Call for Papers
The nature of the wireless Internet will be different from simply accessing the Internet wirelessly. Users with handheld wireless devices, being mostly mobile, have different needs, motivations and capabilities from wired users. Mobile services are mobile/wireless computing applications and services that can be either pushed to user's handheld wireless devices (push mobile services) or downloaded and installed, over the air, on handheld wireless devices (pull mobile services). The explosive growth of the handheld wireless devices market, however, is stimulating the computing research community to clone almost any technology developed for desktop networked computers to handheld wireless devices connected to a wireless network. Wireless networks are, however, unreliable and suffer from low bandwidth and have a greater tendency for network errors. In addition, wireless connections can be lost or degraded by mobility. As a result, future intelligent mobile services must be designed from the ground up by taking fully into account the new design dimensions made accessible by the new technologies. This emerging field poses new challenges to the research community such as faster time-to-market, quality of wireless information, security concerns, and others.
This minitrack aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the fields of information systems, computing, networking, and mobile and wireless computing to discuss most recent research findings and to further promote on-going research on mobile services. To ensure a productive mini-track environment, attendance will be limited to about 20 -25 participants who are active in the field. Each potential participant should submit a paper that exposes a new problem, advocates a specific solution, or reports on actual experience.
To differentiate this minitrack from other minitracks at AMCIS 2003, this minitrack is more concerned with the foundations of mobile services, design and architectural issues, middleware, security and privacy issues, agents for mobile services, discovery protocols, and interaction of mobile services.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to the following:
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Deadline: The deadline for submitting papers is 23:59EST March 17th, 2003. To receive feedback on the suitability of your paper for this minitrack (an important step), please submit your abstract to me via email (qmahmoud@cis.uoguelph.ca) by 23:59EST, February 17th, 2003. Notifications will be sent on Wednesday, April 30, 2003. Camera ready copies are due Friday, May 30, 2003. See AMCIS'03 website for more details.
How to submit papers: All submissions are to be made through the electronic submission and review system managed by AIS. Please visit AMCIS'03 website for more details.
Journal publication: a special issue of the ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks and Applications will be devoted to Mobile services (here is the CFP). Authors of contributions to the AMCIS'2003 Mobile Services minitrack will be invited to submit revised and extended versions of their contributions for possible publication in this special issue.
Minitrack Chair:
Dr. Qusay H. Mahmoud
Dept. of Computing and Information Science
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1
Phone: (416) 798-1331 Ext. 6086
Fax: (416) 798-1991
EMail: qmahmoud@cis.uoguelph.ca