Subject: [mobile-ip] ACM MobiCom 2002 - Preliminary CFP

From: "Marwan M. Krunz" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 13:52:33 -0700

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               Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers 

                     *** ACM MobiCom 2002 *** 
The Eighth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking 
        
       September 23-26, 2002, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
                        
            http://www.acm.org/sigmobile/mobicom/2002/ 
            http://mobicom2002.comet.columbia.edu/

               Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE 

          Submission Deadline: March 1, 2002 

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MobiCom 2002 is the eighth annual conference dedicated to addressing new challenges in mobile computing and networking. MobiCom 2002 solicits papers describing significant research contributions to the field of mobile computing and networking. 

PAPERS: 
Authors are invited to submit full papers related to the theory and practice of mobile computing and networking. Original research papers (that are not currently under review by another conference or journal) are solicited. Areas of interest include, but not limited to: 
 
*  Applications and computing services supporting mobile users 
*  Architectures, protocols, and algorithms to cope with mobility, limited bandwidth, or intermittent
    connectivity 
*  Database and data management issues in mobile computing 
*  Performance of mobile/wireless networks and systems 
*  Security and privacy of mobile/wireless systems 
*  Interaction between different layers of mobile/wireless systems 
*  Integration and interworking of wired and wireless networks 
*  Adaptive applications and systems for mobile environments 
*  Distributed-system aspects of mobile systems 
*  Operating system support for mobility 
*  Location-dependent applications 
*  Wireless multimedia systems 
*  Power management 
*  Mobile agents 
*  Pervasive computing 
*  Wireless sensor networks 
*  Wireless/mobile service management and delivery 

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

CHALLENGES SESSION: 
Short papers (maximum of 8 pages) that challenge the mobile computing community with new technologies or visionary applications are solicited. 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 using the normal submission procedure. Submitted papers should be clearly identified as intended for the Challenges Session.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
All submissions will be handled electronically. The submission formats are limited to PostScript (PS) and PDF. Submitted papers must not exceed 12 double-column pages, using a font size that is no smaller than 10 points.

Further details of the submission instructions can be found at
http://mobicom2002.comet.columbia.edu/submissions

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 must not appear in the paper or in the Postscript or PDF file. Please direct any questions about the submission process to the Program Co-chairs at [email-masked]. 

TUTORIALS: 
Proposals for tutorials are solicited, and will be evaluated based on the expertise of the instructors and the relevance of the subject matter. Potential instructors should submit a tutorial proposal of at most five pages, including a biographical sketch, to the Tutorial Co-chairs ([email-masked] or
[email-masked]).

PANELS: 
Proposals are solicited for panels 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 Panel Co-chairs ([email-masked] or [email-masked]).

RESEARCH DEMOS:
Proposals for research demos are solicited. Proposals should not exceed 3 pages and should include a description of the demo and equipment that will be used. Proposals for demos should be sent to the Research Demo Chair ([email-masked]).

BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD: 
Papers with a student as the primary author will be considered for the Best Student Paper Award with a cash award of $1,000 USD. Students must indicate with their submissions that they would like to be considered for this award.

IMPORTANT DATES: 
*  Paper submissions due: March 1, 2002 
*  Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2002 
*  Camera-ready version due: July 31, 2002 

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Check the conference website or send  email to [email-masked]

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: 
* General Chair: Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology

* General Vice-Chairs:
   - Jason Y. B. Lin, National Chiao Tung University
   - Ravi Jain, Telcordia

* Program Co-Chairs:
   - Vaduvur Bharghavan, Bytemobile 
   - Andrew T. Cambell, Columbia University

* Panels Co-Chairs:
   - Ness Shroff, Purdue University
   - Marie-Jose Montpetit, Nokia

* Tutorials Co-Chairs:
   - Catherine Rosenberg, Purdue University 
   - Nitin Vaidya, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

* Publicity Co-Chairs:
   - Chuanyi Ji, Georgia Institute of Technology
   - Marwan M. Krunz, University of Arizona

* Workshop Co-Chairs:
   - Taieb Znati, NSF and University of Pittsburgh
   - Mehmet Ulema, Monmouth Internet Corporation
 
* Research Demos Chair: Ron Hutchins, Georgia Institute of Technology

* Finance Chair: Edward Knightly, Rice University

* Registration Chair: Suresh Singh, Portland State University

* Sponsorship/Exhibit Chair: Ramesh Govindan, Univ. of Southern California

* Local Arrangements Chair: Raghupathy Sivakumar: Georgia Institute of Technology

* Steering Committee Chair: Imrich Chlamtac, University of Texas at Dallas