CALL FOR PAPERS

       First International Workshop on Modeling Mobile Applications and Services
                             (M2AS'08 )
                   http://www.irpps.cnr.it/eventi/m2as08.htm


                  held in conjunction with the


                 27th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling 
                                    (ER 2008)
                   http://www.upc.edu/ER2008/index.shtml


20 - 23 October 2008 
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain


Aims and Scope

The great diffusion and the growing demand for advanced mobile devices involves billions mobile 
phone users worldwide. Mobile devices are becoming central means for service delivery and future 
mobile services will very likely come. In fact, mobile devices can make services available anywhere, 
anytime, and in any format. 
That is, models, methods and technologies for the Mobile Communication, Mobile Web and services 
design are relevant discussion issues for providing the state of the research and new ideas and 
solutions in the research area.
The objectives of the M2AS Workshop are to promote discussion on concepts, models, methods, languages 
and systems for designing mobile pervasive services, their technological standards and architectural 
solutions.


List of topics

The M2AS'08  Workshop invites researchers, engineers, services developers to propose their 
research and works in the field of mobile devices and services. Papers may deal on method, 
models, case studies, practical experience and technologies. Topics of the workshop include 
but are not limited to: 

* Conceptual models for Mobile web and services 
* Conceptual models of human computer interaction 
* Device technologies 
* Communication technologies 
* Multimodal systems 
* Mobile systems and services 
* Usability evaluation methodologies for mobile pervasive application 
* Interactive context-aware services on mobile devices 
* User experiences, user studies 
* Application and scenarios
Workshop Organisation committee
• Fernando Ferri, IRPPS-CNR, Rome, Italy (fernando.ferri@irpps.cnr.it)
• Patrizia Grifoni, IRPPS-CNR, Rome, Italy (patrizia.grifoni@irpps.cnr.it)
• Maria Chiara Caschera, IRPPS-CNR, Rome, Italy (mc.caschera@irpps.cnr.it)


Program Committee

Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Paris Avgeriou, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Regina Bernhaupt, University of Salzburg, Austria
Michela Bertolotto, University College Dublin, Ireland
Antonio Fernández-Caballero, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Augusto Celentano, University of Venice, Italy
Richard Chbeir, Bourgogne University, France
Fang Chen, National ICT, Australia
Deborah Dahl, Conversational Technologies, USA
Alfred Dielmann CSTR, University of Edinburgh, UK
Chirine Ghedira, Claude Bernard Lyon I University, France 
Ho-fung Leung, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Oscar Pastor Lòpez, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Paolo Merialdo, University of Roma Tre, Italy
Amit Anil Nanavati, IBM Research, India
Nitendra Rajput, IBM Research, India
Thomas Strang, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
Riccardo Torlone, University of Roma Tre, Italy
Olga De Troyer, WISE, Belgium
Iñaki Vázquez, University of Deusto, Spain
 
Important dates

Paper abstracts:        April 6, 2008
Full papers:        April 15, 2008
Notification:        May 24, 2008
Camera-ready papers:        June 21, 2008
 
Submission:

All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All submissions must be in English. Submissions should be in PDF format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and must not exceed 10 pages in the final camera-ready format.
Submitted papers need to be original and not submitted or accepted for publication in any other workshop, conference, or journal. 
The organizers will oversee a peer-review process for the submitted papers. 
 Papers should be submitted to:

		m2as@irpps.cnr.it