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                           CALL FOR PAPERS

   Middleware Support for Pervasive Computing Workshop (PerWare 2008)
  at the IEEE 6th Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications 
                            (PerCom 2008)

                              Hong Kong
                       March 17 or 21, 2008 (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 2008.

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Research papers must be original prior unpublished work and not under 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 peer-reviewed and selected 
based on their originality, merit, and relevance to the workshop. 
Submissions in PDF format must be submitted online through the 
workshop page at http://perware.cs.uiuc.edu/ no later than September 28, 
2007. 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 12, 2007 (Extended!)
Acceptance Notification: ... November  23, 2007
Camera-Ready: .............. December  21th, 2007
Workshop Date: ............. March 17 or 21, 2008 (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 Mannheim, Germany.

Program Committee
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Cristina Abad, ESPOL, Ecuador.
Marcus Handte, University of Stuttgart, Germany.
Raquel Hill, Indiana University, USA.
Gerd Kortuem, University of Lancaster, UK.
Rodger Lea, University of British Columbia, Canada.
Alan Messer, Samsung.
Soraya Kouadri Mostefaoui, Open University, UK.
Umar Saif, LUMS, Pakistan.
Kenichi Yamazaki, NTT DoCoMo, Japan.