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7th Workshop on Ubiquitous Communications and Services (MUCS 2010)

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Call for Papers
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The 7th IEEE Workshop on Ubiquitous Communications and Services

(MUCS 2010) will be held as a 1 day workshop as part of the
8th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and
Communications - PerCom 2010 in Mannheim Germany (March 29th to April
2nd 2010).

The MUCS 2010 workshop website is at
http://www.ubiquitous-management.org/mucs/2010/index.php

The PerCom 2010 website is at http://www.percom.org

Important Deadlines
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- Papers due by: October 18, 2009
- Author Notification: December 21, 2009
- Final papers due to IEEE: January 29, 2010

Scope of the MUCS Workshop
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Ubiquitous Communications and Services, as evidenced in pervasive computing
and 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. Today’s management systems
need to keep pace with the complexity, heterogeneity and automation required
by the pervasive computing vision.

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. The goal of the workshop
is to investigate the state of the art in managing pervasive/smart space
applications from a broad perspective.


Topics
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- Context Aware Management and Configuration
- Knowledge Representation Techniques and Ontologies
   for Management of Pervasive Services
- Security, Privacy, and Trust Management in Pervasive Computing/Smart Spaces
- Context Identification, Retrieval, Prediction and Management
- Adaptive technologies and techniques for Services and Management
- Service and Network Management for Optimised Personalisation
- Management and Control of Mobile Ad-hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks
- Distributed Management & Collaborative Governance
- 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
- Policy Based Management
- Autonomic Management of Services  and Communications
- Content Oriented Network & Service Management
- Management of Smart Spaces and Applications


Paper Submission
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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 MUCS 2010.

Authors are requested to submit papers limited to 6 pages in IEEE
8.5x11 conference format, and formatted in accordance with the IEEE
Computer Society author guidelines. The link for the templates can be
found at:
http://www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps/menuitem.02df7cde46985ea21618fc2e6bcd45f3/index.jsp?&pName=cscps_level1&path=cscps/cps&file=cps_forms.xml&xsl=generic.xsl&

Submission link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=8157

No-shows of accepted papers at the workshop will result in those
papers NOT being included in the IEEE Digital Library.


Proceedings
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- Electronic proceedings will be included and indexed in the IEEE
   digital libraries (Xplore).
- Hardcopy proceedings will be published through the Multicon Lecture
   Notes series with ISBN.