+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |4th International Workshop on Management of Ubiquitous Communications and | | Services* | | www.MUCS2007.org | | | | part of the 10th IFIP/IEEE Symposium of Integrated Management, IM 2007 | | www.im2007.org | | _Munich_, Germany_ | | | | _Submission: January 24th 2007_ | | _Workshop: May 25th 2007_ | +---------------------------+----------------------------------------------+ |_Chair_ |CALL FOR PAPERS | |Tom Pfeifer |--------------- | |Waterford Institute of | | |Technology, Ireland |*Scope of the MUCS Workshop* | | |Ubiquitous and Pervasive Communications, as | |_Programme Committee |evidenced in pervasive computing and smart | |Chairs_ |space applications present significant | | |management challenges for successful | |John Strassner |delivery of highly adaptive services across | |Motorola Labs, USA |heterogeneous networks, middleware, | | |applications and devices. Today's management | |Simon Dobson |systems are unable to cope with the | |University College Dublin, |complexity, heterogeneity and automation | |Ireland |required by the pervasive computing vision. | | |New paradigms, models and technology need to | | |be developed to allow computer systems | |_Publication Chair_ |manage themselves in accordance with | |Brendan Jennings |high-level guidance from humans. This | |Waterford Institute of |workshop seeks to explore the theoretic, | |Technology, Ireland |technological and organisational challenges | | |in managing ubiquitous communications and | | |application services. | |_Steering Committee_ | | | |The workshop provides a single-track | |Sven van der Meer |scientific programme containing a blend of | |Telecommunications Software|keynote presentations from leaders in the | |& Systems Group, Ireland |research of communications and services | | |management systems, peer-reviewed papers and | |Vincent Wade |a small selection of invited presentations. | |Trinity College Dublin, |The goal of the workshop is to investigate | |Ireland |the state of the art in managing ubiquitous | | |communications and services from a broad | |Dirk Pesch |perspective. Submissions are invited for | |Cork Institute of |original, and previously unpublished | |Technology, Ireland |research in all aspects of management | | |techniques in ubiquitous communications. | | | | | |*Topics* | |_Programme Committee_ |· Management of Smart Spaces and | | | Applications (Smart Home/Office etc) | |Nazim Agoulmine, Université|· Context Aware Management and Configuration | |d'Evry-Val d'Essonne, |· Policy Based Management | |France |· Communication & Systems Management | | |· Wireless and Fixed Network Integrated | |Mark Burgess, Oslo | Management | |University College, Norway |· Adaptive Service and Network Management | | |· Security, Privacy, and Trust Management in | |Owen Conlan, Trinity | Ubiquitous Communications | |College Dublin, Ireland |· Management and Control of Mobile Ad-hoc | | | and Wireless Sensor Networks | |Lorcan Coyle, University |· Content Oriented Network & Service | |College Dublin, Ireland | Management | | |· Distributed Management & Collaborative | |Kieran Delaney, Tyndall | Governance | |Institute, Ireland |· Context Identification, Retrieval, | | | Prediction and Management | |Dominique Gaiti, Université|· Service and Network Management for | |de Technologies de Troyes, | Optimised Personalisation | |France |· Managing Collaborative Ubicomp | | | Applications | |Hani Hagras, University of |· Provisioning and Maintenance of Quality of | |Essex, UK | Service in Ubicomp environments | | |· Knowledge Representation Techniques and | |Markus Huebscher, Imperial | Ontologies for Distributed Management | |College London, UK | Services | | |· User Interaction with Managing UbiComp | |Jadwiga Indulska, | Systems | |University of Queensland, |· Bio-inspired management approach | |Australia | | | | | |Martin Klepal, Cork |*Paper Submissions* | |Institute of Technology, |Paper submissions must present original, | |Ireland |unpublished research or experiences. | | |Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress | |David Lewis, Trinity |reports from ongoing research are also | |College Dublin, Ireland |encouraged to be submitted to MUCS 2007. | | |Authors are requested to submit either long | |Kevin Curran, University of|papers or short papers (work-in-progress | |Ulster, UK |reports), strictly in 10 point following | | |IEEE conference style: | |Mícheál Ó Foghlú, Waterford| | |Institute of Technology, |· Long papers (up to 10 single-spaced | |Ireland |two-column pages, including figures, tables, | | |references and annexes) | |Fergus O'Reilly, Cork | | |Institute of Technology, |· Short papers describing work-in-progress | |Ireland |(up to 4 pages, including figures, tables, | | |references and annexes) | |Declan O'Sullivan, Trinity | | |College Dublin, Ireland | | | |*Proceedings* | |Kay Uwe Römer, ETH Zurich, |The proceedings of MUCS 2007 will be | |Switzerland |published in the Multicon Lecture Notes and | | |the IEEE Explorer (confirmation pending). | |Albrecht Schmidt, Ludwig | | |Maximilians Universität | | |München [2] , Germany |*Location* | | |This year MUCS is co-located with the 10th | |Joan Serrat, Universitat |IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated | |Politècnica de Catalunya, |Management, IM 2007 in Munich, Germany, | |Spain | | | | | |Roy Sterritt, University of|*Important Deadlines* | |Ulster, UK |Submission: January 24th 2007 | | |Notification: March 26th 2007 | |Michael Smirnov, Fraunhofer|Camera ready: April 9th 2007 | |FOKUS, Germany |Workshop: May 25th 2007 | | | | |Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, | | |Institut d'Informatique |*Programme* | |d'Entreprise, France |MUCS 2007 will have a keynote speech, | | |presentations of a number of full papers, an | | |interactive session for the presentation of | | |short papers and a panel session to discuss | | |the issues raised in the presentations and | | |to capture the outcomes of the workshop's | | |interactions. | | | | | | | | |*Why is MUCS important for you?* | | |The explosive growth of the Internet, the | | |proliferation of mobile networks and the | | |increasing difficulty in managing | | |multi-vendor environments and the services | | |that they provide have altered forever the | | |dynamics of the information and | | |communications technology industry, the | | |expectations of its customers and the | | |business models under which it operates. | | | | | |Moreover, pervasive computing and | | |communications services offer the promise of | | |dynamic integration of embedded computing | | |resources, information appliances, and | | |multimodal sensors as well as traditional | | |computers, to empower people to perform | | |tasks efficiently or to perform tasks | | |automatically on users' behalf. | | | | | |However, the management of such pervasive | | |communications presents significant | | |challenges for successful delivery of highly | | |adaptive services across heterogeneous, ad | | |hoc networks, mobile networks, middleware, | | |applications and devices. | | | | | |Managing pervasive computing environments | | |confront the demanding requirements that | | |will soon dominate broader management | | |challenges including managing user centric | | |services, extreme distribution, extensive | | |systems and network heterogeneity, ad hoc | | |formation and disassociation of systems and | | |services, and intelligent support for user | | |centric applications. Furthermore, from an | | |information and knowledge viewpoint, issue | | |of context awareness, capture, (semantic) | | |interoperability and scalability are key | | |challenges of such environments. | | | | | |To address these issues, new and innovative | | |management solutions need to be realized. | | |Such approaches need to support greater | | |levels of autonomy within the management of | | |systems, services and networks. However such | | |new-style management needs to be informed by | | |and operate within the scope of business, | | |operational and environmental constraints | | |and policies. | | | | | |A key element of greater acceptance and | | |impact of pervasive management across | | |application domains will be the degree of | | |user empowerment they offer, balanced | | |against the ever increasing need for greater | | |management automation. | +---------------------------+----------------+--------------+--------------+