[Dbworld] CFP for PALMS 2008 (with MDM 2008)

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                      The 2nd International Workshop on 
          Privacy-Aware Location-based Mobile Services (PALMS) 
         In conjunction with the 9th International Conference on 
                     Mobile Data Mangement (MDM'08)
                     April 27 2008, Beijing, China
               http://luckystar.csie.nctu.edu.tw/palms08/

                      ***** CALL FOR PAPERS *****


Theme of the Workshop
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Combining the functionality of location-aware devices, wireless and 
cellular phone technologies, and data management results in enabling 
a new era of location-based mobile services that aim to provide personalized 
services to their customers based on their current locations. Examples of 
such services include location-aware emergency service, location-based 
advertisement, live traffic reports, and location-based store finder. 
Although location-based services promise safety and convenience, they 
threaten the privacy and security for their customers as they rely mainly
on the knowledge of their customers' location information. The current 
model of location-based services trades the customers' privacy with the 
service. If a user wants to keep her private location information, she 
has to turn off her location-aware device and temporarily unsubscribe 
from the service. Recent social studies show that customers become more 
privacy-aware as they tend to avoid using location-based services in order 
to keep their privay. As a result, there is a real concern that the privacy 
issues may hinder the technological advances in location-based services.

Workshop Goals
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Location privacy is a cross cutting area as it crosses social science, 
communications, location-based services, databases, and security. 
The main goal of the workshop is to gather scientists from these areas 
together to foster the collaboration among such interdisciplinary areas 
and sparkle discussion on open topics related to location privacy.

The workshop aims aim to address the location privacy from different 
aspects, starting from social studies of users concerns, going through 
different models of representing location privacy, location anonymization 
techniques, imprecise locations, query processing for private or imprecise 
location data, and ending with a study of various attack models for 
private location data. The workshop aims also to discuss location privacy 
in various environments that include using GPS, RFID, or sensor networks. 
The workshop will be organized in a way to allow close interaction among 
participants and to sparkle discussions and thoughts among various research 
communities.

Workshop Scope
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The scope of this workshop includes but is not limited to the following topics: 

- Context-aware privacy
- Location data publish models
- Location-based Services with location privacy
- Imprecision in Mobile Computing
- Legislative approaches for protecting location privacy
- Location Anonymity Techniques
- Non-intrusive location tracking
- Models for simultaneous provision of security and privacy
- Privacy attack models
- Privacy in sensor networks
- Query Processing for private location data
- Social studies for location privacy
- User perceptive to location privacy

Paper Submissions
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All submissions must be original unpublished work written in English that is 
currently not under review at another venue. Papers submitted must be no longer than "8" pages
in IEEE conference style format. Papers must be submitted to
palms08@... by
e-mails. Submissions of novel ideas andpositions that can spark discussion among the 
attendees are strongly encouraged.

Important Dates (Tentative)
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Submission deadline: February 10, 2008
Notifications: March 25, 2008
Workshop date: April 27, 2008

Co-Organizers
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Wei-Shinn Ku, Auburn University, USA
Mohamed F. Mokbel, U. of Minnesota, USA
Wen-Chih Peng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Programme Committee Members
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Louise Barkhuus, University of Glasgow, UK
Alastair Beresford, University of Cambridge, UK
Claudio Bettini, University of Milan, Italy
Matt Duckham, University of Melbourne, Australia
Fosca Giannotti, IST Institute of the CNR, Italy 
Marco Gruteser, Rutgers University, USA
Urs Hengartner, University of Waterloo, Canada
Shin'ichi Konomi, University of Tokyo, Japan
John Krumm, Microsoft
Jiun-Long Huang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia
Vashek Matyas, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University of China, China
Yucel Saygin, Sabanci University, Turkey 
Cyrus Shahabi, University of Southern California, USA
Xueyan Tang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University, USA 
Vassilios Verykios, University of Thessaly, Greece
Man Lung Yiu, Aalborg University, Denmark
Jaap Zevenbergen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Roger Zimmermann, National U. of Singapore, Singapore
Jianliang Xu,  Hong Kong Baptist University, China
Ada Waichee Fu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Louise Barkhuus, University of California, San Diego, USA
Reynold C.K. Cheng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
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