CALL FOR PAPERS
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The 2015 IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Mobile Systems & Services (DMSS 2015)
(http://cs.queensu.ca/~elgazzar/DMSS2015/)
July 6, 2015 - Larnaca, Cyprus

in Conjuction with the The IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2015)
(http://www.ieee-iscc.org/2015/)


The sophistication of today’s mobile applications and services demands resources beyond the capacity of mobile devices to support advanced functionality and offer better user experience. Mobile distributed computing has emerged as a discipline of distributed systems research and practice towards support for mobility and limited resources. Recently, Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) promises to augment the capability of mobile devices through provisioning of computational resources on demand. MCC enables resource-constrained mobile devices to offload some or all of their processing and storage requirements to the cloud infrastructure. The continuous revolution in wireless communication technologies also unleashes the full potential of mobile distributed systems, where data transfer and communications between mobile devices and supporting computing infrastructures are increasingly improving.

The scope of DMSS will extend beyond traditional cloud and mobile computing technologies to encompass emerging distributed cloud technologies and networking infrastructures. For example, federated mobile clouds, information-centric networking architectures, mobile service platforms based on Web OS, HTML5, mobile crowdsourcing and crowdsensing approaches, resource allocations, privacy and security techniques in mobile communications, etc.

The DMSS workshop is intended to create a platform for researchers, developers, and practitioners in current mobile cloud computing from academia, industry, and service providers to share and discuss their ideas, experiences, challenges, and practical implementations related to MCC technologies and mobile services. We encourage papers that address current challenges and propose novel research directions. Both position and work-in-progress papers are also welcomed.

The topics of interest include, but not limited to:
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- Distributed mobile applications
- Mobile cloud architectures
- Crowdsensing and crowdsourcing approaches
- Quality of information and management in crowdsensing
- Location-based mobile cloud services and applications
- Software architecture and design of mobile services
- Offloading strategies and techniques
- Performance evaluation of MCC techniques and models
- Reliability, availability, and scalability in distributed mobile systems
- Energy and resource optimization in mobile systems
- Quality of Service (QoS) studies
- User experience and interface design
- Privacy and security protections
- Virtualization and programming infrastructure
- Ubiquitous and pervasive services
- Context-aware architectures in distributed mobile systems
- MCC-based social networking and communications
- Applications of vehicular networks, V2V and V2I communications


Important Dates
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Submission of research papers due: April 20, 2015
Notification of paper acceptance: April 27, 2015
Submission of camera-ready papers: May 4, 2015
Workshop date: July 6, 2015

Paper submission
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Papers should be written in English. Manuscripts should be no more than 7 pages, double column, IEEE style including tables, figures and references. Note that accepted papers up to 6 pages in the IEEE double column proceedings format will be published with no additional charge. Please use either Word or LaTex templates and instructions provided by IEEE. Papers must be submitted by April 20, 2015 using EDAS (http://edas.info/N19539). Papers meeting these requirements will be peer-reviewed by at least three independent reviewers, including a TPC member. Papers must present original and unpublished work and should not be currently under review by any other conference or journal. To submit a paper, please follow the instructions on the workshop Web site.

The Workshop Proceedings will be part of the ISCC 2015 Proceedings and will be available on IEEE Xplore.



Organizing Committee
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Program Co-Chairs:
Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada
Khalid Elgazzar, Queen's University, Canada

Publicity Chair:
Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK