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Call for Workshop Proposals



The 20th IEEE Conference on Mobile Data Management (IEEE MDM 2019)



http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/mdm2019/



Hong Kong

June 10-13, 2019



Sponsored by The IEEE Computer Society



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The MDM series of conferences, since its debut in 1999, has established itself as a prestigious forum for the exchange of innovative and significant research results in mobile data management. The conference provides unique opportunities to bring researchers, engineers, and practitioners together to explore new ideas, techniques, and tools, and exchange experiences.

MDM 2019 aims at providing specialized workshops where researchers and practitioners
will have an opportunity to explore in a more focused manner, the specific interests
of mobile data management. In addition to sharing experience, workshops are intended
to provide a fertile ground for discussing possibly-controversial ideas.

We invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with MDM 2019 - tentatively scheduled to take place on June 10 - as preamble to the main conference. An important aspect that potential organizers should take into consideration is precisely the formatting - both in terms of scope and presentations' organization - so that the main objectives identified above are catered to.

All accepted workshop papers will be published through IEEE Computer Society and the
length of a regular workshop papers is limited to 6 pages - however, the organizers
may accept even shorter papers with prior notice to the workshop chairs.


Workshops Guidelines
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Upon notification of acceptance of the proposal, workshop organizers are required to:

- Follow up with announcements and calls for contributions on difference forums and
mailing lists
- Manage the reviewing process, both in terms of coordinating the PC members and
ensuring resolving controversial submissions
- Collaborate with Proceedings Chairs for ensuring timely completion of the camera-
ready copies
- Determine the final program of the respective workshop


Tentative milestones for individual workshops
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Submission of Workshop Papers: Late February 2019
Acceptance Notification: Late March 2019
Camera ReadySubmission: April 2, 2019


Submission guidelines for workshop proposals
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Proposals are limited to 4 pages and they need to include:

- Title and Acronym for the workshop
- Concise description of the workshop scope/theme along with a list of topics
- Names and contact info for the organizers
- Preliminary list of (potential) PC members
- Important milestones for the workshop (announcements, submission, etc.)
- Proposed duration (half-day or full-day workshop)
- Bio-sketches of the organizers
- If the organizers have had such/similar workshops held in the past, a brief history-description


Important Dates
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Proposal submission: December 8, 2018
Notificationof Acceptance: December 24, 2018

Please submit the workshop proposals as a pdf attachment to an email sent to the
workshop chairs. Please make sure to put both co-chairs as recipients. Be sure to
include details on the scope of the workshops, expected number of submissions and
presentations, format of the workshop, and the expected registration count in your
proposals.


Workshop Co-Chairs
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Takahiro Hara (Osaka University, Japan) hara@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp
Yunjun Gao (Zhejiang University, China) gaoyj@zju.edu.cn
De-Nian Yang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) dnyang@iis.sinica.edu.tw