[Tccc] Last CFP for MoCSoP: Workshop on Mobile Cloud and Social Perspectives
Dana Petcu
petcuatinfo.uvt.ro
Tue Jun 4 00:25:58 EDT 2013
******************************************************************************************
CALL FOR PAPERS
******************************************************************************************
First Workshop on Mobile Cloud and Social Perspectives. MoCSoP 2013
http://mocsop.unex.es
September 11 th , 2013. Mlaga Spain
Workshop Proceedings published in Springers Communications in Computer and
Information Science (CCIS)
Co-located with the Second European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud
Computing. ESOCC 2013
http://esocc2013.lcc.uma.es
******************************************************************************************
*********
SCOPE
*********
In recent years Cloud Computing has emerged as one of the most active research
topics. Many efforts have been invested in research to propose new technologies
that provide IT solutions in different modalities, i.e. IaaS, PaaS or SaaS,
always based on the utility-computing business model. Thus, Cloud Computing has
been recognized not only as a technological innovation but also as an IT market
and business innovation.
While the general consensus establishes that the larger the company adopting
the cloud alternative is, the larger are the benefits provided by this
paradigm, real experiences of large companies massively adopting Cloud
Computing are still needed. Companies manifest their intention and willingness
to move to the cloud but they are still at the stage of studying its potential
and actual benefits. This could cause doubts about the real potential of Cloud
Computing. However, since millions of people already consume cloud services
like Dropbox, Facebook, etc., one can argue that Cloud Computing is here to
stay. Although these services are small and structurally simple, the magnitude
of their success is reaffirmed by their figures. As an example, in 2012
Google's revenue amounted to 50.2 billion Dollars Dollars, and in October 2012
Facebook reached its first billion users.
Such massive consumption of cloud services takes place in a context in which
25% of the global network traffic is generated from mobile devices. Smartphones
and tablets are reaching, and even in some cases surpassing, the capabilities
of laptops and desktop computers. In 2016 the network traffic generated from
mobile devices is estimated to reach 50%. Such traffic is expected to be
dedicated to cloud services consumption such as video streaming, email and
instant messaging or social media access. So, the interest on the development
of cloud computing in the context of mobility is undeniable.
However, the great interest in this type of services contrasts with the
simplicity of their technological foundations. In most cases, their
architectures consist in a client (mobile app) interacting with a server (cloud
service) which, depending on its logic, interacts with other clients. It seems
as though there is still plenty of room for improvement in the technological
richness of these architectures to offer services and applications that allow
for more complex interactions with servers or even directly between clients.
This is just the starting hypothesis of this workshop in which we would like to
face questions such as what kind of new services could be proposed? Are new
communication protocols needed to manage them? How could the exposure of
services in the mobile context be managed? What are the social perspectives of
cloud computing in the mobile context? What is the impact on personal privacy
in this context? Who owns the generated data? Several other questions come in
mind, that provide a broad field for research in the coming years.
****************************
TOPICS OF INTEREST
****************************
The workshop encourages the participation of multidisciplinary researchers and
practitioners from both industry and academia. Topics of interest include, but
are not limited to:
New infrastructures
Protocols to manage mobile communications in the cloud
Protocol for Mobile-to-Mobile communications through cloud infrastructures
Providing Cloud Computing services on mobile devices
New services
Cloud services to manage mobile devices
Managing Collaboration between mobile devices
Service architectures for complex mobile apps
Modelling Cloud Mobile Applications
Managing device heterogeneity in Complex Mobile Cloud Apps
New abilities
Novel abilities of mobile devices for the cloud
Novel cloud applications involving mobile devices
Quality of Service for Mobile Applications in the cloud context
Social perspectives
Business models of cloud computing in the mobile context
Privacy in the Cloud Mobile Context
Social perspectives of Cloud Computing involving Mobile Devices
Development of scenarios that benefit from Cloud Computing services on mobile
devices
Cloud Enabled Mobile Devices for Sustainability (or sustainable living)
********************
PARTICIPATION
********************
MoCSoP2013 tries to provide a venue where researchers and practitioners on the
above topics can meet, exchange ideas and problems, identify some of the key
issues related to Mobile Cloud and its Social Perspectives, and explore
together and disseminate possible solutions. To enable lively and productive
discussions, attendance will be limited to 20 participants, and submission of a
position or research paper (8 to 10 number of pages) is required.
Submitted papers should describe authors knowledge and experience in the field
of the Mobile Cloud and Social Perspectives. However, submissions are not only
possible in the form of full or technical papers describing authors research
and their results. On the contrary, submissions describing work-in-progress,
positions statements or open questions and participants expectations on the
workshop are strongly encouraged. Hence, we suggest that papers contain a
specific final section named Open Issues in which the authors identify a number
of (typically three or five) open questions in their work that cause them
special problems or that they think relevant for the rest of the community.
Submitted papers must be written in English following the LNCS Template
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 . Papers can be
submitted electronically in PDF format via the EasyChair website (
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mocsop2013
). All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the
program committee.
At least one author of each accepted paper must register and participate in the
workshop. Registration is subject to the terms, conditions and procedure of the
main ESOCC conference ( http://esocc2013.lcc.uma.es/ )
***************************************************
WORKSHOP FORMAT AND PUBLICATION
***************************************************
The workshop will be divided into two different sections. The first section
will be devoted to papers presentation. Each paper presentation will be
followed by a discussion in which the main open issues pointed out by the paper
will be identified.
During the second section the open issues will be discussed and grouped by the
audience. Then, for each resulting group, the researchers (attendants or not)
interested in its topics will be identified. The aim is to identify potential
collaboration groups sharing objectives, results, references, etc. Finally,
people interested in the different topics will be asked to identify the next
steps (tasks) to be done regarding to these topics. The aim is to draw a map of
how the different topics will evolve during the next year and the potential
results that could be expected for the next MoCSoP edition.
Papers will be published after the workshop in a joint volume in Springers
Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series. Additionally,
and depending on the soundness of the contributions presented in the workshop,
the publication of a special issue on an international scientific journal will
be considered. If so, participants will be invited to submit an extended paper
after the workshop, in which they may describe in length their research
activities in the field, (also including more detail on the technical aspects).
Extended papers must take into account the discussions and conclusions of the
workshop, and should try to address some of the raised open issues.
*************************
IMPORTANT DATES
*************************
Paper submission deadline June 9th, 2013
Notification of acceptance: July 14th, 2013
Final version due: August 4th, 2013
Workshop: September 11th, 2013
*****************
COMMITTEES
*****************
Organizing Committee
Muhammad Ali Babar IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
Marc Jansen University of Applied Sciences Ruhr West (Germany)
Dana Petcu West University of Timisoara (Romania)
Tommi Mikkonen Tampere University of Technology (Finland)
Juan M. Murillo University of Extremadura (Spain)
Program Committee
Mohammad Ali Babar IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
Lars Bollen University of Twente (The Netherlands)
Carlos Canal University of Mlaga (Spain)
Elisabetta Di Nitto Politehnica Di Milano (Italy)
Adam Giemza University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
Marc Jansen University of Applied Sciences Ruhr West (Germany)
Tomi Mnnist University of Helsinki, Helsinki (Finland)
Tommi Mikkonen Tampere University of Technology (Finland)
Juan M. Murillo University of Extremadura (Spain)
Dana Petcu West University of Timisoara (Romania)
Ivan Porres bo Akademi University, Turku, (Finland)
Ulf Schreier Hochschule Furtwangen University (Germany)
_______________________________________________
IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications
(TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication.
Tccc at lists.cs.columbia.edu
https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
More information about the Tccc
mailing list