Introduction
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Context-awareness, dynamism, and heterogeneity are some of the
properties that differentiate pervasive computing from
traditional distributed systems. Most traditional distributed
systems are unaware of context, are static, and are composed
of homogeneous devices. As a result, the assumptions
underlying traditional middleware infrastructures differ from
the ones for pervasive computing. In a pervasive computing
environment, issues such as mobility, disconnection, and
dynamic introduction and removal of devices, and merging of
the physical environment with the computational infrastructure
are common and affect the underlying middleware
infrastructure. Furthermore, different devices might be
connected to different networks, with different latency and
bandwidth. As a result, the middleware must provide mechanisms
for handling disconnection, addressing fault tolerance, and
adapting to a number of issues related to diversity including
heterogeneous device resources. The scale of pervasive
computing in terms of the number of devices and services,
combined with the lack of a single system administrator, the
associated dynamism, and frequent failures require middleware
services capable of evolving and re-organizing themselves.
This
workshop addresses the issues related to the design and
implementation of middleware services for pervasive computing.
The workshop focuses on the challenges associated with
pervasive computing and identifies common paradigms and design
decisions that affect most middleware designers.
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Call for Papers
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This
workshop aims at bringing together researchers in the field of
middleware for pervasive computing to discuss new trends for
pervasive computing middleware. The workshop solicits papers
addressing the following topics:
1.
Middleware design patterns for pervasive computing.
2. Middleware support for novel pervasive computing
application models.
3. Middleware support for user-centric computing.
4. Middleware platforms for mobile devices.
5. Adaptable, recoverable, secure and fault tolerant
middleware for pervasive computing.
In order to
ensure a high quality technical session, submissions must
cover one of the topics above, and should not exceed five
pages. Furthermore, we will prioritize experience papers
describing lessons learnt from built systems, including
information about approaches that did and did not work,
unexpected results, common abstractions, and metrics for
evaluating pervasive computing middleware infrastructures. One
of the key issues for debate is the underlying structure of
pervasive computing middleware, which includes different
possible configurations such as peer-to-peer, location based,
server oriented, and hybrid models. The workshop will provide
a meeting point and a discussion forum for researchers working
in this field.
Submissions
of papers are solicited in the IEEE proceedings format.
Research papers must be original prior unpublished work and
not under review elsewhere. All submissions will be reviewed
blindly and selected based on their originality, merit, and
relevance to the workshop. Accepted papers must be presented
at the workshop, and will appear in a combined PerCom 2004
workshop proceedings.
Blinded
submissions, in PDF format, must be emailed to
perware@cs.uiuc.edu. Please include the authors' names and
affiliations in the email body. You will receive a
confirmation within 24 hours. Please
email us
if you have any questions.
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Important Dates
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Submission Deadline: |
Extended to October 10, 2003
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Acceptance Notification: |
November 15, 2003
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Camera Ready Version: |
January 4, 2003
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Workshop Date: |
March 14, 2004.
(at PerCom 2004,
Orlando, Florida.) |
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Organizers
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Manuel
Roman, DoCoMo Labs, USA.
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Jalal
Al-Muhtadi, Department of Computer Science, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Christian Becker, Institute for Distributed and Parallel
Systems, University of Stuttgart, Germany.
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Roy
Campbell, Department of Computer Science, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Program Committee
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Christian Becker, Institute for Distributed and Parallel
Systems, University of Stuttgart (Germany)
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Peter
Sturm, University of Trier (Germany)
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Gerd
Kortuem, University of Lancaster (UK)
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Max
Mühlhuser, Technical University Darmstadt (Germany)
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Peter
Tandler, Fraunhofer Integrated Publication and Information
Systems Institute (IPSI) Darmstadt, Germany
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Jalal
Al-Muhtadi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(USA)
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Anand
Ranganathan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(USA)
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Philippe
Debaty, HP Labs (USA)
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Kenichi
Yamazaki, DoCoMo Labs (Japan)
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Manuel
Roman, DoCoMo Labs (USA)
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Michael
Beigl, TeCo (Germany)
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Roy
Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
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