INVITATION: ================= Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to UBICOMM 2012. The submission deadline is set to May 18, 2012. In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org ================= ============== UBICOMM 2012 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS UBICOMM 2012, The Sixth International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies September 23 - 28, 2012 - Barcelona, Spain General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/UBICOMM12.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPUBICOMM12.html - regular papers - short papers (work in progress) - posters Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmitUBICOMM12.html Submission deadline: May 18, 2012 Proceedings: ISBN: 978-1-61208-236-3 Archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library at http://www.thinkmind.org Printed version can be ordered at http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html All publications will be submitted for major indexing. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a IARIA Journal: http://www.iariajournals.org Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options. The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels. Before submission, please, check and comply with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html UBICOMM 2012 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) Fundamentals Semantics of ubiquity; Ubiquitous knowledge; Knowledge discovery mechanisms; Profiling ubiquitous environments; Ubiquitous technologies for education, learning, and training Mobility Ubiquitous computing; Wearable computing; Mobile computing; Nomadic computing; Mobile commerce; Mobile learning Information Ubiquity Ubiquitous information appliances; Information retrieval and filtering; Context awareness; Control of ubiquitous data; Data management and processing; Data replication, migration and dissemination; Ubiquitous computing and Internet of Things Ubiquitous Multimedia Systems and Processing Multimedia content recognition, indexing and search; Mobile graphics, games and entertainment; Ubiquitous multimedia applications and systems; Streaming mobile multimedia; Mobile media management; Multimedia ubiquitous platforms; Multimedia Indexing and Compression; Image and Signal Processing; Virtual reality in ubiquitous systems Wireless Technologies Bluetooth; 802.11.x; 802.15.x; ZigBee; WiMax Web Services Web 2.0; Semantic web; Web services; Ontology; Web Services evolution; Web Services applications Ubiquitous networks Ubiquitous networks; Network management; Network performance evaluation; Networks and technology convergence; Internet access in ubiquitous systems; Ubiquitous mesh, ad hoc and sensor networks; RFID; Reconfigurability and personalization of ubiquitous networks Ubiquitous devices and operative systems Design of devices for ubiquitous systems; Mobile devices; Wearable devices; Embedded systems; Operative systems for ubiquitous devices; Real-time operating systems and scheduling Ubiquitous mobile services and protocols Frameworks, architectures, and languages for ubiquitous services; Queries, transactions and workflows in mobile and ubiquitous Networks; Algorithms for ubiquitous systems; SLA/QoS in ubiquitous services; Ontology based services; Location-based services; Protocols and interaction mechanisms for ubiquitous services; Mobile services and service convergence; Service discovery mechanisms; Tracking in ubiquitous environments; Measurement, control, and management of ubiquitous services; Design and development of ubiquitous services; Wireless/mobile service delivery Ubiquitous software and security Ambient components; Agent technologies; Software for spontaneous interoperation; Dependability guarantees; Security; Key Management and Authentication; Trust; Privacy; Fault-tolerance; Multimedia Information Security Collaborative ubiquitous systems Cooperative networks for ubiquitous systems; Cooperative applications for ubiquitous networks; Handheld and wearable systems for interaction in collaborative groups and communities; Ad hoc collaboration in ubiquitous computing environments; Awareness of collaboration and of work environment; Inherently mobile collaborative work Users, applications, and business models Mobile user interfaces; Ubiquitous user-generated content (weblogs, wikis, etc.); Mobile and ubiquitous computing support for collaborative learning; User modeling and personalization; Context- and location-aware applications; Toolkits, testbeds, development environments; Tools and techniques for designing, implementing, & evaluating ubiquitous systems; Constructing, deploying and prototyping of ubiquitous applications; Evaluation of user models for ubiquitous environments; On-line analytical techniques; Human-computer interaction in ubiquitous computing environments; Ubiquitous e-Development (business, science, health, etc.); Case Studies; Emerging industrial/business/scientific ubiquitous scenarios; Ambient intelligence; Social issues and implications of ubiquitous system ================================================ Thanks for contributing! UBICOMM Advisory Chairs Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Sathiamoorthy Manoharan, University of Auckland, New Zealand Zary Segal, UMBC, USA Yoshiaki Taniguchi, Osaka University, Japan Ruay-Shiung Chang, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan IARIA Publicity Board -----------------------------------------------------------------------------