-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS PerCom 2013 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications 18-22 March 2013, San Diego, USA --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE PerCom, now in its eleventh edition, is established as the premier annual scholarly venue in the areas of pervasive computing and communications. Pervasive computing and communications has evolved into an active area of research and development, due to the tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, RFID technology, and the ubiquitous mobile phone. PerCom 2013 will be held in San Diego, "America's finest city", famous for its climate, its beaches, and numerous tourist attractions. PerCom 2013 will provide a leading edge, scholarly forum for researchers, engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the art research and developmental work in the broad areas of pervasive computing and communications. The conference will feature a diverse mixture of interactive forums: core technical sessions of high quality cutting-edge research articles; targeted workshops on exciting topics; live demonstrations of pervasive computing in action; insightful keynote speeches; panel discussions from domain experts; and posters of budding ideas. Research contributions are solicited in all areas pertinent to pervasive computing and communications, including: - Innovative pervasive computing applications - Context modeling and reasoning - Data management for pervasive computing - Programming paradigms for pervasive systems - Software evolution and maintenance in pervasive systems - Middleware for pervasive services and applications - Adaptive, autonomic and context-aware computing - Mobile/wearable computing systems and services in pervasive computing - Energy-efficient and green pervasive computing - Communication architectures for pervasive computing - Ad hoc networks for pervasive communications - Pervasive opportunistic communications and applications - Enabling technologies for pervasive systems (e.g., wireless BAN, PAN) - Positioning and tracking technologies - Sensors and RFIDs in pervasive systems - Multimodal sensing and context for pervasive applications - Participatory, opportunistic and social sensing - Smart devices and intelligent environments - Trust, security and privacy issues in pervasive systems - User interface, interaction, and persuasion - Virtual immersive communications - Pervasive computing aspects of social networks - Social and economic models for pervasive systems Workshops and Affiliated Events Many workshops will be held in conjunction with the main conference. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE PerCom. As in the past, PerCom 2013 will also feature a PhD Forum, Demonstrations and a Work-in-Progress Session. Please visit the conference website for details. Important Dates Paper Registration: September 21, 2012 23:59:00 EDT Paper submission: September 28, 2012 23:59:00 EDT Notification: December 22, 2012 Camera Ready: January 25, 2013 Best paper award The best paper will receive the prestigious Mark Weiser best paper award. Papers of particular merit will be considered for a special issue of the Elsevier journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC). Submission Guidelines Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. They must show significant relevance to pervasive computing and networking. Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be considered. Papers must be 9 pages or less, including references, figures and tables (at least 10pt font, 2-column format). The IEEE LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates, as well as formatting instructions, can be found at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting. All manuscripts must be registered and submitted electronically through EDAS (https://www.edas.info). Submissions will undergo a rigorous review process handled by the Technical Program Committee. The best paper will receive the prestigious Mark Weiser Best Paper Award. Top selected papers will be considered for a special issue of the Elsevier journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) Organizing Committee General Chair: Jadwiga Indulska, The University of Queensland, Australia Vice General Chair: Chatschik Bisdikian, IBM T. J. Watson Research, USA Program Chair: Claudio Bettini, University of Milan, Italy Vice Program Co-Chairs: Marco Gruteser, Rutgers University, USA Christine Julien, University of Texas at Austin, USA Marius Portmann, The University of Queensland, Australia Workshops Co-Chairs: Urs Hengartner, University of Waterloo, Canada Gregor Schiele, University of Mannheim, Germany Steering Committee Chair: Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, IT Technical Program Committee Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA Christian Becker, Universität Mannheim, Germany Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy Roy Campbell, Univeristy of Illinois, USA Guohong Cao, Pennsylvania State University, USA Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK Dipanjan Chakraborty, IBM India Research Lab , India Yingying Chen, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Paolo Costa, Microsoft Research, UK Sajal Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Klaus David, University of Kassel, Germany Christos Efstratiou, University of Cambridge, UK Karoly Farkas, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Silvia Giordano, University of Applied Science (SUPSI), Switzerland Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA Urs Hengartner, University of Waterloo, Canada Baik Hoh, Nokia Research, USA Woody Huang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Matthias Kranz, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Shonali Krishnaswamy, Monash University, Australia Mohan Kumar, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Marc Langheinrich, University of Lugano (USI), Switzerland Janne Lindqvist, Rutgers Univ, USA Wenjing Lou, Virginia Teach, USA Paul Lukowicz, University of Passau, Germany Xun Luo, Qualcomm Inc., USA Qin Lv, Univ of Colorado, USA Marco Mamei, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy Pedro Marron, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, UK Justin Mazzola Paluska, MIT, USA Archan Misra, Singapore Management University, Singapore Iqbal Mohomed, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Luca Mottola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Max Mühlhäuser, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Daniela Nicklas, Carl von Ossietzky Universitiät Oldenburg, Germany Petteri Nurmi, University of Helsinki, Finland Eamonn O'Neill, University of Bath, UK Joerg Ott, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy Jamie Payton, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA Tom Pfeifer, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland Dinh Phung, Curtin University of Technology, Australia Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento, Italy Daniele Puccinelli, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Switzerland Anand Ranganathan, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Daniele Riboni, University of Milan, Italy Oriana Riva, Microsoft Research, USA Kay Roemer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland George Roussos, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Enrico Rukzio, Lancaster University, UK Umar Saif, LUMS, Pakistan Gregor Schiele, University of Mannheim, Germany Aruna Seneviratne, NICTA, Australia Behrooz Shirazi, Washington State University, USA Morris Sloman, Imperial College London, UK, Junehwa Song, KAIST, South Korea Thomas Strang, German Aerospace Center, Germany Nalini Venkatasubramamian, University of California at Irvine, USA Wenyuan Xu, Univ of South Carolina, USA Moustafa Youssef, EJUST, Egypt Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio, Italy Gergely Záruba, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Daqing Zhang, Institut Telecom SudParis, France Yanchao Zhang, Arizona State University, USA Lin Zhong, Rice University, USA For additional information, see www.percom.org for details on current and past PerCom conferences, or contact the PerCom 2013 organizing committee at percom2013@dico.unimi.it