[AISWorld] CfP: HICSS 2023 Minitrack: on Software Development for Mobile Devices, the Internet-of-Things, and Cyber-Physical Systems

[Tim A. Majchrzak]

CALL FOR PAPERS

HICSS 2023 Minitrack: Software Development for Mobile Devices, the 
Internet-of-Things, and Cyber-Physical Systems
(Software Technology Track)
https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-56/software-technology/

3-6 January 2023
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 pos-es many challenges. This is even more so for novel 
mobile devices such as wearables and for the hard-ware that constitutes 
the Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). 
Compatibility, per-formance, 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 challeng-es sketched 
above are reinforced by the conditions that development activities meet. 
Typical particular-ities include the need for multi-platform 
development, device fragmentation, context-sensitivity, low 
computational power, little memory, energy conservation requirements, 
and the heterogeneity of us-ers. 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).

Further, there are novel developments in machine learning and analysis, 
and the emergence of multi-faceted aspects of artificial intelligence 
(AI), ranging from algorithms to ethical AI, secure AI and sus-tainable 
AI perspectives. On mobile, IoT and CPS, this creates new opportunities 
for groundbreaking research through distributed machine learning, 
federated learning, edge analytics and computational collaboration 
between several heterogenous systems and device forms.

This minitrack started as Mobile App Development (HICSS-49 and HICSS-50) 
before broadening to Soft-ware Development for Mobile Devices, 
Wearables, and the Internet-of-Things (HICSS-51 and HICSS-52). We then 
(HICSS-53, HICSS-54, and HICSS-55) adapted the minitrack to the 
continuously changing land-scape to keep it attractive to the community. 
Our minitrack invites researchers from software engineer-ing, 
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 
not limited to)
•	Case studies of development
•	Development methods, software architectures, and specification techniques
•	Economic and social impact, behavioral aspects
•	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
•	Machine learning on device
•	Collaborative applications and systems
•	The convergence between mobile devices, IoT, and CPS
•	Fog, edge, and dew computing and their computational applications


IMPORTANT DATES
15 June   2022: Submission of full manuscripts
17 August 2022: 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