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                           CALL FOR PAPERS

    Middleware Support for Pervasive Computing (PerWare 2006)
   at the 4th Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications 
                            (PerCom 2006)

                             Pisa, Italy,
                            March 13, 2006

                     http://perware.cs.uiuc.edu
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The design of middleware services to support pervasive computing is 
extremely challenging, posing new requirements for ease of deployment,
handling of heterogeneity and scale, resilience to failure, application
support and creation, and incremental deployment and evolution.  Facing
these challenges is a community wide effort, necessitating the pooling
of our resources and experiences in order to develop new paradigms and 
techniques.  The goal of this workshop is to foster the research 
community working in this field. The workshop aims to gather the 
principal practitioners and their experiences under one roof to discuss
their findings and move the state of the art forward. 

Topics    
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The workshop solicits papers addressing the following topics:

* Middleware design patterns for pervasive computing.
* Middleware platforms for mobile devices.
* Middleware support for user-centric computing.
* Middleware support for novel pervasive computing application models.
* Adaptable, recoverable, secure and fault tolerant middleware for 
  pervasive computing.
* Metrics for evaluating pervasive computing middleware infrastructures

Submission Guidelines
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Paper 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, implementation of real-world scenarios, and metrics for 
evaluating pervasive computing middleware infrastructures. 

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Research papers must be original prior unpublished work and not under 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. Blinded submissions in PDF format must be sent to 
perware@cs.uiuc.edu no later than October 1st, 2005. You will 
receive a confirmation within 24 hours. Accepted papers must be 
presented at the workshop, and will appear in the IEEE PerCom workshop
proceedings. Please visit http://perware.cs.uiuc.edu or email 
perware@cs.uiuc.edu if you have any questions. 

Important Dates 
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Paper Submission: .......... October 1st, 2005	(extended)
Acceptance Notification: ... November 22nd, 2005
Camera-Ready: .............. December 19th, 2005	
Workshop Date: ............. March 13th, 2006

Organizing Committee
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* Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
* Christian Becker, Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany
* Roy Campbell, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
* Adrian Friday, Lancaster University, UK
* Manuel Roman, DoCoMo Labs, USA

Program Committee
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* Michael Beigl, TeCo, Germany
* Peter Sturm, Univ. of Trier, Germany
* Gerd Kortuem, University of Lancaster, UK
* Kenichi Yamazaki, NTT DoCoMo, Japan
* Peter Tandler, IPSI, Germany
* Umar Saif, MIT, USA
* Wolfgang Schroeder-Preikschat, U. Erlangen, Germany
* Torben Weis, Technical University Berlin, Germany