Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:03:08 +0100 From: Titi Roman <dumitru.roman@deri.org> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: first cfp: Mobile Service-oriented Architectures and Ontologies (MoSO) Workshop; 2nd edition Message-ID: <457DD59C.3070602@deri.org>
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***Apologies for multiple postings*** First Call for Submissions ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mobile Services-oriented Architectures and Ontologies (MoSO 2007) http://events.deri.at/MoSO2007/ at The 8th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'07) http://mdm2007.uni-mannheim.de/ May 7 (tentative), 2007, Mannheim, Germany -------------------------------------------------------- THEME OF THE WORKSHOP The theme of the workshop is the intersection of three major trends in today’s computing: * mobile computing becomes more and more important. Mobile portable devices have outnumbered already traditional desktop computers and will mould the view of computers future generations will have. * service-oriented computing is viewed by many analysts as the computing paradigm of the near future. It allows for the dynamic integration of functionality provided by different parties. * research on ontologies, in particular in connection with work on the semantic web and semantic web services allows for machine understandable description of functionality and for automatic interaction of devices without the need for human involvement. The proposed workshop investigates how mobile computing can benefit from service-orientation and ontologies and vice versa. The vision is to extend the typically rather limited capabilities of mobile devices by using services offered by other devices, network providers or third parties. Adding ontologies to this scenario allows this extension to be transparent to the human user. Further, some high-end mobile telecom terminals can be called already multimedia computers due their programmability,processor speed, and gigabytes of memory. Already in the near future these devices could also utilize ontologies locally during service provisioning. GENERAL OVERVIEW Today, computers are changing from big, grey, and noisy things on our desks to small, portable, and evernetworked devices most of us are carrying around. This new form of mobility imposes a shift in how we view computers and the way we work with them. In developing countries like India and China ‘Mobile Internet’ can become the only Internet a large portion of population will get access to. Services offer the possibility to overcome the limitations of individual mobile devices by making functionality offered by others available to them on an “as-needed” basis. Thus, using the service-oriented computing paradigm in mobile environments will considerably enlarge the variety of accessible applications and will enable new business opportunities in the mobile space by delivering integrated functionalities across wireless networks. Network hosted mobile services will allow mobile operators and third party mobile services provider to extend their businesses by making their network services available to a broader audience (e.g. developers, service providers, etc.); device hosted service will allow great potential for big innovations for applications and services that can be provided by individual mobile device owners. These mobile services offer functionalities and behaviors that can be described, advertised, discovered, and composed by others. Eventually, they will be able to interoperate even though they have not been designed to work together. This type of interoperability is based on the ability to understand other services and reason about their functionalities and behaviors when necessary. In this respect, mobile services can benefit from marrying the Semantic Web, which provides the infrastructure for the extensive usage of distributed knowledge, to be deployed for modeling services and add meaning, through ontologies, enabling lightweight discovery and composition of mobile services. The ability to appropriately combine mobility and semantic grounded data sharing has generated and is continuously triggering challenging questions in several areas of computer science, engineering and networking. This workshop aims to tackle the research problems around methods, concepts, models, languages and technologies that enable new opportunities in the mobile space through adoption, usage, and integration of mobile services and ontologies. Of particular interest are the methodologies and technologies that would allow automatic tasks to be performed with respect to mobile services and the use of ontologies in this context. This proposed workshop aims to bring together researchers and industry attendees addressing many of these issues, and promote and foster a greater understanding of mobile service and ontologies and their potential in enabling new business opportunities in the mobile space. TOPICS The following indicates the general focus of the workshop. However, related contributions are welcome as well. - Service-oriented architectures for mobile internet services - languages and methodologies for describing mobile Service-oriented systems - discovery and matchmaking of ontology based services in the context of mobile service-oriented architectures - adaptive selection of services in mobile service-oriented architectures - ontology management in mobile environments - contracting and negotiation with ontology-based mobile services (service level agreements) - approaches to composition of ontology based services in the context of mobile service-oriented systems - invocation, adaptive execution, monitoring, and management of mobile services - interaction protocols and conversation models for mobile services-oriented architectures - ontology-based security and privacy issues in mobile service-oriented systems - applications of mobile service-oriented architectures - analysis and design approaches for mobile service-oriented architectures and services - reasoning with mobile services - ontology-based policies for mobile service-oriented architectures - tools for discovery, matchmaking, selection, mediation, composition, management, and monitoring of services in a mobile world - mobile service development - ontologies in dependable service provisioning WORKSHOP FORMAT AND ATTENDANCE The program will occupy a full day, and will include presentations of papers selected from the full papers category (see 'submissions' below). Please note that at least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop. The MDM 2007 conference formalities are applied for fees and respective organizational aspects. Submission of a paper is not required for attendance at the workshop. However, in the event that the workshop cannot accommodate all who would like to participate, those who have submitted a paper (in any category) will be given priority for registration. SUBMISSIONS Two categories of submissions are solicited: (1) Full papers (up to 8 pages). (2) Position papers (up to 2 pages). All submissions should be formatted in the IEEE style. Formatting instructions and LaTeX macros are available on the IEEE computer society site: LaTex macros: * ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/IEEE_CS_Latex.zip Formatting instructions: * ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/instruct.doc * ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/instruct.pdf * ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/instruct.ps All accepted full papers as well as all position papers of attendees will be published in the workshop proceedings. Currently, the post-workshop proceedings are under negotiation with a major publisher (see further and up to date information on the workshop website). All the papers should be submitted in electronic format (pdf version) using the link: http://www.easychair.org/MoSO2007/. IMPORTANT DATES (tentative) Submissions: February 20, 2007 Acceptance: March 20, 2007 Final copy: April 1, 2007 Workshops day: May 7, 2007 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Nelson Baloian (University of Chile, Chile) Dumitru Roman (DERI Innsbruck, Austria) Jari Veijalainen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed; to be extended) Martin Bauer, NEC Europe Ltd, Germany Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Inria, France Richard Benjamins, ISOCO, Spain Yolande Berbers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Patricia Charlton. Motorola Labs, UK John Domingue, Open University, UK Fabien Gandon, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA, France Martin Hepp, DERI Innsbruck, Austria Eero Hyvönen, Helsinki Univ. of Technology, Finland Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Wai Gen Yee, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Takahiro Kawamura, Toshiba Corp, Japan Antonio Liotta, Univ. of Essex, UK Vladimir Oleshchuk, HIA, Norway Stefan Poslad, Queen Mary Univ., UK Tore Risch, Uppsala University, Sweden Brahmananda Sapkota, DERI Galway, Ireland Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany Thomas Strang, University of Innsbruck, Austria Vlad Tanasescu, Open University, UK Do van Thanh, Telenor, Norway Ioan Toma, DERI Innsbruck, Austria Kristian Torp, Univ. of Aalborg, Denmark Aphrodite Tsalgatiodou, University of Athens, Greece Gustavo Zurita, Universidad de Chile, Chile Alexander Wahler, Hanival mbH, Austria Note: Check the workshop web site for updates to the PC members list.
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