PerCom 2009

IEEE PerCom, now in its seventh year, is the premier scholarly venue in the areas of pervasive computing and communications, which aim at providing a ubiquitous platform for supporting exciting anytime and anyplace services paradigms. Pervasive computing and communications is a natural outcome of the tremendous advances of a broad spectrum of technologies including wireless and sensor networks, mobile and distributed computing, and agent technologies. PerCom 2009 will provide a high profile, leading edge forum for researchers and engineers alike to present state-of-the-art research in the respective fields of pervasive computing and communications. The conference will feature a diverse mixture of presentation forums including core technical sessions, several targeted workshops, demonstrations, keynote speeches and panel discussions from domain experts. The conference will take place in Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, one of the leading technology centers of the United States.

Sponsored by

 * IEEE, IEEE Computer Society
 * The University of Texas at Arlington
 * IEEE TCPP, IEEE TCCC

Topics of Interest
Research contributions are solicited in all areas pertinent to pervasive computing and communications, including:


 * Ad hoc networks for pervasive communications
 * Autonomic computing and communications
 * Context-aware computing
 * Enabling technologies (e.g., wireless BAN, PAN)
 * Low power and green pervasive computing
 * Middleware services and agent technologies
 * Mobile/Wireless computing systems and services in pervasive computing
 * Novel/innovative pervasive computing applications
 * Pervasive computing and communication architectures
 * Pervasive computing in the automotive domain
 * Pervasive opportunistic communications and applications
 * Pervasive sensing, perception and semantic interpretation
 * Positioning and tracking technologies
 * Programming paradigms for pervasive systems
 * Quality of information (QoI) in sensor-enabled pervasive environments
 * Sensors and RFID in pervasive systems
 * Smart devices and intelligent environments
 * Trust, security and privacy issues in pervasive systems
 * User interfaces and interaction models
 * Virtual immersive communications
 * Wearable computers

Workshops and affiliated events
Many workshops will be held in conjunction with the conference. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE PerCom. As in the past, PerCom 2009 will also feature a PhD Forum, Demonstrations and a Work-in-Progress Session.

PerCom 2009 Submission Guidelines
Submitted papers must be original and unpublished or under consideration elsewhere for publication. Papers must show a significant relevance to pervasive computing and networking. Only electronic submissions in PDF will be considered. The page limit is 9 pages (at least 10pt font, 2-column pages, including references, figures and tables); link to formatting templates can be found at: http://www.percom.org/submissionguidelines.html. All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process managed by the technical program committee. IEEE Press will publish the conference proceedings. The best paper will receive the prestigious Mark Weiser best paper award. Papers of particular merit will be considered for a special issue of Elsevier's Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal.

Important Dates

 * Paper registration: September 15, 2008
 * Paper submission:  September 22, 2008  (firm deadline!)
 * Workshop proposal: May 23, 2008
 * Author notification: December 12, 2008,
 * Camera-ready due:  January 7, 2009

Please check the conference Web-site (http://www.percom.org) frequently for more details. For further information, please contact: zaruba@uta.edu.

Organizing Committee
To see all committee members please visit the main conference web site.
 * General Chair: has general chair::Klara Nahrstedt, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
 * General Vice-chair: has general chair::Gergely Zaruba, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA
 * Program Chair: has program chair::Chatschik Bisdikian, IBM Research, USA
 * Program Vice-chairs:
 * has program chair::Silvia Giordano, SUSPI, Switzerland
 * has program chair::Chandra Narayanaswami, IBM Research, USA
 * has program chair::Albrecht Schmidt, Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
 * Workshops Co-chairs:
 * has workshop chair::Ben Lee, Oregon State Univ., USA
 * has workshop chair::Hao Chu, National Taiwan Univ.
 * Panels Chair: has OC member::Christian Becker, Universitaet Mannheim, Germany
 * Keynotes Chair: has OC member::Marco Conti, CNR, Italy
 * Ph.D. Forum: has OC member::Scott Midkiff, Virginia Tech, and NSF, USA
 * Steering Committee Chair: Mohan Kumar, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA

Technical Program Committee

 * has PC member::Ozgur Akan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
 * has PC member::Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy
 * has PC member::Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA
 * has PC member::Christian Becker, Universitaet Mannheim, Germany
 * has PC member::Joel Branch, IBM Research, USA
 * has PC member::Fabian Bustamante, Northwestern University, USA
 * has PC member::Tiziana Calamoneri, University of Rome "Sapienza", Italy
 * has PC member::Roy Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
 * has PC member::Guohong Cao, Pennsylvania State University, USA
 * has PC member::Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
 * has PC member::Paul Castro, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
 * has PC member::Mun Choon Chan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
 * has PC member::Hao-hua Chu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
 * has PC member::Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy
 * has PC member::Diane Cook, Washington State University, USA
 * has PC member::Sajal Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
 * has PC member::Nigel Davies, Lancaster University, UK
 * has PC member::Luca Delgrossi, Mercedes-Benz Research and Development, USA
 * has PC member::Jonathan Engelsma, Motorola, Inc., USA
 * has PC member::Alois Ferscha, University of Linz, Austria
 * has PC member::Morten Fjeld, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
 * has PC member::Eric Fleury, ENS Lyon / INRIA, France
 * has PC member::Christian Floerkemeier, MIT, USA
 * has PC member::Hans Gellersen, Lancaster University, UK
 * has PC member::Mario Gerla, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
 * has PC member::Tao Gu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
 * has PC member::Xiaohui Gu, North Carolina State University, USA
 * has PC member::Jonna Hakkila, Nokia, Finland
 * has PC member::Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA
 * has PC member::Robert Harle, University of Cambridge, UK
 * has PC member::Seongsoo Hong, Seoul National University, Korea
 * has PC member::Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia
 * has PC member::Yu Jiao, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
 * has PC member::Vana Kalogeraki, University of California, Riverside, USA
 * has PC member::Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany
 * has PC member::Sneha Kasera, University of Utah, USA
 * has PC member::Timo Kosch, BMW, Germany
 * has PC member::Polychronis Koutsakis, McMaster University, Canada
 * has PC member::Bhaskar Krishnamachari, University of Southern California, USA
 * has PC member::Mohan Kumar, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
 * has PC member::Rodger Lea, University of British Columbia, Canada
 * has PC member::Ben Lee, Oregon State University, USA
 * has PC member::Dongman Lee, Information and Communications University, Korea
 * has PC member::Yunhao Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
 * has PC member::Paul Lukowicz, University of Passau, Germany
 * has PC member::Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, UK
 * has PC member::Martin Mauve, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, Germany
 * has PC member::Scott Midkiff, Virginia Tech, USA
 * has PC member::Archan Misra, IBM Research, USA
 * has PC member::Matt Mutka, Michigan State University, USA
 * has PC member::Tamer Nadeem, Siemens Corporate Research, Inc., USA
 * has PC member::Daniela Nicklas, Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg, Germany
 * has PC member::Joerg Ott, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
 * has PC member::Max Ott, NICTA, Australia
 * has PC member::Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
 * has PC member::Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea
 * has PC member::Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy
 * has PC member::Giovanni Pau, University of California Los Angeles, USA
 * has PC member::Chiara Petrioli, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
 * has PC member::Tom Pfeifer, Waterford Institute of Technology, TSSG, Ireland
 * has PC member::Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento, Italy
 * has PC member::Gopal Pingali, IBM Research, USA
 * has PC member::Claudio Pinhanez, IBM Research, USA
 * has PC member::Aaron Quigley, University College Dublin, Ireland
 * has PC member::Mandayam Raghunath, Google, India
 * has PC member::Nishkam Ravi, Intel, Santa Clara, USA
 * has PC member::Kay Roemer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
 * has PC member::Michael Rohs, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, TU Berlin, Germany
 * has PC member::Kurt Rothermel, University of Stuttgart, Germany
 * has PC member::George Roussos, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
 * has PC member::Antony Rowstron, Microsoft Research, UK
 * has PC member::Enrico Rukzio, Lancaster University, UK
 * has PC member::Ichiro Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
 * has PC member::Gregor Schiele, Universitaet Mannheim, Germany
 * has PC member::James Scott, Microsoft Research, UK
 * has PC member::Mitali Singh, University of Southern California, USA
 * has PC member::Wen-Zhan Song, Washington State University, Vancouver, USA
 * has PC member::Danny Soroker, IBM Research, USA
 * has PC member::Mani Srivastava, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
 * has PC member::Vincent Stanford, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
 * has PC member::Ioannis Stavrakakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
 * has PC member::Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada
 * has PC member::Thomas Strang, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
 * has PC member::Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA
 * has PC member::Sameer Tilak, University of California at San Diego, USA
 * has PC member::Anand Tripathi, University of Minnesota, USA
 * has PC member::Gerhard Troester, Wearable Computing Lab ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
 * has PC member::Kristof Van Laerhoven, TU Darmstadt, Germany
 * has PC member::Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
 * has PC member::Li Xiao, Michigan State University, USA
 * has PC member::David Yates, Bentley College, USA
 * has PC member::Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
 * has PC member::Gergely Zaruba, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
 * has PC member::Daqing Zhang, GET/INT-National Institute of Telecommunications, France