CALL FOR DEMOS:

Scope:

The 7th international conference on mobile data management (MDM 2006) will be held in Nara, Japan, May 9-12, 2006. MDM 2006 focuses on challenges and opportunities for data management and access technology in the evolving world of mobile, wearable, and pervasive computing.

It aims to bring together both researchers and practitioners from the data management and mobile computing communities. MDM 2006 demo track will showcase leading edge work and work in progress in every area of mobile and wireless disciplines.

Topics of Interests:
      • Theoretical foundations of data-intensive mobile computing
      • Location and mobility semantics
      • Data placement, caching, replication and relocation to support mobility
      • Data broadcasting/dissemination in mobile environments
      • Data presentation, scripting and exchange languages
      • Data management for ubiquitous/pervasive/wearable computing
      • Data management in sensor and mobile ad hoc networks
      • Data stream processing in mobile/sensor networks
      • Resource advertising and discovery techniques to support mobility
      • Metadata management and exchanges
      • Query processing and optimization for mobile users
      • Transactions and workflows in mobile computing
      • Middleware support for mobility
      • Web access and Internet applications using mobile devices
      • Context-aware computing and location-based services
      • Adaptation of user interface and content
      • Mobile agent platforms and ubiquitous computing applications and systems
      • Operating system and network support for mobile devices
      • 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 application
      • Resource indexing and overlay networks
      • Publish-subscribe approach in mobile computing
Demo Paper Submission:

All demonstration submissions must be less than 5 pages single spacing, including all figures and and should provide a short description of the demonstrated system, a summary of its novel characteristics, the list of functions and features that are going to be demonstrated. Detailed formatting instructions from IEEE can be found at:

ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/instruct.pdf

The selection criteria used for demonstration proposals include the novelty, the technical quality, and the attractiveness of the demonstrated system.

Demo proposals need to be submitted electronically to the demo session account (mdm-demo@ml.nict.go.jp) before the deadline of demo proposal submission. For every accepted demo paper, MDM2006 does require at least one person to register and present. MDM can provide space and standard equipments (PC and Internet connection) at the conference. A demo will be included in the conference proceedings.

Awards:

We expect to offer a best demo award to the best demo presented in the demo session.

Important Dates:
      • Proposal must be submitted by: December 1st, 2005.
      • Notification (acceptance or rejection) by: January 19th, 2006.
      • Camera-ready must be submitted by: February 13th, 2006.