[AISWorld] Call for papers: IEEE MS 2014

[Nuno Laranjeiro]

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IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services (MS 2014)
June 27 - July 2, 2014, Hilton Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Conference rate: $159/night (In-room Internet access included) (vs. $309/night public rate) 

Theme: Internet of Things (IoT) Cloud with Wearable Computing
http://www.themobileservices.org/2014/

Sponsored by IEEE.

MS 2014 calls for novel papers exploring different aspects of mobile services, from business, management to computing systems, algorithms, and applications and to promote technological innovations in research and development of 
mobile services. MS 2014 will co-locate with IEEE CLOUD 2014, ICWS 2014, SCC 2014, and BigData 2014. Topics of interest include, not limited to:

Important Dates:
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Paper Submission: 1/31/2014
Decision date: 3/15/2014
Camera-ready paper: 3/31/2014

Topics of Interest include, not limited to:

Middleware
- Service and knowledge discovery, matching and composition mechanisms
- Context- and location-aware middleware
- Agent technologies in ubiquitous, wearable, and mobile services

Engineering
- Tools for building and measuring mobile services
- Software architectures for mobile services
- Rapid prototyping of mobile services
- Data management for mobile applications
- Queries, transactions and workflows in mobile services

User experience
- User interfaces and usability for mobile applications and services
- Multimodal interfaces (speech, video kinetic, tactile)

Applications
- Experience with mobile applications and services
- Innovative mobile, ubiquitous, wearable applications
- Mobile social networking
- Mobile Web
- Services based on ad hoc and sensor networks
- Community based computing
- Personal-area services and applications

Cross-cutting
- Security and privacy in mobile services
- Trust models for mobile services
- Localization and tracking
- Application-level energy management for mobile devices     
*************************************** NEWS **********************
One Best paper and one Best student paper will be announced.
Top papers will be invited to submit extended versions to IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), International Journal of Web Services Research 
(JWSR), International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM), open-access International Journal of Services Computing (IJSC), International Journal of Cloud Computing (IJCC), and International Journal of Big Data (IJBD). Both TSC and JWSR are SCI and EI indexed. 
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