From - Mon Dec 10 12:16:46 2001 Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:38:18 +0100 From: Pervasive 2002 (by way of Werner Purgathofer ) Subject: CFP: Int. Conf. on Pervasive Computing (PERVASIVE 2002) Call for Papers International Conference on Pervasive Computing PERVASIVE 2002 August 26-28, 2002 ETH Zurich (Switzerland) Organized by IBM Research and ETH Zurich www.pervasive2002.org Relentless progress in basic Information Technologies (IT) - microprocessors, memory chips, integrated sensors, storage devices, and wireless communication systems - continues to bring ever smaller, lighter, and faster systems-on-a-chip. As a result, beyond large hosts, PCs, and laptop computers, IT systems are now invading every aspect of life to the point that they are disappearing inside all sorts of appliances or can be worn unobtrusively as part of clothing and jewelry. This explosive spread of IT can be compared to the spread of electric motors over the past century but promises to revolutionize life much more profoundly than elevators or electric car windows ever did. At the same time, pervasive computing poses profound challenges including technical, safety, social, legal, political, and economic issues. The objective of this conference will be to present, discuss, and explore latest technical developments in the emerging field of pervasive computing as well as potential future directions and issues. Leaving aside low-level hardware and transmission technology topics as well as peripheral socio-economic aspects, the conference will focus on technical infrastructure and application issues. It will include presentations, panel discussions, poster sessions, and demos on subjects like: - System architectures and platforms for pervasive computing - Middleware and pervasive computing infrastructures - Mobile, wireless, and wearable technologies - Innovative small computing and intelligent devices - Emerging applications and mobile business issues - Scenarios for information appliances - Service discovery protocols - Content distribution and delivery - User interfaces for invisible and embedded computing - Context awareness - Security and privacy issues Proceedings (containing the full papers) will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series. Advice for authors and instructions for submitting a paper, poster or demo may be found at http://www.pervasive2002.org/submit.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: February 22, 2002 Paper submissions and demo proposals due April 23, 2002 Notifications to authors June 7, 2002 Camera-ready full papers due June 19, 2002 Poster and short paper submissions due ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chair Mahmoud Naghshineh, IBM Research Program Chair Friedemann Mattern, ETH Zurich Program Committee Emile Aarts, Philips Research Laboratories Arndt Bode, TU Munich Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington and Intel Seattle Research Lab Dave DeRoure, University of Southampton Oliver Haase, Bell Labs Research Stefan Hild, IBM Research Dirk Husemann, IBM Research Pertti Huuskonen, Nokia Alan Jones, AT&T Laboratories Cambridge Kazuhiko Kato, Tsukuba University Tim Kindberg, HP Laboratories Kazushi Kuse, IBM Research Gerald Maguire, KTH Stockholm Joachim Posegga, SAP Corporate Research Apratim Purakayastha, IBM Research Jun Rekimoto, Sony Kurt Rothermel, University of Stuttgart Larry Rudolph, MIT Bernt Schiele, ETH Zurich Bill Schilit, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Roy Want, Intel Research Tutorial Co-chairs Bernt Schiele, ETH Zurich Marisa Viveros, IBM Research -- For more information see http://www.pervasive2002.org