1st International Workshop on Services and Infrastructures for the Ubiquitous and Mobile Internet (SIUMI'05) In conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'05), Ohio, June 6-9, 2005 TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION Advances in mobile and wireless communication are enlarging and enhancing the services provided by the Internet infrastructure towards any time, any place and any device features. Ubiquitous services impose new requirements to the entire infrastructure, from the system to the middleware and the applications that should be able to adapt traditional services to different mobile user terminals and profiles, and embed new functions and tools to support the new services and new requirements of the future scenario. Mobile wireless devices are subject to specific limitations, such as connection discontinuity, energy and resource shortage, security and privacy issues, but they also allow the implementation of new services, such as those based on location- and context-sensitivity, on the possibility of creating dynamic and impromptu communities based on locality and shared interests, on the possibility of providing soft real-time streaming-based contents to different devices. This combination of limitations and opportunities opens challenging issues that call for a re-examination of the middleware for supporting both the fixed and the mobile counterparts. The interest is also on the novel distributed infrastructures for content and service provisioning that are on the way, and on the impact of new applications on traditional issues for distributed systems, such as caching, consistency, replication. This first Workshop intends to put together different expertises in a forum that aims to be open to researchers and engineers from academia and industry where it is possible to compare and exchange new ideas, research results, experiences, and products about different aspects related to the Ubiquitous and Mobile Internet. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: * Distributed platforms * Content and service delivery architectures * Edge-oriented computing * Caching and replication * Peer-to-peer schemes * Context-based services and applications * Middleware and software supports * Mobile-enabled middleware mechanisms * Personalization and transcoding * Mobile code and mobile agent technology * Service deployment and adaptation * Resource discovery algorithms * Performance evaluation * Resource and network monitoring * Security and privacy issues * QoS-based protocols and servers * Resource and service management * Novel application fields PAPER SUBMISSION SIUMI 2005 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. Papers must be written in English and should not exceed 8 pages in IEEE proceedings style. Authors should submit a PostScript or PDF file through the submission Web site (http://TO_BE_DEFINED). Emails and hard copies will be accepted only if motivated reasons prevent electronic submission. Submission implies that at least one of the authors will register and present the paper. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract registration from November 15 to December 7, 2004 Submission deadline December 15, 2004 Notification of acceptance January 30, 2005 Camera-ready papers due February 15, 2005 Papers due to IEEE CS press March 1, 2005 REVIEW PROCESS AND ESTIMATION OF PARTICIPANT NUMBER Each submitted paper will receive at least three reviews accordingly to the above time schedule. We have formed a preliminary Program Committee where half members have confirmed their participation, and we are waiting for response from the other invited members. The final PC will be defined in few days. We expect to accept about 15 full papers, up to 40-50 submissions, to be presented in one-day workshop. The expected attendance is around 40-50 people. (Significant participation, both in terms of submissions and attendance, is expected by researchers working in European and Italian projects on the topics of this workshop.) We have devised a workshop organization based on three groups that can guarantee an adequate and qualified number of reviews. * Two program co-chairs, one in the middleware/application area, and the other in the system area. * A steering committee consisting of 6 members, equally divided between the middleware/application and the system area. It is expected that, if necessary, they will physically meet to decide about the final set of accepted papers. * A Program Committee of about 25 members together with the steering committee members, willprovide the expected 150 revisions. (External reviews are accepted only if a PC member will take responsibility of them.) Program Co-chairs * Philip S. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA * Antonio Corradi, University of Bologna, Italy Steering Committee * Michele Colajanni, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy * Giulio Iannello, University of Rome "Campus Bio-Medico", Italy * Rittwik Jana, AT&T Labs Research, NJ, USA * Michael Smirnov, Fraunhofer Focus, Germany * US member, to be confirmed * Asia member, to be confirmed (Preliminary) Program Committee Albert Banchs, Universidad de Madrid Carlos III, Spain Valeria Cardellini, University of Roma, Italy Giovanni Chiola, University of Genova, Italy Grzegorz Czajkowski, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, CA, USA Chris Gill, Washington University of St. Louis, USA Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal, University of Florida, FL, USA Kanter, Ericsson Radio Systems AB, Sweden Cecilia Mascolo, UCL, London, UK Rebecca Montanari, University of Bologna, Italy Vittorio Scarano, University of Salerno, Italy Niranjan Suri, IHMC, FL, USA Kun-lung Wu, IBM Research, USA Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Simon Pietro Romano, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy etc. OTHER TECHNICAL ASPECTS The Organizing Committee guarantees the creation and management of: - a Web site for distributing the Call for Papers and any timely information about the Workshop - a site for electronic submission - a tool for on-line review process Publicity to the SIUMI'05 Workshop will be given through mailing lists, insertion in major sites (including IEEE and ACM) and search engines. WORKSHOP ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ADDRESSES Philip S. Yu (Co-Chair) IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Yorktown Heights, New York, USA Phone: E-mail: psyu@us.ibm.com Antonio Corradi (Co-Chair) DEIS Università di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy, Phone: +39-051-2093083 E-mail: acorradi@deis.unibo.it Michele Colajanni Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia Via Vignolese 905 41100 Modena, Italy Phone: +39-059-2056137 E-mail: colajanni@unimo.it Giulio Iannello Facoltà di Ingegneria, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma via Longoni, 83, 00155 Roma, Italy Phone: +39-06-22541261 E-mail: g.iannello@unicampus.it Rittwik Jana AT&T Labs Research 180 Park Avenue, PO Box 971, Room: RM B229 Florham Park, NJ 07932-0971, US Phone: +1 973 360-7205 E-mail: rjana@research.att.com