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.
Since its
first installment in 2004, PerWare has successfully gathered
the principal practitioners and their experiences under one
roof to discuss their findings and move the state of the art
forward. We look forward to continue this tradition in
PerWare 2007.
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Call for Papers
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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. 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.
6. Metrics for evaluating pervasive computing middleware
infrastructures.
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, 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 submitted online through
the
PERDAS system no later than September 29, 2006
(extended to Oct. 7).
Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop, and will
appear in the IEEE PerCom workshop proceedings.
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Important Dates
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Submission Deadline: |
September 29, 2006
Extended to Oct. 7
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Acceptance Notification: |
November 25, 2006 |
Camera Ready Version: |
December 22, 2006 |
Workshop Date: |
March 19, 2007 |
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Organizers
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Jalal
Al-Muhtadi, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.
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Roy
Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
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Anand
Ranganathan, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA.
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Gregor
Schiele, University of Stuttgart, Germany.
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Program Committee
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Cristina
Abad, ESPOL, Ecuador.
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Raquel
Hill, Indiana University, USA.
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Gerd
Kortuem, University of Lancaster, UK.
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Umar
Saif, LUMS, Pakistan.
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Chetan
Shiva Shankar, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
USA.
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Peter
Sturm, Univ. of Trier, Germany.
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Peter
Tandler, IPSI, Germany.
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Kenichi Yamazaki, NTT DoCoMo, Japan.
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