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The Second International Conference on Mobile Services, Resources, and Users MOBILITY 2012 October 21 - 26, 2012 - Venice, Italy |
| Call for Papers |
Users increasingly rely on devices in different mobile scenarios and situations. "Everything is mobile", and mobility is now ubiquitous. Services are supported in mobile environments, through smart devices and enabling software. While there are well known mobile services, the extension to mobile communities and on-demand mobility requires appropriate mobile radios, middleware and interfacing. Mobility management becomes more complex, but is essential for every business. Mobile wireless communications, including vehicular technologies bring new requirements for ad hoc networking, topology control and interface standardization.
MOBILITY 2012 continues a series of events dedicated to mobility-at-large, dealing with challenges raised by mobile services and applications considering user, device and service mobility.
We solicit both academic, research, and industrial contributions. We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.
Industrial presentations are not subject to the format and content constraints of regular submissions. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.
Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.
The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.
All topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry contributions.
Mobile architectures, mechanisms, protocols
Mobility and wireless
Mobility enabling protocols
Mobile software
Service composition in mobile environments
Knowledge and service discovery in mobile environments
On-demand mobility
User presence in mobile environments
Replication in mobile environments
Middleware for mobile environments
Internet and mobility
Software architecture for mobile applications
Mobile networking and management
Fundamentals of mobile networks
Mobile-Fixed interworking
Heterogenous networks
Beyond IMT-A
Mobile network virtualization
Femtocells and relays
Mobile cells
Mobile network sharing and network access
Self-management of mobile networks
Mobility management
Access control in mobile environments
Advanced roaming concepts
Mobile network edge-based service delivery platforms
Mobile content delivery networks
Mobile peer-to-peer systems
Mobile VPNs
Quality of experience in mobile networks
Mobile devices and services
Smart mobile devices
Embedded mobile
Sensors and mobiles
Mobile media, mobile content
Mobile applications (mobile learning, mobile healthcare, etc.)
Mobile games
Mobile business
Mobile Web applications
Apps versus Web
Novel software concepts for mobile services
Mobile- and micro payment
mCommerce
Mobile prosumers and interfaces
User interaction and mobility
Mobile communities
Mobile Web interfaces and interaction techniques
Implementations and experimental mobile systems
Mobile Web
Mobile search and advertising
Mobile Internet of Things
Future mobile Internet
Internet of Things
Machine to Machine, People, Business (M2x)
Online
Smart Homes
Smart Cities
Vehicular mobile technology
Architectures and platforms
Vehicular ad hoc networks
Vehicular routing metrics and supporting protocols
Mobility management and topology control
Standardization of vehicular networks
User aspects
Business enablers
Challenges in mobile environments
Security and privacy environments
Protection and safety of distributed mobile data
Context-aware mobility and privacy
Mobile emergency communication and public safety
Location-based services
Micro-payments
Accuracy and preciseness in localizing mobile entities
INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.
Publisher: XPS (Xpert Publishing Services)
Archived: ThinkMindTM Digital Library (free access)
Prints available at Curran Associates, Inc.
Articles will be submitted to appropriate indexes.
Important deadlines:
| Submission (full paper) | |
| Notification | July 23, 2012 |
| Registration | August 7, 2012 |
| Camera ready | August 7, 2012 |
Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received submissions will be acknowledged via an automated system.
Regular Papers (up to 6-10 page article)
Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11", not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here.
Your paper should also comply with the additional editorial rules.
Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the publisher an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.
Work in Progress (short paper up to 4 pages long)
Work-in-progress contributions are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as work in progress. Authors should submit a four-page (maximum) text manuscript in IEEE double-column format including the authors' names, affiliations, email contacts. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings.
For more details, see the Work in Progress explanation page
Posters (poster or collection of 6 to 8 slides, including industrial presentations)
Posters are intended for ongoing research projects, concrete realizations, or industrial applications/projects presentations. Acceptance will be decided based on a 1-2 page abstract and/or 6-8 .pdf slide deck submitted through the conference submission website. The poster may be presented during sessions reserved for posters, or mixed with presentation of articles of similar topic. The slides must have comprehensive comments. One big Poster and/or the associated slides should be used for discussions, once on the conference site.
For more details, see the Posters explanation page.
Ideas (2 page proposal of novel idea)
This category is dedicated to new ideas in their early stage. Contributions might refer to PhD dissertation, testing new approaches, provocative and innovative ideas, out-of-the-box, and out-of-the-book thinking, etc. Acceptance will be decided based on a maximum 2 page submission through the conference submission website. The contributions for Ideas will be presented in special sessions, where more debate is intended. The Idea contribution must be comprehensive, focused, very well supported (details might miss, obviously). A 6-8 slide deck should be used for discussions, once on the conference site.
For more details, see the Ideas explanation page.
Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations
The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will not be published in the conference’s CD Proceedings. Presentations' slide decks will be posted on the IARIA's site. Please send your presentations to petre@iaria.org.
Tutorials
Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals should be for three hour tutorials. Proposals must contain the title, the summary of the content, and the biography of the presenter(s). The tutorials' slide decks will be posted on the IARIA's site. Please send your proposals to petre@iaria.org
Panel proposals
The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies. The panel's slide deck will be posted on the IARIA's site.
For more information, petre@iaria.org
Workshop proposals
We welcome workshop proposals on issues complementary to the topics of this conference. Your requests should be forwarded to petre@iaria.org.
