Session Overview

The theme of the special session on Semantic Mobile Computing will examine how the research in the areas of Mobile Computing, the Semantic Web and Service Oriented Architecture can serve as a foundation for new architectural and communication paradigms that can enhance service creation, distribution, discovery, integration and utilization in distributed and ubiquitous environments.

The advent of powerful mobile devices, mobile computing platforms and interfaces are rapidly ushering the next computing revolution. The recent surge in the growth and adoption of the RESTful services paradigm for delivering applications as services on the Web have challenged and changed conventional approaches to software design and delivery. Combined with the evolution of Semantic Web techniques and principles, the areas of Mobile Computing and RESTful services can take us closer toward realizing the Web as a ubiquitous platform for data, information, knowledge and application exchange. While the possibilities are endless and are exciting, one needs to address certain basic issues before the grand vision can be realized. Some of these include

1. Efficient ways to distribute data processing between service providers and users, especially data integration in case of mashups,
2. Semantic annotation of data and data formats that can be used in bandwidth constrained environments such as mobile environments,
3. Need to identify techniques to model and describe various execution environments, their capabilities and constraints and
4. The role of semantic web in taking the foundations of social computing and other emerging Web 2.0 paradigms into ubiquitous environments.

Topics of interest (not an exhaustive list)

• Semantic annotation of data in bandwidth constrained environments such as mobile networks to promote efficient bandwidth utilization
• Possibilities of using microformats such as RDFa and opportunities that can be explored by their usage in applications such as mashups
• Utilization of semantic annotation in the client side for more intelligent data gathering and processing
• Ontologies and meta models to describe execution environments for services
• Role of semantic web in taking the foundations of social computing and Web 2.0 to the mobile environment.
• Semantically rich policies to control interaction and behavior of devices in mobile environments., in particular to enable security and privacy.

This session is one of the earliest forums to facilitate discussion in the intersection of Semantic Web, Service Oriented Architecture and Mobile Computing research areas. This session is expected to attract researchers with varied interests in the above areas and would serve as a common platform for forging new collaborations towards exploring the research space of Mobile Semantic Computing.

Organizing Committee

• Dr. Amit P. Sheth, Lexis Nexis Eminent Scholar, Director, kno.e.sis center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
• Dr. Anupam Joshi, Professor, UMBC ebiquity Research Group, Universiity of Maryland Baltimore County
• Karthik Gomadam, Researcher, kno.e.sis center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH (kgomadam at gmail dot com)

Important Dates

Abstract submission due: April 20, 2008
Abstract Notification : April 24, 2008
Camera Ready Version of Full Paper : EXTENDED May 16, 2008

Submission Guidelines

The abstract must clearly demonstrate the positioning of the paper with respect to the topic of interest. The full paper must follow the conference submission guidelines. This can be found at ICSC Guidelines Site. The full paper must be PDF file format.