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Procedia Computer Science 5 (2011) 18–24

The 8th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS 2011)

Preface

Muhammad Younasa, Elhadi Shakshukib and Quan Z. Shengc

a Oxford Brookes University, UK b Acadia University, Canada

c University of Adelaide, Australia

We warmly welcome you to Niagara Falls and to the 2011 International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS). With the help and support of the technical committees we have put together an interesting technical program for the MobiWIS 2011. We hope that you enjoy the program and have a fruitful interaction and discussion with the researchers and practitioners from around the world.

Advances in the Web and mobile technologies offer new and exciting services to users in every walk of life including commerce, business, entertainment, education and science among others. MobiWIS 2011 provides a forum for researchers and practitioners from multi-disciplines in order to address recent research issues and to present and discuss the ideas, theories, technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in progress and experiences on all theoretical and practical issues related to Mobile Web Information Systems.

The call for papers has attracted 75 papers from the authors from different countries and different continents. The papers were submitted to different tracks wherein each track has a separate technical program committee. Each paper was reviewed by different independent reviewers and we obtained two to five reviews per paper. Based on the received reviews, we accepted 27 papers for all the research tracks, which represent an acceptance rate of 36%.

We express our sincere thanks to the conference general chair Prof. Ken Paker for his valuable support and guidance. We are also indebted to the Prof. Elisa Bertino, Prof. Salima Benbernou, Prof. Athman Bouguettaya, Prof. Fabio Casati, Prof. Jen-Yao Chung, Prof. Schahram Dustdar, Prof. Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Georg Gottlob and Makoto Takizawa for their help and support in the advisory committee.

We convey our sincere thanks to our keynote speakers. This year, MobiWIS 2011 featured two keynote speeches, delivered by two distinguished international experts: Prof. Hossam Hassanein from Queen's University, Canada and Dr. Diane McKerlie from Bell Canada, Toronto, Canada.

We also thank the MobiWIS 2011 local organizing committee from Acadia University, Dalhousie University and University of Ontario for their hard work in the local arrangements.

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We are very grateful to the workshops chairs, program vice chairs and members of the program committee. They showed great support and provided us with extensive reviews and constructive criticism of the research papers. Many thanks also go to all the authors who have submitted their research work to the conference. Without their contributions we would not be able to put together such a strong and interesting technical program.

We look forward to hearing productive and interesting discussions during the conference. We wish you a pleasant stay and an enjoyable time in Niagara Falls!

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MobiWIS 2011 Committees

General ChairKen Barker, University of Calgary, Canada

Program ChairsMuhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia

Advisory CommitteeElisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Salima Benbernou, Université Paris Descartes, France Athman Bouguettaya, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia Fabio Casati, University of Trento, Italy Jen-Yao Chung, IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK Makoto Takizawa, Seikei University, Japan

Workshops ChairsZakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia

Program Vice ChairsPatrick Brezillon, University Paris VI, France Luís Carriço, University of Lisbon, Portugal Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy Irwin King, AT&T Labs Research, USA Brahim Medjahed, University of Michigan, USA Mohamed Mokbel, University of Minnesota, USA Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA Jukka Riekki, University of Oulu, Filand Toyotaro Suzumura, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan David Taniar, Monash University, Australia

International Journals CoordinatorRachid Anane, Coventry University, UK

Local Arrangements ChairsNauman Aslam, Dalhousie University, Canada Ramiro Liscano, University of Ontario, Canada

Publicity ChairsNatalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria S.M.F.D Syed Mustapha, Asia eUniversity, Malaysia Joyce El Haddad, University of Paris Dauphine, France


International Liaison ChairsIrfan Awan, Bradford University, UK Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan William Knottenbelt, Imperial College, UK

Awards ChairsMarkus Aleksy, ABB AG, Germany Kuo-Ming Chao, Coventry University, UK

Technical Program Committee Members

SOA and mobile web information systems Ismailcem Budak Arpinar, University of Georgia, USA Ladjel Bellatreche, Blaise Pascal University, France Salima Benbernou, Paris Descartes University, France Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York, USA Chirine Ghedira, Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, France Xumin Liu, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University, USA Zaki Malik, Wayne State University, USA Mourad Ouzzani, Purdue University, USA Yu Qi, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

Context-aware services Nigel Baker, UWE, UK Mohamed Bakhouya, UTBM, France Jerome David, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France Anind K. Dey, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Stefan Dietze, Open University, UK Shonali Krishnaswamy, Monash University, Australia Fei Li, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Xitong Li, MIT, USA Yang Li, British Telecom, UK Florian Michahelles, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Michael Mrissa, University of Lyon, France Bashar Nuseibeh, Open University, UK Philippe Thiran, University of Namur, Belgium Hong-Linh Truong, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Hamdi Yahyaoui, Kuwait University, Kuwait Jian Yu, University of Adelaide, Australia

Data management in mobile web Markus Aleksy, ABB Corporation, Germany Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada Saqib Ali, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman Solomon Atnafu, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Cláudio de Souza Baptista, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil Jinli Cao, La Trobe University, Australia


Sung-Bae Cho, Yonsei University, Korea Tran Khanh Dang, HCM University of Technology, Vietnam Mustafa Mat Deris, KUSTEM, Malaysia Luke Liming Chen, University of Ulster, UK Richard Chbeir, Universite de Bourgogne, France Kai Cheng, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy Yusuke Gotoh, Okayama University, Japan Farookh Hussain, Curtin University of Technology, Australia Hamidah Ibrahim, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia Makoto Ikeda, Seikei University, Japan Sergio Ilarri, University of Zaragoza, Spain Hui Ma, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia Vidyasagar Potdar, Curtin University of Technology, Australia Maytham Safar, Kuwait Universit, Kuwait Simon So, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, Monash University, Australia Kefeng Xuan, Monash University, Australia Mourad Ykhlef, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia Ilsun You, Korean Bible University, Korea Gefei Zhang, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany Geng Zhao, Monash University, Australia

Mobile web and social networks Ritesh Agrawal, AT&T Labs-Research, USA Eyuphan Bulut, Rensslaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Kuan-Ta Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Ramaswamy Hariharan, AT&T Interactive, USA Stratis Ioannidis, Technicolor, France Dhiraj Joshi, Eastman Kodak Research Laboratory, USA Wang-Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University, USA Prasenjit Mitra, Pennsylvania State University, USA Mirco Musolesi, University College London, UK Ian Warren, University of Auckland, New Zealand Feng Xia, Dalian University of Technology, China

Mobile web and cloud services Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA Khalil El-Khatib, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Roozbeh Jafari, UT Dallas, USA Minkyong Kim, IBM TJ Watson, USA Joy Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Mobile web of things Kaori Fujinami, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan Nikolaos Georgantas, Inria, France Fahim Kawsar, Bell labs and University of Lancaster, UK


Shin'ichi Konomi, University of Tokyo, Japan Mika Luimula, Centria, Finland Tommi Mikkonen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University, Japan Jin Nakazawa, Keio University, Japan Sasu Tarkoma, University of Helsinki, Finland Niwat Thepvilojanapong, Mie University, Japan Jingyu Zhou, Shanghai Jiaotong University

Mobile web design and development Karen Church, Telefonica, Spain Daniel Gonçalves, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Amy Karlson, Microsoft Research, USA Rui Lopes, University of Lisbon, Portugal Yelena Nakhimovsky, Tendril, USA Marco de Sá, Yahoo, USA Markel Vigo, CICtourGUNE, Spain Nestor Garay Vitoria, University of the Basque Country, Spain Yeliz Yesilada, University of Manchester, UK

Mobile commerce and business services Marcos Baez, University of Trento, Italy Athman Bouguettaya, CSIRO, Australia Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Sven Casteleyn, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Martin Gaedke, TU Chemnitz, Germany Irene Garrigós, University of Alicante, Spain Steffen Goebel, SAP, Germany Sam Guinea, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Chang Heng, HUAWEI Technologies, China Carlos A. Iglesias, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Christoph Kögler, T-Systems Multimedia Solutions GmbH, Germany Federico M. Facca, CREATE-NET, Italy Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Andrea Maurino, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy Grossniklaus Michael, Portland State University, USA Hamid Motahari, HP Labs Palo Alto, USA Michael Weiss, Carleton University, Canada Scott Wilson, University of Bolton, United Kingdom Christian Zirpins, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Mobile security and privacy Raman Adaikkalavan, Indiana University-South Bend, USA Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State University, USA Vijayalakshmi Atluri, Rutgers University, USA Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Luc Bouganim, INRIA Rocquencourt, France Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria, Italy Rinku Dewri, University of Denver, USA


Elena Ferrari, University of Insubria, Italy Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA Vijay Kumar, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA Sanjay Madria, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA Peng Ning, North Carolina State University, USA Sylvia Osborn, University of Western Ontario, Canada Philippe Pucheral, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin & INRIA Rocquencourt, France Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Bhavani Thuraisingham, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Shambhu Upadhyaya, University at Buffalo, USA Duminda Wijesekera, George Mason University, USA

Quality of Service (QoS) management Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Marquette University, USA Salah Aly, Umm Al-Qura University, Saudia Arabia Vasilios Andrikopoulos, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Hicham Elmongui, Alexandria University, Egypt Lin Guan, Loughborough University, UK Abdelmounaam Rezgui, University of Pittsburgh, USA

General track: Web and mobile information services Rachid Anane, Coventry University, UK Kashinath Basu, Oxford Brookes University, UK Debmalya Biswas, Nokia Research, Switzerland Behzad Bordbar, University of Birmingham, UK Barbara Catania, Universita' di Genova, Italy Daniela Grigori , Versaille university, France Eiman Kanjo, University of Cambridge, UK Kevin Lu, Brunel University, UK Richard Mordinyi, University of Technology,Austria Rasha Osman, University of Bradford, UK Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, Australia Do van Thanh, Telenor - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

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