Call for Papers

Mobile Computing and Applications Track

23rd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

SAC 2008

http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2008/

March 16 - 20, 2008

Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil

The research area of mobile computing has become more important following the recent widespread drive towards wireless sensor networks and location tracking technologies and their applications. The availability of the high bandwidth 3G infrastructures, and the pervasive deployment of low cost WiFi infrastructure and WiMAX to create hotspots around the world serve to accelerate the development of mobile computing towards ubiquitous computing. Together with the use of increasingly powerful hardware handheld devices, many of which now equipped with built-in Bluetooth and wireless LAN interfaces, the drive towards integrated mobile computing infrastructure becomes mature. Emergence and acceptance of programming standards like J2ME, SOAP/.NET, and different software applications have broken the barrier for seamless communications across devices. As mobile computing and its applications involve inter-disciplinary research efforts, this is an appropriate track for SAC, in order to draw upon expertise from different areas of researches for better synergy. The unique characteristics and issues present in a mobile computing environment have motivated diverse research areas, spanning from protocols for mobile computing to middleware services to facilitate better integration of mobile services to existing network infrastructure, as well as effective information representation, processing and visualization with small devices. This track is dedicated to this exciting and evolving area of mobile computing to draw upon research efforts and expertise from different areas of researches for better synergy. We would like to bring forth not only the core technologies driving the research, but also important applied research and applications to realize the benefits of anywhere, anyplace and anytime computing.

Authors are invited to submit original papers the above-mentioned or other related areas. Submissions fall into the following categories:

• Original and unpublished research work
• Reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, and business areas
• Reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains
• Reports of industrial experience and demos of new innovative systems

Program Committee members from renowned universities with strong expertise in their respective areas will review submissions. All submissions will be subjected to at least two to three blind reviews to ensure unbiased review process. Accepted papers will be published in the annual conference proceedings. Submission guidelines can be found on SAC 2008 web-site (http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2008/).

Prospective papers should be submitted per track using the provided automated submission system. Submission of the same paper to multiple tracks is not allowed. For more information please visit the SAC 2008 web-site (http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2008/).

One of the authors must be designated as the primary contact point to receive the notification at the time of the paper submission. At least one of the authors of the accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper. The accepted papers will be published in the ACM SAC 2008 proceedings. It is probable that a set of selected papers, which did not get accepted as full papers, would be accepted as poster papers and be published as extended two-page abstracts in the symposium proceedings. Submission must be received by Saturday, September 16, 2007.

Program Committee
Nabil Adam, Rutgers University, USA
Divyakant Agrawal, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Mehmet Altinel, IBM Almaden, USA
Peter Bertok, RMIT, Australia
Angelo Brayner, University of Fortaleza, Brazil
Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy
Sajal Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Ling Feng, Twente University, The Netherlands
Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Ohio State University, USA
Abdelkader Hameurlain, 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
Guanling Lee, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
Wang-Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada
Seng Loke, La Trobe University, Australia
Dennis McLeod, University of Southern California, USA
Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University, China
Mohamed Mokbel, University of Minnesota, USA
Mario Nascimento, University of Alberta, Canada
Wen-Chih Peng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Sunil Prabhakar, Purdue University, USA
Alhajj Reda, University of Calgary, Canada
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
Man Hon Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jianliang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia
Baihua Zheng, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Last : October 22, 2007