CFP: IEEE Workshop on Mobile Distributed Computing (MDC 2006)

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4th IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Distributed Computing (MDC 2006)

http://www.ing.unipi.it/mdc06/

June 26, 2006
Niagara Falls/Buffalo, NY, USA

In conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2006 (http://ieee-wowmom.cse.buffalo.edu/)
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      *******      SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 6, 2006       *******

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CALL FOR PAPERS

With the advance in mobile wireless communication technology, research 
in distributed computing is beginning to extend its scope to address 
problems relevant to mobile environments. Mobile distributed computing 
has emerged as a discipline of distributed systems research and practice 
toward support for mobility. It is concerned with creating solutions 
using mobile communication networks and mobile computing devices to 
enable the sharing of distributed resources/services and to facilitate 
remote collaborations while people work away from the fixed, wired 
facilities.

MDC 2006 is the fourth in series. Following the success of the first 
three editions -- MDC 2003 in Rhode Island, USA, MDC 2004 in Tokyo, 
Japan, and MDC 2005 in Columbus, USA -- MDC 2006 provides a forum for 
scientists and engineers in academia and industry to exchange and 
discuss their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all 
aspects of mobile distributed computing.

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

  - Architectures and systems for mobile distributed computing
  - Distributed applications in mobile environments
  - Distributed algorithms for mobile computing
  - Synchronization and coordination in mobile environments
  - Networking protocols for distributed mobile computing
  - Cooperating mobile agents
  - Environments, middleware and tools for mobile distributed computing
  - Operating system support for mobile distributed computing
  - Fault tolerance and security in mobile distributed environments
  - Real-time issues in mobile distributed computing
  - Context-aware services and applications
  - Sensor networks and RFIDs for mobile distributed computing
  - Mobile cluster computing
  - Mobile Peer-to-Peer computing
  - Resource/service sharing and management in mobile environments
  - Mobile distributed transactions
  - Modelling and performance evaluation of mobile distributed systems

PAPER SUBMISSION

MDC 2006 invites authors to submit original and unpublished works. 
Papers must be written in English and should not exceed 6 pages in IEEE 
proceedings style.  Authors should submit a PostScript (level 2) or PDF 
file that will print on a PostScript printer by e-mail to 
mdc06 <at> ing.unipi.it. Submission implies the willingness of at least one 
of the authors to register and present the paper. Accepted papers will 
be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press in the combined IEEE 
WoWMoM 2006 Workshops proceedings. Distinguished papers will be 
considered for publication in a high quality journal.

IMPORTANT DATES

Papers due ------------------------ Jan.  6, 2006
Notification of acceptance -------- Feb. 22, 2006
Camera-ready papers due ----------- Mar. 17, 2006

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Co-chairs
   Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK
   Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Program Chair
   Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy

Vice Program Chair
   Andrea Passarella, University of Cambridge, UK

Publicity Co-chairs
   Hui Cheng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK
   Mario Di Francesco, University of Pisa, Italy
   Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Jean Bacon, University of Cambridge, UK
Alberto Bartoli, University of Trieste, Italy
Christian Becker, Technical University Stuttgart, Germany
Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy
Cristian Borcea, NJ Institute of Technology, USA
Guohong Cao, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Dipanjan Chakraborty, IBM India Research, India
Keith Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK
Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK
Franca Delmastro, National Research Council, Italy
Kent Fuchs, Cornell University, USA
Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University, USA
Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Jadwiga Indulska, The University of Queensland Brisbane, AU
Weijia Jia, City University of Hong Kong, HK
Vana Kalogeraki, University of California at Riverside, USA
Mohan Kumar, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Jie Li, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Jian Lu, Nanjing University, China
Koji Nakano, Hiroshima University, Japan
Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA
Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece
Ravi Prakash, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy
Mukesh Singhal, University of Kentucky, USA
Bala Srinivasan, Monash University, Australia
Anand Tripathi, University of Minnesota, USA
Xingwei Wang, Northeastern University, China
Zhijun Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University HK,
Cheng-Zhong Xu, Wayne State University, USA
Jian-liang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK
Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Jingyuan Zhang, University of Alabama, USA
Jun Zhang, Sun Yat-Sen University of China
Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA