[hpc-announce] Call for Papers for IEEE MobileCloud 20015 - San Francisco Bay, 3/30-4/3, 2015

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IEEE Mobile Cloud 2015 - Call for Papers

The 3rd IEEE International Conference on
Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering
http://mobile-cloud.net/
San Francisco, CA, USA, March 30 - April 3, 2015

Annual Theme: MOBILE SENSORS MEET BIG DATA

* SCOPE
In the recent years, cloud computing has cultivated the outsourcing of
computing resources like IT infrastructures, service platforms, and
software. With the emergence of ultra-fast 4G mobile networks and
highly-featured smartphones, tablets, and wearable computing devices(e.g.,
with always growing sensing capabilities), the prerequisites are now met
for bringing cloud computing to the mobile domain. While first commercial
products are restricted to the sharing of files, contacts, and calendars
among different devices, more sophisticated applications still have to be
developed. Future applications of mobile cloud computing will take
advantage of the many sensors available on mobile devices, enable new
utilization of their generated big data, and  have an impact on almost all
activities of our social and business life, and include, but are not
limited to, mobile marketing, social networks, smart cities, health care,
and business processes.

This symposium will provide a great platform to allow researchers and
professionals in the industry to exchange their latest research results and
development activities on mobile cloud computing and services. The primary
objective is to share research ideas and results, emerging industry
technologies, and latest advances. The symposium solicits original
technical papers, not previously published and not currently under review
for publication elsewhere. Topics of interest, in particular targeted to
the annual theme, include, but are not limited to:

* TRACK 1: Mobile Cloud Computing Models, Architectures, and Platforms
- Mobile cloud computing models, infrastructures, and approaches
- Resource management, provisioning, and migration
- Mobility modeling, management and measurement techniques
- Mobility-aware cloud data/streams and associated retrieval/processing
techniques
- Mobile cloud security architectures, security policy enforcement, service
models (e.g., BYOD, secure offloading, access control, trust platform, and
e-commerce models, etc.)
- Secrecy, privacy, authentication, and integrity issues in mobile clouds
- Mobile multimedia content delivery, transferring, and migration
- Green computing in networking and mobile computing and clouds
- User-oriented mobile clouds (mobile community/private/public/ad-hoc
clouds)
- Mobile big data computing models
- Mobile crowd collaborating models and associated platforms

* TRACK 2: Mobile Cloud Infrastructure and Service Models
- Mobile Software-as-a-Service (MSaaS),
- Mobile Data-as-a-Service (MDaaS),
- Mobile Platform-as-a-Service (MPaaS)
- Mobile Infrastructure-as-a-Service (MIaaS)
- Mobile Network-as-a-Service (MNaaS)
- Mobile-based Testing-as-a-Service (MTaaS)
- Mobile multimedia and mobile social community services

* TRACK 3: Engineering Mobile Cloud-based Systems
- Modeling, analysis, design methods, and tools
- Innovative infrastructures, architectures, and middlewares
- Bridging the gap between mobile and cloud optimized usage, e.g., via edge
gateway-based architectures for integrating cloud and mobile localities
- Resource collaboration and management for mobile clouds
- Monitoring solutions and evaluation techniques
- Mobile testing tools and techniques
- Resource-effective quality of service on mobile clouds and applications
- Mobile-to-cloud protocol optimizations and mobile cloud-specific resource
scheduling
- Knowledge engineering and data mining techniques
- Virtualization of mobile device resources, e.g., storage and wireless
networking

* TRACK 4: Enabling Technologies
- Embedded mobile platforms and technologies for mobile clouds
- Energy-saving wireless communication technologies
- Novel mobile middleware
- Innovative mobile platforms and client technologies
- Urban (crowd) sensing and smart sensor platforms
- Emergent barcode/RFID/NFC-based mobile technologies
- Mobile cloud data centers and storage/persistency technologies
- Mobile cloud networking, communication, and tunneling technologies

* TRACK 5: Disruptively Innovative Applications
- Next generation mobile applications enabled by the cloud
- Cloud-based mobile media systems and social networks
- Smart mobile SaaS on clouds
- Mobile virtual and physical interactions and mobile enabled virtual
reality
- Mobile context-aware services and computing for clouds
- Cloud-based mobile commerce applications and systems
- Location-aware mobile applications on clouds
- Cloud-based mobile app stores and environments
-  Human-centered applications based on wearable computing devices relating
to clouds
- Intuitive user interfaces for cloud-based mobile applications

* TRACK 6: Surveys and Experience Reports
- State-of-the-art survey reports
- Comparison and analysis reports
- Research reviews on emergent topics in mobile clouds
- Research case studies and experimental reports
- Industry reports on experience and lessons learned


* ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chairs:
- Sato Hiroyuki (University of Tokyo, Japan)
- Dijiang Huang (Arizona State University, USA)
- Axel Kuepper (TU Berlin/Telekom Innovation Laboratories, Germany)

Program Chairs:
- Paolo Bellavista (University of Bologna, Italy)
- Xiaoyan Hong (University of Alabama, USA)
- Toru Kobayashi (Nagasaki University, Japan)

Workshop and Tutorial Chair:
- Prasad Calyam (University of Missouri, USA)

Local Chair
- Jerry Gao (San Jose State University, USA)

Publicity Chairs
- Carlo Giannelli (University of Bologna, Italy)
- Younghee Park (San Jose State University, USA)
- Carlos Becker Westphal (UF Santa Catarina, Brazil)

Proceedings Chair
Andrea Hahn (TU Berlin/Telekom Inn. Labs, Germany)

Web Chair
- James Wu (San Jose State University, USA)


* IMPORTANT DATES
- Abstract submission: October 15, 2014
- Full paper submission: November 1, 2014
- Workshop proposal submission: October 1, 2014
- Tutorial proposal submission: December 1, 2014
- Review notification: January 9, 2015
- Camera-ready submission and conference registration: January 31, 2015
- Conference: March 30 - April 3, 2015


* PAPER SUBMISSION
The length of camera-ready papers will be limited to 10 pages. All papers
should be prepared using the IEEE format, please see
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
Each paper will be reviewed by at least three TPC members. Authors must
submit their manuscripts using the EasyChair conference system, please
follow this EasyChair link
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeemobilecloud2015

* PAPER PUBLICATION
All accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press
(EI-Index) and included in IEEE Digital Library. For publication, each
accepted paper is required to be registered at full rate by one of its
authors and presented at IEEE Mobile Cloud 2015. Selected papers (extended
versions) will be published in journals, such as Journal of Internet
Technology (SCIE indexed), Journal of Communications, International Journal
of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE-SCI indexed), and
International Journal of Handheld Computing Research.

* WORKSHOP/TUTORIAL PROPOSALS SUBMISSION
IEEE Mobile Cloud 2015 will host multiple one-day or half-day workshops in
conjunction with the main conference; topics of interest include any major
research area associated with mobile cloud middleware and applications, as
well as relevant large-scale experiences (from academic/research projects)
in the field. The proposed workshops should focus on creating discussions
among participants as well as community building. A workshop proposal
should contain at least the following information:
* Name and possible acronym of the workshop
* Motivation and rationale for the workshop
* Draft call-for-papers, including introduction and topics of the workshop

IEEE Mobile Cloud 2015 seeks half-day tutorial proposals, which should
provide clear and focused teaching material covering new and emerging
topics related to the main conference. A tutorial proposal should describe
concisely the content, importance, and timeliness of the tutorial, as well
as the targeted potential audience.
Workshop and tutorial proposals must be submitted via email to the Workshop
and Tutorial Chair Prasad Calyam (mobilecloud15wst.chair at gmail.com).
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