CALL FOR PAPERS

MOBILE COMPUTING TRACK

Track co-chairs:

Symposium Time and Place:

March 19-21, 2000

Villa Olmo,Como, Italy

Mobile Computing Track Call for Papers and Reviewers:

You are invited to serve as author/reviewer for the

Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'2000) -

Track on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications.

Papers are solicited in the following areas:

• Mobile Applications and Services
• Operating System Support for Mobility
• Mobile Programming Paradigms
• Mobile Agents
• Integration of Mobile and Stationary Systems
• Wireless Protocols
• Mobile Multimedia Systems
• Mobile Database Systems
• Security and Privacy of Mobile Computing
• Performance Evaluation of Mobile Systems and Protocols
• Mobile System Protocols
• Electronic Commerce Systems and Applications
• Distributed Mobile Computing Systems and Applications
• Object-based Mobile Computing Systems and Applications

Important dates:

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION

Original papers from the above-mentioned areas will be considered. This includes three categories of submissions:

1. Original and unpublished research.
2. Reports of innovative mobile computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, business, government, education and industry.
3. Reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains.
4. Long papers (up to 15 pages) and short papers (up to 6 pages) are solicited.

 Each paper will be reviewed by a peer group. Accepted papers in all categories will be published in the symposium proceedings. Expanded versions of selected papers from all categories will be considered for publication in the ACM/SIGAPP quarterly Applied Computing Review or one of the other participating SIGs' publications. Submission guidelines must be strictly followed:

1. Submit six (6) copies of original manuscripts to:

Dorota M. Huizinga

Department of Computer Science

California State University, Fullerton

Fullerton, CA 92834

USA

tel: (714) 278-7150

fax: (714) 278-7168

e-mail: dorota@ecs.fullerton.edu

2. An electronic submission via e-mail is also recommended. The file format should be either MS-Word or Postcript.
3. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review.
4. The body of paper should not exceed 4,000 words (approximately 15 pages, double-spaced).
5. A separate cover sheet attached to each copy should show the title of the paper, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the address (including e-mail, telephone, and FAX) to which correspondence should be sent.