Ph.D. Forum Back to top

The PhD Forum has been a regular event of the ACM MobiSys conference for the past few years. The forum represents a highly interactive environment for PhD students to present and discuss their research with other students and professionals from both academia and industry. Furthermore, it will provide them with a great opportunity to get feedback on their research and build their professional network.

The topics of interest to coincide with those of ACM MobiSys. Students working in areas related to mobile computing, wireless systems and applications are encouraged to submit a two-page extended abstract comprising an overview of the key challenges they want to tackle, a summary of their findings, work in progress and planned research.

For more information, please visit the PhD Forum website at: workshops/phd/index.htm

Program Chairs

Important Dates

Submission deadline: March 9, 2015
Notification deadline: March 23, 2015
Camera-ready deadline: April 2, 2015
Workshop date: May 18, 2015

2nd Workshop on Physical Analytics (WPA) Back to top

The 2nd edition of this workshop (successfully organized at Mobisys last year) is motivated by the observations that people spend a significant part of their daily lives performing a variety of activities in the physical world—travelling to places (including commuting to/from work using public or private transport), performing activities at various locations (e.g., exercising in the gym, eating at restaurants) , interacting with various physical objects and artefacts (e.g., touching or picking up products at a retail store, or browsing through books at a library), being subject to various audiovisual stimuli (e.g., listening to announcements at transit hubs or watching advertisements on public displays) and interacting with other people (in groups, as part of crowds or one-on-one). A rich variety of infrastructure, mobile and (now) wearable sensors, and associated analytics tools, can provide innovative ways to capture and annotate such behaviors and interactions. These activities and interactions contain a wealth of information about user behavior, preferences, attitudes and interests, that, if harnessed, can benefit both users and consumer-facing businesses.

The 2nd Workshop on Physical Analytics will offer a unified forum that brings researchers and industry practitioners together to explore (a) the technologies (current and emerging) that can enable unobtrusive capture of such individual and collective physical world behavior, and (b) the real-world opportunities for commercial applications and services (e.g., in retail, insurance or healthcare) that leverage upon such understanding of physical world behavior. A particularly interesting question relates to the generalizability of such analytics tools—i.e., whether we can develop a set of common technologies and methods for capturing and understanding physical behavior across such diverse physical locations. We emphasize again the broad scope of the proposed workshop—while topics such as multimedia sensing, localization, wearable computing, activity recognition and privacy are undoubtedly parts of the emerging research agenda, the focus will be on exploring how these components can be harnessed holistically to capture useful real-world physical behavior of users.

For more information, please visit the Workshop website at: workshops/wpa/index.html

Program Chairs

Important Dates

Submission deadline: March 15, 2015, 11:59 PM EST
Notification deadline: March 25, 2015
Camera-ready workshop papers due (firm): April 2, 2015
Workshop date: May 22, 2015

MobiGames 2015: 2nd Workshop on Mobile Gaming Back to top

With the advent of consumer mobile devices equipped with high resolution touch screens, powerful CPUs and GPUs, gaming has become wildly popular with users. With the intense competition that has ensued in this industry, games are now rapidly incorporating sophisticated technologies, which include the recent advances in wearable head-mounted displays, cloud computing, virtual reality and augmented reality adapting them to the mobile computing environment. Many of these technologies present diverse challenges of importance to researchers. There are many research challenges across graphics, computer vision, energy consumption, network latency, HCI, security, and sensor networking. While this field is interdisciplinary by nature, many proposed ideas have direct impact on how networking protocols and infrastructures are designed and managed.

In this second Mobile Gaming workshop at MobiSys, we will bring together practitioners as well as interested researchers to discuss the latest developments in this growing field. We will identify what we have already achieved, the challenges that lie ahead, and promising avenues forward.

For more information, please visit the Workshop website at: http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2015/workshops/mobigames/index.html

Program Chairs

Important Dates

Submission deadline: March 8, 2015, 11:59 PM EST
Notification deadline: March 19, 2015
Camera-ready deadline: April 2, 2015
Workshop date: May 18, 2015

Workshop on Wearable Systems and Applications (WearSys) Back to top

The off-the-shelf availability of wearable devices and the commercial proliferation of wearable gadgets are shaping new directions for mobile and wireless systems research. Mobile systems and applications research is increasingly adopting wearable devices for primary and auxiliary sensing. This is an exciting time where wearables are also seeming to spearhead advancements in technology through inter-disciplinary research among a broad spectrum of disciplines apart from mobile wireless, such as health, fashion, energy, just to name a few.

The 1st ACM Workshop on wearable systems and applications, WearSys, is focused on how wearable technologies can shape mobile computing, systems and applications research. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum to bring together researchers and design experts to discuss how wearable technologies have, and can, complement mobile systems research, and vice-versa. It also aims to provide a launchpad for bold and visionary ideas for wearable systems research. We hope that this workshop will serve as a catalyst for advancements in mobile and wearable systems technology as well as present a clear sense of direction for the research community to proceed in this space.

For more information, please visit the Workshop website at: https://sites.google.com/site/wearsys2015/

Program Chairs

Important Dates

Submission deadline (paper, demo, poster): March 20, 2015, 11:59 PM EST
Notification deadline: March 27, 2015
Camera-ready workshop papers due (firm): April 2, 2015
Workshop date: May 18, 2015

MobiSys 2015: Future Mobile User Interfaces workshop Back to top

Mobile user interfaces have always been constrained to the shape of the mobile devices and the limitations due to the size of the display. However in recent years, we have seen the emergence of devices with new form factors, including foldable screens or even vibro-tactile displays. These new devices include various sensors allowing for novel types of input and outputs with the mobile technologies. This workshop will address innovations in terms of interaction with mobile and wearable devices, as well as with the applications they enable.

This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners to explore the future of mobile user interfaces. We expect to discuss issues around design, software and hardware and leverage everyone’s expertise to bring up potential solutions for effective interaction with mobile devices. We will encourage the exchange of research results, ideas and future research endeavors.

For more information, please visit the Workshop website at: https://sites.google.com/site/futuremobileui/

Program Chairs

Important Dates

Submission deadline: March 2, 2015, 11:59 PM PST
Notification deadline: March 23, 2015
Camera-ready workshop papers due (firm): April 2, 2015
Workshop date: May 18, 2015

DroNet 2015 - Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications for Civilian Use Back to top

Micro or nano aerial vehicles (MAVs and NAVs), often referred to as drones, are unmanned aerial vehi- cles of various forms, such as small quadrocopters, airplanes, balloons, or tiny flapping wing vehicles. They are novel mobile unmanned systems currently investigated in various mission-oriented civilian appli- cations. Recent popular applications employing MAVs are 3D-mapping, search and rescue, surveillance, farmland and construction monitoring, delivery of light-weight objects and products (e.g., Amazon has recently advertised their new drone delivery system), or video taking during sports events. Such drones are autonomous systems with a good awareness of their environment, provided by rich on board sensors, such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, lasers, GPS units and cameras, and embedded image processing. Nevertheless, all useful applications require a reliable communication link, or even rely on fleets of MAVs that need to coordinate their activities.

DroNet welcomes contributions dealing with communication aspects of micro aerial vehicles, theoreti- cal studies, algorithm and protocol design for flexible aerial networks, as well as mission-oriented contri- butions dealing with requirements, constraints, safety issues, and regulation. We are particularly looking for papers reporting on system aspects and experimental results, summaries of challenges or advance- ments, measurements, or innovative applications. The program seeks original and unpublished work not currently under review by another technical journal/magazine/conference, but welcomes interdisciplinary teams to present robotic work or applications focusing on the communication challenges or requirements to the audience.

For more information, please visit the Workshop website at: http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2015/workshops/DroNet/index.html

Program Chairs

Important Dates

Submission deadline (paper, demo, poster): March 10, 2015, 11:59 PM EST (extended)
Notification deadline: March 23, 2015
Camera-ready workshop papers due: April 2, 2015
Workshop date: May 22, 2015

Workshop on IoT challenges in Mobile and Industrial Systems (IoT-Sys 2015) Back to top

The IoT is a rich set of ICT technologies that enables pervasive interactions among smart objects across the Internet. Applications ranging from smart home, and smart factories to smart agriculture demonstrate its applicability across several markets. The idea of an “Internet of Things” is accepted. IoT-related technologies and standards are reaching maturity through the work of all major standardization bodies (e.g. IETF CoRE/ROLL/6TiSCH, WirelessHART, ISA100.11a, 3GPP MTC, ETSI­M2M/OneM2M). Yet, open issues remain which can slow down adoption. They include: (i) limited interoperability between vertical silos; (ii) difficulty to guarantee deterministic service provisioning using interoperable architectures; (iii) limited flexibility and adaptability of hard real-time service models and related IoT deployments (iv) lack of definitive Information Centric Networking approaches to inherent data centric IoT applications; (v) fragmentation of design guidelines and definitions, which are tightly tied to each single application domain; (vi) efficient and scalable service and resource discovery; (vii) mobility support and self-configuration for smart objects and mobile devices. The challenges and opportunities arising from a proper integration of the IoT with mobile computing and industrial systems create a fascinating research field that deserves in-depth investigations. On the one hand, mobile devices are expected to become the joining link between connected smart objects, the web, and end-users. On the other hand, IoT technologies will play a significant role for the quick convergence between Operational Management Systems (OMS) and distributed ICT sensing and actuation platforms.

The IoT-Sys workshop is intended to be a forum for exchanging new ideas about the challenges and symbiosis between the Internet of Things, Mobile Computing, and Industrial Systems. The workshop aims at providing a significant contribution by fostering fruitful and critical discussions between attendees in order to facilitate the growth of the main pillars of Mobile-IoT applications and Indutrial-IoT systems, and, more importantly, pave the road towards networked systems of Information in IoT applications. We are looking for submissions on topics that are relevant to the Mobile-IoT synergy and Industrial-IoT. Contributions with experimental focus, real world experience, and system building are particularly encouraged.

For more information, please visit the Workshop website at: http://iot-sys.wasnlab.tlc.unipr.it/2015

Program Chairs

Important Dates

Submission deadline (paper, demo, poster): March 9, 2015
Notification deadline: March 24, 2015
Camera-ready workshop papers due: April 2, 2015
IoT-Sys 2015 Workshop at MobiSys 2015: May 18, 2015

Do-it-yourself Networking: an Interdisciplinary Approach Back to top

This workshop wishes to build on a recent successful interdisciplinary Dagstuhl seminar on DIY networking, which brought together a highly diverse group of researchers and practitioners to reflect on technological and social issues related to the use of local wireless networks that operate outside the public Internet; see our final report, which documents our interdisciplinary exchanges and the description of selected case studies for which DIY networking solutions can facilitate the creative interplay between technological and human networks in the city.

The main objective of the workshop is to continue this effort and make a first pragmatic step to bridge the existing gap between engineering and social sciences, beyond wishful thinking. For the technical program, we invite 1) technical contributions that render DIY networking technology easier to understand and use by for less technically savvy people and 2) theoretical contributions that can facilitate the understanding of the various inherent trade-offs in the design of DIY networks and the translation of engineering decisions to constraints and requirements for applications developers and vice versa.

The workshop will include a special interdisciplinary session, which will facilitate the participation of a more diverse audience than typically observed in engineering conferences like Mobisys. For this session, we will invite the presentation of working prototypes of mature DIY networking frameworks, novel application ideas by designers and social scientists, and short tutorials on important concepts such as power, privacy, self-organization, space, community and dialectics in light of the application of such technology in urban settings.

For more information, please visit the Workshop website at: http://diynetworking.net

Program Chairs

Important Dates

Submission deadline: March 7, 2015, 11:59 PM EST
Notification deadline: March 22, 2015
Camera-ready workshop papers due: April 2, 2015
DIY networking Workshop at MobiSys 2015: May 18, 2015