Subject: [manet] CFP: PCAC'06

From: Mieso Denko <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 14:33:16 -0400 (EDT)

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

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IEEE International Workshop on Pervasive Computing and Ad Hoc
Communications (PCAC'06), to be held in conjunction with
The IEEE 20th International Conference on Advanced Information
Networking and Applications (AINA'06)
18 - 20 April 2006, Vienna, Austria
website: http://www.cis.uoguelph.ca/~denko/pcac06.html
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Aim and scope
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Pervasive computing has emerged as a new computing and
communication environment with the aim of providing services
anytime and anywhere for everyone. To facilitate resource sharing
and support group communications, pervasive computing devices
should be able to support ad hoc communications and networking.
With ad hoc communications, seamless and transparent access to
services and applications can be achieved while providing
mechanisms for establishing spontaneous and interactive networking
 among communicating entities. Despite considerable progress in
mobile computing and wireless communication technologies, new user
 demands and emerging applications introduce challenges in several
 areas including security, privacy, processing, auto configuration,
 scalability, software infrastructure, communication models and
networking infrastructure. To support flexibility and unlimited
mobility, services and applications should adapt to heterogeneous
networking environment supporting multihop communication in hybrid
 wired/wireless environment.

This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners
from industry and academia to present their current research
results and discuss future trends in pervasive computing and ad
hoc communications.

Topics of Interest
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Pervasive computing architectures
* Wearable computers
* Smart devices and smart spaces
* Location-dependent and personalized applications
* Service discovery mechanisms
* Agent technologies
* Mobility management
* Sensors and actuators
* Resource management
* Embedded systems
* Device and service interaction
* Location-aware services
* Middleware for pervasive computing
* Middleware fro ad hoc computing
* Hardware, OS and convergence issues
* Security and privacy issues for pervasive computing systems
* Positioning and tracking technologies
* Identification and authentication technologies
* Social Issues and Implications of pervasive computing
* Data management infrastructure and algorithms
* Caching and prefetching strategies
* Resource discovery
* Ad hoc communication and networking
* Group communication and management
* Ad hoc computing
* User interfaces and interaction models
* Prototyping and performance evaluation
* Personal Area networks
* Integration of wired and wireless networks
* Enabling technologies such as Bluetooth, 802.11 and 802.15
* Context based and implicit computing
* Ad hoc networking protocols and service discovery

Submissions
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The manuscript must follow IEEE two-column format with single-spaced,
ten-point font in the text. The maximum manuscript length is six
(6) pages. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality,
 technical strength, significance and quality of presentation.
Authors are requested to submit their papers (PDF format),
contact addresses, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail
addresses (text format) to the co-chairs Mieso Denko
([email-masked]) and Xiao Chen ([email-masked])
by 20 September,2005. Accepted papers will be given guidelines
in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together
with the notification of acceptance.

International Journal - Special Issue
Outstanding papers will be fast tracked to a Special Issue of
a well-known International Journal.

Important dates
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Submission deadline:	Sept.20, 2005
Author Notification:	Nov. 30, 2005
Author Registration:	Dec. 25, 2005
Final Manuscript Due:   Jan. 15, 2006

Organizing Committee
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General Co-Chairs
Han-Chieh Chao, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
Sherali Zeadally, Wayne State University, USA

Steering Co-Chair
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

Program Co-Chairs
Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada
Xiao Chen, Texas State University, USA

Technical Program Committee
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* Luigi Atzori, University of Cagliari, Italy
* Eduard Babulak, University of Quebec (Rimouski), Canada
* Michel Banatre, IRISA, France
* Roksana Boreli, University of New South Wales/National ICT, Australia
* Chih-Yung Chang, Tamkang University, Taiwan
* Ruay-Shiung Chang, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
* Pascal Chatonnay, NUMERICA/ISTI/LIFC, France
* Wei-Ming Chen, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
* Yuh-Shyan Chen, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
* Jiann-Liang Chen, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
* Xiuzhen Cheng, The George Washington University, USA
* Yen-Wen Chen, National Central University, Taiwan
* Wayne Goddard, Clemson University, USA
* Peter Graham, University of Manitoba, Canada
* Ren-Hung Hwang, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
* Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia
* Muhammad Jaseemuddin, Ryerson University, Canada
* Zhen Jiang,  West Chester University, USA
* Ahmed Karmouch. University of Ottawa, Canada
* Luigi Logrippo, Universite Quebec en Outaouais, Canada
* Bindu Madhavan, University of Southern California, USA
* D. Manivannan, University of Kentucky, Kentucky, USA
* Cecilia Mascolo, University College London, United Kingdom
* Amy Murphy, University of Lugano, Switzerland
* Lata Narayanan, Concordia University, Canada
* Guy Omidyar, Sultan Qaboos University, Chair IFIP TC6, Oman
* Antonio Pescap, University of Naples, Italy
* Samuel Pierre, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
* Aaron Quigley, University College Dublin, Ireland
* Albrecht Schmidt, University of Munich, Germany
* Stephan, Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA
* Winston Seah, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
* Bin Wei, AT&T Research, USA
* Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University, USA
* Tadeusz Wysocki, University of Wollongong, Australia
* Dong Xuan, The Ohio State University, USA
* Chi-Hsiang Yeh, Queen's University, Canada
* Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
* Ying Zhang, Palo Alto Research Center, USA
* Qing-An Zeng, University of Cincinnati, USA

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