Call for Workshop Proposals


One of the distinct features of the MDM conference is the breadth of the “Mobile” – intending to capture variety of contexts, spanning from location-based services and location-aware social networks, through portable wireless devices capable of both sensing and communication, to traffic management. Following the established tradition of previous MDM conferences, MDM 2014 aims at providing specialized workshops where researchers and practitioners will have opportunity to explore in a more focused manner certain specific aspects of interest to mobile data management. In addition to sharing experiences, workshops are intended to provide a fertile ground for discussing possibly-controversial ideas. We invite proposal for workshops to be held in conjunction with MDM 2014 conference – tentatively scheduled to take place on July 14 – as preamble to the main conference. An important aspect that potential organizers should take into consideration is precisely the formatting – both in terms of scope and presentations’ organization – so that the main objectives identified above are catered to.

Workshops guidelines

Upon notification of acceptance of the proposal, workshop organizers are required to:

    - Follow up with announcements and calls for contributions on difference forums       and mailing lists.
    - Manage the reviewing process, both in terms of coordinating the PC members       and ensuring resolving of controversial submissions.
    - Collaborate with Proceedings Chairs for the purpose of ensuring timely       completion of the camera-ready copies.
    - Determine the final program of the respective workshop.

All the accepted papers will be published through IEEE Computer Society and the length of regular workshop papers is limited to 6 pages – however, the organizers may accept even shorter vision/position papers.

Tentative milestones for individual workshops:

Submission of workshop papers:............................................March 1, 2014
Acceptance notification:......................................................April 1, 2014
Camera-ready submission:....................................................April 23, 2014

Submission guidelines for workshop proposals

Proposals are limited to 4 pages and they need to include

    - Title and Acronym for the workshop
    - Concise description of the workshop scope/theme along with a (tentative) list       of topics
    - Title and Acronym for the workshop
    - Names and contact info for the organizers
    - Preliminary list of (potential) PC members
    - Important milestones for the workshop (announcements, submission, etc.)
    - Proposed duration (half-day or full-day workshop)
    - Bio-sketches of the organizers
    - If the organizers have had such/similar workshops held in the past, a brief
       history-description
    - Important Dates:
        -Proposal submission: November 25
        -Notification of acceptance: December 5

Please submit the workshop proposals as a pdf attachment to an email sent to mdm14workshops@gmail.com

Workshop Chairs

 - Claudia Roncancio (Claudia.Roncancio@imag.com)
 - Goce Trajcevski ((goce@eecs.northwestern.edu)