5th International IEEE Workshop on Management of Ubiquitous Communications and Services (www.mucs2008.org)

April 11 2008, Salvador, Brazil (In conjunction with IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2008)

Smart space applications, present significant management challenges for successful delivery of highly adaptive services across heterogeneous networks, mobile networks, ad-hoc networks, middleware, applications and devices. Such challenges include: managing user centric services and context services, extreme distribution and scalability, extensive system & network &  semantic heterogeneity, ad hoc formation and disassociation of systems and services, intelligent support for user centric applications.

Since 2003, the MUCS workshop (both independently and aligned with major conferences) has provided a very successful forum for researchers and practitioners to explore the theoretic, technological and organizational challenges, and to present advances in management techniques and technologies, for pervasive computing and smart space applications.

The workshop provides a single-track scientific programme containing a blend of keynote presentations from leaders in research in this area, peer-reviewed papers and a small selection of invited presentations.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

• Submission: January 25th  2008
• Notification of acceptance: February 15th 2008
• Camera ready: Feb 22nd 2008
• Workshop: April 11th 2008

TOPICS

– Context Aware Management and Configuration
– Security, Privacy, and Trust Management in Pervasive Computing/Smart Spaces
– Adaptive technologies and techniques for Services and Management
– Knowledge Representation Techniques and Semantics for Management
– Management and Control of Mobile Ad-hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks
– Distributed Management & Collaborative Governance
– Context Identification, Retrieval, Prediction and Management
– Provisioning and Maintenance of Quality of Service in ubiquitous computing environments
– User Interaction with Management of UbiComp and Pervasive Systems
– Managing Collaborative pervasive computing and smart space applications

Management of Smart Spaces and Applications
– Policy Based Management
– Autonomic Management of Services and Communications
– Communication & Systems Management
– Wireless and Fixed Network Integrated Management
– Adaptive Service and Network Management
– Content Oriented Network & Service Management
– Service and Network Management for Optimised Personalisation
– Knowledge Representation Techniques and Ontologies for Management Services
– Bio-inspired management approach

PAPER SUBMISSION
Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged  to be submitted to IEEE MUCS 2008. Authors are requested to submit either long papers (up to 10 pages) or short papers (work-in-progress reports, up to 4 pages in length), in 10 point following IEEE conference style.

PROCEEDINGS

The proceedings of IEEE MUCS 2008 will be published and is intended to be made available via IEEE Explorer (confirmation pending).

LOCATION

This year’s IEEE MUCS is collocated with the 10th IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2008 in Brazil.