For the past nineteen years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2005 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing whose mission is to further the interests of the computing professionals engaged in the development of new computing techniques and applications areas and the transfer of computing technology to new problem domains. SAC 2005 is hosted by the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM. It consists of multiple tracks, one of which is the Mobile Computing and Applications track.

Riding on recent technological advancements in 3G communication infrastructures, hardware handheld devices, programming standards such as J2ME, Symbian and SOAP and the emergence of killer applications in both research and commercial settings, the area of mobile computing is gaining increasing importance. Mobile computing technologies have evolved over the past 10 years into an inter-disciplinary research area. Applications of mobile computing accelerate rapidly in recent years following the development of devices for "wearable" computers and the "pervasive" computing paradigm. The unique characteristics and issues presented in a mobile environment have already motivated diverse research areas, spanning from protocols for mobile computing to middleware services to facilitate better integration of mobile services to existing network infrastructure. This can be done in the context of mobile commerce based applications, with integrated technologies drawn from diversified field such as wireless communications, sensor networks, global positioning systems, and geographical and spatial database systems. This track is dedicated to draw upon research efforts and expertise from different areas of researches for better synergy. We would like to bring forth not only those core technologies driving the research, but also important applied research to realize the benefits of anywhere, any place and anytime computing.

Papers are solicited for the following representative topic areas (but not restricted to):
- adaptive computing
- caching and disconnected operation
- context-aware mobile computing
- data replication and reconciliation
- L-commerce
- location-aware applications
- M-commerce
- mobile agents
- mobile applications and systems
- mobile databases and transactions
- mobile device programming and applications
- mobile middleware services based on event, and object models
- mobile web access
- pervasive computing
- sensor networks
- spatiotemporal data representation and processing
- visualization on handheld devices
- wireless communication and networks
- wireless multimedia

Author(s) are encouraged to submit electronic copies of their papers (in postscript or pdf format) to the Track Chairs at their conference account at sac05mca@comp.polyu.edu.hk by September 3, 2004. Those who cannot submit electronic copies must submit six (6) laser-quality printed copies to:

Hong Va Leong
Department of Computing
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hung Hom
Hong Kong

Guidelines

Track Co-chairs
Hong Va Leong
Department of Computing
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hung Hom
Hong Kong
email: cshleong@comp.polyu.edu.hk
URL: http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~cshleong

Alvin Chan
Department of Computing
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hung Hom
Hong Kong
email: cstschan@comp.polyu.edu.hk
URL: http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~cstschan

Program Committee
Divyakant Agrawal, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Demet Aksoy, University of California at Davis, USA
Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Mehmet Altinel, IBM Almaden, USA
Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Ohio State University, USA
Abdelkader Hameurlain, IRIT, Universite Paul Sabatier, France
Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
Roger King, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Dik Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Wang-Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Cecilia Mascolo, University College London, UK
Dennis McLeod, University of Southern California, USA
Mario Nascimento, University of Alberta, Canada
Sunil Prabhakar, Purdue University, USA
Antonio Si, Oracle Corporation, USA
Ioana Stanoi, IBM T.J. Watson, USA
Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Kian-Lee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Zahir Tari, RMIT, Australia
Yang Xiao, University of Memphis, USA
Jianliang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia
Baihua Zheng, Singapore Management University, Singapore

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