[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



 

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CALL FOR PAPERS 

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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 

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SCOPE 

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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. 



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TOPICS OF INTEREST 

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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) 



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PARTICIPATION 

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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/ ) 



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WORKSHOP FORMAT AND PUBLICATION 

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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. 



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IMPORTANT DATES 

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Paper submission deadline June 9th, 2013 

Notification of acceptance: July 14th, 2013 

Final version due: August 4th, 2013 

Workshop: September 11th, 2013 





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COMMITTEES 

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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) 








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