Event:MDM 2009

Since the debut in December 1999, the MDM series of conferences has established itself as a prestigious forum for the exchange of innovative and significant research results in mobile data management. The conference provides unique opportunities for researchers, engineers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore new ideas, techniques, and tools, and to exchange experiences.

In the past decade, we have witnessed significant advances in wireless communications and mobile technology, along with continuous appearance of versatile mobile gadgets and rapid growth in sensors and actuators. Meanwhile, high-precision outdoor and indoor positioning technology has become mature and available. A global, pervasive computing infrastructure that may profoundly change the way people live and work is emerging. Mobile and pervasive computing and communication are enabled at an unprecedented scale and density.

All these technological developments are expected to bring us a next wave of information revolution and change our society. However, as we move a step closer from mobile computing towards the grand vision of pervasive and ubiquitous computing, a number of challenges need to be overcome, especially when it comes to data-intensive applications: scale, variable and intermittent connectivity, location dependence and context awareness, bandwidth and power consumption, device size limitations, and multimedia delivery across hybrid networks.

Conventional issues in data management have to be reconsidered and reevaluated in this rapidly changing environment. Non-traditional issues including mobility, data semantics, context modeling, broadcast and multicast delivery, data availability, trust and privacy must also be addressed effectively. Additionally, starting from 2009, MDM will extend its scope to cover research issues in mobile systems, services and middleware.

Conference Scope

The scope of this conference includes but is not limited to the following topics:

• Adaptability and stability of pervasive computing systems
• Context-aware computing and location-based services
• Data management in wireless networks
• Data management in sensor and mobile ad hoc networks
• Data management in mobile peer-to-peer networks
• Data mining for mobile applications
• Data presentation, scripting and exchange languages
• Data replication, migration and dissemination in mobile environments
• Data stream processing in mobile/sensor networks
• Indexing and query processing for moving objects
• Location and mobility semantics
• Location tracking of vehicles and moving objects
• Metadata management and exchanges
• Mobile access to the Web
• Mobile agents
• OS and middleware for mobile and pervasive computing
• Publish-subscribe approach in mobile computing
• Quality of service issues for data-intensive services
• Query processing and optimization for mobile users
• Resource advertising and discovery techniques
• Security and privacy issues for ubiquitous systems
• Theoretical foundations of data-intensive mobile computing
• Transactions and workflows in mobile environments
• User interfaces and usability issues form mobile applications

Paper Submissions

The conference invites original, unpublished submissions, not exceeding 10 pages in IEEE camera-ready format. Submissions in PDF are to be uploaded to the conference web-based submission system at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/MDM2009/

Industrial/experience papers, Ph.D. Forum presentations, as well as proposals for panels, demos, seminars, and workshops are also sought. Submission instructions will be made available on the conference homepage.

Important Dates

• Abstract submission: 10/25/2008
• Paper submission: 11/01/2008
• Notification: 2/01/2009
• Camera ready: 3/15/2009

Committees

• Co-Organizers
• General Co-Chairs
  • Yu-Chee Tseng, National User:Curator 83iao Tung University, Taiwan
  • Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern University, USA
  • Ralf Hartmut Guting, University of Hagen, Germany

• PC Co-Chairs
  • Wang-Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University, USA
  • User:Curator 83ung-Ta King, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
  • Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece

• Industry User:Curator 83air
  • Kun-Lung Wu, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA.

• Workshop User:Curator 83air
  • User:Curator 83o-Li Wang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

• Best Paper Award User:Curator 83air
  • Ming-Syan User:Curator 83en, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

• Panel User:Curator 83air
  • Arbee L.P. Chen, National User:Curator 83engchi University, Taiwan

• Seminars User:Curator 83air
  • Baihua Zheng, Singapore Management Univ., Singapore

• Demonstration Co-Chairs
  • Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
  • Hsiao-Kuang Wu, National Central University, Taiwan

• Ph.D. Forum User:Curator 83air
  • Polly Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

• Exhibition User:Curator 83air
  • Shiao-Li Tsao, National User:Curator 83iao Tung University, Taiwan

• Publicity Co-Chairs
  • Jianliang Xu, Baptist University, Hong Kong
  • Magdalena Balazinska, University of Washington, USA
  • Nesime Tatbul, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

• Publication User:Curator 83air
  • Jiun-Long Huang, National User:Curator 83iao Tung University, Taiwan

• Financial User:Curator 83air
  • User:Curator 83ih-Wei Yi, National User:Curator 83iao Tung University, Taiwan

• Local Organizing Co-Chairs
  • Wen-Chih Peng, National User:Curator 83iao Tung University, Taiwan
  • Ming-Hour Yang, User:Curator 83ung Yuan User:Curator 83ristian University, Taiwan

• Program Committee Members

• • Debopam Acharya, Georgia Southern University, USA
  • Karl Aberer, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Divyakant Agrawal, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
  • Walid Aref, Purdue University, USA
  • Joshi Aunpam, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
  • Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
  • Ying Cai, Iowa State University, USA
  • Meng-Chang User:Curator 83en, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
  • User:Curator 83ung-Min User:Curator 83en, Telcordia, USA
  • User:Curator 83o-Yu User:Curator 83iang, Telcordia, USA
  • Lee-Feng User:Curator 83ien, Google, Taiwan
  • Panos User:Curator 83rysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, USA
  • Samir Das, Stony Brook University, USA
  • Nigel Davies, Lancaster University, UK
  • Alex Delis, University of Athens, Greece
  • Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, University of London, UK
  • Le Gruenwald, National Science Foundation, USA
  • Xiaohui Gu, North Carolina State University, USA
  • Dimitrios Gunopulos, University of California, Riverside, USA
  • Rick Han, University of Colorado, USA
  • Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
  • Manfred Hauswirth, National University of Ireland, Ireland
  • Kien Hua, University of Central Florida, USA
  • Yoshiharu Ishikawa, Nagoya University, Japan
  • Vana Kalogeraki, University of California, Riverside, USA
  • Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
  • George Kollios, Boston University, USA
  • Vijay Kumar, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA
  • Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
  • Birgitta Konig-Ries, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany
  • User:Curator 83iang Lee, National User:Curator 83eng Kung University, Taiwan
  • Dik Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
  • Hong Va Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
  • Mei Li, Microsoft, USA
  • Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
  • Hua Lu, Aalborg University, Denmark
  • Sanjay Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA
  • Nikos Mamoulis, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Pedro Jose Marron, University of Bonn and Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
  • Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University, User:Curator 83ina
  • Bernhard Mitschang, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  • Silvia Nittel, University of Maine, USA
  • Dimitris Papadias, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
  • Wen-Chih Peng, National User:Curator 83iao Tung University, Taiwan
  • Jean-Marc Pierson, IRIT, Toulouse, France
  • Krithi Ramamritham, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Indian
  • Kay Roemer, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
  • George Samaras, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
  • Ichiro Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
  • Markus Schneider, University of Florida, USA
  • Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
  • Cyrus Shahabi, University of South California, USA
  • Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota, USA
  • Mukesh Singhal, University of Kenturky, USA
  • Kian-Lee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • Xueyan Tang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • Nesime Tatbul, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
  • Goce Trajcevski, Northwestern University, USA
  • Shin-Mu Tseng, National User:Curator 83eng Kung University, Taiwan
  • Vassilis Tsotras, University of California at Riverside, USA
  • Jari Veijalainen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
  • Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at User:Curator 83icago, USA
  • Xing Xie, MSRA, User:Curator 83ina
  • Jianliang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
  • Jeffrey Xu Yu, User:Curator 83inese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Philip Yu, University of Illinois at User:Curator 83icago, USA
  • Vladimir Zadorozhny, University of Pittsburgh, USA
  • Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia
  • Baihua Zheng, Singapore Management University, Singapore
  • Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, User:Curator 83ina
  • Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia
  • Shuigeng Zhou, Fudan University, User:Curator 83ina