First IEEE PerCom Workshop on Pervasive Communities and Service Clouds Workshop

The 1st IEEE PerCom Workshop on Pervasive Communities and Service Clouds aims to discuss and present research challenges, state-of-the-art technologies, and advanced research of cloud computing and services to support pervasive communities. Pervasive computing technologies support applications for user communities greatly. These user communities are pervasive communities. Service clouds offer services, applications, platforms and infrastructure with cloud computing technologies in order to enhance computation and data management capacities in pervasive computing environments. The PerCoSC'11 Workshop topics cover a wide spectrum relevant to cloud computing, pervasive computing technologies, and pervasive community services and applications.

Powered by pervasive computing technologies, pervasive communities create, manage and share data at any time anywhere. High cost and complexity on the data management level raise problems and also brings new challenges on collecting and utilization of multimedia, context, location and other sensor data from the physical environment with high interactivity. Service clouds will be promising solutions to real-time context and multimedia information processing to offer pervasive communities better user experiences. Cloud computing unlocks computing resources and data storage from devices and opens new classes of applications for pervasive communities.

The First International Workshop on Pervasive Communities and Service Clouds aims to offer researchers, Ph.D. students, and practitioners a forum to present and discuss research advances and challenges related to cloud computing support for pervasive communities. The workshop aims to enable the sharing of insights and experiences related to the development and use of cloud computing technologies for supporting pervasive communities. Thus, how cloud computing technologies interact with and benefit pervasive computing will be explored.

Topics of interest include but are not restricted to the following topics:
* cloud computing (services, platforms, infrastructure, and standards etc.) for pervasive communities
* cloud computing for pervasive technologies
* user-targeted pervasive, mobile and context-aware services and applications
* location-based, temporal, or spatiotemporal services and applications
* software architectures for cloud computing and pervasive computing
* data modeling and management for cloud computing and pervasive communities
* social software and Web 2.0 in cloud computing and pervasive computing
* augmented reality for pervasive communities
* security and privacy in cloud computing and pervasive communities

Submission

The papers should present original and previously unpublished results that are not simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Authors are invited to submit papers limited to 6 pages formatted in accordance with the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE PerCom.

Please submit your paper to the EDAS Conference Management System at http://edas.info/N9371.

Important Dates

* October 31, 2010 Deadline for workshop paper submission
* January 7, 2011 Notification of acceptance
* January 28, 2011 Deadline for camera ready papers
* March 21, 2011 PerCom 2011

Workshop Organizers

Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Christian S. Jensen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Yiwei Cao, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Dejan Kovachev, RWTH Aachen University, Germany