Subject: [P2Prg] Extended deadline: Jan 15, 2006 for IEEE Communications Magazine Special Issue on Mobile Service Platforms

From: "Kellerer, Wolfgang" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 15:32:56 +0100

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Extended deadline for manuscript submission: January 15, 2006 !!!!!

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IEEE Communications Magazine

Advances in Service Platform Technologies for Next Generation Mobile Systems

Call for Papers

http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/cfpcommag906.htm 

Background
Mobile communications has evolved to an integral component in our everyday life providing a growing variety of services. Traditional cellular technologies have been enhanced by Internet technologies in order to repeat the enormous success of the Internet also for mobile environments. In addition, the trend of ubiquitous computing introduces large-scale interaction with the environment based on sensors and actuators. Industry is pushing new standards that allow high data rate mobile multimedia applications as well as seamless communication across heterogeneous access and networking technologies. In such a diverse world, the success of the next generation mobile communication systems will depend on services and applications that will be provided. Future service platforms are expected to integrate those different paradigms providing open interfaces to service and application providers taking new software technologies into account. New paradigms are emerging that need to be supported. For example, the customer acceptance is considered to be widely increased by tailoring services and applications to actual user needs, their preferences and the context a user is in. Another example is peer-to-peer services, where (mobile) users directly interact with each other without central control. A well engineered next generation service platform should provide all means to allow innovative services to be created, deployed, and managed addressing customer and provider needs. For example, third party interfaces will allow chaining of expertise in service provisioning. In addition, semantic technologies may help to structure contextual knowledge about the userís environment.

Scope of Contributions
The papers of this feature topic will focus on advanced concepts for next generation mobile service platforms. We solicit papers covering a variety of topics that include, but are not limited to the following aspects:

- Open service architectures (open interfaces, transition of OSA/Parlay/IMS towards B3G/4G) 

- Advanced IP-based service signaling architectures and protocols (including session mobility) 

- Concepts and realization of emerging features for B3G/4G mobile service platforms (context awareness, personalization, agents, service adaptation) 

- Decentralized, self-organized service platforms (e.g., peer-to-peer systems)

- Ubiquitous service platforms (smart cards, sensor networks) and their integration with mobile systems service platforms (service gateways) 

- Service discovery and service composition, including the application of semantic information 

Papers should be of tutorial in nature and authors must follow the IEEE Communications Magazine guidelines for preparation of the manuscript. For further detail please refer to 'Information for Authors' on the IEEE Communications Magazine web site at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html. 

Manuscripts should be submitted through Manuscript Central at http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/ by December 31, 2005. Please select 'September 2006/Advances in Service Platform Technologies for Next Generation Mobile Systems' in the drop down menu.

Schedule of Submissions

Manuscript submission:                      January 15, 2006  --- EXTENDED DEADLINE!

Notification of acceptance:                 April 1, 2006

Final manuscripts due:                      June 15, 2006

Publication date:                           September 2006

Guest Editors

Wolfgang Kellerer                                         
DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe
Landsberger Str. 312                                     
80687 Munich, Germany                                                      
Tel: +49-89-56824-222                                 
Email: [email-masked]

Stefan Arbanowski
Fraunhofer FOKUS
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31
10589 Berlin, Germany
Tel.: +49-30-3463-8197
Email: [email-masked]

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Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Kellerer
Manager
Ubiquitous Services Platforms
Future Networking Lab
 
DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH Landsberger Str. 312
80687 Munich, Germany
 
Tel. +49-89-56824-222
Fax. +49-89-56824-300
E-mail: [email-masked]
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