Riding on recent technological advancements in 3G communication infrastructures, hardware handheld devices, programming standards such as J2ME, and the emergence of killer applications in both research and commercial settings, the area of mobile computing is gaining increasing importance. Mobile computing technologies have evolved over the past 10 years into an inter-disciplinary research area. Applications of mobile computing accelerate rapidly in recent years following the development of devices for "wearable" computers and the "pervasive" computing paradigm. The unique characteristics and issues presented in a mobile environment have already motivated diverse research areas, spanning from protocols for mobile computing to middleware services to facilitate better integration of mobile services to existing network infrastructure. This can be done in the context of mobile commerce based applications, with integrated technologies drawn from diversified field such as wireless communications, sensor networks, and geographical and spatial database systems. This track is dedicated to draw upon research efforts and expertise from different areas of researches for better synergy. We would like to bring forth not only those core technologies driving the research, but also important applied research 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
- caching and disconnected operation
- context-aware mobile computing
- data replication and reconciliation
- location-aware application
- M-commerce
- mobile agents
- mobile applications and systems
- mobile database and transaction
- mobile device programming and application
- mobile middleware services based on event, and object models
- mobile web access
- pervasive computing
- sensor networks
- spatiotemporal data representation and processing
- visualization on handheld device
- wireless communication and network
- wireless multimedia

Author(s) are encouraged to submit electronic copies of their papers (in postscript or pdf format) to the Track Chairs at their conference account at sac04mca@comp.polyu.edu.hk by September 8, 2003. Those who cannot submit electronic copies must submit six (6) laser-quality printed copies to:

Hong Va Leong
Department of Computing
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hung Hom
Hong Kong

Guidelines

- The name(s) and address(es) of the author(s) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review.
- The body of the paper should not exceed 4,000 words (approximately 15 pages, double-spaced, 12-point font size).
- A separate cover sheet attached to each copy should include the title of the paper, the name(s), affiliation(s), and address(es), email, phone, and fax of the author(s).
- Include a cover letter with the title of the paper, the name, affiliation, address, email, phone, and fax of the author who serves as the contact person for the paper.
- Submission must be received by Monday September 8, 2003.

Track Co-chairs
Hong Va Leong
Department of Computing
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hung Hom
Hong Kong
email: cshleong@comp.polyu.edu.hk
URL: http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~cshleong

Alvin Chan
Department of Computing
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hung Hom
Hong Kong
email: cstschan@comp.polyu.edu.hk
URL: http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~cstschan

Program Committee
Divyakant Agrawal, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Demet Aksoy, University of California at Davis, USA
Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Mehmet Altinel, IBM Almaden, USA
Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Ohio State University, USA
Roger King, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Dik Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Wang-Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Cecilia Mascolo, University College London, UK
Dennis McLeod, University of Southern California, USA
Sunil Prabhakar, Purdue University, USA
Antonio Si, Oracle Corporation, USA
Ioana Stanoi, IBM T.J. Watson, USA
Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Kian-Lee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Zahir Tari, RMIT, Australia
Yang Xiao, University of Memphis, USA
Jianliang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia
Baihua Zheng, Singapore Management University, Singapore

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