--- CALL FOR PAPERS --- The 6th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'05) Ayia Napa, Cyprus, May 9-13, 2005 http://www2.cs.ucy.ac.cy/mdm05 In Cooperation with ACM SIGMOD/SIGMOBILE and IEEE TCDE/TCI (pending) SCOPE: The strong growth in wireless communications and the ever increasing availability of mobile multi-purpose devices have created a global computing environment that plays a key role in the daily activities of millions of people. Users communicate, work, and confer using a wide range of devices all connected via an array of communication networks that provide voice and data access regardless of geographic position. This infrastructure aggregation presents a number of challenges especially when it comes to data-intensive applications: scale, variable and intermittent connectivity, provision of location-dependent applications, bandwidth/power consumption, device size limitations, and multimedia delivery across hybrid networks. Conventional issues in data management have to be thought and evaluated anew in this rapidly changing environment. Non-traditional issues including semantics of data, location-centric data services, broadcast and multicast delivery, data availability techniques, security of data, as well as privacy questions have to be addressed. MDM'05 focuses on challenges and opportunities for data management and access technology in the evolving world of mobile, wearable, and pervasive computing. TOPICS OF INTERST: * Theoretical foundations of data-intensive mobile computing * Location and mobility semantics * Data placement, caching, replication and relocation to support mobility * Data dissemination in mobile environments * Data presentation, scripting and exchange languages * Data management for ubiquitous computing * 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 * Multimedia delivery in 3G mobile networks * 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 goods * Interaction of mobile applications and sensor networks * Quality of service issues for data-intensive services * Adaptability and stability of pervasive computing systems * Data mining for mobile application SOLICITATION: Unpublished research papers are sought; their length should not exceed 8 pages in the camera-ready IEEE style. Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts using the site at http://www2.cs.ucy.ac.cy/mdm05 on or before October 28th, 2004. The PDF format is preferred but PostScript format is acceptable. Important dates are: Abstract Registration : October 21st, 2004 Paper Submission : October 28th, 2004 Notification of Acceptance: December 30th, 2004 Camera-Ready Due : January 24th, 2005 Industrial/experience papers as well as proposals for panels, demos, tutorials, and workshops are also sought by October 28th, 2004. Industrial/experience papers are expected to discuss novel aspects of deployed applications and/or prototypes as well as experiences and standards. CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS: Panos K. Chrysanthis, U. of Pittsburgh, USA George Samaras, U. of Cyprus, Cyprus PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS: Alex Delis, U. of Athens, Greece Ouri Wolfson, UI-Chicago, USA Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash U., Australia INDUSTRIAL/EXPERIENCE TRACK CHAIR: Apratim Purakayastha, IBM-Research, USA DEMONSTRATION CO-CHAIRS: Avigdor Gal, Technion, Israel Vijay Kumar, U. of Missouri, USA LOCAL ORGANIZING CHAIR: Skevos Evripidou, U. of Cyprus, Cyprus PUBLICITY CHAIR: Alex Labrinidis, U. of Pittsburgh, USA PANELS CHAIR: Evi Pitoura, U. of Ioannina, Greece TUTORIALS: Christian Becker, U. of Stuttgart, Germany WORKSHOPS: Norman Cohen, IBM-Research, USA REGISTRATION CHAIR: Andreas Andreou, U. of Cyprus, Cyprus INDUSTRY LIAISON SPONSORSHIPS CHAIR: Nicos Nicolaou, Cyprus Telecom, Cyprus PROGRAM COMMITTEE Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland Sibel Adali, RPI, USA Divyakant Agrawal, UCSB, USA Christian Becker, U. of Stuttgart, Germany Elisa Bertino, U. of Milano, Italy Purdue U. Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech, USA Bernard Burg, HP Labs, USA Anindya Datta, Georgia Tech, USA Maggie Dunham, SMU, USA Kaushik Dutta, Florida Int. U., USA Roy Friedman, Technion, Israel Chiara Ghidini, ITC, Italy Alfreado Goni, U. del Pais Vasco, Spain Paul Grace, Lancaster U., United Kingdom Sumi Helal, U. of Florida, USA Ravi Jain, Docomo Labs, USA Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg U., Denmark Vana Kalogeraki, UC-Riverside, USA Ibrahim Kamel, Zayed U., U.A.E. Hyunchul Kang, Chung-Ang U., Korea Nick Koudas, U. of Toronto, Canada Masaru Kitsuregawa, U. of Tokyo, Japan Kam-Yiu Lam, City U. of HK, Hong Kong Gad M. Landau, U. of Haifa, Israel Dik Lee, HK U. of Sc.Tech., Hong Kong Hui Lei, IBM Research, USA Hong-va Leong, HK Polytechnic U., Hong Kong Seng Loke, Monash U., Australia Mihhail Matskin, KTH-Stockholm, Sweden Dennis McLeod, USC, USA Eduardo Mena, U. of Zaragosa, Spain Rebecca Montanari, U. of Bolognia, Italy Richard Muntz, UCLA, USA Beng Chin Ooi, Nat. U. of Singapore, Singapore Aris Ouksel, UI-Chicago, USA Ozgur Oulusoy, Bilkent U., Turkey Mourad Ouzzani, Purdue U., USA Jignesh J. Patel, U. of Michigan, USA Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer-FIT, Germany Evi Pitoura, U. of Ioannina, Greece Krithi Ramamritham, IITB, India Claudia Roncancio, ENSIMAG/LSR, France Mema Roussopoulos, Harvard U., USA Heiko Schuldt, UMIT, Austria Timos Sellis, NTUA, Greece Oded Shmueli, Technion, Israel Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki U., Japan Zahir Tari, RMIT, Australia Michalis Vazirgiannis, AUEB, Greece Vladimir Zadorozhny, U. Pittsburgh, USA Jeffrey Yu, City U. of HK, Hong Kong INDUSTRIAL/EXPERIENCE TRACK COMMITTEE David Boloker, IBM, USA Stephane Maes, Oracle Corp., USA Riku Mettala, Nokia, Finland K. Prasad, Ford Research Labs, USA Mirjana Spasojevic, HP Labs, USA