Congratulations!

Congratulations to Priv.-Doz. Dr. rer. nat. Ralf Klamma. I am glad to have taken some pictures, before they are posted to some CS-passionate blogs e.g. this one. :-)

CfP: PerCoSC 2011 (Submission Deadline Extended)

The First IEEE PerCom Workshop on Pervasive Communities and Service Clouds (PerCoSC 2011)
Held in conjunction with 9th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications 2011 (PerCom 2011), March 21, 2011, Seattle, USA

URL: http://dbis.rwth-aachen.de/PerCoSC2011/
email: percosc2011@dbis.rwth-aachen.de

The First IEEE PerCom Workshop on Pervasive Communities and Service Clouds aims to offer researchers, Ph.D. students, and practitioners a forum to present and discuss research advances and challenges related to cloud computing support for pervasive communities. The workshop thus aims to enable the sharing of insights and experiences related to the development and use of cloud computing technologies, often called service clouds, for supporting pervasive communities. Pervasive communities are user communities that are enabled by pervasive computing technologies. Service clouds denote the totality of cloud computing services, applications, platforms, and infrastructure that comply with the service-oriented architecture paradigm.
Pervasive community services deal with data sensed and collected from the users’ physical environments via networked mobile devices. Hence, they support data exchange, communication, and collaboration among mobile users. Pervasive communities of users with mobile devices and network connections have been increasing. Thus, the pervasive technologies to support pervasive communities face new requirements, e.g., related to mobility support, context-awareness, spatiotemporal intelligence, connectivity to communities, information sharing, collaboration, pervasive interaction, and privacy and security issues. However, the computational capabilities of mobile devices remain limited, when faced with pervasive communities who share large data volumes. Cloud computing technologies offer computational resources on a pay-per-use basis and are capable of abstracting technical details from the mobile devices. These technologies thus hold the potential for enabling pervasive community services with varying computing requirements in a cost-effective and scalable manner. Indeed, service clouds may envision future pervasive computing and enables innovative pervasive community services and applications.

Topics

Topics of interest include but are not restricted to the following topics:
• cloud computing (services, platforms, infrastructure, and standards etc.) for pervasive communities
• cloud computing for pervasive technologies
• user-targeted pervasive, mobile and context-aware services and applications
• location-based, temporal, or spatiotemporal services and applications
• software architectures for cloud computing and pervasive computing
• data modeling and management for cloud computing and pervasive communities
• social software and Web 2.0 in cloud computing and pervasive computing
• augmented reality for pervasive communities
• security and privacy in cloud computing and pervasive communities


Submission

The papers should present original and previously unpublished results that are not simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Authors are invited to submit papers limited to 6 pages formatted in accordance with the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE PerCom.

Please submit your paper to the EDAS Conference Management System at http://edas.info/N9371.

Important Dates

• November 7, 2010 (extended) Deadline for workshop paper submission
• January 7, 2011 Notification of acceptance
• January 28, 2011 Deadline for camera ready papers
• March 21, 2011 PerCom 2011

Workshop Organizers

Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Christian S. Jensen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Yiwei Cao, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Dejan Kovachev, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Program Committee

Christian Bischof, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Erik Buchmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Daniel Catrein, Ericsson Eurolab, Germany
Vincent Charvillat, ENSEEIHT, France
Chang Wen Chen, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Michael Granitzer, Know Center Graz, Austria
Wolfgang Gräther, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Tim Hussein, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Antony D. Joseph, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany
Wei-Shinn Ku, Auburn University, USA
Wang-Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China
Mathias Lux, Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Austria
Sergio Mascetti, University of Milan, Italy
Martin Memmel, German Research Center for AI, Germany
Vincent Oria, New Jersey's Science & Technology University, USA
Marc Spaniol, Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Germany
Marcus Specht, Open University of the Netherlands, the Netherlands
Markus Strohmaier, Know Center Graz, Austria
Christian Timmerer, Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Austria
Goce Trajcevski, Northwestern University, USA
Mark Vorwerk, Ericsson Eurolab, Germany
Weichao Wang, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Felix Wolf, RWTH Aachen University, Germany