= Aims and Scope =

The recent advancement of workflow technologies and adoption of the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has much facilitated the automation of business collaboration within and across organizations to increase their competiveness and responsiveness to the fast evolving global economic environment. The widespread of mobile technologies has further resulted in an increasing demand for the support of Mobile Business Collaboration (MBC) across multiple platforms anytime and anywhere. Examples include supply-chain logistics, group calendars, and dynamic human resources planning. As mobile devices become more powerful, the adoption of mobile computing is imminent. However, mobile business collaboration is not merely porting the software with an alternative user interface, but rather involves a wide range of new requirements, constraints, and technical challenges.

= Topics of Interest =

This event intentionally seeks scientists, engineers, educators, industry people, policy makers, decision makers, and others who have insight, vision, and understanding of the big challenges in Mobile Business Collaboration. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the theoretical, technical, or empirical

aspects of the following:

Principles, theories, models, challenges, legal, and social issues of MBC

MBC requirements, design, implementation, and case studies

Inter- and Intra-organizational integration for mobile platforms

Mobile databases, services, and workflows

Multi-databases, federated databases, parallel, and distributed Databases for MBC

Temporal, spatial, and mobile databases for MBC

Data mining and knowledge discovery for MBC

Context and location sensitive applications

RFID and sensor data management for MBC

Service Level Agreements (SLA), quality, and reliability

Web Services and ontology support for MBC

Contents management and man-machine interactions for MBC

Agent based technologies for MBC

Virtual organizations and supply-chain issues for MBC

Trust, reputation, security, and privacy in MBC

We strongly encourage submission of papers bridging the research in different fields and promoting mutual exchange and understanding of cross-field research results.

= Publication and Submission Details =

Papers have to present original research contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere. All manuscripts will be reviewed by members of the program committee based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. All papers accepted by DASFAA'09 workshops will be published in a combined volume of Lecturer Notes in Computer Science series published by Springer. All submissions should be in English. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one author will attend the workshop to present the work. Papers should not exceed 15 pages in LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Papers must be submitted to: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/MBC2009/Default.aspx.

= General Chairs =

Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, China

Hua Hu, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China

= Program Chairs =

Dickson K.W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, HK, China

Yi Zhuang, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China

= Program Committee =

Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada

Samuel P. M. Choi, The Open University of Hong Kong, HK, China

Eleanna Kafeza, Athens University of Economics and Commerce, Greece

Baihua Zheng, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Edward Hung, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK, China

Ho-fung Leung, Chinese University of Hong, HK, China

Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, U.A.E.

Stefan Voss, University of Hamburg, Germany

Cuiping Li, Renmin University, China

Chi-hung Chi, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, China

Stephen Yang, National Central University, Taiwan, China

Ibrahim Kushchu, Mobile Government Consortium International, UK

Haiyang Hu, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China

Huiye Ma, CWI, Netherlands

Pirkko Walden, Abo Akademi University, Finland

Raymond Wong, National ICT, Australia

Lidan Shou, Zhejiang University, China

Matti Rossi, Helsinki School of Economics, Finland

Achim Karduck, Furtwangen University, Germany


Important Date

* Full papers due: January 10, 2009

* Notification to authors: February 28, 2009

* Camera-ready due: March 15, 2009

* Workshop: April 20, 2009