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       *** ABSTRACT DEADLINE MAY 19th @ 2pm PST ***
       ***    PAPER DEADLINE MAY 26th @ 2pm PST ***

             3rd International ACM Workshop on 
       Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access
                      (MobiDE03)

                   September 19, 2003
              in San Diego, California, USA 

              http://db.cs.pitt.edu/mobide03

           In conjunction with ACM Mobicom 2003

                Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE 
              In-cooperation with ACM SIGMOD

                with Industrial Sponsors: 
       ABC-Virtual, Intel Research, Microsoft Research, 
              IBM Research, Hewlett-Packard Labs 

 
AIMS & TOPICS OF INTERESTS:
 
This is the third of a successful series of workshops that aims to act
as  a bridge  between the  data management,  wireless  networking, and
mobile computing  communities.  The 1st MobiDE workshop  took place in
Seattle,  Aug. 1999,  in conjunction  with  MobiCom 1999  and the  2nd
MobiDE workshop  took place in  Santa Barbara, May 2001  together with
SIGMOD 2001.  The  workshop will serve as a  forum for researchers and
technologists   to  discuss   the   state-of-the-art,  present   their
contributions, and set future directions in data management for mobile
and  wireless access.   The topics  of interest  include, but  are not
limited to:

* pervasive computing 
* sensor databases and networks 
* data caching, replication and view materialization 
* consistency maintenance, inconsistency management and availability 
* transaction migration, recovery and commit processing 
* mobile transaction models and management 
* mobile agent models and languages 
* wireless multimedia systems 
* mobility awareness and adaptability 
* data publication modes: push, broadcast and multicast 
* location dependent data access and queries 
* disconnected operation and weak connectivity 
* data server models and architectures 
* database issues for moving objects: storing, indexing 
* Quality of Service for mobile databases 
* mobile access to new form of data and web services
* prototype design of mobile databases 
* ad-hoc networked databases 
* mobile e-commerce 
* mobile peer-to-peer services

The  workshop  will  be  organized  in a  manner  designed  to  foster
interaction  and exchange  of  ideas among  the participants.  Besides
paper presentations, time will be allocated to open discussion forums,
informal discussions and panels. In addition to regular papers, vision
or work-in-progress  papers are also  invited to stimulate  debates on
open  problems   and  challenges.   Proposals  for   panels  are  also
solicited.  Panel  topics on emerging or even  provocative topics that
will generate lively discussions are especially welcome.

 
IMPORTANT DATES:

Abstract Submission:	     May 19, 2003 (2pm PST)
Paper Submissions:           May 26, 2003 (2pm PST)
Panel Proposal Submissions:  May 26, 2003 (2pm PST)
Notification of acceptance:  July 18, 2003 
Camera-ready version due:    August 1, 2003
 
 
SUBMISSIONS AND PROCEEDINGS:
 
The workshop  proceedings will be  published by ACM.   All submissions
will be handled electronically at http://db.cs.pitt.edu/mobide03

For every paper  submission, authors must first submit  an abstract by
May 19, 2003 (2:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time - PST). Abstracts should
be in plain  text (max. 200 words) and should be  accompanied by a set
of keywords.

Full papers in  PDF form must be submitted by May  26, 2003 (2:00 p.m.
PST).   Papers  should  be  in  ACM  proceedings  format  (at  most  8
double-columned  pages in 9pt  font).  The  format of  your submission
must be  for US Letter printing (8.5  by 11 inches).  Note  that A4 is
not  equivalent to US  Letter (see  http://db.cs.pitt.edu/mobide03 for
more details and a link to the ACM template).

Panel proposals should  not exceed 3 pages including  a summary of the
topic and the  names and affiliations of the  panelists. Please submit
panel proposals to one of the TPC co-chairs by email.

Details are posted on the web site, http://db.cs.pitt.edu/mobide03


 
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Workshop Chair: 
 
   Panos K. Chrysanthis
   Department of Computer Science
   University of Pittsburgh
   panos@cs.pitt.edu 
   

Program Chairs:
 
   Sujata Banerjee                 Mitch Cherniack
   Hewlett Packard Labs            Department of Computer Science
   Palo Alto, CA                   Brandeis University                  
   sujata@hpl.hp.com               mfc@cs.brandeis.edu

 
Publicity Chair: 

   Vijay Kumar
   School of Interdisciplinary Computing and Engineering
   University of Missouri-Kansas City
   kumarv@umkc.edu


Financial Chair:

   Alexandros Labrinidis
   Department of Computer Science
   University of Pittsburgh
   labrinid@cs.pitt.edu 


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Elisa Bertino, University of Milan 	  
Philippe Bonnet, DIKU
Ugur Cetintemel, Brown University
Anindya Datta, Chutney Tech
Philip Gibbons, Intel Labs
Vinayak Hegde, ABC Virtual
Christian Jensen, Aalborg University
Anupam Joshi,  University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Rajgopal Kannan, Louisiana State University
George Kollios, Boston University
Vijay Kumar,  University of Missouri, Kansas City
Wang Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University
Hui Lei,  IBM T. J. Watson Lab
David Lomet,  Microsoft Research
Gail Mitchell, BBN
Katia Obraczka, University of California, Santa Cruz
Maria Papadopouli, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Jignesh Patel,  University of Michigan
Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina
Krithi Ramamritham, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Karthikeyan Ramaswamy, Juniper Networks
Andreas Reuter, International University, Germany
Jim Rowson, Hewlett Packard Labs
George Samaras, Cyprus University
Praveen Seshadri, Microsoft
Prasun Sinha, University of California, Riverside
Ioana Stanoi, IBM T. J. Watson Lab
Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois, Chicago
Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University
Taieb Znati, NSF