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CfP: NSF Workshop on an Infrastructure for Mobile and Wireless Systems, in Scottsdale, Arizona, October, 15, 2001

Call for Position Papers:

NSF Workshop on an Infrastructure for Mobile and Wireless Systems
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http://it2.eng.fiu.edu/Workshop/index.html


In conjunction with the International Conference on Computer
Communications and Networks (ICCCN)
Chapparal Suites Hotel, Scottsdale, Arizona, October, 15, 2001
sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Telecommunications
and Information Technology Institute at Florida International University

The NSF Workshop on an Infrastructure for Mobile and Wireless Systems
will bring together the leading researchers and developers in fields
adjacent to mobile and wireless systems. The goal of the workshop is to
foster communication not only between the different wireless communities
(e.g., those dealing with communication, computing, operating systems
and networks for wireless access) and the distributed systems
and information systems communities. Such collaboration is necessitated
by the current needs of wireless technologies, if new horizons of
research and development are to be reached.

Scope:
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The objective of the workshop is to define and establish a common
infrastructure of the discipline and to develop a consensus-based
document that will provide a foundation for implementation,
standardization, as well as for further research. The workshop will
offer the opportunity to identify and define  fundamental concepts and
techniques, resolve conflicts between certain approaches in the area and
provide a common ground for advanced wireless technologies as well as
the corresponding research needed to enable that technology. The topics
that will be addressed include, but are not limited to, the following as
they pertain to the development of a common infrastructure:

* Wireless/Mobile Satellite Communication Networks
* Wireless Multimedia  Applications
* Internet Services/Applications
* Network Management Performance Modeling/Analysis
* Network Architectures
* Interoperability
* Data Caching and Hoarding
* Query Languages for Mobile Users
* Transaction Models for Wireless  Access
* Quality of Service Issues
* Global Infrastructure
* Network Evolution
* Networked Databases
* Heterogeneous Databases
* Mediator Systems
* Data Replication
* Databases for Mobile Users
* Data synchronization
* Secure Architectures
* Mobile E-commerce


Workshop Format:
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The workshop format will be designed to encourage productive interaction
among participants. It will consist of the presentation of position
papers as well as of invited papers on new developments and current
trends with ample time allocated for group discussions. This format
should provide a forum for collaborations to develop among members of
the different research and development communities. Attendance will be
limited and attendants will be asked to contribute to a consensus-based
paper on an infrastructure to be published after the workshop.

Submission:
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Authors are invited to submit position papers proposing a portion of the
infrastructure that they consider amenable to consensus. Position papers
that challenge the mobile computing community with new technologies and
visionary applications are also encouraged. Position papers should be
between 5 and 10 pages in
 length, and should include the title, author(s), authors' affiliation
and an abstract. Paper submission in LNCS format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) is encouraged.Papers
accepted or under review by other conferences, workshops or journals
including ICCCN2001 will not be reviewed/considered for acceptance for
this NSF workshop. Submitters should also indicate their willingness to
contribute to the final report.
Electronic submission  is strongly encouraged. If electronic submission
is not possible, five (5) hard copies of the paper should be send.
Contact information for both cases is provided below. The accepted
papers will be distributed to the participants prior to the workshop and
will also appear in print together with the consensus paper after the
workshop. It is planned to publish the post-workshop proceedings in the
Springer series Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html)


Important Dates:
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Paper submission deadline: May, 13,  2001
Notification of Acceptance: August, 01, 2001
Workshop: October, 16, 2001


General Chairs:
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Niki Pissinou, Florida International University (on leave from:
University of Louisiana at Lafayette), USA
Kia Makki, Florida International University, USA


Program Chairs:
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Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern University, USA
Birgitta Koenig-Ries, Florida International University, USA


Program Vice-Chair:
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Sam Makki, Queensland University of Technology, Australia


Registration Chair:
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E.K. Park, University of Missouri, USA


Program Committee:
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B.R. Bardrinath, Rutgers University, USA
Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA
Yuri Breitbart, Lucent, Bell Labs
Ahmed Elmagarmid, Purdue University, USA
Forouzan Golshani, Arizona State University, USA
Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal, University of Florida, USA
David Hislop, Army Research Office, USA
Anupam Joshi, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Robert Laurini, L'Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de
Lyon/Université Claude Bernard Lyon, France
Dik Lun Lee, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Charles E. Perkins, Nokia, USA
Peter Reiher, UCLA, USA
Kurt Rothermel, IPVR, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Mukesh Singhal, Ohio State University/ NSF, USA
Oezguer Ulusoy, Bilkent University, Turkey
Jari Veijalainen, GMD-FIT, Germany/University of Jyvaskyla, Finland

Contact Information:
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Electronic Submissions:
Birgitta Koenig-Ries
E-mail: koenig-ries@acm.org

Hard-Copy Submissions:
Dr. Kia Makki
NSF Workshop Submission
College of Engineering
Telecommunications and Information Technology Institute
Florida International University
10555 W. Flagler St., EAS2425
Miami, FL 33174
USA



--
Birgitta Koenig-Ries
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Florida International University
phone +1(225)201-9624
email koenig-ries@acm.org
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This message is forwarded to members of the COSC/EEE/Management research 
group on networks at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 
New zealand, and anybody else interested in research in this area

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	Department of Computer Science,  University of Canterbury
 			Christchurch, New Zealand
		
ph.  +(64) 3 3642 987 ext.7772  email:   krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz 
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