[e2e] Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers

[Mobicom 2002]

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               Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers

                     *** ACM MobiCom 2002 ***
The Eighth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and
Networking

       September 23-26, 2002, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

            http://www.acm.org/sigmobile/mobicom/2002/

               Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE

          Submission Deadline: March 1, 2002

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MobiCom 2002 is the eighth annual conference dedicated to addressing new
challenges in mobile computing and networking. MobiCom 2002 solicits papers
describing significant research contributions to the field of mobile
computing and networking.

PAPERS:
Authors are invited to submit full papers related to the theory and practice
of mobile computing and networking. Original research papers (that are not
currently under review by another conference or journal) are solicited.
Areas of interest include, but not limited to:

*  Applications and computing services supporting mobile users
*  Architectures, protocols, and algorithms to cope with mobility, limited
bandwidth, or intermittent
    connectivity
*  Database and data management issues in mobile computing
*  Performance of mobile/wireless networks and systems
*  Security and privacy of mobile/wireless systems
*  Interaction between different layers of mobile/wireless systems
*  Integration and interworking of wired and wireless networks
*  Adaptive applications and systems for mobile environments
*  Distributed-system aspects of mobile systems
*  Operating system support for mobility
*  Location-dependent applications
*  Wireless multimedia systems
*  Power management
*  Mobile agents
*  Pervasive computing
*  Wireless sensor networks
*  Wireless/mobile service management and delivery

All papers will be refereed by the program committee. Accepted papers will
be published in the conference proceedings. Papers of particular merit will
be proposed for publication in the ACM/Baltzer Wireless Networks (WINET) and
Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) journals.

CHALLENGES SESSION:
Short papers (maximum of 8 pages) that challenge the mobile computing
community with new technologies or visionary applications are solicited.
Such papers should provide stimulating ideas or visions that may open up
exciting avenues of mobile computing research. Papers will be reviewed and
should be submitted using the normal submission procedure. Submitted papers
should be clearly identified as intended for the Challenges Session.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
All submissions will be handled electronically. The submission formats are
limited to PostScript (PS) and PDF. Submitted papers must not exceed 12
double-column pages, using a font size that is no smaller than 10 points.

Further details of the submission instructions can be found at
http://mobicom2002.comet.columbia.edu/submissions

All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through
double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld
from the reviewers. Authors names must not appear in the paper or in the
Postscript or PDF file. Please direct any questions about the submission
process to the Program Co-chairs at mobicom2002 at comet.columbia.edu.


TUTORIALS:
Proposals for tutorials are solicited, and will be evaluated based on the
expertise of the instructors and the relevance of the subject matter.
Potential instructors should submit a tutorial proposal of at most five
pages, including a biographical sketch, to the Tutorial Co-chairs
(cath at ecn.purdue.edu or
nhv at crhc.uiuc.edu).

PANELS:
Proposals are solicited for panels that examine innovative, controversial,
or otherwise provocative issues of interest. Panel proposals should not
exceed 3 pages, including biographical sketches of the panelists. Potential
panel organizers should contact the Panel Co-chairs (shroff at ecn.purdue.edu
or marie-jose.montpetit at nokia.com).

RESEARCH DEMOS:
Proposals for research demos are solicited. Proposals should not exceed 3
pages and should include a description of the demo and equipment that will
be used. Proposals for demos should be sent to the Research Demo Chair
(ron at oit.gatech.edu).

BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD:
Papers with a student as the primary author will be considered for the Best
Student Paper Award with a cash award of $1,000 USD. Students must indicate
with their submissions that they would like to be considered for this award.

IMPORTANT DATES:
*  Paper submissions due: March 1, 2002
*  Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2002
*  Camera-ready version due: July 31, 2002

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Check the conference website or send  email to
mobicom2002 at comet.columbia.edu


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
* General Chair: Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology

* General Vice-Chairs:
   - Jason Y. B. Lin, National Chiao Tung University
   - Ravi Jain, Telcordia

* Program Co-Chairs:
   - Vaduvur Bharghavan, Bytemobile
   - Andrew T. Cambell, Columbia University

* Panels Co-Chairs:
   - Ness Shroff, Purdue University
   - Marie-Jose Montpetit, Nokia

* Tutorials Co-Chairs:
   - Catherine Rosenberg, Purdue University
   - Nitin Vaidya, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

* Publicity Co-Chairs:
   - Chuanyi Ji, Georgia Institute of Technology
   - Marwan M. Krunz, University of Arizona

* Workshop Co-Chairs:
   - Taieb Znati, NSF and University of Pittsburgh
   - Mehmet Ulema, Monmouth Internet Corporation

* Research Demos Chair: Ron Hutchins, Georgia Institute of Technology

* Finance Chair: Edward Knightly, Rice University

* Registration Chair: Suresh Singh, Portland State University

* Sponsorship/Exhibit Chair: Ramesh Govindan, Univ. of Southern California

* Local Arrangements Chair: Raghupathy Sivakumar: Georgia Institute of
Technology

* Steering Committee Chair: Imrich Chlamtac, University of Texas at Dallas