International Workshop on the Impact of Human Mobility in Pervasive Systems and Applications

Event Dates

Mar 24, 2014 - Mar 28, 2014

Location

Budapest, Hungary

Submission Deadline

Nov 04, 2013

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The IEEE PerCom International Workshop on the Impact of Human Mobility

on Pervasive Systems and Applications (PerMoby 2014)

http://vecchio.iet.unipi.it/permoby

in conjunction with PerCom 2014 (http://www.percom.org)

March 24-28 2014, Budapest, Hungary

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The key components of many pervasive systems and applications are already

deployed in the form of ubiquitous commercial products carried by humans.

Human mobility makes it possible for such key components to interact,

promoting cooperation and sharing of content, services and resources.

Smartphones, tablet PCs, and other personal devices act as mobile computing

elements able to gather information about the surrounding environment

according to the mobility of users. In other situations these devices

operate as mobile nodes of the computing and/or networking infrastructure,

where interaction and communication occur opportunistically.

The goal of PerMoby is to explore the impact of human mobility on the

achievement of the pervasive computing vision. The focus is on pervasive

applications, systems, and protocols where mobility plays an active role

in achieving the end goals.

Original papers addressing both theoretical and practical aspects of

human-centric applications and systems are solicited. Papers describing

prototype implementations and deployment of such applications and systems

are particularly welcome. The submission of papers on controversial issues

is also encouraged. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

– pervasive systems and applications based on (or influenced by) human mobility

– mobile phone sensing applications and systems

– opportunistic and participatory sensing, and anything in between

– opportunistic computing

– pervasive systems with humans in the loop

– wearable sensing systems

– mobility models

– distributed computing approaches that rely on human mobility

– impact of human mobility on wireless communication

– green pervasive applications that leverage human mobility

– mobility aware protocols

– opportunistic networking

– pervasive social networking

PUBLICATION AND INDEXING

Papers are published in the combined proceedings of the IEEE PerCom

Workshops and will appear on IEEExplore.

According to Google’s metrics, such proceedings are characterized by

high values of h5 index and h5-median index, respectively equal to 32 and

43. This makes the IEEE PerCom Workshops one of the publication venues

with higher visibility and impact in the area of pervasive computing.

In the last years, the IEEE PerCom Workshops proceedings have always been

indexed by Scopus. Besides appearing within the database, a paper that

is published in the IEEE PerCom Workshops is both a “source” and a

“destination” for the Scopus citation managing system (and thus it

contributes to the author’s h-index and citation count, as computed

by Scopus).

PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers should contain original material and should not be previously

published or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. Manuscripts

are limited to a maximum of 6 pages in IEEE conference format. At least

one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the workshop

to present the paper. There is no workshop-only registration. An oral

presentation at the workshop is strictly required. Failure to present

the paper at the workshop will result in the withdrawal of the paper

from the proceedings as well as from IEEE Xplore. Paper submission will

be via EDAS (further details will be available on the workshop website).

IMPORTANT DATES

– Submission deadline: November 4, 2013

– Notification of acceptance: December 21, 2013

– Camera ready: Late January, 2014

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Theus Hossmann, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Daniele Puccinelli, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE (not final)

Mikael Asplund, Linköping University, Sweden

Henrik Blunck, University of Aarhus, Denmark

Chiara Boldrini, IIT-CNR, Italy

Eleonora Borgia, IIT-CNR

Jordi Cucurull, Scytl

Thanh Dang, Washington State University Vancouver, USA

Anna Förster, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Switzerland

Maciej Kurant, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Liam Mcnamara, Uppsala University, Sweden

Mirco Musolesi, University of Birmingham, UK

Melek Önen, EURECOM, France

Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy

Salvatore Vanini, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Switzerland

Min Wu, Oracle Corporation, USA

Christian Rohner, Uppsala University, Sweden

Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK

Yaxiong Zhao, Amazon.com Inc, USA

Marco Zuniga, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

STEERING COMMITTEE

Daniele Puccinelli, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)

Alessio Vecchio, University of Pisa, Italy

PUBLICITY CHAIR

Andreea Picu, ETH Zurich, Switzerland