Call for Papers

International Workshop on Mobile and Location-based Business Applications (MAPPS2010)

Workshop theme

Location-based Services (LBS) are becoming more and more important for business. Central to LBS are location and context information as well as mechanisms to use such information including navigation, tracking and resource planning for better usage of resources. The deployment of such LBS faces the problems of privacy and security as well as the multiplicity of the mobile platforms and also the difficulties for back-end and workflow integration. Location to Business (L2B) communication includes all these aspects of processes and technologies which are needed to explore location information and mobile technologies for successful integration to business applications. Such mobile business applications extend standard business applications and they are of great interest in application programming interfaces and management.

This one-day workshop intends to bring together researchers, professionals and practitioners to discuss and address recent developments and challenges for the design, operation and backend integration of mobile business applications.

Papers

Specifically, we solicit original research contributions in the following areas:

• Localization and tracking of people and goods for enterprise interests
• Presence detection and tracing for L2B applications
• Architectures and Platforms for outdoor and indoor positioning technologies focusing business and workflow integration (e.g. GPS, Galileo, WiFi, WiMAX, LTE, Cell Id, ...)
• Indoor and short range positioning (e.g. RFID, NFC, UWB, Bar code, WiFi, ...)
• Enterprise Location-based Services (E-LBS) for quality management in business processes
• Mobile integration of Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) systems
• Mobile and viral marketing, couponing, social network integration and mobile payment
• Integrating digital secure cards, like identification card, driver license and other
• Mobile Care Applications for Ambient Assisted Living
• Augmented reality for object localization and mobile navigation
• Device independent mobile programming paradigms and principles
• Easy to use principles for Location-based Mobile Business Applications

All accepted papers will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST). All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of 12 single-column pages including all figures, tables and references. All papers must be formatted using Springer LNICST Authors' Kit. The paper submission system for the workshop will be open from March 15, 2010. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register for the main conference and to give a presentation on site. Paper submission for MAPPS 2010 is handled electronically. Please visit the MyReview submission system to submit your paper.

Important dates

• extended till April 30, 2010 15 April 2010: paper submission deadline
• 15 May 2010: author notification
• 25 May 2010: camera ready version deadline
• 31 May, 2010: early registration deadline

Workshop chairs

Claudia Linnhoff-Popien
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
[email protected]

Peter Ruppel
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
[email protected]

Stephan Verclas
T-Systems International GmbH, Germany
[email protected]

Program Committee

Alapan Arnab
T-Systems, South Africa

Eduard Babulak
University of the South Pacific, Fiji

Lothar Borrmann
Siemens AG, Germany

Nico Deblauwe
IWT-agency for Innovation, Belgium

Jerry Zeyu Gao
San Jose State University, USA

Mario Jaritz
T-Mobile, Germany

Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard
Aarhus University, Danmark

Axel Küpper
Technical University Berlin, Germany

Peter Reichl
FTW Vienna, Austria

Gregor Schiele
University of Mannheim, Germany

Roland Schwaiger
Deutsche Telekom, Germany

Thomas Strang
German Aerospace Center, Germany

Sean Taylor
Redwood Technologies Ltd, UK