in conjunction with the
9th International Conference on
Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'98)
to be held in Vienna, August 24-28, 1998
(http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~zahirt/mobile.html)
Workshop proceeding to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press
AIMS & SCOPE
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Nowdays, portable computers have become a commonplace. Together
with wireless communication technologies, such computers provide a
pervasive base for mobile computing. As the mobile computing technology
matures, millions of people will become mobile users communicating with
one another and accessing various information resources using portable
computers, personal digital assistants, wireless radio and cellular
equipment. In business environments, the ability to access critical data
regardless of location is even more crucial because corporate data must
be available to applications running on mobile workstations.
On the other end of the spectrum, database and distributed systems are
increasingly making compliance with standards (e.g. ODMG and CORBA) and
interoperability being their main features. However existing database
and distributed systems lack the facilities for dynamically changing the
environment where applications execute and the way they communicate over
a network. There is a growing body of research into mobile code, objects
and agents. SUN's Java is a very good example providing mobility
features. Similar frameworks SHOULD be applied to encompass mobility in
distributed systems and databases.
The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners with mobile communications background, database research
interests, advanced applications and distributed computing systems
research and development skills to discuss all aspects of emerging
mobile computing paradigm. The topics of interest related to mobile
computing & databases & applications include, but are not limited to:
. Data and object models for mobile information systems
. Impact of mobility in applications
. Software architectures for mobile distributed computing systems
. Wireless communications support for mobile applications
. Infrastructure for mobile computing research
. Object oriented technologies for mobile computing
. Mobile database management
. Operating system support for mobile computing
. Mobile workstation power management & optimization
. Transaction management models and algorithms
. Management of network & mobile computers heterogeneity
. Data & process migration, replication and recovery
. Mobile intelligent agents
. Distributed mobile objects
. Wireless multimedia systems
. Mobile access to Internet services
. Security in mobile computing systems
. User interface management for mobile information systems
. Resource allocation and management in mobile computing environment
. Legal/Social/Economic/Health issues of mobile computing.
IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline: 10th March 1998
Notification of acceptance: 10th May 1998
Camera-ready copies: 10th June 1998
Workshop: 28th August 1998
SUBMISSION DETAILS
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Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing
original, previously unpublished work. Papers should be in English and
must not exceed 6000 words. The cover page should include the name and
affiliation of the author(s), contact address/es, e-mail, fax and
telephone. Authors are invited to send either 5 copies of their paper by
courrier mail or an electronic submission (PostScript, Adobe Acrobat
PDF, Microsoft Word) to
Arkady Zaslavsky
(DEXA'98 MDDS Workshop)
Monash University
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering
900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East
VIC 3145 Australia
(e-mail): A.Zaslavsky@Monash.edu.au
(phone): +61-3-9903-2479
(fax): +61-3-9903-1071
Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality,
significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All papers
will be refereed by at least three members of the program committee.
WORKSHOP ATTENDANCE
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Authors of accepted papers will be expected to present their
work at the work shop. All attendees must register for the
DEXA'98 conference. There will be no additional workshop registration
fee. Details about the DEXA'98 conference can be found at
http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexa98
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
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Zahir Tari RMIT (Australia)
Omran Bukhres Purdue University (USA)
Arkady Zaslavsky Monash University (Australia)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
... TBA
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