Subject: ** Final ** Call for Papers: MobiCom'99

From: Jason Redi <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 10:21:48 -0500 (EST)

[Our apologies for multiple copies!]

                  Announcement and Call for Papers

                             MobiCom '99
             The Fifth Annual International Conference on
                   Mobile Computing and Networking

                        August  15 - 19,  1999
                       Seattle, Washington, USA

                      Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE

     Technically Co-sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society
   In cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM, SIGOPS, SIGMETRICS, and SIGMOD;
            the USENIX Association; the IEICE; and the IEE

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	       http://mobicom99.research.microsoft.com
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PAPERS:
Technical   papers   describing   previously  unpublished,   original,
completed research, not currently  under review by another conference,
journal, are solicited on the following topics:

   * Applications and computing services supporting mobile users
   * Network architectures, protocols or service algorithms to cope
     with mobility, limited bandwidth, or intermittent connectivity 
   * Database and Data Management Issues in Mobile Computing 
   * Design and analysis of algorithms for mobile environments
   * Security, scalability and reliability for mobile/wireless systems 
   * Performance of mobile/wireless networks and systems
   * Integration and interworking of wired and wireless networks
   * Influence of lower layers on the design and performance of higher
     layers 
   * Mobile network protocols
   * Mobile agents
   * Push and Pull Data Dissemination Systems
   * Power management
   * Wireless multimedia systems
   * Satellite communication
   * Location-dependent applications
   * Distributed system aspects of mobile systems
   * Adaptive applications interfaces for mobile systems
   * Architectures of mobile/wireless networks and systems
   * Traffic integration for mobile applications

All papers will be refereed  by the program committee. Accepted papers
will be published in  the conference proceedings. Papers of particular
merit  will be selected  for publication  in the  ACM/Baltzer journals
Wireless  Networks  (WINET)   and  Mobile  Networks  and  Applications
(MONET).

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NEW!  SPECIAL PAPERS FOR THE MobiCom "NEXT CENTURY CHALLENGES" SESSION
**** 
MobiCom  solicits short  papers  (8 pages  max.)   that challenge  the
mobile  computing   community  with  new   technologies  or  visionary
applications.  Such papers should provide stimulating ideas or visions
that may open up exciting avenues of mobile computing research. Papers
will  be   reviewed  and  should  be  submitted   as  regular  MobiCom
submissions (although they  do not have to be  as technical as regular
submissions).   However,   the  cover  letter   that  accompanies  the
submission should be clearly marked for "MobiCom Challenges". 

HOW TO SUBMIT: 
All paper  submissions will be handled  electronically. Authors should
E-mail    a   PostScript    version   of    their   full    paper   to
[email-masked].  This E-mail address will become operational
by December 15, 1998. In  order to ensure that the PostScript versions
of the  papers can  be printed, authors  should be careful  that their
papers meet the following restrictions: 
       * PostScript version 2 or later.  
       * No longer than 15 pages.  
       * Fits properly on US Letter; size paper (8.5X11 inches) 
       * Reference  only  Computer Modern  or  standard Adobe  printer
         fonts  (i.e.   Courier, Times,  Roman,  or Helvetica);  other
         fonts  may be  used but  must be  included in  the PostScript
         file. 

In addition, authors should  separately E-mail the title, author names
and full address,  and abstract of their paper  to the Program Chairs,
Tomasz  Imielinski  ([email-masked])  and  Martha  Steenstrup
([email-masked]). All submitted papers will be judged based on their
quality through  double-blind reviewing,  where the identities  of the
authors  are withheld  from the  reviewers. Authors  names  should not
appear in the paper or in the PostScript file.

TUTORIALS: 
Proposals for  tutorials are solicited.  Evaluation  of proposals will
be based  on the expertise and  experience of the  instructors, and on
the  relevance  of  the  subject matter.   Potential  instructors  are
requested to submit a tutorial  proposal of at most 5 pages, including
a  biographical  sketch,  to  the Tutorial  Co-Chairs,  Michele  Zorzi
([email-masked]) and  Krishna Sivalingam ([email-masked]) by
January 15, 1999. 

PANELS: 
Panels  are  solicited  that  examine  innovative,  controversial,  or
otherwise provocative  issues of interest. Panel  proposals should not
exceed   3    pages,   including   biographical    sketches   of   the
panelists. Potential panel organizers should contact the Panels Chair,
Roy Want ([email-masked]).

STUDENT PARTICIPATION: 
Papers with  a student as  a primary author  will be considered  for a
cash  award   of  $500   US  Dollars  for   the  best   student  paper
competition.  Student  authors  should  clearly  indicate  with  their
submission that they would like to be considered for this award.

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IMPORTANT DATES: 
  Submissions due:             January 15, 1999
  Notification of acceptance:  April 5, 1999 
  Camera-ready version due:    May 15, 1999
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FOR MORE INFORMATION: 
Please   contact    the   Program   Co-Chairs,    Tomasz   Imielinski,
[email-masked], Tel:  +1 732 445-3546, Fax:  +1 732 445-1003;
and Martha Steenstrup, [email-masked]; Tel: +1 617 873-3912, Fax: +1
617    873-6091;   or    the   Local    Chair,    Randy   Granovetter,
[email-masked], Tel:  +1 425 703-7446,  Fax: + 1  425 936-7329.
This  Call for  Papers, as  well as  other MobiCom'99  information, is
available   on  the   Web  on   the   ACM  SIGMOBILE   Home  Page   at
http://www.acm.org/sigmobile/. 

ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

General Chair
     Harel Kodesh                               
     Vice President, Microsoft Corporation
     One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399
     [email-masked]

General Vice-Chair
     Victor Bahl 
     Microsoft Research
     One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399
     [email-masked]

Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs
     Tomasz Imielinski
     Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science
     Rutgers University
     110 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854
     [email-masked]
    
     Martha Steenstrup
     Principal Scientist, BBN Technologies
     10 Moulton Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
     [email-masked] 
     
Panels Chair
     Roy Want
     Area Manager Embedded Systems, Xerox PARC
     3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304
     [email-masked]

Tutorial Co-Chairs
     Michele Zorzi
     Center for Wireless Communications
     University of California, San Diego
     9500 Gilman Drive 0407
     La Jolla, CA 92093-0407
     [email-masked]

     Krishna Sivalingam
     Asst. Professor, Washington State University
     Pullman, WA 99164-2752
     [email-masked]

Workshops Chair   
     Rahul Tewari
     Director, Network Operations, Teledesic Corporation 
     2300 Carillon Point, Kirkland, WA 98033
     [email-masked]

Local Chair
     Randy Granovetter
     Business Development Manager, Microsoft Corporation
     One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399
     [email-masked]

Registration Chair
     Sampath Rangarajan
     Member of Technical Staff, Lucent Technologies Bell Labs
     600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ 07974.
     [email-masked]

Publicity Co-Chairs
     Jason Redi
     Senior Systems Engineer, BBN Technologies
     10 Moulton St., Cambridge, MA, 02138 
     [email-masked]

     Jorge Cobb
     Assistant Professor
     Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science 
     The University of Texas at Dallas 
     M/S EC 31, P.O. Box 830688, Richardson, TX  75083-0688
     [email-masked] 

Steering Committee Chair
     Imrich Chlamtac
     Distinguished Chair Professor of Telecommunications
     The University of Texas at Dallas
     P.O. Box 830688, Richardson, TX  75083-0688
     [email-masked] 

Treasurer
     Aaron Woodman 
     Product Manager, Windows CE, Microsoft Corporation
     One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399
     [email-masked]

Technical Program Committee
  Arup Acharya                  NEC
  B.R. Badrinath                Rutgers University
  Rajive Bagrodia               University of California, Los Angeles   
  Victor Bahl                   Microsoft Research
  Mary Baker                    Stanford University
  Hari Balakrishnan             Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Daniel Barbara                George Mason University
  Amotz Bar-Noy                 Tel Aviv University
  Ramon Caceres                 AT&T Research
  Tracy Camp                    Colorado School of Mines
  Andrew Campbell               Columbia University
  M. Scott Corson               University of Maryland
  Nigel Davies                  Lancaster University
  Maurizio Decina               Politecnico di Milano/CEFRIEL
  Mike Franklin                 University of Maryland
  James Freebersyser            Office of Naval Research
  J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves       University of California, Santa Cruz 
  Pierre Humblet                Eurecom Institute
  Ravi Jain                     Bellcore
  Dave Johnson                  Carnegie Mellon University
  Anthony Joseph                University of California, Berkeley 
  Anupam Joshi                  University of Maryland
  Arvind Krishna                IBM
  Jay Kistler                   FORE Systems
  Hank Korth                    Lucent Technologies
  Thomas LaPorta                Lucent Technologies
  Murray Mazer                  Curl Corporation
  Charles Perkins               Sun Microsystems
  Ram Ramanathan                BBN Technologies
  Ramesh Rao                    University of California, San Diego     
  Srinivasan Seshan             IBM
  Mani Srivastava               University of California, Los Angeles
  C-K. Toh                      Georgia Institute of Technology
  Malathi Veeraraghavan         Lucent Technologies
  Kimberly Wasserman            University of Michigan
  Magda El Zarki                University of Pennsylvania