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Call for Papers

10th International Conference on
Mobile Data Management (MDM'09): Systems, Services, and Middleware

May 18-21, 2009, Taipei, Taiwan

http://adslab.cs.nctu.edu.tw/mdm2009/

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Since the debut in December 1999, the MDM series of conferences 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 for
researchers, engineers, practitioners, developers, and users to
explore new ideas, techniques, and tools, and to exchange experiences.

In the past decade, we have witnessed significant advances in wireless
communications and mobile technology, along with continuous appearance
of versatile mobile gadgets and rapid growth in sensors and
actuators. Meanwhile, high-precision outdoor and indoor positioning
technology has become mature and available. A global, pervasive
computing infrastructure that may profoundly change the way people
live and work is emerging. Mobile and pervasive computing and
communication are enabled at an unprecedented scale and density.

All these technological developments are expected to bring us a next
wave of information revolution and change our society. However, as we
move a step closer from mobile computing towards the grand vision of
pervasive and ubiquitous computing, a number of challenges need to be
overcome, especially when it comes to data-intensive applications:
scale, variable and intermittent connectivity, location dependence and
context awareness, bandwidth and power consumption, device size
limitations, and multimedia delivery across hybrid networks.

Conventional issues in data management have to be reconsidered and
reevaluated in this rapidly changing environment. Non-traditional
issues including mobility, data semantics, context modeling, broadcast
and multicast delivery, data availability, trust and privacy must also
be addressed effectively. Additionally, starting from 2009, MDM will
extend its scope to cover research issues in mobile systems, services
and middleware.

Conference Scope
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The scope of this conference includes but is not limited to the following topics:
* Adaptability and stability of pervasive computing systems
* Context-aware computing and location-based services
* Data management in wireless networks
* Data management in sensor and mobile ad hoc networks
* Data management in mobile peer-to-peer networks
* Data mining for mobile applications
* Data presentation, scripting and exchange languages
* Data replication, migration and dissemination in mobile environments
* Data stream processing in mobile/sensor networks
* Indexing and query processing for moving objects
* Location and mobility semantics
* Location tracking of vehicles and moving objects
* Metadata management and exchanges
* Mobile access to the Web
* Mobile agents
* OS and middleware for mobile and pervasive computing
* Publish-subscribe approach in mobile computing
* Quality of service issues for data-intensive services
* Query processing and optimization for mobile users
* Resource advertising and discovery techniques
* Security and privacy issues for ubiquitous systems
* Theoretical foundations of data-intensive mobile computing
* Transactions and workflows in mobile environments
* User interfaces and usability issues form mobile applications

Paper Submissions
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The conference invites original, unpublished submissions, not exceeding
10 pages in IEEE camera-ready format. Submissions in PDF are to be uploaded
to the conference web-based submission system at:
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/MDM2009/

Industrial/experience papers, Ph.D. Forum presentations, as well as proposals
for panels, demos, seminars, and workshops are also sought. Submission
instructions will be made available on the conference homepage.

Important Dates
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Abstract submission : 10/25/2008
Paper submission : 11/01/2008
Notification : 02/01/2009
Camera ready : 03/15/2009

Co-Organizers
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General Co-Chairs:

Yu-Chee Tseng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern University, USA
Ralf Hartmut Guting, University of Hagen, Germany

PC Co-Chairs:

Wang-Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Chung-Ta King, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece

Industry Chair:

Kun-Lung Wu, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA.

Workshop Chair:

Cho-Li Wang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Best Paper Award Chair:

Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Panel Chair:

Arbee L.P.Chen, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Seminars Chair:

Baihua Zheng, Singapore Management Univ., Singapore

Demonstration Co-Chairs:

Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
Hsiao-Kuang Wu, National Central University, Taiwan

Ph.D. Forum Chair:

Polly Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Exhibition Chair:

Shiao-Li Tsao, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Publicity Co-Chairs:

Jianliang Xu, Baptist University, Hong Kong
Magdalena Balazinska, University of Washington, USA
Nesime Tatbul, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Publication Chair:

Jiun-Long Huang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Financial Chair:

Chih-Wei Yi, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Local Organizing Co-Chairs:

Wen-Chih Peng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Ming-Hou Yang, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan