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CFP: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Special Issue on Wireless Internet Software Engineering

Call for Papers

CFP home page: http://www.computer.org/tse/WirelessInternet12Jun.pdf

         IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

         Issue Theme: Wireless Internet Software Engineering
         Submission deadline: 31 December 2002
         Guest Editors:
                 Maurizio Morisio <morisio@polito.it>
                 Markku Oivo <oivo@oulu.fi>


The Internet is quickly evolving towards the wireless Internet. 
According to forecasts, by 2003 the wireless Internet will have the
same number of users that the fixed Internet has today (around 300M). 
The IPV6 protocol, foundation of both the Internet and of 3G mobile 
phones using GPRS and UMTS, will blur the distinction between the 
Internet and mobile telecom networks. As a consequence data traffic
will surpass voice traffic in the next few years. This huge new market 
will generate a tremendous demand for mobile services, such as travel 
information, roadside assistance, entertainment, ticketing and so on.

The wireless Internet will be based upon wirelines and devices from the
traditional Internet, and will reuse some of its techniques and 
protocols. However, the wireless Internet will not be a simple add-on
to the wireline Internet.
New challenging problems arise from the handling of mobility, handsets 
with reduced screens and varying bandwidth. Papers are sought dealing 
with the following software related issues

Architectures:
-Software and service architecture
-Proposals of architectures
-Empirical studies to validate architectures
-Formalisms and notations to describe architectures
-Formal techniques to express and prove properties of architectures

Middleware to support service development:
-Requirements on middleware
-Underlying paradigms and models
-Openness
-Performances
-Evaluation and comparison of underlying technologies
-Functions and issues in data management and replication
(transaction recover, redundancy of data in mobile networks,
policies for replication and synchronization)
-Functions and issues in service management (profile management,
user authorization and authentication, quality of service
monitoring, billing, etc.)
-Seamless integration of services using subservices from multiple
organizations (content providers service providers, network operators)

Heterogeneous clients:
-Tools and methods to publish an application once for different clients
-Tools and techniques to manage changes on the client (bandwidth, GUI)
over time
-Management of profiles, assuring the same profile to the same user on
different clients.
-Derived requirements on architecture and middleware

Interaction styles and Agents:
-Proposal and evaluation of new interaction styles for the mobile user
-Methods and technologies to support new interaction styles: agents,
innovative GUIs, etc.

Email papers (PDF or RTF format, following TSE style) to either guest
editor.


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                                                 Politecnico di Torino
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