Scope:

The significant advances in wireless communications, the ever increasing availability of mobile multi-purpose devices, and the fast growth in sensors and actuators have created a global computing infrastructure that is profoundly changing the way people live and work. People interact with themselves, the physical world, and information services using a wide range of devices connected together via a variety of networks, enabling computing and communication at an unprecedented scale and density.

This new infrastructure presents a number of challenges especially when it comes to data-intensive applications: enormous scale, varying and intermittent connectivity, location dependence and context awareness, limited bandwidth and power capacity, small device size, and multimedia delivery across hybrid networks.

Conventional issues in data management have to be considered and evaluated anew in this rapidly changing environment. Non-traditional issues including mobility, data semantics, context modeling, broadcast and multicast delivery, data availability, trust and privacy must also be addressed effectively.

The latest of a successful series, MDM 2008 provides a high-quality forum for the presentation of research results on data management issues in the evolving world of mobile, wireless, and pervasive computing

Topics of Interests:

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following.

- Theoretical foundations of data-intensive mobile computing
- Location and mobility semantics
- Data placement, replication and relocation to support mobility
- Data broadcasting/dissemination in mobile environments
- Data presentation, scripting and exchange languages
- Data management for pervasive computing
- Data management in sensor and mobile ad hoc networks
- Data stream processing in mobile/sensor networks
- Resource advertising and discovery techniques
- Metadata management and exchanges
- Query processing and optimization for mobile users
- Transactions and workflows in mobile environments
- OS and middleware for mobile and pervasive computing
- Mobile access to the Web
- Context-aware computing and location-based services
- Security and privacy issues for ubiquitous systems
- Location tracking of vehicles and moving objects
- Quality of service issues for data-intensive services
- Adaptability and stability of pervasive computing systems
- Data mining for mobile applications
- Publish-subscribe approach in mobile computing

Paper Submission:

The conference invites original, unpublished submissions not exceeding 8 pages in the camera-ready IEEE style. Submissions in PDF format must be uploaded to the conference web-based submission system at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/MDM2008/Default.aspx.

Industrial/experience papers as well as proposals for panels, demos, seminars, and workshops are also sought. Submission instructions will be made available on the conference homepage. Industrial/experience papers are expected to discuss novel aspects of deployed applications or prototypes as well as experiences and standards.

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