IEEE PerCom 2013 - Call For Papers

[Chiara Boldrini <chiara.boldrini [at] iit.cnr.it>]

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                                                  CALL FOR PAPERS
                                                    PerCom 2013
                     IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
                                       18-22 March 2013, San Diego, USA
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IEEE PerCom, now in its eleventh edition, is established as the premier annual scholarly venue in the areas of pervasive computing and communications. Pervasive computing and communications has evolved into an active area of research and development, due to the tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, RFID technology, and the ubiquitous mobile phone.

PerCom 2013 will be held in San Diego, "America's finest city", famous for its climate, its beaches, and numerous tourist attractions. PerCom 2013 will provide a leading edge, scholarly forum for researchers, engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the art research and developmental work in the broad areas of pervasive computing and communications. The conference will feature a diverse mixture of interactive forums: core technical sessions of high quality cutting-edge research articles; targeted workshops on exciting topics; live demonstrations of pervasive computing in action; insightful keynote speeches; panel discussions from domain experts; and posters of budding ideas.

Research contributions are solicited in all areas pertinent to pervasive computing and communications, including:
       - Innovative pervasive computing applications
       - Context modeling and reasoning
       - Data management for pervasive computing
       - Programming paradigms for pervasive systems
       - Software evolution and maintenance in pervasive systems
       - Middleware for pervasive services and applications
       - Adaptive, autonomic and context-aware computing
       - Mobile/wearable computing systems and services in pervasive computing
       - Energy-efficient and green pervasive computing
       - Communication architectures for pervasive computing
       - Ad hoc networks for pervasive communications
       - Pervasive opportunistic communications and applications
       - Enabling technologies for pervasive systems (e.g., wireless BAN, PAN)
       - Positioning and tracking technologies
       - Sensors and RFIDs in pervasive systems
       - Multimodal sensing and context for pervasive applications
       - Participatory, opportunistic and social sensing
       - Smart devices and intelligent environments
       - Trust, security and privacy issues in pervasive systems
       - User interface, interaction, and persuasion
       - Virtual immersive communications
       - Pervasive computing aspects of social networks
       - Social and economic models for pervasive systems

Workshops and Affiliated Events

Many workshops will be held in conjunction with the main conference. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE PerCom. As in the past, PerCom 2013 will also feature a PhD Forum, Demonstrations and a Work-in-Progress Session.  Please visit the conference website for details.

Important Dates

Paper Registration:        September 21, 2012 23:59:00 EDT
Paper submission:          September 28, 2012 23:59:00 EDT
Notification:              December 22, 2012
Camera Ready:              January  25, 2013

Best paper award

The best paper will receive the prestigious Mark Weiser best paper award. Papers of particular merit will be considered for a special issue of the Elsevier journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC).

Submission Guidelines

Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. They must show significant relevance to pervasive computing and networking. Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be considered. Papers must be 9 pages or less, including references, figures and tables (at least 10pt font, 2-column format).

The IEEE LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates, as well as formatting instructions, can be found at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting.

All manuscripts must be registered and submitted electronically through EDAS (https://www.edas.info).

Submissions will undergo a rigorous review process handled by the Technical Program Committee. The best paper will receive the prestigious Mark Weiser Best Paper Award. Top selected papers will be considered for a special issue of the Elsevier journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC)


Organizing Committee

General Chair: 
Jadwiga Indulska, The University of Queensland, Australia

Vice General Chair:
Chatschik Bisdikian, IBM T. J. Watson Research, USA

Program Chair:
Claudio Bettini, University of Milan, Italy

Vice Program Co-Chairs:
Marco Gruteser, Rutgers University, USA
Christine Julien, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Marius Portmann, The University of Queensland, Australia

Workshops Co-Chairs:
Urs Hengartner, University of  Waterloo, Canada
Gregor Schiele, University of Mannheim, Germany

Steering Committee Chair:
Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, IT

Technical Program Committee

Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA
Christian Becker, Universität Mannheim, Germany
Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy
Roy Campbell, Univeristy of Illinois, USA
Guohong Cao, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK
Dipanjan Chakraborty, IBM India Research Lab , India
Yingying Chen, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy
Paolo Costa, Microsoft Research, UK
Sajal Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Klaus David, University of Kassel, Germany
Christos Efstratiou, University of Cambridge, UK
Karoly Farkas, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Silvia Giordano, University of Applied Science (SUPSI), Switzerland
Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Urs Hengartner, University of Waterloo, Canada
Baik Hoh, Nokia Research, USA
Woody Huang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Matthias Kranz, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Shonali Krishnaswamy, Monash University, Australia
Mohan Kumar, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Marc Langheinrich, University of Lugano (USI), Switzerland
Janne Lindqvist, Rutgers Univ, USA
Wenjing Lou, Virginia Teach, USA
Paul Lukowicz, University of Passau, Germany
Xun Luo, Qualcomm Inc., USA
Qin Lv, Univ of Colorado, USA
Marco Mamei, Università  di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Pedro Marron, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, UK
Justin Mazzola Paluska, MIT, USA
Archan Misra, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Iqbal Mohomed,  IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Luca Mottola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy 
Max Mühlhäuser, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Daniela Nicklas, Carl von Ossietzky Universitiät Oldenburg, Germany
Petteri Nurmi, University of Helsinki, Finland
Eamonn O'Neill, University of Bath, UK
Joerg Ott, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy
Jamie Payton, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
Tom Pfeifer, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
Dinh Phung, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento, Italy
Daniele Puccinelli, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Switzerland
Anand Ranganathan, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Daniele Riboni, University of Milan, Italy
Oriana Riva, Microsoft Research, USA
Kay Roemer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
George Roussos, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
Enrico Rukzio, Lancaster University, UK
Umar Saif, LUMS, Pakistan
Gregor Schiele, University of Mannheim, Germany
Aruna Seneviratne, NICTA, Australia
Behrooz Shirazi, Washington State University, USA
Morris Sloman, Imperial College London, UK,
Junehwa Song, KAIST, South Korea
Thomas Strang, German Aerospace Center, Germany
Nalini Venkatasubramamian, University of California at Irvine, USA
Wenyuan Xu, Univ of South Carolina, USA
Moustafa Youssef, EJUST, Egypt
Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio, Italy
Gergely Záruba, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Daqing Zhang, Institut Telecom SudParis, France
Yanchao Zhang, Arizona State University, USA
Lin Zhong, Rice University, USA

For additional information, see www.percom.org for details on current and past PerCom conferences, or contact the PerCom 2013 organizing committee at percom2013 [at] dico.unimi.it