WAMIS 2010: The 6th International Symposium on Web and Mobile Information Services
http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/~wamis2010/index.html

In conjunction with the 24th IEEE AINA Conference
http://www.aina-conference.org/2010

APRIL 25th to 27th, 2010
Perth, Australia

Advances in the Web and mobile technologies offer new and exciting services to users in various domains such as e-business, healthcare, entertainment, and scientific activities. With the advances in mobile technologies, Web also gets richer in its contents and usability. In addition to its widespread usability in the e-commerce, education, and media, it has established its roots in exchanging and sharing information in social communities. For example, user-generated contents in the social networks have transformed the Web into a new era or the Web2.0 - these contents comprise a wealth of information often involving multimedia data such as audio, video, pictures and blogs.

These new developments however introduce many new challenging problems to researchers. For example, one of the major issues is to deal with the resource scarcity in mobile environment. Though mobile devices and wireless networks are improving their resources, they are still far behind the wired networks and desktop PCs in terms of bandwidth, memory, processing speed and battery powers. The other major challenge is how to effectively build mobile systems that can dynamically adjust its behavior reacting to the changes in location, context, and variation in network bandwidth.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST

This symposium aims to bring together researchers in an effort to highlight the state-of-the-art and discuss the issues and opportunities to explore new research directions and develop new ideas. We strongly welcome submissions that include results which advance the state of the art relating to the theme of the symposium, either through theoretical analysis or experimental analysis. The main topics to be addressed include (but not limited to):
- Architectures for Web and mobile information services
- Agent and multi-agent systems and their applications
- Application of W3C Mobile Web Best Practices
- Context oriented service provisioning
- Creation and consumption of social network contents
- Data models and query languages
- Dependency and reliability
- Developing and managing Web2.0 services
- Fault tolerance and exception handling
- Location aware services
- Middleware support for web and mobile services
- Monitoring of services
- Performance models
- Search and discovery techniques
- Semantic web technologies and their applications
- Transaction and workflow models
- Trust and privacy in Web and mobile services
- Web services and their applications
- Context-awareness, context sharing
- Computer-mediated mobile interaction
- Management of the dynamics of the environment
- Management of continuously evolving information
- Mobile devices for mobile actors
- Connecting net for mobile agents

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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission due: Nov 01, 2009
Notification of acceptance: Dec 01, 2009
Registration due: Jan 15, 2010
Final manuscript due: Jan 15, 2010
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PAPER FORMAT & SUBMISSION

The length of the paper is limited to 6 single-spaced double column IEEE CS format pages. Please, check the IEEE CS Author Guidelines at:
http://www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps/menuitem.02df7cde46985ea21618fc2e6bcd45f3/index.jsp?&pName=cscps_level1&path=cscps/cps&file=cps_forms.xml&xsl=generic.xsl&

Papers must be submitted via WAMIS 2010 Easychair at:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wamis2010.

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair:
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia

Program Chairs:
Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Program Committee
Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Canada
Jinsong Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Paolo Falcarin, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Christos K. Georgiadis, University of Macedonia, Greece
Yanbo Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Sang Ho Lee, Soongsil University, Korea
Xitong Li, Tsinghua University, China
Yinsheng Li, Fudan University, China
Ying Liu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Jiangang Ma, Victoria University, Australia
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE
Hamid Motahari, HP Lab, USA
Michael Mrissa, University of Lyon, France
Jana Polgar, NextDigital, Australia
Florian Rosenberg, TU Vienna, Austria
Rachid Saadi, INSA de LYON, France
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
Cho-Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Yinglin Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong Univeristy, China
Harris Wu, Old Dominion University, USA

Publicity Chair
Jian Yu, University of Adelaide, Australia

Web Administration Chair
Sujith Samuel Mathew, University of Adelaide, Australia

Steering Committee:
K-J Lin, University of California, USA
Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK
Kuo-Ming Chao, Coventry University, UK
Jen-Yao Chung, IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA
Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK