[AISWorld] IEEE MS 2014 Call for Papers (Deadline Extended to 2/28/2014)

[Nuno Laranjeiro]

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::::::::::::::::::::::::: CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline Extended to 2/28/2014) :::::::::::::::::::::::::

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: Wearable Technology and Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications
http://www.themobileservices.org/2014/

Sponsored by IEEE.

Wireless and ubiquitous connectivity have enabled mobile computing and Internet access on the go as a life-enhancing and indispensable experience of modern life. More than 50 billion devices, in more than 200 device types, will likely be connected to the Internet by 2020 as integral components of a new generation of high-value application services for consumers and enterprises. API-defined mobile services have become essential ubiquitous services consumption and delivery enablers for many industries and government organizations worldwide. The 2014 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services (MS) aims at providing an international forum that is dedicated to exploring different aspects of mobile services (from business management to computing systems, algorithms, and applications) and to promoting technological innovations in research and development of mobile services, including, but not limited to, wireless & sensor networks, mobile & wearable computing, mobile enterprise & eCommerce, ubiquitous collaborative & social services, machine-to-machine & Internet-of-things clouds, cyber-physical integration, and big data analytics for mobility-enabled services.

MS 2014 will co-locate with IEEE CLOUD 2014, ICWS 2014, SCC 2014, and BigData 2014.

Important Dates:
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Paper Submission: 2/28/2014
Decision date: 4/10/2014
Camera-ready paper: 4/20/2014

Topics of Interest include, not limited to:

Middleware
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- Mobility identity & access mechanism
- Context- and location-aware middleware
- Agent technologies in ubiquitous, wearable, and mobile services
- Messaging, media streaming, and event management middleware for mobile devices
- Mobility API integration, brokerage, and management
- Mobile backend as a service (MBaaS) and mobile app platform
- Reliability, availability, serviceability, scalability, and disaster recovery for mobile services
- Knowledge acquisition, discovery, matching, composition, and analytics for mobile services 

Engineering
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- Software architectures, programming framework, and operational models for mobile services
- Asset and configuration management of mobile devices
- Data management & integration for mobile services
- Big data analytics for mobility-enabled services
- Queries, transactions, and workflows in mobile services
- Performance & capacity management for mobile services
- Security & performance healthcheck for mobile services
- Service catalog, SLA, and compliance management for mobile services 
- DevOps and operations management for mobile services 

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

Applications
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- IoT-enabled services & industrial transformation (e.g., connected vehicles, clinical remote monitoring, assisted living, building automation, traffic management, asset management, etc.)
- IoT-enabled management of the physical world
- Innovative mobile, ubiquitous, and wearable applications
- Mobile social networking
- Ubiquitous collaborative & social services
- Mobile Web
- Services based on ad hoc and sensor networks
- Community based computing
- Personal-area services and applications 

Cross-cutting
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- 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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