Call for Papers

Mobile Computing and Applications Track

27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

SAC 2012

http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2012/

March 26 - 30, 2012

Riva del Garda (Trento), Italy

The research area of mobile computing has become even more important following the recent widespread drive towards wireless sensor networks, RFID and location tracking technologies and their applications, notably with wearable computers and in health-care industry. The availability of high bandwidth 3G infrastructures, and the pervasive deployment of low cost WiFi infrastructure serve to accelerate the development of mobile computing to provide ubiquitous computing make possible through the use of increasingly powerful hardware handheld devices, many of which now come with built-in Bluetooth and wireless LAN interfaces. Emergence and acceptance of programming standards like J2ME, SOAP/.NET, web services, and different software applications have paved the way for seamless communications across devices. As mobile computing and its applications involve inter-disciplinary research efforts, this is an appropriate track for SAC, in order to draw upon expertise from different areas of researches for better synergy. 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 driving the research, but also important applied research and applications to realize the benefits of anywhere, anyplace 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
- 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
- pervasive computing
- RFID applications
- spatiotemporal data representation and processing
- visualization on handheld devices
- wearable computers
- wireless communication and networks
- wireless multimedia
- wireless sensor networks

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 conference proceedings. Submission guidelines can be found on SAC 2012 Website (http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2012/). 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 2012 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/c/sac2012/ by September 7, 2011. 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 sac12mca@comp.polyu.edu.hk including the paper title, abstract, list of key words, 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 sac12mca@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. At least one of the authors of the accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper. Papers and posters NOT presented at conference will NOT be included in the ACM digital library. Submission must be received by Wednesday, September 7, 2011.

Kemal Akkaya, Southern Illinois University, USA
Peter Bertok, RMIT University, Australia
Angelo Brayner, University of Fortaleza, Brazil
Ying Cai, Iowa State University, USA
Guadalupe Canahuate, University of Iowa, USA
Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Chi-Yin Chow, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR-CNR and University of Calabria, Italy
Murat Demirbas, SUNY at Buffalo, USA
Ling Feng, Tsinghua University, China
Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
Charles Hu, National Central University, Taiwan
Roger King, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Dik Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Guanling Lee, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
Ken Lee, University of Massachusetts, USA
Wang-Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada
Seng Loke, La Trobe University, Australia
Stephane Maag, Institut Telecom SudParis, France
Dennis McLeod, University of Southern California, USA
Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University, China
Mohamed Mokbel, University of Minnesota, USA
Wen-Chih Peng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Sunil Prabhakar, Purdue University, USA
Mirek Riedewald, Northeastern University, USA
Caspar Ryan, RMIT University, Australia
Ahmet Sacan, Drexel University, USA
Kian-Lee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Savio Tse, Bilkent University, Turkey
Man Hon Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Wei Wu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Jianliang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Mi-Yen Yeh, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Arkady Zaslavsky, CSIRO, Australia
Baihua Zheng, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Last : October 12, 2011