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MDM 2003
4th International Conference on Mobile Data Management,
21-24 January, 2003, Melbourne, Australia

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/mdm2003/

In cooperation with ACM SIGMOD, SIGMOBILE, ACS

We are rapidly heading towards a world in which the computing infrastructure will contain billions of devices, which will interact with other computing/communications devices that are carried or worn by users as they go through their daily routines.

Such devices provide data access to mobile users as they move within buildings, cities, or across the globe. This new infrastructure presents tremendous challenges for data management technology including: huge scale; variable and intermittent connectivity; location-centric and location-dependent applications; bandwidth, power, and device size limitations; and multimedia data delivery across hybrid networks and systems. Traditional data management technologies such as query processing, transaction management, workflow, business process management and metadata management must all be re-evaluated in this emerging environment. Furthermore, non-traditional issues such as semantics of mobile data, location-dependent querying, broadcast and multicast delivery and caching/pre-fetching techniques must all be addressed. The ability to track monitor people raises serious issue of security and privacy. This conference aims to investigate these and other issues, focusing on the challenges and opportunities for data management and data access technology in the rapidly evolving world of mobile, pervasive, ubiquitous, invisible and wearable computing.

CONFERENCE TOPICS

v      theoretical foundations of mobility
v      modelling location and mobility semantics
v      metadata management and exchanges
v      query processing and optimisation for mobile users
v      data placement, caching, replication and relocation to support mobility
v      resource advertising and discovery techniques to support mobility
v      mobile transaction management
v      multimedia in a mobile environment
v      mobile web access and internet applications
v      context aware adaptation of user interface and content
v      mobile aware/adaptive/agent applications
v      mobile agent platforms
v      middleware support for mobility
v      data presentation, scripting and exchange languages
v      mobile and ubiquitous computing applications and systems
v      workflow management for mobile environments
v      operating system and network support for ubiquitous mobile computing
v      security and privacy issues for ubiquitous systems
v      location dependent user and vehicle tracking
v      quality of service management for mobile systems
v      adaptability and stability of pervasive computing systems

IMPORTANT DATES

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Both research and industrial papers are solicited. Research papers must be unpublished and not exceed 12 single-spaced pages. Industrial papers must not exceed 6 single-spaced pages and
should describe industrial applications, prototypes, experiences, and standards. Authors are invited to submit their papers electronically to the conference web site at http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/mdm2003/

on or before June 15, 2002. PDF format is preferred but postscript format is acceptable.

Conference proceedings will be published by Springer in “Lecture Notes in Computer Science” http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html

Direct correspondence, inquiries and submissions relating to this conference to:

Arkady Zaslavsky (Conference Chair)
School of Computer Science & Software Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Email: a.zaslavsky@monash.edu.au

Panos K.Chrysanthis (PC Co-chair - Americas)
Dept. of Computer Science,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
Email: panos@cs.pitt.edu

Ming-Syan Chen, (PC Co-chair - Asia)
Electrical Engineering Department
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
E-mail: mschen@cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw

Morris Sloman (PC Co-chair - Europe)
Department of Computing,
Imperial College, London, UK
Email: m.sloman@doc.ic.ac.uk

We also solicit proposals for panels and tutorials. Please send your proposals by June 15 to the respective chairs:

Industry Co-Chairs:
Zahir Tari
RMIT University, Melbourne
email: zahirt@cs.rmit.edu.au

Johan Hjelm
Nippon Ericsson KK, Ericsson Research
Applications Research Group
email: johan.hjelm@era-t.ericsson.se

Industry demo chair:
Phillip Steele
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
email: Phil.Steele@infotech.monash.edu.au

Publicity Chair:
Sujata Banerjee
HP Labs & University of Pittsburgh, USA
email: sujata@mail.sis.pitt.edu

Tutorial Chair:
Jadwiga Indulska
The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
email: jaga@csee.uq.edu.au

Local Organising Chair:
Michelle Ketchen
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Email: michelle.ketchen@csse.monash.edu.au

Program Committee

Amr El Abbadi, UC Santa-Barbara, USA,
Karl Aberer, EPFL-DSC, Lausanne, Switzerland
Swarup Acharya, Bell Labs, USA
Badri Badrinath, Rutgers University, USA
Michael Beigl, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Elisa Bertino, University of Milano, Italy
Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA
Gordon Blair, Lancaster University, UK
Andy Bond, DSTC, Australia
Gavin Brebner, HP Labs, France
Barry L. Brumitt, Microsoft Research, USA
Omran Bukhres, Purdue University, USA
Dan Chalmers, Imperial College, UK
Arbee L. P. Chen, National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan
Ying Chen, IBM China Research Lab, China
Mitch Cherniack, Brandies University, USA
Norman Cohen, IBM T. J. Watson Research, USA
Anindya Datta, Georgia Tech, USA
Alex Delis, Polytechnic University, NY, USA
David De Roure, Southampton University, UK
Maggie Dunham, Southern Methodist Univ., USA
Mike Franklin, UC-Berkeley, USA
Adrian Friday, Lancaster University, UK
Akira Fukuda, Kyushu University, Japan
Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University, USA
Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France
Sridhar Iyer, IIT Bombay, India
Ravi Jain, Telcordia, USA
Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Anupam Joshi, Univ.of Maryland, USA
Hyunchul Kang, Chung-Ang University, Korea
Fredrik Kilander University of Stockholm, Sweden
Tim Kindberg, HP Labs, USA
Myoung Ho Kim, KAIST, Korea
Masaru Kitsuregawa, The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
George Kollios, Boston University, USA
David Kotz, Dartmouth College, USA
Vijay Kumar, Univ. of Missouri - Kansas City, USA
Chiang Lee, National Cheng-Kung Univ., Taiwan
Dik L. Lee, HK Univ of Sci & Techn, Hong Kong
Victor Lee, City University of HK, Hong Kong
Wang-Chien Lee, Penn State University, USA
Hui Lei, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Hong-va Leong, HK Polytechnic Univ, Hong Kong
Vincenzo Liberatore, Case Western Reserve Uni, USA
Seng Wai Loke, RMIT University, Australia
Sanjay Kumar Madria, Univ. of Missouri-Rolla, USA
Ryusuke Masuoka, Fujitsu Labs of America, USA
Mihhail Matskin, Norwegian Univ of Sci & Tech,Norway
Sharad Mehrotra, University of California, Irvine, USA
Eduardo Mena, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University, China
Rebecca Montanari, University of Bologna, Italy
Jignesh M. Patel, University of Michigan, USA
Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece
Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Andry Rakotonirainy, DSTC, Australia
Krithi Ramamritham , IIT Bombay, India
S. Sudarshan, IIT, Bombay, India
Kian-Lee Tan, National Univ. of Singapore. Singapore
Helen Thomas, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Masahiko Tsukamoto, Osaka University, Japan
Jari Veijalainen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois, USA
Cui Yu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Vladimir Zadorozhny, University of Pittsburgh, USA