Call for Papers

Mobile Computing and Applications Track

The 30th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

SAC 2015

http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2015/

April 13 - 17, 2015

Salamanca, Spain

The research area of mobile computing has become even more important following the recent widespread drive towards wireless sensor networks, Internet of Things and location tracking technologies and their applications. Various mobile gadgets, generally embedded within small ubiquitous devices, notably in myriads of intelligent smart phones and devices, have paved the way for wearable computers and found their applications in various industries, such as transportation and health-care, just to name a few. The availability of high bandwidth LTE communication infrastructures and the pervasive deployment of low cost WiFi access points have accelerated the development of mobile computing to provide ubiquitous computing. This is made possible through the use of increasingly powerful handheld devices, many of which now come with built-in Bluetooth and WiFi interfaces. Emergence and acceptance of programming standards like HTML5, AJAX, SOAP/.NET, web services, and different software applications have paved the way for seamless communications across devices. Innovative and useful applications are built on the rising mobile and ubiquitous services provided over the cloud, in the realization of the Internet of Things. More recently, mobile devices are often personalized and virtualized as an extension of oneself, where sensors embedded in these devices can monitor the human activities accurately. The acquired data is used by intelligent apps for better user experience. The unique characteristics and issues present in a mobile computing environment have motivated diverse research areas, spanning from protocols for mobile computing to middleware services to facilitate better integration of mobile services to existing network infrastructure, as well as effective information representation, processing and visualization with small pervasive devices.

The Mobile Computing and Applications track is dedicated to this exciting and evolving area of mobile computing to draw upon research efforts and expertise from different areas of researches for better synergy. We would like to bring forth not only the core technologies that drive state-of-the-art research, but also important applied research and applications to realize the benefits of anywhere, any place and anytime computing.

Papers are solicited for the following representative topic areas (but not restricted to):

- adaptive computing
- apps on smart phones
- caching and disconnected operation
- cloud-based mobile services
- context-aware mobile computing
- data replication and reconciliation
- internet of things
- L-commerce
- location-aware applications
- M-commerce
- mobile agents
- mobile applications and systems
- mobile databases and transactions
- mobile device programming and applications
- mobile middleware services based on events, and object models
- mobile web access and web services
- NFC and RFID applications
- sensor networks
- spatiotemporal data representation and processing
- visualization on handheld devices
- wearable computers
- wireless communication and networking
- wireless multimedia

Program Committee members from renowned universities with strong expertise in the track focus area will blindly review submissions to that track. Accepted papers will be published in the annual proceedings and ACM digital library. Submission of the same paper to multiple tracks is not allowed. For more information, please visit SAC 2015 Website (http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2015/). Prospective papers should be submitted to the track using the provided automated submission system, namely, START. Submission of the same paper to multiple tracks is not allowed. For more information please visit the SAC 2015 Website.

Authors are invited to submit their papers (in postscript or pdf format) via the SAC START submission system with link https://www.softconf.com/f/sac2015/ by October 10, 2014. The papers must be original work, not previously published, and currently not submitted elsewhere. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must NOT appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review. Only the title should be shown at the first page without the authors' information. In addition, for each submitted paper, a separated cover page (in plain ASCII) should be sent to sac15mca@comp.polyu.edu.hk including the paper title and full list of authors with full names, affiliations and email addresses. One of the authors must be designated as the primary contact point to receive the notification at the time of the paper submission. Each paper will undergo a formal peer review process on the basis of technical quality, originality, clarity, and relevance to the track topics above. If you have any inquiry about the track, please contact sac15mca@comp.polyu.edu.hk with the Track Chairs.

Authors are allowed up to 8 pages, but there will be a charge of 80USD per extra page for any paper with more than 6 pages in the final camera ready.

Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the papers and posters in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for all accepted papers, posters, and invited SRC submissions to be included in the ACM digital library. No-show of scheduled papers, posters, and student research abstracts will result in excluding them from the ACM digital library.

Submission must be received by Friday, October 10, 2014.