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* CALL FOR PAPERS
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* The Fourth International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS 2010)
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* http://www.dai-labor.de/icps
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* July 13-16, 2010
* Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Pervasive Computing and Service Oriented Computing have emerged as important,
significant and extremely active areas of research and development in recent
years. The Service Oriented Computing paradigm allows the development and
deployment of highly distributed and heterogeneous applications. It facilitates
the rapid and dynamic creation of new software functionality by composition and
"mash-ups" of existing, distributed software services/components. Web Services
in particular are now the de facto technology that underpins a range of complex
and enterprise scale systems and applications.

Pervasive Computing is the vision of anytime, anywhere computing where
technologies such as smart mobile phones, sensors/embedded devices, and
continuous connectivity integrate seamlessly to provide a rich and personalised
intelligence that manifests in smart environments - both physical and
computational.

The International Conference on Pervasive Services provides a forum for bringing
together pervasive computing with services. The integration of these
technologies is becoming increasingly relevant as evidenced by the phenomenal
surge in the provision of mobile services.

ICPS is a key forum for researchers and practitioners working in the area of
mobile and pervasive services. ICPS will be conducted as a single track
conference with high-quality papers in mobile and pervasive services. The
selection process will consist of rigorous peer-review of submissions by the
program committee.

Topics of interest include (but not limited)

         * Programming paradigms and architectures for pervasive services
         * Middleware support for pervasive/mobile services
         * Pervasive services administration and management
         * Context Services Provisioning Technologies
         * User interfaces and interaction models for mobile/pervasive services
         * Service dissemination and discovery protocols,
         * Environments and algorithms for pervasive service development
         * Agents and Mobile/Pervasive Services
         * Semantic Web and Pervasive Services
         * Mobile Semantic Reasoning
         * Context-Aware Mobile and Pervasive Services
         * Composition of Mobile/Pervasive Services
         * Trust Issues of Pervasive Service
         * QoS Metrics for Pervasive Services
         * Security Services for Applications in Pervasive Environments
         * Formal Modelling and Engineering of Pervasive Services
         * Innovative Applications /Case Studies of Pervasive Services
         * Modelling, benchmarking, and performance of Mobile/Pervasive Services
         * Future Generation Pervasive Services
         * Wearable and Mobile Computing
         * Digital devices, Wi-Fi and Sensor Networks interacting with Services


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Paper Submission
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ICPS 2010 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work.

Please submit papers (8 pages maximum in the IEEE double-column format). The
templates for this format are available from:
http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html.

Paper submissions should be in PDF format only. Please follow the link to access
the paper submission site: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ICPS2010/

The acceptance of your paper is made with the understanding that at least one
author will register for each accepted paper and attend the conference to
present the paper; otherwise we reserve the right to exclude the paper from
publication in the proceedings.

A subset of the selected papers may also be invited for demonstration of the
system in the ICPS Demonstration Session.

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Calls for Industry Track, Workshops, and Demonstrations
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See http://www.dai-labor.de/icps/


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Important Dates
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Research Paper Submission Deadline:   February 1, 2010, (23:59 UTC)
Notification of Review Results:       April 12, 2010
Camera ready manuscript deadline:     May 17, 2010
Registration deadline:                TBD

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Conference Organising Chairs and Committees
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General Chairs:

   * Arkady Zaslavsky, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden
   * Sahin Albayrak, Technical University of Berlin, Germany

Program Chairs:

   * Christian Becker, University of Mannheim, Germany
   * Shonali Krishnaswamy, Monash University, Australia
   * Gergely Zaruba, University of Texas Arlington, USA

Publicity Chairs:

   * Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia
   * Gregor Schiele, University of Mannheim, Germany

Doctoral Consortium Chair:

   * Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia

Workshop Chairs:

   * Seng Loke, La Trobe University, Australia
   * Mohamed Gaber, Monash University, Australia

Industry Track Chairs:

   *  Dipanjan Chakraborty, IBM Research Labs, India
   *  Mika Luimula, Centria, Finland

Panel Chair and Moderator:

   *  Daniela Nicklas, University of Olderburg, Germany

Local Arrangements:

   *  Andreas Rieger, Technical University of Berlin, Germany

Program Committee:

   * Hassan Artail, American University of Beirut, Libanon
   * Claudia Bettini,  University of Milan, Italy
   * Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy
   * Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia
   * Sonia Ben-Mokhtar, LIRIS-CNRS, France
   * Eleonora Borgia, CNR, Italy
   * Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
   * Patrick Brezillon, University Paris 6, France
   * Domenico Cotroneo, University of Naples, Italy
   * Antonio Coronato, CNR Italy
   * Alex Delis, Univ. of Athens, Greece
   * Torsten Eymann, University of Bayreuth, Germany
   * Massimo Ficco, CINI, Italy
   * Jaafar Gaber, UTMB France
   * Jun Han, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
   * Marcus Handte, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
   * Karin Hummel, University of Vienna, Austria
   * Achilles Kameas, CTI, Greece
   * Julie A. MacCann, Imperial College London, UK
   * Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE
   * Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University, Japan
   * Daniela Nicklas, University of Olderburg, Germany
   * Shuichi Oikawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan
   * Martin Olivier, Univ. of Pretoria, South Africa
   * Hong Ong, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, USA
   * Federica Paci, University of Trento, Italy
   * George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
   * Sita Ramakrishnan, Monash University, Australia
   * Marian Scuturici, INSA de Lyon, France
   * Kåre Synnes, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden
   * Sotirios Terzis, Strathclyde University, UK
   * Torben Weis, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
   * Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada
   * Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China