COPE 2009 - The First International Workshop on Cooperation in Pervasive Environments(CoPE 2009)

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Category COPE 2009

Deadline: November 10, 2008 | Date: March 09, 2009

Venue/Country: Texas, U.S.A

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

http://www.cse.nd.edu/~darts/cope.html

in conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2009 (http://www.percom.org)

The continuous emergence of powerful personal handheld devices and

smart phones are redefining the pervasive computing paradigms of the

past. The questions this workshop aims to discuss are:

* How does the ubiquity of personal communication devices enable and

support cooperative activities?

* What are the technical challenges that must be overcome to achieve

seamless cooperation?

* What are the challenges in discovering and disseminating content

given energy and form factor constraints of mobile devices?

The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers from

both academia and industry to foster a discussion on key research

challenges in content sharing and dissemination, cooperative

activities, mobile search, and security and privacy issues in

pervasive environments. Additionally, the workshop forum will provide

an opportunity to explore new business models and act as a soundboard

for discussing bold new ideas in the area. While the main purpose is

to promote discussions in the design of cooperation and sharing

architectures, protocols, algorithms, middleware, services, and

applications for wireless systems, it also aims at increasing the

synergy between academic and industry professionals working in this

area. We therefore seek papers that address theoretical, experimental,

and work in-progress at all layers of pervasive environments, with the

focus on realistic application scenarios. The workshop aims to address

cooperation from both an application as well as a system design

standpoint. From the application perspective, the workshop encourages

submissions of studies of prototypes or real-world systems, including

demonstrations of these systems. Cooperation in such applications can

take many forms, including multimedia communications, interaction with

embedded sensing devices, etc. From the system point of view, the

workshop will solicit submissions that discuss architectures for

cooperative systems, resource management techniques, security

mechanisms, and other middleware or systems approaches for realistic

pervasive environments. We will also encourage submissions on "brave

new topics" that present futuristic ideas that have never previously

been explored. Topics covered by the workshop will include, but are

not limited to, the following:

* Application design, case studies, prototypes, real-world-systems

* Middleware technologies to support cooperation

* Content sharing and dissemination in mobile environments

* Context- and location-awareness

* Efficient search for and dissemination of information

* QoS, scalability, and energy efficiency in realistic pervasive systems

* Security/privacy aspects of mobile cooperation

* Payment and bartering techniques

* Multi-radio and multi-channel devices

* Network protocols for cooperative computing

* Opportunistic sensing, networking, and cooperation

* Mobile search and content discovery

Submission Instructions:

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original

unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to

the workshop. Submissions should include an abstract, key words, and

email address of the corresponding author. The length of the papers

should be limited to 6 pages in standard IEEE camera-ready format

(double-column, 10-pt font). Submission of a paper should be regarded

as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of

the authors will register and attend the workshop to present the work.

Workshop Organizers:

Shivajit Mohapatra (Motorola Labs)

Christian Poellabauer (University of Notre Dame)

Aaron Striegel (University of Notre Dame)

Important Dates:

November 10, 2008: Paper due

December 19, 2008: Acceptance notification

January 7, 2009: Final camera ready paper due