[AISWorld] Final CfP: Software Development for Mobile Devices, the Internet-of-Things, and Cyber-Physical Systems HICSS 2022 Minitrack

[Tim A. Majchrzak]

CALL FOR PAPERS

HICSS 2022 Minitrack: Software Development for Mobile Devices, the 
Internet-of-Things, and Cyber-Physical Systems
(Software Technology Track)
https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-55/software-technology/

4-7 January 2022
Hyatt Regency, Maui
https://hicss.hawaii.edu/

MINITRACK DESCRIPTION
Applications for mobile devices (apps) have facilitated the success of 
smartphones and tablets. By using apps, the multi-purpose hardware of 
modern devices can be utilized to the full extent. Despite much progress 
in development methods, software development kits, and frameworks, app 
development poses many challenges. This is even more so for novel mobile 
devices such as wearables and for the hardware that constitutes the 
Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). 
Compatibility, performance, battery-saving, and security and safety are 
only some of the issues that are mainly driven by the quality of the 
used software. A satisfying level of this quality in many cases is very 
hard to achieve and proper techniques for testing and formal 
verification are needed.

Experiences and methods from classical software development can only be 
utilized to some degree. Moreover, the inherent challenges of the 
respective new devices ask for novel solutions. The challenges sketched 
above are reinforced by the conditions that development activities meet. 
Typical particularities include the need for multi-platform development, 
device fragmentation, context-sensitivity, low computational power, 
little memory, energy conservation requirements, and the heterogeneity 
of users. With the emergence of multi-platform and multi-device, the new 
golden standard are applications not only across software ecosystems, 
but across hardware platforms such as laptop, mobile, tablets, embedded 
devices, sensors and wearables. Therefore, new threads of research are 
needed to tackle these issues and to pave the way for improved software 
development, better business producibility and improved user experience 
(UX).

This minitrack started as Mobile App Development (HICSS-49 and HICSS-50) 
before broadening to Software Development for Mobile Devices, Wearables, 
and the Internet-of-Things (HICSS-51 and HICSS-52). In its fifth and 
sixth year (HICSS-53 and HICSS-54), we adapted it to the continuously 
changing landscape to keep it attractive to the community. Our minitrack 
invites researchers from software engineering, human-computer 
interaction, information systems, computer science, electrical 
engineering, and any other discipline that contributes to the topics 
covered by our minitrack.

The minitrack is devoted to the technological background of mobile 
computing while keeping an eye on business value, user experience, and 
domain-specific issues. Contributions may take a sociotechnical view or 
report on technological progress. Topics of interests include the full 
spectrum of research on mobile devices, IoT, and CPS, for example (but 
are not limited to)
•	Case studies of development
•	Development methods and specification techniques
•	Economic and social impact
•	Software engineering education
•	User interface (UI) design and user experience (UX) research
•	Testing, simulation, and formal verification
•	Hybrid and cross-platform development, Progressive Web Apps (PWA)
•	Web technology
•	Security, safety, and privacy
•	Legal aspects of software
•	Energy-efficient computing
•	Sensor-usage
•	The convergence between mobile devices, IoT, and CPS
•	Fog, edge, and dew computing and their computational applications

IMPORTANT DATES
15 June   2021: Submission of full manuscripts
17 August 2021: Acceptance notifications

For formatting instructions, see HICSS website. (http://www.hicss.org/)
(We recommend using the LaTeX template.)

Please consider approaching us with an abstract to check suitability to 
the minitrack. In case of questions, please feel free to contact us any 
time.

POSSIBLE PAPER EXTENSION
Authors of selected articles will be invited to fast-track extended and 
revised versions of their work to the Journal of Pervasive Computing and 
Communications (Emerald).

MINITRACK CO-CHAIRS:
Tim A. Majchrzak (Primary Contact)
University of Agder
Phone: +47 38 14 1982
email: timam at uia.no

Tor-Morten Grønli
Kristiania University College
email: tor-morten.gronli at kristiania.no

Hermann Kaindl
TU Wien
email: kaindl at ict.tuwien.ac.at