RENATA: Red Nacional Académica de Tecnología Avanzada. Colombia

Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing and Networks (UbiCoNet) In conjunction with GLOBECOM 2010, Miami, Florida, USA

(Call for Papers) The UbiCoNet workshop aims to provide researchers who share similar research interests with a forum to meet and address new research challenges and initiatives that concern Ubiquitous Computing (UbiCo) and Networks (Net).

The workshop program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives, and will allow authors to present new and emerging trends in ubiquitous computing and networks to dedicated audiences.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Ubiquitous Computing and Communications

• Peer-to-Peer Computing

• Multimedia Networks and Services

• Human-Computer Interaction

• Wireless Communication & Networks

• Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANETs)

• Wireless Sensor Networks

• Mobile Computing

• Agents and Distributed Computing

• User Centered Design in Ubiquitous Networks

• Context-aware Computing and Service Provisioning

• Mobile Augmented Reality

• Mobile Social Communications

Only original, previously unpublished papers will be accepted. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit an IEEE conference style paper up to 5 pages long (including all text, figures, and references) through EDAS

submission system (http://www.edas.info), but one additional page will be allowed with additional publication fee.

An accepted paper must be registered before the registration deadline and must be presented at the UbiCoNet workshop. Failure to register before the deadline will result in automatic withdrawal of the paper from the workshop proceedings and the program. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE GLOBECOM proceedings and IEEE digital library.

GLOBECOM has the right to remove an accepted and registered but not presented paper from the IEEE digital library.

Important dates

Papers submission: July 2, 2010

Acc. Notification: August 13, 2010

Camera-ready: August 31, 2010

Workshop: December 10, 2010

Workshop Chairs

Pablo Cesar, CWI (Centrum Wiskunde & Informática), The Netherlands

Jairo Gutiérrez, Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar, Colombia

Alexander García Dávalos, Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Colombia

Program Committee

Roch Glitho, Concordia University, Canada

José Enrique Simó Ten, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

Michiharu Takemoto, NTT Labs, Japan

Xabiel Garcia, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain

Yuusuke Nakano, NTT Labs, Japan

Raúl Aquino, Universidad de Colima, Mexico

Andrés Navarro C., ICESI University, Colombia

Alexander García D., Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Colombia

José Luis Arciniegas, Universidad del Cauca, Colombia

Diego Martínez, Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Colombia

Fabio Guerrero, Universidad del Valle, Colombia

Apolinar González, Universidad de Colima, Mexico

Roberto Hincapié, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia

Fabio Verdi, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil

Yuuichi Teranishi, Osaka University, Japan

Qusay Mahmoud, University of Guelph, Canada

Kamil Kloch, University of Passau, Germany

Karim Seada, Nokia Research Center, USA

Eduard Babulak, University of South Pacific, Fiji

Giuseppe Raffa, Intel Labs, USA