MobEA III Japanese

Chiba, Japan, May 10th, 2005

Collocated with WWW2005 conference

Final Program

Customer focused mobile services

 

Aim and Scope

 

We are in the midst of a mobile revolution. In order to realize the vision of pervasive mobile computing, the services provided have to be adapted to the users wants and needs. To do this, we need to go beyond technology, and understand the human-centric aspects of mobile computing. The objective of this workshop is to provide a single forum for researchers and technologists to discuss the state-of-the-art, present their contributions, and set future directions in emerging innovative applications for mobile wireless access.

 

Topics of interest for technical papers include, but are not limited to the following:

 

  • Mobile web usage analysis
  • Peer-to-peer mobile computing
  • Security of mobile applications
  • Methods for measuring mobile application usage
  • Models and methods for qualitative analysis of applications usage
  • User interface for mobile devices
  • Multimedia applications
  • Enterprise applications
  • Open-standards and applications
  • Performance studies of mobile applications
  • Context-Aware services and applications
  • Mobility issues of web services

 

 

The topics of interest are particularly important for the Spring 2005 timeframe to align users needs and wants with carriers’/operators deployment strategies and application/service providers’ needs and wants.  The experience of actors in Japan, where the iMode system has led to more than 60 % of the population being regular mobile web users, will be one of the highlights of the workshop.

 

Submissions will be solicited and all papers are subject to peer review. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two peers and their collective comments will be taken into consideration to decide paper acceptance. We will maintain a rather high level of importance on the technical feasibility of the proposed applications for a telecommunications carrier managed service or a premise-based enterprise deployment at large scale.

 

This conference will provide an international forum to discuss issues on emerging mobile applications both from a technical and business standpoint. The chosen mix of papers will attract a large community of mobile application providers. The targeted audience will range from developers and technical managers to business level executives, providing a good mix of talent.

 

Submission

 

You are invited to submit a full paper describing completed work (up to 5,000 words) or a position paper describing work in progress (up to 2,000 words). Submissions will be evaluated according to the relevance and originality of the work and to their ability to generate discussions between the participants of the workshop. The format of submitted papers must follow the ACM conference proceedings guidelines, including no page numbers.

 

Submitted papers must be in PDF or Word for Windows format. Papers should be submitted to either

rjana@research.att.com or johan.hjelm@ericsson.com

 

Important dates:

 

28th February 2005 (deadline extended): Submission of full and position papers

18th March 2005 : Notification of acceptance

27th of March 2005: camera-ready copies due

10th May 2005: workshop

 

Publication

 

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings

 

 

Organizing Committee Members

Dr. Rittwik Jana – Principal Member Technical Staff at AT&T Labs Research. He received a B.E degree in electrical engineering from the University of Adelaide, Australia, in 1994. He received a Ph.D. degree from the Australian National University in 1999. He worked as an engineer at the Defense Science and Technology Organization (DSTO), Australia from ’96 – ’99 and as a member of technical staff at AT&T Labs-Research, New Jersey from ’99 to date. He has been continuously working in the area of mobile and wireless communications for ten years covering aspects from physical layer modem design to application layer software development. His primary expertise fall in the areas of radio resource management, mobile service platform design and wireless channel modeling. He has served as a reviewer and a program committee member for numerous IEEE conferences and journals. He has also successfully organized MobEA-I and MobEA-II workshops at WWW 2003 and 2004 respectively.

Dr. Bin Wei – received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University in 1998 and joined the research community at AT&T Shannon Laboratory since then. His research interests are in the areas of high-performance computer systems, multimedia, and service platforms for mobile users. His recent work on media related services involves building prototype systems to support media acquisition, processing, management, and delivery to various mobile devices. In addition to publishing papers in ACM and IEEE conferences and journals, his professional experience also includes reviewing papers and books, serving as a program committee member and a co-chair. He received a B.S. from Tianjin University, China, in 1983 and an M.S. from the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1989

Capt. Johan Hjelm - Educated as an economist, he worked as a journalist for several years in various Swedish publications, until joining Bonnier as multimedia technologist, and later research manager, in the Bonnier Media Lab. As a result of the EU-funded On the Move project, which was the first in the world to bring the web to mobile devices, he joined Ericsson, where he is now a senior specialist in the Service Layer Technologies research group. He has also been a W3C Fellow, written 14 books (among which  the first on Internet in Swedish), and published several research papers and other contributions on wireless web development.

 

 

Affiliation:

Rittwik Jana and Bin Wei

AT&T Labs – Research

180 Park Ave

Florham Park, NJ, 07932

Email: {rjana, bw}@research.att.com

 

Johan Hjelm

Ericsson

Torshamnsgatan 23

SE-164 80 Stockholm, Sweden

Email: johan.hjelmfirstname.lastname@ericsson.com

 

Annakaisa Häyrynen

Elisa Communications Research Center

Kutomotie 14, Helsinki

P.O. Box 40, FIN-00061 ELISA, Finland

Email: annakaisa.hayrynen@elisa.fi