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Subject: CfP: Building & Evaluating Ubiquitous System Software


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Call for Papers: IEEE Pervasive Computing
(also available at http://www.computer.org/pervasive/edcal0704.htm)

Building and Evaluating Ubiquitous System Software

Guest Editors:
Vinny Cahill, Trinity College Dublin
Armando Fox, Stanford University
Tim Kindberg, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol
Brian Noble, University of Michigan

Submission Deadline:  15 March 2004
WIP Deadline:  1 May 2004
Author guidelines: www.computer.org/pervasive/author.htm
Submission address: http://cs-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com
Publication date: July 2004

Ubiquitous computing environments raise new challenges for system software
researchers. These environments incorporate a wide variety of devices, many
of which are highly constrained in power and other local resources.
Coordinating the devices is an even greater challenge because ubicomp
environments tend to be volatile. Consider, for example, measuring context
parameters such as human presence from a variety of sensors subject to
routine disconnection and failure, or exploiting services from a mobile
device that regularly enters and leaves a state of connectivity. The
heterogeneity and volatility of ubiquitous environments demand novel
approaches to designing, building, and evaluating system software.

IEEE Pervasive Computing magazine invites articles relating to system
software for ubiquitous computing environments. We welcome papers that
provide new software paradigms or algorithms, or relate implementation
experience that other researchers can build upon. Successful submissions
will clearly address an explicit ubiquitous system model and problem
statement, which the authors relate to existing research. They will evaluate
the proposed solution and so contribute to our knowledge of software for
these systems in general. Example topics include (but are not limited to):

*  Resilience to routine failures and disconnections

*  Scalable coordination and synchronization mechanisms for volatile
    component collections

*  Operating systems and resource management algorithms for resource-
    constrained devices

*  Methods for acquiring environmental resources from minimal a priori
    models

*  Configuring and reconfiguring ubiquitous systems

*  Supporting spontaneous (ad hoc) interactions

*  The implications of physical-world integration for system design
    (system abstractions related to physical affordances)

*  Metrics and benchmarks

*  Case studies of deployed systems

*  Critical analyses of the state of the art

Submissions should be 4,000 to 6,000 words long and should follow the
magazine's guidelines on style and presentation. All submissions will be
anonymously reviewed in accordance with normal practice for scientific
publications. Electronic submissions via Manuscript Central should be
received by 15 March 2004 to receive full consideration. Instructions on the
submission process and the magazine guidelines on style and presentation can
be found on the Author Guidelines page.

In addition to full-length submissions, we also invite work-in-progress
submissions of 250 words or less. These will not be peer-reviewed, but will
be edited by the staff into a feature for the issue. The deadline for
work-in- progress submissions is 1 May 2004.

If you have any questions, please contact guest editor Tim Kindberg
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