The MDM series of conferences, since its debut in December 1999, has established itself as a prestigious forum for the exchange of innovative and significant research results in mobile data management. The term mobile in MDM has been used from the very beginning in a broad sense to encompass all aspects of mobility – aspects related to wireless, portable and tiny devices. The conference provides unique opportunities for researchers, engineers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore new ideas, techniques, and tools, and to exchange experiences.

We invite submissions of original research contributions and industrial papers as well as proposals for demos, panels and workshops.

A number of events (workshop, demos, panels, seminars, PhD forum, and special industrial forum) will be organized to cater for all academic activities, apart from research track activities.

Workshops are for fast track publications of work-in-progress papers
Demos will present state of the art systems and prototypes
Panels will review current research activities and explore new frontiers
PhD forum is to encourage doctoral student participation
Industrial forum for companies to present their research and development technologies/systems.


Conference Topics

We solicit research papers in areas related to mobility, context and data. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Mobile Cloud Computing and Data Management in the Mobile Cloud
Data Management for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Sensor Networks
Semantic Data Management for Mobile Devices/Applications
iData Management for Augmented Reality Systems
iData Management for Emerging Smart Urban Systems – Connected Cars, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Smart Spaces
Mobile Crowd-Sourcing and Crowd-Sensing
Data management for Next-Gen Mobile and Ad-Hoc Networks
Data management for Peer-to-Peer Systems
Mobile Data Analytics
Mobile Data and User/Behavioural Understanding
Mobile Location-Based Social Networks
Mobile Activity Recognition
Mobile Situation Inference
Recommendations for Mobile Users
Analytics “at-the-edge” and on-board Mobile/Ubiquitous Devices
Context-aware Computing for Intelligent Mobile Services
Adaptability of pervasive computing systems
Stability of pervasive computing systems
Advanced middleware for mobile and pervasive computing
Publish/subscribe middleware for mobile data
Theoretical foundations of data-intensive mobile computing
Data replication, migration and dissemination in mobile environments
Data stream processing in mobile/sensor network
Transactions and workflows in mobile environments I
indexing, Optimisation and Query Processing for moving objects/users
Mobile Trajectory Analytics – Discovery, Next-Place, and Linking
Location-Based Services
Resource advertising and discovery techniques
Security and privacy issues for mobile and ubiquitous systems


Important Dates

Abstracts due: Dec 11, 2015
Paper submission: Dec 18, 2015
Acceptance notification: Feb 18, 2016
Camera Ready Papers due: Mar 31, 2016


Paper Submission Guidelines

The final papers MUST be formatted to IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines. The followings are the page limits:

Research Track


Regular papers: 10 pages.

Short papers: 6 pages.

Workshop Regular papers: 6 pages.

Workshop Short papers: 3 pages.

Industrial Track and Others


Industrial papers: 8 pages.

Short papers: 4 pages.

Demo papers: 4 pages.

PhD Forum papers: 6 pages.