MobiDE 2008

AIMS & TOPICS OF INTEREST: This is the seventh 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, IL (June 2006) and last year it was held in Beijing, China (June 2007). Since 2005, the event has been collocated with the annual SIGMOD conference. This year, MobiDE 2008 is sponsored by ACM SIGMOD and held in co-operation with ACM SIGMOBILE (pending approval).

The workshop will 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 security
 * mobile databases in scientific, medical, and engineering applications
 * mobile peer-to-peer applications and services
 * 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
 * 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 paper presentations, time  will be  allocated  to  open discussion  forums, informal discussions or panels. In addition to regular papers, vision or work-in-progress papers that have the potential to stimulate debate on existing solutions or  open challenges are  especially encouraged. Proposals for panels  on newly-emerging  or controversial  topics are also especially welcome.

IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Registration:      Wed, March 19, 2008 (midnight EST) Regular Paper Submissions:  Wed, March 26, 2008 (midnight EST) Notification of acceptance: Wed, April 30, 2008 Camera-ready version due:   Wed, May   14, 2008 Workshop date:              Fri, Jun   13, 2008 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS The workshop proceedings will be published by ACM. Electronic versions of the papers will be included in the ACM DL and DiSC'08.

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 web site of the workshop.

Full research papers should be formatted in the ACM proceedings format and be at most 8 double-columned pages in 9pt font.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chairs:

Alex Delis Dept. Of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens E-mail: ad@di.uoa.gr

Vladimir I. Zadorozhny School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh E-mail: vladimir@sis.pitt.edu

Program Chairs: Yannis Kotidis Dept. Of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business E-mail: kotidis@aueb.gr

Pedro Jose Marron Institute of Computer Science IV, University of Bonn E-mail: pjmarron@cs.uni-bonn.de

Publicity Chair

Demetris Zeinalipour School of Pure and Applied Sciences, Open University of Cyprus E-mail: zeinalipour@ouc.ac.cy

STEERING COMMITTEE

Ugur Cetintemel,               Brown University Panos K. Chrysanthis,      University of Pittsburgh Christian Jensen,             Aalborg University Alexandros Labrinidis,      University of Pittsburgh Dik Lun LEE,                   HKUST George Samaras,             University of Cyprus

PROGRAM COMMITTEE Walid Aref, Purdue University, USA Magdalena Balazinska, University of Washington, USA Christian Becker, University of Mannheim, Germany Claudio Bettini, University of Milan, Italy Stefan Bottcher, University of Paderborn, Germany Antonios Deligiannakis University of Athens, Greece Minos Garofalakis, Yahoo! Research and UC Berkeley, USA Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan Birgitta Konig-Ries, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena, Germany Vijay Kumar, University Of Missouri, Kansas-City, USA Mong Li Lee, National University of Singapore, Singapore Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Hua Lu, Aalborg University, Denmark Claudia Lucia, Roncancio Lab. LSR-IMAG/University of Grenoble, France Silvia Nittel, University of Maine, USA George C. Polyzos, AUEB, Greece Yannis Theodoridis, University of Piraeus, Greece Vasilis Vassalos, AUEB, Greece and University of California, San-Diego, USA Stratis D. Viglas, University of Edinburgh Vana Kalogeraki, University of California, Riverside, USA Alexandros Labrinidis, University of Pittsburgh, USA Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University of China, USA Bernhard Mitschang University of Stuttgart, Germany Anirban Mondal, University of Tokyo, Japan Vladimir Oleshchuk, University of Agder, Norway Evi Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece Simonas Saltenis, Aalborg University, Denmark Timos Sellis, IMIS-R.C. Athena and NTUA, Greece Jianwen Su, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Nesime Tatbul, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Goce Trajcevski, Northwestern University, USA Vassilis Tsotras, University of California, Riverside, USA Jun Yang, Duke University, USA Wai Gen Yee, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia Demetris Zeinalipour, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP