WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
The continuous
emergence of powerful personal handheld devices and smart phones are redefining the pervasive computing paradigms of the past. The questions this workshop aims to discuss are:
The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers from both
academia and industry to foster a discussion on key research challenges in
content sharing and dissemination, cooperative activities, mobile search, and
security and privacy issues in pervasive environments. Additionally, the
workshop forum will provide an opportunity to explore new business models and
act as a soundboard for discussing bold new ideas in the area. While the
main purpose is to promote discussions in the design of cooperation and
sharing architectures, protocols, algorithms, middleware, services, and
applications for wireless systems, it also aims at increasing the synergy
between academic and industry professionals working in this area. We therefore
seek papers that address theoretical, experimental, and work in-progress at
all layers of pervasive environments, with the focus on realistic application
scenarios.
The workshop aims to address cooperation from both an application as well as
a system design standpoint. From the application perspective, the workshop
encourages submissions of studies of prototypes or real-world systems,
including demonstrations of these systems. Cooperation in such applications
can take many forms, including multimedia communications, interaction with
embedded sensing devices, etc. From the system point of view, the workshop
will solicit submissions that discuss architectures for cooperative systems,
resource management techniques, security mechanisms, and other middleware or
systems approaches for realistic pervasive environments. We will also
encourage submissions on "brave new topics" that present futuristic ideas
that have never previously been explored.
Topics covered by the workshop will include, but are not limited to, the following:
SUBMISSION
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished
research and recent developments in the topics related to the workshop.
Submissions must be in PDF format and should include an abstract,
key words, and email address of the corresponding author. The length of the
papers should be limited to 6 pages in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font). Authors must submit their papers through the
CMT conference management site at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/COPE2009 (Note that if you access the submission site for the first time, you need to click on "New Users? Sign up here" to register). Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the
authors will register and attend the workshop to present the work.
IMPORTANT DATES
November 10, 2008: EXTENDED PAPER DEADLINE!
December 19, 2008: Acceptance notification
January 7, 2009: Final camera ready paper due