Third International Workshop on Pervasive Systems (PerSys'08)

http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/index.html?page=persys2008cfp

09 - 14 November, 2008
Monterray, Mexico

In conjunction with OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM'08)
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf

Proceedings will be published by Springer LNCS
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We are pleased to announce the third International Workshop on
Pervasive Systems, targeted at researchers in mobile, pervasive computing
and related fields, computer scientists, students and IT professionals.
The workshop will give participants a broad and deep understanding of
the multitude of issues involved in the design, implementation and
evaluation of pervasive systems with a particular emphasis on the
state of the research in the area and the availability of tools.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest may include one or more of the following (but are not
limited to) themes:

- Software infrastructure, middleware, agent technologies and frameworks
- Device technologies
- Communication technologies
- Sensor networks and RFIDs
- Location sensing and management
- Context-aware computing
- Privacy, security and trust
- Pervasive services
- Attentive environments
- Programming paradigms
- User interfaces and interaction models
- Mobile and wireless systems and services
- Analysis, design, implementation and evaluation techniques

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission Deadline: July 7, 2008
Paper Submission Deadline: July 7, 2008
Acceptance Notification: August 15, 2008
Camera Ready Due: August 25, 2008
Registration Due: August 25, 2008 OTM
Conferences: November 9 - 14, 2008


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Papers submitted to PerSys must not have been accepted for publication
elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference.
All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality,
significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression.
All submissions must be in English. Submissions should be in PDF format and
must not exceed 10 pages in the final camera-ready format.
The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as
LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).
Author instructions can be found at:

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

The paper submission site is located at

http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/persys/2008/papers/

Failure to comply with the above formatting instructions for
submitted papers will lead to the outright rejection of the paper
without review.
Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically
excludes a paper from the proceedings.


JOURNAL

Authors of selected papers from PerSys08 will be invited to submit an
extended version of their paper for possible publication in the
Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal. A fast-track review system will
be used, thus enabling a fast turnaround.

ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

Program Chairs:

Skevos Evripidou
University of Cyprus
E-mail: skevos@cs.ucy.ac.cy

Roy Campbell
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
E-mail: rhc@cs.uiuc.edu

Operations Chair:

Anja Schanzenberger
University of Applied Sciences Augsburg
E-Mail: anja.schanzenberger@hs-augsburg.de


PROGRAM COMITTEE MEMBERS:

- Susana Alcalde Baguees, Siemens AG Munich, Germany
- Xavier Alam?n Roldan, Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid, Spain
- Jalal Al-Muhtadi, King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- Christian Becker, University of Mannheim, Germany
- Michael Beigl, Technical University Braunschweig, Germany
- Alastair Beresford, Cambridge University, UK
- Roy Campbell, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA, (PC Chair)
- Antonio Coronato, Institute of High Performance Computing and Networking, Italy
- Thanos Demiris, Intracom S.A Telecom Systems, Greece
- Hakan Duman, British Telecom, UK
- Skevos Evripidou, University of Cyprus, (PC Chair)
- Alois Ferscha, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
- Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA Institute, France
- Patricia Grifoni, Istituto Di Ricerche, Rom, Italy
- Alex Healing, British Telecom, UK
- Bob Hulsebosch, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands
- Sergio Ilarri, University of Zaragoza, Spain
- Cornel Klein, Siemens AG, Corporate Research and Technologies, Germany
- Nik Klever, University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, Germany
- Irina Kondratova, National Research Council, Canada
- Andrew Rice, Cambridge University, UK
- Philip Robinson, SAP Research CEC Belfast, UK
- George Samaras, University of Cyprus
- Anja Schanzenberger, Uni. of Applied Sciences Augsburg, Germany, (Operations Chair)
- Gregor Schiele, University of Mannheim, Germany
- Behrooz Shirazi, Washighton State University, USA
- Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde, UK
- Verena Tuttlies, University of Mannheim, Germany
- Valerie Issarny INRIA Institute, France
- Gregory Yovanof, Athens Information Technology, Greece
- Apostolos Zarras, University of Ionnanina, Greece
- Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia