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Call for Papers & Workshops

MobiQuitous 2016

13th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services

November 28-December 1, 2016, Hiroshima, Japan

http://mobiquitous.org/2016/

### paper submission due: June 27th, 2016 ###

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Scope:

Despite the considerable research effort in the area of Ubiquitous Computing over the past decade,

and the maturity of some of its base technologies, many challenges persist. The goal of the 13th

Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services

(MobiQuitous 2016) is to provide a forum for presenting and discussing high-quality research in the

field at international level, involving practitioners and researchers from diverse backgrounds.

MobiQuitous 2016 will thus foster research collaboration through focused discussions, interaction

and exchange of experiences that will designate future research efforts and directions. Areas

addressed by the conference include systems, applications, social networks, middleware, networking,

data management and services, all with special focus on mobility and ubiquitous computing.

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Topics:

We solicit technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently

under review by another conference or journal, pertaining to the Internet of Things and Ubiquitous

Systems, broadly conceived. Submissions should clearly identify how they relate to issues on mobile

and ubiquitous systems. Contributions describing an overall working system and reporting real world

deployment experiences are particularly of interest. Topics include, but are not limited to the

following:

- Wireless Access Technologies

- Networked Sensing, and Applications

- Mobile Device Architectures

- Mobile Systems and Applications

- Mobile Data Management and Analytics

- Mobile Multimedia

- Mobile User Interfaces and Interaction Technologies

- Mobile User Experience

- Toolkit, and Languages for Mobile Computing

- Energy Aware Mobile Computing

- Mobile Cloud Computing

- Semantic Web Technologies

- Localization and Tracking

- Internet of Things

- Crowdsourcing

- Participatory Sensing

- Social Network Applications to Mobile Computing

- Context and Location Aware Applications and Services

- Wearable Computing

- Body Area Networks

- Security and Privacy

The authors of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to

a special issue in the Mobile Networks & Applications (MONET) journal.

Visit http://mobiquitous.org/2016/ for more details.

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Industry Track Papers

The MobiQuitous industry track provides practitioners and contributors from the industry and

academia with an opportunity to publish experience reports of potential interest to the

researcher and practitioner communities. Industry experience reports describe the stories

and outcomes (positive or negative) of developing, evaluating or deploying software engineering

technologies, ideas, practices, tools, processes, or methods in an industrial setting.

The submission should include information on the setting, provide motivation, explain the events

leading to the outcomes, including the challenges faced, summarize the outcomes, and conclude

with lessons learned, take-away messages, and advice based on the experience described and lessons

learned.

At least one contributing author must be from industry.

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Submission Instructions & Publications

The submission site will open soon. Visit http://mobiquitous.org/2016/ for the latest information.

Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion to the leading indexing services: Thomson

Scientific-ISI, Scopus, Crossref, Google Scholar, DBLP, Microsoft Academic Search (MAS),

CiteSeerX, EBSCO, EI Elsevier Engineering Index, as well as ICST's own EU Digital Library

(EUDL).

We reserve the right to exclude papers accepted but not presented from the conference

proceedings submitted for archiving and indexing.

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Call for Workshops

The MobiQuitous conference caters for a limited number of workshops on dedicated session

topics. The aim of these workshops is to discuss work in progress and explore opportunities

for new research related to a topic of interest within the context of the conference.

Proposals will be evaluated regarding relevance and anticipated interest, and should include

Workshop title, presenter information, abstract, and intended audience.

A workshop proposal should contain:

    Title of the workshop

    A brief description of the specific technical issues that the workshop will address

    The reasons why the workshop is interesting and timely

    A draft call for papers, including the workshop submission deadlines

    Tentative composition of the organizing and program committees

Presentations delivered during the workshops are based on papers that have been selected

through peer-review process. Accepted workshop papers are included in the Conference Proceedings.

Best workshop paper publications may be included in various Transactions or other journals.

Proposals for workshops should be at most four pages in length and must be submitted by

electronic mail to Workshops Co-chairs, Keiichi Yasumoto NAIST, Japan and Uichin Lee KAIST, Korea.

(mobiquitous2016-WS-chairs at nishio-mail.ise.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp)

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Important Dates

    workshops proposal deadline:    April 18th, 2016

    acceptance notification:         April 29th, 2016

    paper submission deadline:      June 27th, 2016 (for main and industry tracks)

    acceptance notification:        August 29th, 2016

    camera ready version:           September 28th, 2016

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Steering Committee:

    Imrich Chlamtac (Create-Net, Italy) (Chair)

    Athanasios Vasilakos (University of Western Macedoni,a, Greece)

    Fausto Giunchiglia (University of Trento, Italy)

    Tao Gu (RMIT University, Australia)

    Tom La Porta (Penn State University, USA)

    Francesco De Pellegrini (Create-Net, Italy)

    Chiara Petrioli (Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)

    Krishna Sivalingam    (University of Maryland Baltimore, USA)

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Organizing Committee

General Co-chairs:

    Takahiro Hara    (Osaka University, Japan)

    Hiroshi Shigeno (Keio University, Japan)

TPC Co-chairs:

    Hirozumi Yamaguchi (Osaka University, Japan)

    Moustafa Youssef (E-JUST, Egypt)

    Stephan Sigg (Georg-August-University Goettingen, Germany)

Local Arrangement Co-chairs:

    Tetsuya Shigeyasu (Prefectural University of Hiroshima, Japan)

    Susumu Ishihara (Shizuoka University, Japan)

Sponsorship Co-chairs:

    Takuya Yoshihiro (Wakayama University, Japan)

    Yutaka Arakawa (NAIST, Japan)

Workshop Co-chairs:

    Keiichi Yasumoto (NAIST, Japan)

    Uichin Lee (KAIST, Korea)

Web Chair:

    Masumi Shirakawa (Osaka University, Japan)

Publicity Chair:

    Lei Shu (Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China)

Publication Chair:

    Akimitsu Kanzaki (Shimane University, Japan)

Poster and Demo Track Co-chairs:

    Tsutomu Terada (Kobe University, Japan)

    Akhil Mathur (Bell Labs, Ireland)

Industry Track Co-chairs:

    Ken Ohta (NTT DOCOMO, Japan)

    Arkady Zaslavsky (CSIRO, Australia)

Advisory Committee Chair:

    Teruo Higashino (Osaka University, Japan)

Conference Manager:

    Barbara Fertalova (European Alliance for Innovation)

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Program Committee:

TBD

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Contact:

Any questions should be addressed to:

mobiquitous2016-chairs at nishio-mail.ise.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp