PEOPLE-BASED NETWORKING
	a workshop taking place at i3 Spring Days, 
	1-3 March 2000, Athens, Greece

THEME
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The aim of this workshop is to bring together people interested in
ad-hoc highly dynamic networks based on mobile devices with the aim of
exploring applications for such networks and understanding how
people's behaviour effects their design.

With the advent of standards for wireless networking, networks are
rapidly becoming ubiquitous. Standards such as Bluetooth, are intended
to support small low-cost devices such as palm-top computers, PDAs,
and domestic appliances. In addition many people are now carry
personal digital assistants to help organise both their work and
personal lives.

Traditional networks are not well suited to coping with the many
hundred (or thousands) of small, mobile, networked devices which might
be found in the home and workplace in the near future. A network that
could handle such a situation cannot rely on central administration,
static routing techniques or protocols that require large amounts of
negotiation (and thus high power consumption for small battery powered
devices). For these reasons there has been much interest in the field
of mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs).

A "mobile ad hoc network" (MANET), as defined by the IETF, is an
autonomous system of mobile routers (and associated hosts) connected
by wireless links--the union of which form an arbitrary graph. The
routers are free to move randomly and organise themselves arbitrarily;
thus, the network's wireless topology may change rapidly and
unpredictably. Such a network may operate in a standalone fashion, or
may be connected to the larger Internet.

Given a scenario of many small, highly mobile devices, with limited
bandwidth communications we are interested in considering new forms of
networking infrastructure and what applications could be constructed
based on these infrastructures.  Also how do people’s actions
affect such networks? Can the movement of people be used as a way to
carry useful information between devices? Can models of social
interaction inform network design? Can people be exploited as
information carriers?  What objects could usefully be added to such
networks that might not normally be networked (books, office
furniture, toys, etc)? These are the questions that we would like to
tackle in this workshop.

We are aiming to get around 20 delegates, with the possibility of
others from the general Spring Days community joining on the day, with
speaking rights at the discretion of the organisers. We expect a mix
of academic and industrial researchers interested in issues concerning
mobility, ranging from those trying to implement different mobile
solutions such as researchers in the field of mobile, ad-hoc networks,
wearable and handheld computers, to those studying mobile working. We
also hope to include researchers from other i3 projects interested in
mobility.

VENUE
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The workshop will be a one day event taking place during 1-3rd March
2000 at the Training and Conference Center of the National Bank of
Greece S.A., Athens, Greece ( http://server.travelling.gr/conekt/ ).

This workshop is being organised as part of the Spring Days 2000
workshop cluster (organised by i3 Net). More information on Spring
Days can be found at: http://www.dfki.de/imedia/workshops/i3-spring00/
Workshop attendees will be free to participate in any of the other
workshops taking place at Spring Days 2000.

SUBMISSIONS
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We are requesting submissions in the form of short papers of 3-6 pages
of A4. It is suggested, that authors follow the SIG CHI formatting
guidelines ( http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigchi/chipubform/ ). We can only
accept submissions in electronic format – Adobe PDF format is
preferred but if this is not possible we will accept Microsoft RTF
format.

We are also interested in examples of work or demonstrations that
could be shown during the workshop. If you would like to present your
work in this form please submit a 1-2 page description in the SIG CHI
format.

Submissions should be sent by email to [log in to unmask]

DEADLINES
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14th January 2000		Deadline for submissions
1st February 2000		Notification of acceptance
1st -3rd  March 2000	Workshop (final date to be confirmed)

ORGANISERS
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Natalie Glance (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France)
Alan Munro (Napier University, UK)
Dave Snowdon (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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Rick Borovoy (Media Lab, MIT, USA)
Peter Brown (University of Kent, UK)
Matthew Chalmers (Glasgow University, UK)
Natalie Glance (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France)
Mike Glantz (Xerox PARC, USA)
Alan Munro (Napier University, UK)
Tom Rodden (Lancaster University, UK) 
Leon Rubinstein (Xerox Venture Lab Europe, France)
Michael Smyth (Napier University, Edinburgh, UK)
Dave Snowdon (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France)

RELATED WORK
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MANETs: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/manet-charter.html
MEME tags: http://fredm.www.media.mit.edu/people/fredm/projects/memetag/
The Factoid project:
http://www.research.digital.com/wrl/projects/Factoid/index.html
The Pollen project:
http://www.xrce.xerox.com/research/ct/research/pollen/home.html



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Xerox Research Centre Europe         Fax:    +33 (0)4 76 61 50 99
6, chemin de Maupertuis              Email: [log in to unmask]
38240 Meylan, FRANCE         <http://www.xrce.xerox.com/people/snowdon/>


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