MDM 2009

Since the debut in December 1999, the MDM series of conferences has established itself as a prestigious forum for the exchange of innovative and significant research results in mobile data management. The conference provides unique opportunities for researchers, engineers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore new ideas, techniques, and tools, and to exchange experiences.

In the past decade, we have witnessed significant advances in wireless communications and mobile technology, along with continuous appearance of versatile mobile gadgets and rapid growth in sensors and actuators. Meanwhile, high-precision outdoor and indoor positioning technology has become mature and available. A global, pervasive computing infrastructure that may profoundly change the way people live and work is emerging. Mobile and pervasive computing and communication are enabled at an unprecedented scale and density.

All these technological developments are expected to bring us a next wave of information revolution and change our society. However, as we move a step closer from mobile computing towards the grand vision of pervasive and ubiquitous computing, a number of challenges need to be overcome, especially when it comes to data-intensive applications: scale, variable and intermittent connectivity, location dependence and context awareness, bandwidth and power consumption, device size limitations, and multimedia delivery across hybrid networks.

Conventional issues in data management have to be reconsidered and reevaluated in this rapidly changing environment. Non-traditional issues including mobility, data semantics, context modeling, broadcast and multicast delivery, data availability, trust and privacy must also be addressed effectively. Additionally, starting from 2009, MDM will extend its scope to cover research issues in mobile systems, services and middleware.

Conference Scope
The scope of this conference includes but is not limited to the following topics:


 * Adaptability and stability of pervasive computing systems
 * Context-aware computing and location-based services
 * Data management in wireless networks
 * Data management in sensor and mobile ad hoc networks
 * Data management in mobile peer-to-peer networks
 * Data mining for mobile applications
 * Data presentation, scripting and exchange languages
 * Data replication, migration and dissemination in mobile environments
 * Data stream processing in mobile/sensor networks
 * Indexing and query processing for moving objects
 * Location and mobility semantics
 * Location tracking of vehicles and moving objects
 * Metadata management and exchanges
 * Mobile access to the Web
 * Mobile agents
 * OS and middleware for mobile and pervasive computing
 * Publish-subscribe approach in mobile computing
 * Quality of service issues for data-intensive services
 * Query processing and optimization for mobile users
 * Resource advertising and discovery techniques
 * Security and privacy issues for ubiquitous systems
 * Theoretical foundations of data-intensive mobile computing
 * Transactions and workflows in mobile environments
 * User interfaces and usability issues form mobile applications

Paper Submissions
The conference invites original, unpublished submissions, not exceeding 10 pages in IEEE camera-ready format. Submissions in PDF are to be uploaded to the conference web-based submission system at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/MDM2009/

Industrial/experience papers, Ph.D. Forum presentations, as well as proposals for panels, demos, seminars, and workshops are also sought. Submission instructions will be made available on the conference homepage.

Important Dates

 * Abstract submission: 10/25/2008
 * Paper submission:   11/01/2008
 * Notification:       2/01/2009
 * Camera ready:       3/15/2009

Committees

 * Co-Organizers
 * General Co-Chairs
 * has general chair::Yu-Chee Tseng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
 * has general chair::Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern University, USA
 * has general chair::Ralf Hartmut Guting, University of Hagen, Germany


 * PC Co-Chairs
 * has program chair::Wang-Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University, USA
 * has program chair::Chung-Ta King, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
 * has program chair::Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece


 * Industry Chair
 * has OC member::Kun-Lung Wu, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA.


 * Workshop Chair
 * has workshop chair::Cho-Li Wang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong


 * Best Paper Award Chair
 * has OC member::Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan


 * Panel Chair
 * has OC member::Arbee L.P.Chen, National Chengchi University, Taiwan


 * Seminars Chair
 * has tutorial chair::Baihua Zheng, Singapore Management Univ., Singapore


 * Demonstration Co-Chairs
 * has demo chair::Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
 * has demo chair::Hsiao-Kuang Wu, National Central University, Taiwan


 * Ph.D. Forum Chair
 * has OC member::Polly Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan


 * Exhibition Chair
 * has OC member::Shiao-Li Tsao, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan


 * Publicity Co-Chairs
 * has OC member::Jianliang Xu, Baptist University, Hong Kong
 * has OC member::Magdalena Balazinska, University of Washington, USA
 * has OC member::Nesime Tatbul, ETH Zurich, Switzerland


 * Publication Chair
 * has OC member::Jiun-Long Huang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan


 * Financial Chair
 * has OC member::Chih-Wei Yi, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
 * Local Organizing Co-Chairs
 * has local chair::Wen-Chih Peng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
 * has local chair::Ming-Hour Yang, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan


 * Program Committee Members


 * has PC member::Debopam Acharya, Georgia Southern University, USA
 * has PC member::Karl Aberer, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
 * has PC member::Divyakant Agrawal, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
 * has PC member::Walid Aref, Purdue University, USA
 * has PC member::Joshi Aunpam, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
 * has PC member::Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
 * has PC member::Ying Cai, Iowa State University, USA
 * has PC member::Meng-Chang Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
 * has PC member::Chung-Min Chen, Telcordia, USA
 * has PC member::Cho-Yu Chiang, Telcordia, USA
 * has PC member::Lee-Feng Chien, Google, Taiwan
 * has PC member::Panos Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, USA
 * has PC member::Samir Das, Stony Brook University, USA
 * has PC member::Nigel Davies, Lancaster University, UK
 * has PC member::Alex Delis, University of Athens, Greece
 * has PC member::Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, University of London, UK
 * has PC member::Le Gruenwald, National Science Foundation, USA
 * has PC member::Xiaohui Gu, North Carolina State University, USA
 * has PC member::Dimitrios Gunopulos, University of California, Riverside, USA
 * has PC member::Rick Han, University of Colorado, USA
 * has PC member::Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
 * has PC member::Manfred Hauswirth, National University of Ireland, Ireland
 * has PC member::Kien Hua, University of Central Florida, USA
 * has PC member::Yoshiharu Ishikawa, Nagoya University, Japan
 * has PC member::Vana Kalogeraki, University of California, Riverside, USA
 * has PC member::Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
 * has PC member::George Kollios, Boston University, USA
 * has PC member::Vijay Kumar, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA
 * has PC member::Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
 * has PC member::Birgitta Konig-Ries, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany
 * has PC member::Chiang Lee, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
 * has PC member::Dik Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
 * has PC member::Hong Va Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
 * has PC member::Mei Li, Microsoft, USA
 * has PC member::Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
 * has PC member::Hua Lu, Aalborg University, Denmark
 * has PC member::Sanjay Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA
 * has PC member::Nikos Mamoulis, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
 * has PC member::Pedro Jose Marron, University of Bonn and Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
 * has PC member::Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University, China
 * has PC member::Bernhard Mitschang, University of Stuttgart, Germany
 * has PC member::Silvia Nittel, University of Maine, USA
 * has PC member::Dimitris Papadias, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
 * has PC member::Wen-Chih Peng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
 * has PC member::Jean-Marc Pierson, IRIT, Toulouse, France
 * has PC member::Krithi Ramamritham, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Indian
 * has PC member::Kay Roemer, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
 * has PC member::George Samaras, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
 * has PC member::Ichiro Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
 * has PC member::Markus Schneider, University of Florida, USA
 * has PC member::Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
 * has PC member::Cyrus Shahabi, University of South California, USA
 * has PC member::Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota, USA
 * has PC member::Mukesh Singhal, University of Kenturky, USA
 * has PC member::Kian-Lee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
 * has PC member::Xueyan Tang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
 * has PC member::Nesime Tatbul, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
 * has PC member::Goce Trajcevski, Northwestern University, USA
 * has PC member::Shin-Mu Tseng, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
 * has PC member::Vassilis Tsotras, University of California at Riverside, USA
 * has PC member::Jari Veijalainen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
 * has PC member::Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
 * has PC member::Xing Xie, MSRA, China
 * has PC member::Jianliang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
 * has PC member::Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
 * has PC member::Philip Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
 * has PC member::Vladimir Zadorozhny, University of Pittsburgh, USA
 * has PC member::Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia
 * has PC member::Baihua Zheng, Singapore Management University, Singapore
 * has PC member::Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China
 * has PC member::Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia
 * has PC member::Shuigeng Zhou, Fudan University, China