Last Mile, May 18 | UBICOMM 2012 || September 23 - 28, 2012 - Barcelona, Spain

[Cristina Pascual <cris.pascual.gonzalez [at] gmail.com>]

INVITATION:

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to UBICOMM 2012.

The submission deadline is set to May 18, 2012.

In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
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============== UBICOMM 2012 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

UBICOMM 2012, The Sixth International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies
September 23 - 28, 2012 - Barcelona, Spain

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/UBICOMM12.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPUBICOMM12.html

- regular papers
- short papers (work in progress)
- posters

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmitUBICOMM12.html

Submission deadline: May 18, 2012

Proceedings:
ISBN: 978-1-61208-236-3
Archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library at http://www.thinkmind.org
Printed version can be ordered at http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html
All publications will be submitted for major indexing.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a IARIA Journal: http://www.iariajournals.org

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please, check and comply with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

UBICOMM 2012 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Fundamentals
   Semantics of ubiquity; Ubiquitous knowledge; Knowledge discovery mechanisms; Profiling ubiquitous environments; Ubiquitous technologies for education, learning, and training

Mobility
   Ubiquitous computing; Wearable computing; Mobile computing; Nomadic computing; Mobile commerce; Mobile learning

Information Ubiquity
   Ubiquitous information appliances; Information retrieval and filtering; Context awareness; Control of ubiquitous data; Data management and processing; Data replication, migration and dissemination; Ubiquitous computing and  Internet of Things

Ubiquitous Multimedia Systems and Processing
   Multimedia content recognition, indexing and search; Mobile graphics, games and entertainment; Ubiquitous multimedia applications and systems; Streaming mobile multimedia; Mobile media management; Multimedia ubiquitous platforms; Multimedia Indexing and Compression; Image and Signal Processing; Virtual reality in ubiquitous systems

Wireless Technologies
   Bluetooth; 802.11.x; 802.15.x; ZigBee; WiMax

Web Services
   Web 2.0; Semantic web; Web services; Ontology; Web Services evolution; Web Services applications

Ubiquitous networks
   Ubiquitous networks; Network management; Network performance evaluation; Networks and technology convergence; Internet access in ubiquitous systems; Ubiquitous mesh, ad hoc and sensor networks; RFID; Reconfigurability and personalization of ubiquitous networks

Ubiquitous devices and operative systems
   Design of devices for ubiquitous systems; Mobile devices; Wearable devices; Embedded systems; Operative systems for ubiquitous devices; Real-time operating systems and scheduling

Ubiquitous mobile services and protocols
   Frameworks, architectures, and languages for ubiquitous services; Queries, transactions and workflows in mobile and ubiquitous Networks; Algorithms for ubiquitous systems; SLA/QoS in ubiquitous services; Ontology based services; Location-based services; Protocols and interaction mechanisms for ubiquitous services; Mobile services and service convergence; Service discovery mechanisms; Tracking in ubiquitous environments; Measurement, control, and management of ubiquitous services; Design and development of ubiquitous services; Wireless/mobile service delivery

Ubiquitous software and security
   Ambient components; Agent technologies; Software for spontaneous interoperation; Dependability guarantees; Security; Key Management and Authentication; Trust; Privacy; Fault-tolerance; Multimedia Information Security

Collaborative ubiquitous systems
   Cooperative networks for ubiquitous systems; Cooperative applications for ubiquitous networks; Handheld and wearable systems for interaction in collaborative groups and communities; Ad hoc collaboration in ubiquitous computing environments; Awareness of collaboration and of work environment; Inherently mobile collaborative work

Users, applications, and business models
   Mobile user interfaces; Ubiquitous user-generated content (weblogs, wikis, etc.); Mobile and ubiquitous computing support for collaborative learning; User modeling and personalization; Context- and location-aware applications; Toolkits, testbeds, development environments; Tools and techniques for designing, implementing, & evaluating ubiquitous systems; Constructing, deploying and prototyping of ubiquitous applications; Evaluation of user models for ubiquitous environments; On-line analytical techniques; Human-computer interaction in ubiquitous computing environments; Ubiquitous e-Development (business, science, health, etc.); Case Studies; Emerging industrial/business/scientific ubiquitous scenarios; Ambient intelligence; Social issues and implications of ubiquitous system

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Thanks for contributing!

UBICOMM Advisory Chairs

Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Sathiamoorthy Manoharan, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Zary Segal, UMBC, USA
Yoshiaki Taniguchi, Osaka University, Japan
Ruay-Shiung Chang, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan

IARIA Publicity Board
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