Since 2003, the MUCS workshop (both independently and collocated with major conferences) has provided a very successful forum for researchers and practitioners to explore the theoretical, technological, and organizational challenges, and to present advances in management techniques and technologies, for pervasive computing and smart space applications.
Ubiquitous Communications and related Services grow rapidly, presenting both users as well as providers with significant management challenges ranging from successful service delivery over heterogeneous networks to semantic interoperability between different offered services, including the mobile networks, ad-hoc networks, middleware, applications, and devices. Such challenges include: managing user-centric services and context services, extreme distribution and scalability, extensive system & network & semantic heterogeneity, ad-hoc formation and disassociation of systems and services, and intelligent support for user centric applications.
Today's management systems struggle to maintain operational requirements and to address structural as well as technological advances in pervasive communications, the complexity, heterogeneity, and automation required by the pervasive computing vision. MUCS 2012 provides a platform for researchers and practitioners to address the management of ubiquitous communications.
The workshop provides a single-track scientific program containing a blend of keynote presentations from leaders in research in this area, peer-reviewed papers, and a small selection of invited presentations. The goal of the workshop is to investigate the state of the art in managing pervasive/smart space applications from a broad perspective.
Program
Topics:
- Management of Federated Pervasive Environments
- Management of End-to-end Communications
- Context-aware Management and Configuration
- Knowledge Representation Techniques and Ontologies for Management of Pervasive Services
- Security, Privacy, and Trust Management in Pervasive Computing/Smart Spaces
- Context Identification, Retrieval, Prediction and Management
- Adaptive Technologies and Techniques for Services and Management
- Service and Network Management for Optimized Personalization
- Management and Control of Mobile Ad-hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks
- Distributed Management and Collaborative Governance
- Provisioning and Maintenance of Quality-of-Service in UbiComp environments
- User Interaction with Management of UbiComp and Pervasive Systems
- Managing Collaborative Pervasive Computing and Smart Space Applications
- Policy-based Management
- Autonomic and Cognitive Management of Services and Communications
- Content-oriented Network and Service Management
- Management of Smart Spaces and Applications