Call for Papers

The 11th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing
August 17-20, 2014
Niagara Falls, Canada

Mobile system and Pervasive computing have evolved into an active area of research and development, due to the tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, RFID technology, and the ubiquitous mobile phone. MobiSPC-2013 solicits papers that focus on the theory, system, practice and challenge of providing users with a successful mobile or wireless experience. This includes how mobile computing changes how people pervasively use their computer, computing resources and applications, as well the systems, services and technology enabling those applications

MobiSPC-2013 will provide a leading edge, scholarly forum for researchers, engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the-art research and developmental work in the broad areas of pervasive computing and communications. The topics include but are not limited to:

Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) have evolved into an active area of research and development. This is due to the tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics, including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, RFID technology, and the ubiquitous mobile phone. MobiSPC-2014 solicits papers that focus on the theory, systems, practices and challenges of providing users with a successful mobile or wireless experience. This includes how mobile computing changes how people pervasively use their computers, computing resources and applications, as well the systems, services and technologies enabling those applications.

MobiSPC-2014 will provide a leading edge, scholarly forum for researchers, engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the art research and developmental work in the broad areas of pervasive computing and mobile systems.

All MobiSPC-2014 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/).

Selected papers will be invited for publication in the following international journals: (1) Ad hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks Journal, (2) Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, and (3) Social Network Analysis and Mining Journal. http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-14/#journalSpecialIssues

Keynote Speakers
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-14/#keynoteSpeakers


IMPORTANT DATES
- Paper Submission Due: April 15, 2014 (Extended)
- Acceptance Notification: May 24, 2014
- Final Manuscript Due: June 19, 2014

Pervasive Computing

- Adaptive, Autonomic and Context-Aware Computing

- Architectures, Protocols, and Technologies for Pervasive Communications

- Cognitive Computing in Pervasive Systems

- Context Modelling and Reasoning

- Data Management for Pervasive Computing

- Energy-Efficient and Green Pervasive Computing

- Innovative Pervasive Computing Applications

- Machine Learning for Activity Recognition

- Middleware for Pervasive Services and Applications

- Mobile/Wearable Computing Systems and Services in Pervasive Computing

- Multimodal Sensing and Context for Pervasive Applications

- Opportunistic Networking and Sensing in Pervasive Systems

- Participatory and Social Sensing

- Pervasive Computing Aspects of Social Networks

- Positioning and Tracking Technologies

- Programming Paradigms for Pervasive Systems

- Sensors and RFID in Pervasive Systems

- Smart Devices and Intelligent Environments

- Social and Economic Models for Pervasive Systems

- Software Evolution and Maintenance in Pervasive Systems

- Trust, Security and Privacy Issues in Pervasive Systems

- User Interface, Interaction, and Persuasion

- Virtual Immersive Communications

Mobile Cloud Computing

- Advertisement

- Computing Performance Evaluation

- Contest Based Sensing

- Data and Storage Architecture

- Data Storage Management for Mobile Cloud Computing Service Provider and Users

- Games

- Multimedia Services

- Privacy Protection

- Quality of Experiences and (QoE) Studies

- Security

- Service Models

- Service Platform

- Software Development Platform and Enabled New Applications

- Virtualization and Programmable Infrastructure

Mobile Social Networking

- MSN Advertising, Business to Business (B2B) Marketing

- MSN Algorithms for Social Search

- MSN Analytics

- MSN Architecture

- MSN Brand Management (social brand strategic development and product management)

- MSN Data Mining and Machine Learning

- MSN Infrastructure Support

- MSN Marketing (digital, direct and mobile marketing)

- MSN Privacy in Data Collection and Management

- Trust and Reputations in MSN

Enabling Technologies and Emerging Topics

- Agents and Intelligent Computing

- Big data

- Cyber Physical Social Systems

- Mobile Applications

- Mobile Crowd-sourcing and Human-in-the-Loop Design

- Mobile Services and Platforms

- Mobile Sensor Based Personal Informatics

- Mobile Web

- Near Field Communication

- New Mobile Sensing Hardware

- Robotic Sensor Networking

- Vehicular Social Networks

- Wearable Augmented Reality Systems


COMMITTEES

General Chairs
Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada
Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA

Program Chairs
Habib M. Ammari, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
Liang Cheng, Lehigh University, USA

Advisory Committee
Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia
Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada
Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK
Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada
Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia

Workshops Chairs
Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame, USA
Amiya Nayak, University of Ottawa, Canada

Tracks Chairs
Yingying Chen, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Daniele Puccinelli, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Switzerland
Chiu C. Tan, Temple University, USA

Local Arrangements Chairs
Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada
Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada
Ramiro Liscano, University of Ontario, Canada

Publicity Chairs
Salil Kanhere, The University of New South Wales, Australia
M.Elena Renda, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, Italy

Steering Committee Chair
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

Technical Program Committee Members
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-14/#programCommittees