Welcome to the COMPSAC 2016 Symposium on Mobile, Wearable, and Ubiquitous Computing (MOWU). Riding on the rapidly growing trend in making the world highly connected via various communication infrastructures and ubiquitous portable devices, especially high bandwidth wireless communication, regardless of user location and device mobility, it is important to develop applications taking full advantage of these technological advancements. MOWU is focused on recent advances in wireless communications and the proliferation of powerful mobile devices, noticeably smart phones and Internet of Things (IoT) nodes that have enabled a wide range of mobile services, everywhere and anytime. The symposium echoes the main theme of COMPSAC 2016 on “Connected World: New Challenges for Data, Systems & Applications”, addressing challenges in emerging application domains such as connected health, wearable computing, IoT, cyber-physical systems, and smart planet. MOWU’s primary objective is to attract presentations by both researchers and practitioners of their recent results, findings, and achievements in all components of the pervasive ubiquitous environments including the advancement of middleware technologies in various mobile-related sectors, ranging from effective synergic management of wireless communications to dynamic adaptiveness of system software, and from horizontal support of crowdsourcing in different application domains to dynamic offloading on cloud resources. By fostering innovation, the main goal of MOWU is to advance the understanding of and addressing the technical challenges in mobile communications regarding current and future mobile services, applications, and devices for wearable and ubiquitous computing. The Second MOWU Symposium received a total of 16 full submissions. We are honored to have invited renowned researchers to serve on the program committee, providing comprehensive reviews to the submissions. In particular, each individual submission underwent a rigorous double-blind review process assisted by program committee members. Each paper received at least three reviews and some papers received five reviews. Moreover, to guarantee high quality and consistency of the review process, metareviews were discussed by the conference and symposia program chairs during a dedicated PC meeting, hosted this February by Hiroyuki Sato of University of Tokyo. Finally, we accepted 18.8% of the submissions as regular papers and 6.3% as short papers for inclusion into this year’s COMPSAC proceedings, published by IEEE Computer Society. The selected papers are clustered around localization and mobile data management, thus demonstrating the current interest of the researchers’ community in these “hot” fields. We strongly believe that the accepted full papers are of extremely high quality and will provide a valuable technical contribution to the community. Given the overall (full + short) acceptance rate of only 25%, the review process was highly competitive, and it is indeed unfortunate that many good quality papers could not be accepted to be included in the MOWU technical program.
Message from the MOWU Organizing Committee / Chang, Morris; Leong, Hong Va; Bellavista, Paolo; Getov, Vladimir. - ELETTRONICO. - 1:(2016), pp. 786-787. [10.1109/COMPSAC.2016.257]
Message from the MOWU Organizing Committee
BELLAVISTA, PAOLO;
2016
Abstract
Welcome to the COMPSAC 2016 Symposium on Mobile, Wearable, and Ubiquitous Computing (MOWU). Riding on the rapidly growing trend in making the world highly connected via various communication infrastructures and ubiquitous portable devices, especially high bandwidth wireless communication, regardless of user location and device mobility, it is important to develop applications taking full advantage of these technological advancements. MOWU is focused on recent advances in wireless communications and the proliferation of powerful mobile devices, noticeably smart phones and Internet of Things (IoT) nodes that have enabled a wide range of mobile services, everywhere and anytime. The symposium echoes the main theme of COMPSAC 2016 on “Connected World: New Challenges for Data, Systems & Applications”, addressing challenges in emerging application domains such as connected health, wearable computing, IoT, cyber-physical systems, and smart planet. MOWU’s primary objective is to attract presentations by both researchers and practitioners of their recent results, findings, and achievements in all components of the pervasive ubiquitous environments including the advancement of middleware technologies in various mobile-related sectors, ranging from effective synergic management of wireless communications to dynamic adaptiveness of system software, and from horizontal support of crowdsourcing in different application domains to dynamic offloading on cloud resources. By fostering innovation, the main goal of MOWU is to advance the understanding of and addressing the technical challenges in mobile communications regarding current and future mobile services, applications, and devices for wearable and ubiquitous computing. The Second MOWU Symposium received a total of 16 full submissions. We are honored to have invited renowned researchers to serve on the program committee, providing comprehensive reviews to the submissions. In particular, each individual submission underwent a rigorous double-blind review process assisted by program committee members. Each paper received at least three reviews and some papers received five reviews. Moreover, to guarantee high quality and consistency of the review process, metareviews were discussed by the conference and symposia program chairs during a dedicated PC meeting, hosted this February by Hiroyuki Sato of University of Tokyo. Finally, we accepted 18.8% of the submissions as regular papers and 6.3% as short papers for inclusion into this year’s COMPSAC proceedings, published by IEEE Computer Society. The selected papers are clustered around localization and mobile data management, thus demonstrating the current interest of the researchers’ community in these “hot” fields. We strongly believe that the accepted full papers are of extremely high quality and will provide a valuable technical contribution to the community. Given the overall (full + short) acceptance rate of only 25%, the review process was highly competitive, and it is indeed unfortunate that many good quality papers could not be accepted to be included in the MOWU technical program.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
