ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2005

Track on Ubiquitous Computing Applications

March 13-17, 2005, Santa Fe, NM, USA

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ACM SAC 2005

For the past nineteen years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2005 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, and is hosted by New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, NM, USA.

SAC is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing

Ubiquitous Computing Applications

Ubiquitous computing places humans in the centre of environments saturated with computing and wireless communications capabilities, yet gracefully integrated, so that technology recedes in the background of everyday activities. Indeed, the vision of an activated world is action oriented and rather than dictate, it follows and enhances human behaviour. This vision of seamless cohabitation of the world by humans and computers was first discussed in Mark Weiser's article "The Computer for the 21st Century," where it was stated that "the most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it."

The ubiquitous computing world then, is a world largely defined by applications. But such applications present an altogether new set of requirements: they are developed at the many layers of the physical world, that is they may be global, environmental, spatial, personal, handheld, wearable or embedded; they may be personal or social; they may be made up of any of a number of components coordinated centrally or built as a distributed and decentralised architecture, autonomous or un-affiliated; they may vary on their degree of physical integration as well as their integration with existing information infrastructures; they may show spontaneous behaviour; they may create an ambient intelligence landscape; and last but not least they may be embedded, pervasive or mobile.

Topics

Authors are invited to submit original papers that fall into one of the following categories:

The ACM SAC 2005 track on ubiquitous computing applications welcomes paper submissions on all types of
ubiquitous computing applications as well as on specialized infrastructures built for the deployment of targeted applications. Papers should place applications within their use context and make a significant
contribution in terms of a use case, a novel and appropriate interaction paradigm, an innovative
experience design approach and so on, addressing related technical, design, interaction, business,
economics or legal aspects and opportunities or constraints accordingly.

Possible application areas include but are not restricted to:

This track will particularly welcome demonstrations of working prototypes of ubiquitous computing applications.

Track Program Chairs

George Samaras
Department of Computer Science
University of Cyprus
cssamara@ucy.ac.cy

George Roussos
School of Computer Science and Information Systems
Birkbeck, University of London
g.roussos@bbk.ac.uk

Track Program Committee

Jakob E. Bardram, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Jason Brotherton, University College London, UK
Sastry Duri, IBM Research, USA
Anatole Gershman, Accenture Labs, USA
Lars Eric Holmquist, Viktoria Institute, Sweden
Christian Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Achilles Kameas, Computer Technology Institute, Greece
George Karabatis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, US
Andy Marsh, VMWSolutions Ltd, UK
Irene Mavrommati, Computer Technology Institute, Greece
Jeff Pierce, Georgia Tech, USA
Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece
Albrecht Schmidt, LMU Munich, Germany
Phil Stenton, HP Labs, UK
Martin Strassner, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University, Japan
Peter Thomas, Appliance Design, UK
Niall Winters, Institute of Education, UK
Baihua Zheng, Singapore management University, Singapore

Paper Submission

The body of the paper should not exceed 4,000 words. A separate cover sheet should be sent separately from the main paper. The cover sheet should include 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. Please note that must fit within five two-column pages following the ACM proceedings format with an optional three extra pages possible at additional cost to the authors.

Review of the papers will be "blind", meaning authors must not be identified in the submissions, either explicitly or by implication (for example, through the references or acknowledgments). Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance to the SAC objectives, and correctness. Papers submitted to this track should not be submitted simultaneously to any other conference or publication, should not have been previously published, and should not be subsequently published in the same form elsewhere. Accepted papers may be shepherded through an editorial review process by a member of the program committee. Based on initial feedback from the program committee, authors of shepherded papers will submit an editorial revision of their paper to their program committee shepherd by November 15, 2004. The shepherd will review the paper and give the author additional comments.

All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Authors should prepare a PostScript or Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper. The server will be open for submission of papers between 1-3 September 2004. The server will close at 23.59 PM GMT, 3 September 2004. No more papers will be accepted after that time.

Important Dates

Sept 3, 2004: Submission of papers and demonstration proposals (strict)
Oct 15, 2004: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
Nov 15, 2004: Camera-Ready copies of accepted papers
March 13-17,2005: ACM SAC 2005

Last updated: 7-July-2004