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                           CALL FOR PAPERS

  IEEE PerCom Middleware Support for Pervasive Computing (PerWare 2007)
   at the 5th Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications 
                            (PerCom 2007)

                            New York, USA
                      March 19 or 23, 2007 (TBD)
                     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. 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.

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Research papers must be original prior unpublished work and not under 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 submitted online through the 
workshop page at http://perware.cs.uiuc.edu/ no later than October 1, 
2006. 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@gmail.com if 
you have any questions.

Important Dates 
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Paper Submission: .......... October 7th, 2006
                             (meta-data to be submitted by Oct. 1) 	
Acceptance Notification: ... November  25th, 2006
Camera-Ready: .............. December  22th, 2006	
Workshop Date: ............. March 19 or 23, 2007 (TBD)

Organizing Committee
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* Jalal Al-Muhtadi, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. 
* Roy Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
* Anand Ranganathan, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA.
* Gregor Schiele, University of Stuttgart, Germany.

Program Committee
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Cristina Abad, ESPOL, Ecuador.
Raquel Hill, Indiana University, USA.
Gerd Kortuem, University of Lancaster, UK.
Umar Saif, LUMS, Pakistan.
Chetan Shiva Shankar, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Peter Sturm, Univ. of Trier, Germany.
Peter Tandler, IPSI, Germany.
Kenichi Yamazaki, NTT DoCoMo, Japan.