Mobility is perhaps the most
important market and technological trend within information and communication
technology. With the advent of new
mobile infrastructures providing higher bandwidth and constant connection to
the network from virtually everywhere, the way people use information resources
is predicted to be radically transformed.
The rapid developments in information technology (IT),
particularly communication and collaboration technologies,
are substantially changing the landscape of organizational computing. Workers in any business area are becoming increasingly
mobile. Workers in more and more areas will be required to act flexibly within
the constraints of the business processes of the company (or companies) they
are currently working for . At the same time they will
often want to use the same information technology to support their private
tasks.
Over the last years, a new breed of information systems have appeared to address
this emerging situation, referred to as mCommerce systems or mobile information
systems. This has inspired the IFIP TC8 Task group on
Mobile Information Systems to arrange the MOBIS Working Conference
The
objective of the working conference is to provide a forum for researchers and
practitioners across the areas of planning, analysis, design, construction,
modification, implementation, utilization, evaluation, and management of mobile
information systems to meet, and exchange research ideas and results. It also
provides this group of researchers an opportunity to present their research
papers, and to take part in open discussions. Specifically, we would like to
use the working conference to
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Clarify differences
and similarities between the development of mobile vs.
more traditional information system.
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Investigate
organizational impact of mobile information systems
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Investigate
mCommerce relative to eCommerce
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Investigate mobile commerce applications
combined with the advantages of mobile communications technologies, the drivers
of which have
been identified as ubiquity, reachability, security,
convenience, localization, instant connectivity and personalization.
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Evaluate existing and newly
developed approaches for analysis, design, implementation, and evolution of
mobile information systems.
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Investigate
technical issues and the constraints they pose on mobile information systems
functionalities and design
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Investigate interactive design issues
The
relevant topics for this working conference include (but are not limited to)
the following aspects of mobile information systems/ mCommerce systems:
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Mobile commerce models and architecture
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The Mobile Enterprise
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Mobile information systems applications in
organizations
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e-services in mobile
information systems
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Interdependencies of mobile information technologies
and organizational structure, relationships and interaction
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Analysis, design, construction, modification and
implementation of computer-based mobile information systems for
organizations;
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Requirement specification
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Meta-modeling and method engineering
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Multi-channel architecture and user-interface
development
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Data management for mobile applications
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Location awareness and determination
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Content personalization and tailoring
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New collaboration paradigms
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Enabling Technologies for
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Mobile agents
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Security, privacy, authorization, and billing
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Evaluation and management of mobile information
systems
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Mobile commerce implications
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Social and economic aspects of mobility
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Paper
submissions: 15. March 2004
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Notification:
30. April 2004
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Camera
Ready Copies: 26. May 2004
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Conference:
15-17 September 2004 in
We invite
you to submit a paper or to propose a panel for this conference.
Papers must be original, unpublished elsewhere and between
16 and 24 pages long double-spaced. Both paper manuscripts and panel proposals
can be submitted using the conference submission system available at http://mobis04.confmaster.net. If questions with the
use of the conference management system, contact Barbara Pernici (
All submissions should include a separate title page with
the title of the paper and each author's full name, affiliation, complete
address, telephone, fax and email. The body of the paper must contain the title
and abstract, a list of keywords, the text and should not identify the author (s) in any manner. Once accepted, final papers must be
submitted in IFIP/Kluwer camera ready format. This is
not necessary for the reviewing draft. Guidelines (templates) for formatting
are available at http://www.wkap.com/ifip.
Panels are required to generate active discussion on key
issues related to the conference theme. All panel proposals should include:
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A brief summary of the proposed topic
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Names, affiliations and full addresses of all
confirmed panel members
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A brief description of each member's background
relative to the topic of the panel
Accepted papers as well as summaries of panels will be
published in the Kluwer proceedings. One author of
each paper must attend the conference. All participants will receive a copy of
the final proceedings.
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Richard Baskerville,
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Jan Pries
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Jo Herstad,
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George Giaglis,
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Garrick Jones, UK
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KarL-Heinz Kautz,
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Steven Kelly,
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Christen
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Michel Leonard,
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Erik
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Andreas L. Opdahl,
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Lim
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Wolfgang Prinz,
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Matti Rossi.
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David Simplot, France
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Mikael B. Skov,
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Kari Smolander,
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Robert Steele,
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Marie Thilliez, France
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Workshop co-chairs
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General Chair Prof. Dewald Roode |
Program Co-Chairs Prof.
Barbara Pernici Dr.
Elaine Lawrence |
Organizing Chair Prof.
John Krogstie SINTEF
and Norwegian Institute of Science and |
Prof. John Krogstie
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