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Hi all,
I would like to bring your attention to the call for demos and posters as well as the call for papers for workshops of MobiQuitous 2014. You can find more detail call bellow or on the respective webpages.

Please note the following deadlines

Demo and Posters
August 15, 2014:
Demos: http://mobiquitous.org/2014/show/wip-papers
Posters: http://mobiquitous.org/2014/show/cf-panels

Workshops
September 2nd, 2014
WEWFMN: http://mobiquitous.org/2014/show/wewfmn-workshop
CSSWearable: https://sites.google.com/site/csswearable/home

September 19, 2014:
IoT Ecosystems: http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~gr/iot-ecosystems/


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Call for Demos
Scope
The Mobiquitous 2014 Demos Track allows researchers and practitioners to demonstrate new systems in a dedicated session, and possibly during reception hours, in a more informal setting. Demo submissions must be based on an implemented and tested system that pursues one or more innovative ideas in the interest areas of the conference. Software and hardware demos will be considered, as long as they show innovative use of ubiquitous and pervasive technologies.
Each demo submission must make clear which aspects of the system will be demonstrated and how. Demo submissions should strive to state the significance of the contribution to the area of pervasive ubiquitous systems and applications. Demos will be peer-reviewed by members of the Mobiquitous 2014 TPC, selected by the Demos Track Chairs, who will judge the originality, significance, quality, and clarity of each submission.
At least one author of each accepted demo paper must register for and attend the conference to demonstrate the system during the demo sessions. Each accepted demo paper will be allocated three pages in the conference proceedings.
Participation in the Demos Track requires:
A 3-page proposal (for formatting instructions, please see below) describing the problem context, a typical usage scenario, existing tools and their shortcomings, the concepts behind the proposed prototype, a short discussion of the technologies used for implementation, a summary of experiments or other experiences with the prototype.
A small Website (with the URL referenced in the submitted paper) containing the URL of a demo screencast as well as additional material about the prototype illustrated in the demo (e.g. code download, slides, or videos).
Topics
Similar to the main MobiQuitous 2014 conference, the Demos Track aims to be a forum for practitioners and researchers from diverse backgrounds to interact and exchange experiences about the design and implementation of mobile and ubiquitous systems. Areas addressed by the conference include systems, applications, social networks, middleware, networking, data management and services, all with special focus on mobility and ubiquitous computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Wireless Access Technologies
Networked Sensing, and Applications
Mobile Device Architectures
Mobile Systems and Applications
Mobile Data Management and Analytics
Mobile Multimedia
Mobile User Interfaces and Interaction Technologies
Mobile User Experience
Toolkit, and Languages for Mobile Computing
Energy Aware Mobile Computing
Mobile Cloud Computing
Semantic Web Technologies
Localization and Tracking
Internet of Things – Systems, Data Analytics, and Applications
Crowdsourcing: - Platforms and Applications
Participatory Sensing
Social Network Applications to Mobile Computing
Context and Location Aware Applications and Services
Wearable Computing
Body Area Networks
Security and Privacy
Submission Instructions and Publication
The international Mobiquitous 2014 TPC will rigorously review all papers submitted to this Demos Track and the ACM Digital Library will publish the accepted ones. Submitted papers for review must not exceed 3 pages and should be in PDF, formatted in the ACM Double Column format. Detailed format and submission instructions, including style templates for MS Word and LaTeX are available at the Mobiquitous 2014 Website.
Important Dates
·         Demo Papers Submission Deadline:    August 15, 2014
·         Acceptance Notification:                     September 26, 2014
·         Camera-Ready Version:                      October 24, 2014
 
Demos Track Co-Chairs
For any additional information or clarification, please feel free to contact:
Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy, [log in to unmask]
Khaled Harras, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, [log in to unmask]




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Call for Posters
Scope
The Mobiquitous 2014 Poster Track showcases work in progress research in a more informal setting.  Similar to the main MobiQuitous 2014 conference, the Posters Track aims to be a forum for practitioners and researchers from diverse backgrounds to interact and exchange preliminary results about the design and implementation of mobile and ubiquitous systems. Areas addressed by the conference include systems, applications, social networks, middleware, networking, data management and services, all with special focus on mobility and ubiquitous computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Wireless Access Technologies
Networked Sensing, and Applications
Mobile Device Architectures
Mobile Systems and Applications
Mobile Data Management and Analytics
Mobile Multimedia
Mobile User Interfaces and Interaction Technologies
Mobile User Experience
Toolkit, and Languages for Mobile Computing
Energy Aware Mobile Computing
Mobile Cloud Computing
Semantic Web Technologies
Localization and Tracking
Internet of Things – Systems, Data Analytics, and Applications
Crowdsourcing: - Platforms and Applications
Participatory Sensing
Social Network Applications to Mobile Computing
Context and Location Aware Applications and Services
Wearable Computing
Body Area Networks
Security and Privacy
Papers should be submitted through EasyChair in a PDF format. All papers must be submitted using the EasyChair submission system. Please follow this link to enter your submission.
The Mobiquitous 2014 Poster TPC will rigorously review all papers submitted to this poster Track. . Each accepted poster paper will be allocated two pages in the ACM Digital Library conference proceedings. Submitted papers for review must not exceed 2 pages and should be in PDF, formatted in the ACM Double Column format. Detailed format and submission instructions, including style templates for MS Word and LaTeX are available at the Mobiquitous 2014 Website. At least one author of each accepted poster paper must register for and attend the poster session.
Important Dates
Poster Papers Submission Deadline:    August 15, 2014
Acceptance Notification:                     September 26, 2014
Camera-Ready Version:                      October 24, 2014
Poster Track Co-Chairs
Arjuna Sathiaseelan, University of Cambridge, UK, [log in to unmask]
Nishanth Sastry, King’s College London, UK, [log in to unmask]
Souvik Sen, HP, USA, [log in to unmask]
 
Poster TPC
Dirk Trossen, InterDigital
Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge
Panagiotis Papadimtriou, University of Hannover
Narseo Vallina Rodriguez, ICSI
Ioannis Psaras UCL
Ioannis Komnios, DUTH
Milena Radenkovic, University of Nottingham
Zhefu Shi, Microsoft



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CFP: The 2nd Workshop on Emerging Wireless Technologies for FutureMobile Networks (WEWFMN 2014)
Download the PDF version of the Call for Papers here
Scope
 To alleviate the capacity crunch in mobile networks, emerging wireless technologies aimed to improve spectrum efficiency; network efficiency and energy efficiency are being actively studied and developed in both wireless academia and industry. To succeed, effort is envisioned to come from multiple dimensions including 1) spectrum efficiency enhancement, 2) small cell deployment and 3) novel network architectures. First, advanced multiple antenna technology such as massive multiple-input-multiple output (MIMO), virtual MIMO, full-dimensional MIMO and 3-D beamforming are promising techniques to enhance per-user spectrum efficiency and system capacity. Second, by deploying dense small cells within the local-area range and bringing the network closer to end-users, small cell and heterogeneous networks (HetNets) can potentially improve spectrum resource reuse, spatial resource reuse and communication coverage, thus allowing future mobile networks to achieve higher data rates, while retaining the seamless connectivity and mobility of current mobile network deployments. In addition, from network side, new and novel network architectures such as soft-defined network, cloud-RAN (radio access network), cognitive radio networks and a combination of cloud computing and mobile networks as well as the enabling technologies can further improve network efficiency and enable rich user experience. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researches which focus on emerging wireless technologies that improve spectrum efficiency, energy efficiency and network efficiency for future mobile networks.
Topics
We are seeking papers that present original and unpublished contributions addressing various emerging wireless technologies for future mobile networks. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
 
• Massive MIMO, virtual MIMO, 3-D MIMO/beamforming technologies
• Self-organization, -configuration and -optimization for small cell networks
• Load-balance and traffic offloading schemes in small cell and HetNets
• Handover and mobility study in small cell and HetNets
• Virtualization in wireless networks
• Spectrum sharing and network efficiency for cognitive radio networks
• Spectrum efficiency, network efficiency and energy efficiency in cloud-RAN
• Resource allocation for device-to-device communication in HetNets
• Modeling, analysis and coordination for coexisting multiple radio technologies
• Mobile Cloud Computing
• Wireless sensor networks and Internet of Things (IoT)
 
Publications 
The international technical program committee will rigorously review all submitted papers and ACM Digital Library will publish the accepted papers.  Submitted papers for review must not exceed 10 pages and should be in PDF and formatted in the ACM Double Column format. Detailed format and submission instructions including style templates for MS Word and LaTex are (Word, Latex). 
Important dates
Submission Deadline:            September 2, 2014
Notification of acceptance:     October 3, 2014
Camera-ready paper due:      October 24, 2014 
Workshop date:                      December 2, 2014 
Paper Submission  
Papers should be submitted through EasyChair in a PDF format. All papers must be submitted using the EasyChair submission system. Please follow  this link  to enter your submission.
If you don't have an EasyChair account, that link will allow you to create one. Please register your paper by the abstract submission deadline. You can continue to update your paper until the paper submission deadline.
Workshop Organizer 
Dr. Meilong Jiang, InterDigital Communications, USA ([log in to unmask] ) 
Dr. Huiling Zhu, University of Kent, UK ([log in to unmask]) 
Dr. Xianghui Cao, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA ([log in to unmask] )  


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Welcome to the First Workshop on Cloud and Server Support for Wearable Computing 
co-located with the 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems(MobiQuitous'14), 

Call for Papers

We cordially invite you to submit a paper to the 1st Workshop on Cloud and Server Support for Wearable Computing at MobiQuitous 2014.  The workshop will be held at the 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Service (MobiQuitous 2014), in London, Great Britain.

Recent years have seen the dramatic increase in both the popularity and the capabilities of wearable computers. These devices provide unprecedented ability to track, measure, monitor, and interact with our environment and other devices and individuals. These abilities are augmented with backend cloud- and server-based analysis to gain insight, detect trends, spur interaction, as well as identify and correct problems and keep the devices operational. The rate, specificity, and timeliness of data collection combined with the ongoing personal interaction with the systems make the data problem qualitatively different than the existing big data challenges. Remotely updating, monitoring and maintaining these devices are also significant challenges for large scale operation.

The purpose of this workshop it to bring together practitioners, researcher, vendors, and scholars from the complementary fields of cloud infrastructure, data analytics, and wearable computers, in order to promote an exchange of ideas, develop common benchmarks and methodologies, discuss further collaborations and develop new research directions related to the back-end support for wearable computers.

We seek submissions that cover various aspects of cloud and server support for wearable computing.  In addition to submissions that deal with performance and programmability challenges, theoretical analysis, algorithms, and practical experience in cloud- and server-side for wearable computing, we also specifically encourage submissions that demonstrate or result from the collaboration between cloud and wearable computer practitioners, scholars, researchers, or vendors.  Topics of interest to this workshop include, but are not restricted to:

Cognitive computing supporting and servicing wearable computers
Use of cloud systems in wearable data analytics
Cloud infrastructure for high performance and high productivity
Wearable data analytics algorithms and applications
Collective data sharing for wearable computers
Data compression and storage for wearable computers
Fog and cloudlet platforms for wearable computing
Remote monitoring and maintenance of wearable computers
Submitted papers must be no more than 8 pages in length. Authors are required to use the ACM Double Column format for their papers (Word, Latex). Each submission will be reviewed by the organizing committee and authors of accepted submissions will have 30 minutes to present their work at the workshop. Accepted papers will be included in the adjunct proceedings of the conference.
Submission Guidelines

Please submit your paper (pdf) using the easychair website

Important dates
Deadline for paper submissions: 11:59pm AOE September 2nd, 2014;
Notification of acceptance: October 3rd, 2014;
Camera-ready version of accepted papers due: October 17th, 2014;
Workshop: December 2nd or 5th, 2014.

Organizing Committee
David Daly (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Jessica Tseng (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Josι Moreira (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
David Edelsohn (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

Program Committee Chair
Kaoutar El Maghraoui (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)



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CFP: Workshop on Internet of Things Ecosystems:
Computing, Networking and Services
Download the PDF version of the Call for Papers here
Scope
The vision for an Internet of Things calls for an open, inclusive and standards-based environment that fosters innovation. Reference to the Internet in this context relates to its transformational effect over closed proprietary systems, and its ability to enable a creative commons of innovation. Yet, the reality of the IoT today is one of fragmentation, characterised by information silos that are seeking to protect competitive advantage: Makers of innovative IoT products and services favour defensive strategies aiming to safeguard their investments; and, traditional automatic identification and data capture technology providers are accustomed to closed systems and wishing to perpetuate familiar business practices.
Closed system strategies offer short term advantage as they locks out potential competitors. Yet, in the longer term they are inefficient for the market as a whole by placing barriers to the development of IoT ecosystems.
There are two main reasons for this: Firstly, vertical integration increases complexity and thus decreases the quality of the end user experience of the IoT, which is determined ``by how products work together, in concert, with the rest of the ecosystem, not just by [...] any product on its own, no matter how good that individual experience will be'' as explained by Buxton. Second, vertical integration hinders the activation of network effects ---the value of a product or service increases with the number of people participating in it--- a critical factor for success perhaps best highlighted by the success of the Internet.
The purpose of this workshop it to bring together researchers from academia and industry, practitioners, IoT vendors, and application-domain stakeholders to discuss the costs and benefits of emerging IoT ecosystems and the move from a vertical to horizontal model of integration. We seek submissions that cover all aspects of system-level architecture, service provision and network infrastructure as well as papers that consider domain specific concerns. We specifically encourage submissions that demonstrate or report on successful experiences in developing consensus across application domains in the development of IoT ecosystems.
Topics
We are seeking papers that present original and unpublished contributions addressing the themes of the workshop. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
System architectures and reference models for horizontal IoT integration
Federation of heterogenous IoT systems
Cognitive and semantic capabilities in IoT systems
Experiences with specific architectures within particular application domains
Industrial use cases
Emerging applications with special reference to social aspects of IoT
Standardisation supporting the shift form vertical to horizontal integration of IoT
Paper submission
Submitted papers must be no more than 8 pages in length. Authors are required to use the tighter alternate style of the standardACM proceedings format. Each submission will receive at least three reviews from the technical program committee and authors of selected submission will have 30 minutes to present their work at the workshop. Papers should be submitted in electronic form to [log in to unmask]
Important dates
Submission Deadline: September 19, 2014
Notification of acceptance: October 10, 2014
Camera-ready paper due: October 24, 2014 
Workshop date: December 5, 2015
Workshop Organizers
George Roussos, Birkbeck College, University of London, U.K.
Klaus Moessner, University of Surrey, U.K. 
Chiaki Ishikawa, YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory, Japan




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Pei Zhang
Associate Research Professor
Cylab & ECE & INI & SV
Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~peizhang/

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