sarabjot Singh Anand,   University of Warwick,   UK
       +Luis Anido-Rifón, Universidad de Vigo,   Spain
       +Alvaro Araujo Pinto, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
       +Jill Attewell,   Technology Enhanced Learning Research Centre Learning and Skills Network, UK
+Tarun Bansal,   University of Texas - Dallas, USA
+Cláudio de Souza Baptista, Universidade Federal de  Campina Grande, Brazil
Jörg   Baus, Saarland University,   Germany
       +Emad Bataineh, Zayed University, Dubai   United Arab   Emirates
       +Djamal Benslimane, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1,  France
       +Bettina Berendt, KU Leuven, Belgium
       +Shlomo Berkovsky, University of Melbourne, Australia
       +Mark Billinghurst, University  of Canterbury, New Zealand
       +Fernando Boronat, Polytechnic University of  Valencia, Spain
       +Mahmoud Boufaida, University   Mentouri of Constantine, Algeria
       Mahmoud   Brahimi, University of Msila, Algeria
       Janez Brank, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
       +Diana Bri, Polytechnic University of Valencia,  Spain
       +Narcís Cardona, Polytechnic University of Valencia,  Spain
          +Bongsug (Kevin) Chae, Kansas State University,  USA
          +Ruay-Shiung Chang, National Dong Hwa University,   Taiwan
       +Chuanfu Chen, Wuhan University, China
       +Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
       +Yuh-Shyan Chen, National Taipei University, TAIWAN
       +Ray-Guang Cheng, National Taiwan University of  Science and Technology, Taiwan
       +K.O. Chow, City University of   Hong Kong, Hong Kong, ROC
       +Hugo Coll , Polytechnic University of Valencia,  Spain
       +Carmen Costilla, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
       Ingo Dahn, Universität Koblenz-Landau,   Germany
       Marcelo Sampaio de Alencar, Federal University of Campina Grande,   Brazil
       +Luca De   Nardis, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
       +Jose A.  Delgado-Penín , Technical University of Catalonia,  Spain
       +Steven A. Demurjian, University of Connecticut, USA
       +Tommaso Di Noia,   Technical University of Bari, Italy
       +Reza   Dilmaghani, King's College London, UK
       +Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA
       +Monica Divitini, NTNU, Norway
       +Mónica Domingues, University of Coimbra, Portugal
       +Schahram Dustdar,   Technical University of Vienna, Austria
       +Debojyoti Dutta,  Cisco Systems, Inc., USA
       +Max J. Egenhofer, University of Maine,   USA
       Santiago Eibe, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
       +Andras Farago,    University of Texas at Dallas, USA
       +Miguel Ferrando, Polytechnic University of Valencia,  Spain
       Günther Fliedl, Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
       +Santiago Flores, Polytechnic University of  Valencia, Spain
       +Flavius Frasincar, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The  Netherlands
       +Martin Gaedke, Chemnitz University of Technology,  Germany
       +Miguel Garcia, Polytechnic University of  Valencia, Spain
       Dimitris Gavrilis, University of Patras, Greece
       +Laurent George, Ecole  d'Ingénieurs ECE, France
       +Ratan Ghosh, Indian Institute of Technology,  Kanpur, India
       +Valentin Gjorgjioski, Jozef Stefan   Institute, Slovenia
       Pasqual Gonzales, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
       +Juan Carlos Guerri, Polytechnic University of  Valencia, Spain
       +Frederic Guidec, Universite de Bretagne-Sud, France
       +Jun Guo, The  University of New South Wales, Australia
       Seda Gürses, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
       +Abdelkader Hameurlain, University Paul Sabatier,  France
       +Dominikus Heckmann, DFKI, Germany
       Martin Hitz, Klagenfurt   University,   Germany
       +Leif   Martin Hokstad, NTNU, Norway
       Sungbum Hong,   Jackson State University, USA
       Jiankun Hu, RMIT University, Australia
       +Javier Alexander Hurtado, Universidad del Cauca,  Columbia
       Ismail Khalil Ibrahim, Johannes Kepler University,   UK
       +Ivan Jelinek,   Czech Technical University,   Czech   Republic
       +Weijia Jia, City University, HongKong
       +Paul Johannesson,   Stockholm University and. Royal Institute of Technology,   Sweden
       +Mike Joy, University of Warwick,   UK
       +Faouzi Kamoun, University of Dubai,   UAE
       +Dimitris Karagiannis, University of   Vienna,   Austria
       +Yeo Chai Kiat, Nanyang Technical University,  Singapore
       +Won Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
       +Reinhard Klemm, Avaya Labs Research, USA
       +Jana Koehler, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory , Switzerland
       +George T. Kormentzas,  University of the Aegean, Greece
       +Gabriele Kotsis,   Johannes Kepler University of Linz,   Austria
       Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, The Open University, UK
       +Frédéric Le Mouël, INSA Lyon, France
       +Nicolas Le Sommer, Universite de Bretagne-Sud, France
       +Leo Lehmann, Bundesamt  für Kommunikation, Switzerland
       Yonghui Li, The   University of Sydney, Australia
       Jia-Chin Lin,   National Central University,   Taiwan,   R.O.C.
       +David Lizcano, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
       Claudio Lucchese,   ISTI,  Italy
       Andreas   Lund, InterMedia, University of Oslo,   Norway
       Johan Lundin, IT-University of Göteborg, Sweden
       +Yuhua Luo, University of Balearic Islands, Spain
       +Elsa M. Macias, University of Canary Islands,  Spain
       +Oscar Martinez, Miguel  Hernandez University, Spain
       +S. Manoharan, University of Auckland, New Zealand
       +Shiwen Mao, Auburn University, USA
       +Rui Miguel Madeira, Setubal Polytechnic Institute, Portugal
       +Albena Mihovska, Aalborg University, Denmark
       +Carlo Mastroianni, Italian National Research  Council (ICAR-CNR), Italy
       Rory McGreal, Athabasca University,   Canada
       +Natarajan Meghanathan, Jackson State   University,   USA
       +Tommaso Melodia,, State University of New York  at Buffalo, USA
       +Ernestina Menasalvas, Universidad Politecnica de   Madrid, Spain
       +Elisabeth Metais, CEDRIC/CNAM, France
       +Ali Miri, University of Ottawa, Canada
       +Stefano Mizzaro, University  of Udine, Italy
       +Jose Monserrat, Polytechnic University of  Valencia, Spain
       +Amir Moulavi, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad,  Iran
       Jorg Muller,   University of Munster, Germany
       +Shrikant Naidu, Motorola  India Research Lab, India
       +Lakshmi Narasimhan, Western Kentucky University, USA
+Octavio Nieto, Polytechnic  University of Madrid, Spain
Homayoun Nikookar, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
       +Takuichi Nishimura, AIST, Japan
       Olufisayo Omojokun, Georgia Tech, USA
       +Beatriz Ortega , Polytechnic University of  Valencia, Spain
       +Carlos Palau, Polytechnic  University of Valencia, Spain
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       Lourdes Peñalver, Polytechnic University of  Valencia, Spain
       +Raffaele Perego, ISTI (CNR) - Pisa, Italy
       +Filip Perich, Shared Spectrum Inc., USA
       +Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany
       Willy Picard, The   Poznan University of Economics, Poland
       +Francesco Potorti, ISTI,  Italy
       +Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, University of Texas - Dallas, USA
       Ekaterina   Prasolova-Førland, NTNU, Norway
          Jiayin   Qi, Beijing University of P & T, China
       Clark Quinn, Quinnovation, USA
       +Fengyuan Ren, Tsinghua  University, P.R. China
       +Chiara Renso, ISTI (CNR) - Pisa, Italy
       Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy 
       +Siegfried Rouvrais, TELECOM Bretagne, France
       +Michele Ruta, Technical   University of Bari, Italy
       +DJamel H. Sadok, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco,  Brasil
       +Goutam Kumar Saha, CDAC- Kolkata, India
       Muhammed Salamah,   Eastern   Mediterranean University,   Turkey
       Thomas   Santen, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
       Carol Savill-Smith,   Technology Enhanced Learning Research Centre, UK
       +Gregor Schiele,   University   of Mannheim, Germany
       Chris Schmandt, MIT Media Labs, USA
       +Tim Schwartz, Saarland University, Germany
       +Zary Segal, UMBC, USA
       +David Shiung, National Taiwan University,  Taiwan
       Gordon Skelton,  Jackson State   University, USA
       +Mark Smith, HP Labs, USA
       Astrid Margrethe Sølvberg, NTNU,   Norway
       +Javier Soriano Camino, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
       +Bala Srinivasan, Monash University, Australia
       Knut Steinar Engelsen, HSH, Norway
       +Alvaro Suarez , University of Canary Islands,  Spain
       +Sumei Sun, I2R, Singapore
       Erkki Sutinen, University of Joensuu,   Finland
       +Djamshid Tavangarian, University of Rostock,   Germany
       +Stephanie Teufel, University of Fribourg, The  Netherlands
       +Jesus Tomas , Polytechnic University of  Valencia, Spain
       Riccardo   Torlone, Università Roma Tre,   Italy
       +Alicia  Triviño-Cabrera, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
       +Giannis Tsakonas, University of Patras, Greece
       +Chih-Cheng Tseng, JUST, Taiwan
       +Carlos Turro, Polytechnic University of  Valencia, Spain
       +Lorna Uden, Staffordshire University, UK
       Vladimir Uskov, Bradley University, USA
       Onni   Valkeapää, Helsinki University of Technology - TKK,   Finland
       +Subbarayan Venkatesan, University of Texas - Dallas, USA
       +Spyros Veronikis, Ionian University, Greece
       +Yuan-Kai Wang, Fu Jen University, Taiwan,   ROC
       +Ulf Wehling, Unversity of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
       +Hans Friedrich Witschel,    Universität Leipzig, Germany
       Janusz Wojtusiak II,   George Mason University, USA
       +Wendong Xiao, Institute  for Infocomm Research, Singapore
       +Lu Yan, University College London, UK
       +Chai Kiat Yeo, Nanyang Technological  University, Singapore
       +Ilya Zaihrayeu, University of Trento, Italy
       Yuxiao Zhao, Informiam LLC, Canada
     PhD Forum - Poster Presentations
     PhD Forum Co-Chairs
+Arta Doci, Colorado School of Mines, USA
+Eiman Elnahrawy, Rutgers University, USA
     Technical Committee
       +Mark Billinghurst, University of Canterbury - Christchurch, New Zealand
       +Kwang-Cheng Chen, Taiwan National University, Taiwan
       +Debojyoti Dutta, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA
       +Jochen Furthmüller, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
       +Crescenzio Gallo, University of Foggia, Italy
       +Ece Gelal, University of California - Riverside, USA
+Reinhard Klemm, Avaya Labs Research, USA
+Ioannis Krontiris, Athens Information Technology, Greece
       +Stuart Kurkowski, Air Force Institute of Technology, USA
       +Roy Nirmalya, the University of Texas at Arlington, USA
       +Fatos Xhafa, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain