ACM Mobile Commerce Workshop

The first ACM Mobile Commerce will take place in conjunction with the International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2001) to be held in Rome in July 2001. The workshop will be a day long event on July 21. This is an excellent opportunity to participate in two events covering a wide range of research in mobile and pervasive computing.
 

This workshop is being held for the first time and it will explore research issues in the intersection of  pervasive computing and electronic commerce. Pervasive computing, covering a broad range of information access methods enabled by mobility, wireless, small embedded systems, and broadband technologies is growing very rapidly. It is also addressing a brand new set of human computer interaction and social computing issues. At the same time, electronic commerce is redefining the way we do business. Business to Consumer (B2C) and Business to Business (B2B) commerce are seem as revolutionizing the economic life. An intriguing set of questions and opportunities arise when one considers what pervasive computing and ad-hoc networks can do for electronic commerce and vice versa. These vistas are now being explored under various names such as P2P, D2D, C2C etc.

This workshop serves as a forum for technologists and visionaries from academia, industry and research labs, to present current research, advanced technology, ongoing prototyping efforts, internals of products, experience reports, case studies, and descriptions of interesting systems. You are also encouraged to submit papers that discuss issues related to HCI, social, legal, and quality of life aspects of m-commerce. The proceedings will be published by ACM.

Authors are encouraged to submit papers describing future vision of significant impact as well as practical technologies of significance and relevance to this area. The scope of the workshop includes, but is not
limited to:

• Application models for Pervasive eCommerce
• Protocols and standards
• Middleware issues on the devices
• Location-based services
• Electronic wallets
• e-Payment
• Device implications
• Business models enabled by Pervasive eCommerce
• HCI issues
• Security
• Transaction models
• Programming language and tools
• Agent technologies
• Wirless technology implications
• Gateways and infrastructure issues
• Systems issues
• Social and legal issues

Papers, written in English, should not exceed 3000 words.  Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors should submit papers only in electronic form to mcomsub@cs.umbc.edu in Postscript or pdf. Each submission must be accompanied by the following information: a short abstract, a complete list of authors and their affiliations, a contact person for correspondence, and e-mail addresses.