Dear colleagues,



Please consider contributing to the following IEEE workshop (collocated with PerCom 2015) on the ubiquitous management of communications and services.



Best regards,

Dimitris.







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Call for Papers - MUCS 2015

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Paper registration: Nov 19, 2014



12th IEEE International Workshop on

Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services

MUCS 2015

http://ubiquitous-management.org/mucs/2015



will be held as a full-day workshop on Monday, March 23, 2015,

as part of the

13th Annual IEEE Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications

PerCom 2015 in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA (23-27 March 2015)



Scope

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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, sensor 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, 

managing smart cities and smart grids, managing software defined 

networks. 

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 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, a small selection of invited presentations, and a 

topical panel discussion. 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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Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to) 



- Management of the Internet of Things

- Management of Federated Pervasive Environments

- Management of End-to-end Communications

- 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

- Management of Machine-to-machine Communications

- Policy Based Management

- Autonomic and Cognitive Management of Services and Communications

- Content Oriented Network & Service Management

- Management of Smart Spaces and Applications

- Management of Communications and Services for Smart Cities and Smart 

Grids

- Management of Software-Defined Networks 





Paper Submission Guideline

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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.



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 templates can be found here: 

http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting



No-shows of accepted papers at the workshop will result in those papers NOT 

being

included in the IEEE Digital Library. 



Direct your questions to the Program Chairs (see website for email 

address):



Nicholas Race

Christine L Julien



Please submit your paper electronically in PDF format to EDAS

http://edas.info/N18431



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.

Selected papers will be invited to be extended and submitted for a special

track in Elsevier's Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) Journal.





Important Dates

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Paper registration:	Nov 19, 2014

Paper submission:        Nov 26, 2014

Notification of acceptance: 	Jan 9, 2015            

Camera-ready paper due:  	Jan 28, 2015

MUCS Workshop:         	 Mar 23, 2015.

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