This Workshop Web Site: http://www.cs.ust.hk/~dlee/mobile.html
ER'98 Web Site: http://www.iscs.nus.edu.sg/~er98/

Wireless communication has added a new dimension of freedom to the Internet. It gives people truly ubiquitous access to computing, practically at any time, from anywhere in the world. While mobility is needed in wired networks (e.g., an executive from Tokyo making a presentation at the New York headquarters using his Tokyo office's database), wireless technologies increases the intensity of the needs, opportunities and challenges associated with mobile computing. Indeed, mobile computing technology may bring changes to traditional database issues such as business process, workflow, metadata management, query processing, and transaction management. It also introduces new issues such as mobility semantic modeling, location dependent query, broadcast and multicast techniques, and caching/pre-fetching policies. Moreover, the limitations in bandwidth, battery power and device sizes have to be overcome for mobile computing to proliferate.

This workshop deals with the important aspect of supporting data access over hybrid wireless and wired networks. The topics of interests include but are not limited to those listed below.

Database issues:

• modeling location and mobility semantics
• data publication, push, broadcast and multicast techniques
• metadata management and exchanges
• workflow management
• user interface and content transformation for small devices and limited bandwidth
• query processing and optimization, indexing and compression
• data placement, caching, replication and relocation
• location dependent data, user and data tracking
• transaction management in a weakly connected environment
• service assurance (QoS)

Applications:

• mobile aware/adaptive/agent applications
• vehicle tracking and management systems
• satellite-based global positioning systems
• wireless enquiry systems: weather and traffic reports, stock quotes, shopping information, etc
• ubiquitous computing systems on campus to support active learning

Technologies:

• Internet, Web and wireless protocols: HTTP, single-cast and multicast protocols, WAP
• data presentation, scripting and exchange languages: XML, HTML, CSS, WML
• distributed system architecture: CORBA, IIOP, Java, DCOM

Guidelines For Submission

Papers reporting original research, development and applications of prototypes, industrial experiences, technologies and standards are welcome.

• Submit an original paper in postscript to dlee@cs.ust.hk before August 10, 1998.
• Separately email a plain text to dlee@cs.ust.hk containing (i) title, (ii) author(s) and affiliation(s), and (iii) address (including e-mail and fax number) to which correspondence should be sent.
• Submission should not be more than 8 printed proceedings pages; short papers on industrial experiences, technologies and industrial standards are welcome.

Direct correspondence, inquiries and submissions relating to this workshop to:

Important Dates

Proceedings

The workshop proceedings will be published in one single volume by World Scientific together with the proceedings of the two other workshops held in conjunction with ER '98.

Program Committee

• Arbee Chen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
• Wan-Sup Cho, Chung-Buk University, Korea
• Pam Drew, Boeing, USA
• San-Yih Hwang, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
• Wang-Chien Lee, GTE labs, USA
• Bo Li, HK University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
• Ee-Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Sanjay Kumar Madria, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Kimmo Raatikainen, Univ Helsinki, Finland
• Nobuo Saito, Keio University, Japan
• Kian-Lee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Martti Tienari, Univ Helsinki, Finland
• Guoren Wang, Northeast University, China
• Lawrence Yeung, City University, Hong Kong