EMOBS 2007

COMPUTING, SOFTWARE, CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND APPLICATIONS

31st Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference

Beijing, July 23-27, 2OO7

The First IEEE International Workshop on Engineering Mobile-Based Software and Applications (EMOBS07)

The First IEEE International Workshop on
Engineering Mobile-Based Software and Applications (EMOBS07)

Call for Paper (pdf)

in conjunction with IEEE COMPSAC 2007, Beijing, July 23-27, 2007

THEME

The wide deployment of wireless networks and mobile technologies and significant increase of the number of mobile device users have created a very strong demand on various wireless-based mobile-based software application systems and enabling technologies. This provides many new business opportunities and challenges to wireless and networking service providers, mobile technology vendors, content providers and solution integrators. Living in a wireless world changes and enhances people’s life in many areas, such as mobile communications, wireless information sharing and learning, m-commerce, home environment, and entertainment. Today, business organizations and government agencies face with new pressure for technology update in network infrastructures and enterprise solutions to support wireless connectivity and mobility.

To meet the increasing demand on various reliable wireless-based software application systems, business people are looking for innovative ideas to create diverse mobile-commerce applications and service systems, and engineers are looking for cost-effective engineering methods and efficient solutions to build high-quality wireless-based software and application systems. Therefore, today studying and solving technical issues in engineering wireless-based software and application systems is becoming a hot research subject for academic researchers and the industry community. The major theme of this workshop is engineering high-quality mobile-based application systems to support mobile users anywhere at anytime.

GOALS

The International Workshop on Engineering Mobile-Based Systems and Applications (EMOBS07) is the forum to bring together researchers, scientists, software architects, and industry professionals for discussing innovative ideas and engineering solutions to construct high-quality wireless-based software systems and applications. Using this forum, researchers and industrial professionals can exchange issues, challenges, and new ideas and solutions.

Authors are invited to submit original and research papers addressing engineering issues, challenges,solutions, and technologies in building wireless-based software systems and applications. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the members of the international program committee. Accepted paper will be included in the COMPSAC 2007 workshop proceedings (EI-Index) published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

Engineering topics:

System requirements engineering issues and methods for mobile-based system requirements analysis
Wireless-based system infrastructures, architectures, and service-oriented architectures
Design modeling, design patterns, and design issues and solutions in wireless-based systems
Mobile data transaction models, retrieval solutions, and caching and migration techniques
Analysis, design, and testing for system mobility, interoperability, performance, scalability ad reliability
Wireless system and application security, and mobile user privacy
Mobile client design for mobile user experience, personalization, customization, and interoperation
Testing methods, test models, coverage criteria, and tools
Performance validation techniques and metrics, evaluation models and processes, measurement tools and environments

Mobile database technologies and mobile data transaction services
Semantic web for Mobile Commerce
Location detection and discovery mid-ware and technologies
Wireless multimedia technologies, platforms, and solutions for wireless applications
Mobile platforms for client applications on mobile devices (J2ME, Symbian, etc.)
Middleware and agent technologies for mobile commerce and wireless service systems
Mobile service frameworks, mobile agent technologies and solutions

Applications, services, and experience topics:

Ubiquitous and pervasive computing systems
Novel m-commerce applications and services
Mobile portals and mobile search engines
Enterprise-based mobile applications and systems
Wireless advertising applications, services, and systems
Location and context-aware mobile commerce applications and services
Service platforms for mobile commerce (mobile web enterprise)
RFID enabled application systems
2D Barcode based mobile application systems
Mobile payment protocols, service systems, and platforms
Case-study, lesson learned and experience reporting

IMPORTANT DATES

Mar. 2, 2007	Full paper and short paper due
Mar. 30, 2007	Decision notification (electronic)
Apr. 30, 2007	Camera-ready copy and author registration due

SUBMISSION

Original papers not being submitted to journals or other conferences will be considered. All submitted papers will be evaluated according to its originality, significance, correctness, presentation and relevance. Papers should be submitted electronically at http://compsac.cs.iastate.edu/2007/EMOBS/. Please follow the instructions given by the web page.Manuscripts will be limited to 6 pages following IEEE conference proceedings style and guidelines. We encourage authors to present novel ideas, critique of existing work, and practical studies andexperiments. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings (EI Index) of the 31th IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPASC2007).

The selected best papers (updated Journal versions) will be published in Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a full participant of the workshop to have the paper published in the proceedings.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Steering Committee: (in alphabetical order)
Jerry Gao	San Jose State University, USA
Jingsha He	Beijing University of Technology, China
Axel Kupper	Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
Claudia Linnhoff-Popien	Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
Simon Shim	SAP Labs, USA
Workshop Co-chairs:
Jerry Gao	San Jose State University, USA Email: jerrygao@email.sjsu.edu
Jingsha He	Beijing University of Technology, China Email: jhe@bjut.edu.cn
Program chair:
Axel Kupper	Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich Email: Axel.Kuepper@ifi.lmu.de
Program committee: (in alphabetical order)
Michael Berger, Siemens Corporate Technology, Germany Narciso Cerpa, University of Talca, Chile Volker Gruhn, University Leipzig, Germany Zhangqin Huang, Beijing University of Technology, China Mei Hsing, Fu Jen Catholic University, Republic of China Donglin Liang, University of Minnesota, USA Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Katina Michael, University of Wollongong, Australia Stefano Mizzaro, University of Udine, Italy Qi Shen, Beijing University of Technology, China George Roussos, Bikbeck College, UK Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University , Taiwan Junho Shim, Sookmyung Women’s University, Rep. of Korea Maoqiang Song, Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications, China Chuangbai Xiao, Beijing University of Technology, China Xiao Su, San Jose State University, USA Ron Vetter, UNC Wilmington Michael Wallbaum, Aschen University of Technology, Germany Qianxiang Wang, Beijing University Weider Yu, San Jose State University, USA Soe-Tsyr Yuan, National ChengChi University, Republic of China Weishan Zhang, Tongji University, China