8th ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering
for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE'09)

10 Year Anniversary

Jun 28th, 2009 or Jun 29th, 2009
Providence, Rhode Island USA

(collocated with ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2009)

http://www.cs.fsu.edu/mobide09/

AIMS & TOPICS OF INTEREST:

This is the eighth of a successful series of workshops that aims to
act as a bridge between the data management, wireless networking,
and mobile computing communities.

The 1st MobiDE workshop took place in Seattle (August 1999), in
conjunction with MobiCom 1999; the 2nd MobiDE workshop took place in
Santa Barbara (May 2001), together with SIGMOD 2001; the 3rd MobiDE
workshop took place in San Diego (September 2003), together with
MobiCom 2003; the 4th MobiDE workshop was held in Baltimore (June
2005. In 2006, MobiDE was organized in Chicago,(June 2006). The 6th
MobiDE was held in Beijing, China (June 2007). Last year's event took
place in Vancouver, Canada (June 2008). This year's event marks the
10-year anniversary of the workshop.

This year MobiDE 2009 is sponsored by ACM SIGMOD and held in cooperation
with ACM SIGMOBILE (pending approval). Additionally, it is sponsored
by EU's Network of Excellence on Cooperating Objects.

As in the past 10 years, the workshop will continue to serve as a forum
for researchers and technologists to discuss the state-of-the-art,
present their contributions, and set future directions in data management
for mobile and wireless access.

The topics of interest related to mobile and wireless data engineering
include, but are not limited to:

* ad-hoc networked databases
* consistency maintenance and management
* context-aware data access and query processing
* data caching, replication and view materialization
* data publication modes: push, broadcast, and multicast
* data server models and architectures
* database issues for moving objects: storing, indexing, etc.
* m-commerce
* mobile agent models and languages
* mobility-aware data mining and warehousing
* mobile database privacy and security
* mobile databases in scientific, medical, and engineering applications
* mobile peer-to-peer applications and services
* mobile sensor network databases
* mobile transaction models and management
* mobile web services
* mobility awareness and adaptability
* pervasive computing
* prototype design of mobile databases
* quality of Service for mobile databases
* static sensor network databases
* transaction migration, recovery and commit processing
* wireless multimedia systems
* wireless web

The workshop will be organized in a manner that fosters interaction and
exchange of ideas among the participants. Besides regular papers, we
will also consider vision, retrospective and work-in-progress papers
that have the potential to stimulate debate on existing solutions or
open challenges. We additionally plan to accept a limited number of
demonstration papers where researchers and technologists will have the
opportunity to describe an innovative system or tool in the area of data
management for mobile and wireless access. We discourage the submission
of incremental papers. This year's program is also expected to feature
a keynote speech and a panel discussion on newly-emerging or controversial
topics.


IMPORTANT DATES (HARD DEADLINES)

Abstract Registration: Mon, March 16th, 2009 (midnight EST)
Paper/Demo Submission: Mon, March 25th, 2009 (midnight EST)
Notification of acceptance: Mon, May 18th, 2009
Camera-ready version due: Mon, Jun 1st, 2009
Workshop date: Sun, Jun 28th, 2009 or Mon, Jun 29th, 2009


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS

Manuscripts in the following categories will be considered for
publication in the ACM Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop
on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access:

* Regular papers (max. 8 pages): The submission should describe
significant theoretical and/or experimental contributions to the
area of data management for mobile and wireless access.

* Demo papers (max. 4 pages): The submission should describe the
architecture, implementation and usage of innovative tools or systems
that fit the context of the workshop. The presentation of demo papers
will be conducted in a designated session during the workshop (in the
form of short presentations).

* Panel proposals (max. 2 pages): The submission should include the
panel objectives and the panel organization (names, addresses and
background of potential panelists).

All of the submissions should be in PDF format and conform to the ACM
proceedings format (double-columned pages in 9pt font). Submitted papers
must not have been published or currently be under consideration for
publication at another venue.

All of the submissions will be handled electronically. Each paper will
be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee.
Detailed submission information will be posted on the website of the
workshop.

The workshop proceedings will be published by ACM. Electronic versions
of the papers will be included in the ACM DL, DiSC'09 and DBLP.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Workshop Chairs:

Yannis Kotidis
Department of Informatics
Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
E-mail: kotidis@aueb.gr

Pedro Jose Marron
Institut for Informatik,
Bonn University, Germany
E-mail: pjmarron@cs.uni-bonn.de


Program Chairs:

Le Gruenwald
School of Computer Science
University of Oklahoma, USA
E-mail: ggruenwald@ou.edu

Demetris Zeinalipour
Department of Computer Science
University of Cyprus, Cyprus
E-mail: dzeina@cs.ucy.ac.cy


Demonstration Chair:

Zografoula Vagena
Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
E-mail: zografv@microsoft.com


Publicity Chair:

Feifei Li
Department of Computer Science
Florida State University, USA
E-mail: lifeifei@cs.fsu.edu


STEERING COMMITTEE

Ugur Cetintemel, Brown University, USA
Panos K. Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Alexandros Labrinidis, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Dik Lun Lee, HKUST, Hong Kong
George Samaras, University of Cyprus, Cyprus


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Walid G. Aref, Purdue University, USA
Magdalena Balazinska, University of Washington, USA
Christian Becker, University of Mannheim, Germany
Claudio Bettini, University of Milan, Italy
Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA
Paul Castro, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Panos K. Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Antonios Deligiannakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Michael J. Franklin, University of California Berkeley, USA
Minos Garofalakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Yannis Kotidis, AUEB, Greece
Mong Lee, NUS, Singapore
Hui Lee, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Wang Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Feifei Li, Florida State University, USA
Hua Lu, Aalborg University, Denmark
Sanjay K. Madria, Missouri Uni. of Science and Technology, USA
Mohamed Mokbel, University of Minnesota, USA
Suman Nath, Microsoft Research Redmond, USA
Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern University, USA
Timos Sellis, IMIS-R.C. Athena and NTUA, Greece
Mohamed Sharaf, University of Toronto, Canada
Jianwen Su, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Yannis Theodoridis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Goce Trajcevski, Northwestern University, USA
Vassilis Tsotras, University of California Riverside, USA
Zografoula Vagena, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Vasilis Vassalos, AUEB, Greece
Stratis D. Viglas, University of Edinburgh, UK
Vladimir, Zadorozhny University of Pittsburgh, USA
Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia