10th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS 2013)

26-28 August 2013, Coral Beach Conference Hotel and Resort
Paphos, Cyprus

http://mobiwis2013.cs.ucy.ac.cy

CALL FOR PAPERS

The International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS) aims to advance the state of the art in scientific and practical research on mobile Web and information systems. It provides a forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and the public sector in an effort to disseminate latest research results and to share knowledge and experiences regarding tools, techniques, technologies, models, and methodologies that lead to better information and service provisioning in the mobile Web.

The conference comprises a set of carefully selected tracks that focus on the particular challenges regarding mobile Web Information Systems in research areas such as, among others, Web Engineering, Service-Oriented Computing, Web Search, Data and Knowledge Management, Cloud Computing, Security and Human-Computer Interaction.

Conference Tracks

• Mobile Web and social applications
• Middleware/SOA for mobile Web information systems
• Mobile Web searching
• Context- and location-aware services
• Data management in the mobile Web
• Mobile cloud services
• Mobile Internet of Things
• Mobile Web security, trust and privacy
• Mobile networks, protocols and applications
• Mobile commerce and business services
• Mobile Web for social and economic development
• HCI in mobile applications
• Industry track – Mobile Web and Information Systems
• General – Mobile Web and Information Systems

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: April 21, 2013
Author notification: May 27, 2013
Final manuscript due: June 12, 2013

Submission Instructions

Papers must be in English and must not exceed 15 pages. Papers must be formatted in Springer’s LNCS format; see formatting instructions and stylesheets:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0

Papers are submitted as PDF files via the EasyChair conference management system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mobiwis2013

Submitted research papers may not overlap with papers that have already been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings.

Publication

All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for the conference and plan to present the paper. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper for a special issue on Mobile Web Information Systems in a major international journal (negotiations are ongoing).

General Chair

George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

General Vice-Chairs

Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

Program Chairs

Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy
Philippe Thiran, Sirris and University of Namur, Belgium

Program Vice-Chairs (Conference Tracks)

Mobile Web and social applications:
Leondro Wives, Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil

Middleware/SOA for mobile Web information systems:
Zaki Malik, Wayne State University, USA

Mobile Web searching:
Daqiang Zhang, Institute Telecom, France

Context- and location-aware services:
Hong-Linh Truong, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Data management in the mobile Web:
Roberto De Virgilio, Università Roma Tre, Italy

Mobile cloud services:
Claudio Geyer, Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil

Mobile Internet of Things:
Federico M. Facca, CREATE-NET, Italy

Mobile Web security, trust and privacy:
Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

Mobile networks, protocols and applications:
Carlos A. Iglesias, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Mobile commerce and business services:
Michael Weiss, Carleton University, Canada

HCI in mobile applications:
Nikolay Mehandjiev, University of Manchester, UK

Industry track – Mobile Web and Information Systems:
Pikkarainen Minna, VTT, Finland

General – Mobile Web and Information Systems:
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK