日本データベース学会会員の皆様、 東京大学の川原と申します． Pervasive 2009が来年５月に奈良で開催されます． 日本のデータベースコミュニティからの発表を期待する声もありま すので，ぜひ投稿をお待ちしております． --- Pervasive 2009, the Seventh International Conference on Pervasive Computing, May 11-14, 2009 in Nara, Japan. http://pervasive2009.org/ Papers and notes due October 17, 2008, 5pm (PST) This annual conference provides a premier forum for researchers to present their latest results in all areas related to architecture, design, implementation, application and evaluation of pervasive computing as it integrates into our lives. Pervasive 2009 will include a highly selective single-track program for technical papers describing original and unpublished research advancing the state of the art in mobile and pervasive computing, including but not limited to the following topics: * Technologies and devices for pervasive computing * Software aspects including middleware and operating systems for pervasive computing * Tools, infrastructures, architectures and techniques for designing, implementing & deploying pervasive computing systems * Applications of pervasive computing technologies * Interfaces and modes of interactions between people and pervasive computing devices, applications or environments * Evaluations and evaluation methods, for assessing the impact of pervasive computing devices, applications or environments * Privacy, security, trust & social issues and implications of pervasive computing The conference will be accepting both full (18 page LNCS) and more succinct shorter 'Notes' (up to 8 LNCS page papers). All papers will be selected on their individual merit based on a peer review by the TPC and external expert reviewers. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference. See author guidelines for more information: http://pervasive2009.org/submission.shtml Note that papers should not have been previously published or be concurrently under submission for publication for any other conference, journal,workshop or other publication with an ISBN, ISSN, or DOI number. Critical Dates * October 17, 2008, 5pm (PST) Full Papers and Notes due * December 14, 2008 Notifications * February 14, 2009 Camera Ready due * May 11, 2009 Conference For more information, contact: Conference Co-Chairs * Hide Tokuda, Keio University and Michael Beigl, TU Braunschweig Program Co-Chairs * A.J. Brush, Microsoft Research, Adrian Friday, Lancaster University and Yoshito Tobe, Tokio Denki University Organising committee * Jakob Bardram, IT University of Copenhagen * Louise Barkhuus, University of California, San Diego * Alastair Beresford, University of Cambridge * Barry Brown, University of California, San Diego * Roy Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign * Tanzeem Choudhury, Dartmouth College * Sunny Consolvo, Intel Research * Alois Ferscha, University of Linz * Patrik Flor?en, University of Helsinki * Hans Gellersen, Lancaster University * Gillian Hayes, University of California, Irvine * Jeffrey Hightower, Intel Research * Elaine Huang, Motorola Labs * Antonio Kr?ger, University of M?nster * Paul Lukowicz, University of Passau * Masateru Minami, University of Tokyo * Jin Nakazawa, Keio University * Shwetak Patel, University of Washington * Matthai Philipose, Intel Research * Aaron Quigley, University College Dublin * Bernt Schiele, TU Darmstadt * Albrecht Schmidt, University of Duisburg-Essen * James Scott, Microsoft Research * Abigail Sellen, Microsoft Research * Yasuyuki Sumi, Kyoto University * Tsutomu Terada, Kobe University * Kristof Van Laerhoven, TU Darmstadt * Woontack Woo, GIST