[MDM2008] Last Call for Papers and Proposals

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     The 9th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'08)
                      http://idke.ruc.edu.cn/mdm2008/
                          Date: April 27-30, 2008
                                Beijing, China
                                                                                  
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The significant advances in wireless communications, the ever increasing availability of
mobile multi-purpose devices, and the fast growth in sensors and actuators have created
a global computing infrastructure that is profoundly changing the way people live and
work. People interact with themselves, the physical world, and information services
using a wide range of devices connected together via a variety of networks, enabling
computing and communication at an unprecedented scale and density.

This new infrastructure presents a number of challenges especially when it comes to
data-intensive applications: enormous scale, varying and intermittent connectivity,
location dependence and context awareness, limited bandwidth and power capacity, small
device size, and multimedia delivery across hybrid networks.

Conventional issues in data management have to be considered and evaluated anew in this
rapidly changing environment. Non-traditional issues including mobility, data semantics,
context modeling, broadcast and multicast delivery, data availability, trust and privacy
must also be addressed effectively.

The latest of a successful series, MDM 2008 provides a high-quality forum for the
presentation of research results on data management issues in the evolving world of
mobile, wireless, and pervasive computing.

Topics of Interests
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following.
- Theoretical foundations of data-intensive mobile computing
- Moving objects management
- Data placement, replication and relocation to support mobility
- Data broadcasting/dissemination in mobile environments
- Data presentation, scripting and exchange languages
- Data management for pervasive computing
- Data management in sensor and mobile ad hoc networks
- Data stream processing in mobile/sensor networks
- Resource advertising and discovery techniques
- Metadata management and exchanges
- Query processing and optimization for mobile users
- Uncertainty data management
- Transactions and workflows in mobile environments
- Location privacy
- Mobile access to the Web
- Context-aware computing and location-based services
- Security and privacy issues for ubiquitous systems
- Location tracking of vehicles and moving objects
- Quality of service issues for data-intensive services
- Adaptability and stability of pervasive computing systems
- Data mining for mobile applications
- Publish-subscribe approach in mobile computing
- Outsourcing databases

Paper Submission
The conference invites original, unpublished submissions not exceeding 8 pages in the
camera-ready IEEE style. Submissions in PDF format must be uploaded to the conference
web-based submission system at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/MDM2008/Default.aspx.

Industrial/experience papers as well as proposals for panels, demos, seminars, and
workshops are also sought. Submission instructions will be made available on the conference
homepage. Industrial/experience papers are expected to discuss novel aspects of deployed
applications or prototypes as well as experiences and standards.

Important Dates:
Abstract submission: 11/9/2007
Paper submission: 11/16/2007
Notification: 1/25/2008
Camera ready: 2/15/2008

Organization Committee

General Co-Chairs:
Dik Lun Lee, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, China
Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Timos Sellis, National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece

PC Co-Chairs:
Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin Univ. of China, China
Hui Lei, IBM T. J. Watson Research, USA
Stephane Grumbach, INRIA, France

Workshop Chair:
Wang-Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Seminars Co-Chairs:
Jianliang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece

Panel Chair:
Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia

Demonstration Chair:
Xing Xie, Microsoft Research Asia , China

Publicity Co-Chair:
Baihua Zheng, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Publication Chair:
Hong Va Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Financial/Registration Chair:
Zhiming Ding, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Local Organizing Committee:
Jidong Cheng, Renmin University of China, China

Program Committee (More to be added):
Karl Aberer, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
Ahmed Amer, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia
Philippe Bonnet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Luc Bouganim, INRIA-Rocquencourt, France
Guohong Cao, Penn State University, USA
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Edward P.F. Chan, University of Waterloo, Canada
Ming-Syan Chen, Taiwan University, Taiwan
Panos Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Bin Cui, Peking University, China
Zhiming Ding, Institute of Software, CAS, China
Le Gruenwald, NSF, USA
Ralf Hartmut Guting, Fernuniversitat Hagen, Germany
Rick Han, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Kien Hua, University of Central Florida, USA
Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Ning Jing, National University of Defance Technology, China
Anupam Joshi, UMBC, USA
Yutaka Kidawara , NICT, Japan
Hiroyuki Kitagawa,University of Tsukuba, Japan
Vijay Kumar, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA
Wang-Chien Lee, Penn State University, USA
Hong Va Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Ki-Joune Li, Pusan National University, Korea
Yushen Liu, Huazhong UST, China
Qiong Luo, HKUST, China
Sanjay Kumar Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA
Nikos Mamoulis, University of Hong Kong, China
Pedro Jose Marron, University of Bonn, Germany
Mihhail Matskin, KTH, Stockholm, sweden
Eduardo Mena, University of Zaragossa, Spain
Gail Mitchell, BBN, USA
Mohamed F. Mokbel, University of Minnesota, USA
Shojiro Nishio, Osaka University, Japan
Boris Novikov, Saint Petersburg University, Russia
Dimitris Papadias, HKUST, China
Wen-Chih Peng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Dieter Pfoser, CTI, Greece
Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece
Philippe Pucheral, INRIA Rocquencourt, France
Anand Ranganathan, IBM Research, USA
George Samaras, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern University, USA
Timos Sellis, National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece
Jianwen Su, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Kare Synnes, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden
Kian-Lee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Xueyan Tang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Fabrice Valois, INRIA ARES / CITI, INSA Lyon, France
Agnčs Voisard, Fraunhofer ISST, Germany
Ouri Wolfson , University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Xing Xie, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Jianliang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Vladimir Zadorozhny, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia
Donghui Zhang, Northeastern University, USA
Baihua Zheng, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia
Received on Tue Nov 6 07:58:25 2007