PerHot 2012

Introduction

Mark Weiser first proposed Pervasive Computing two decades ago and we’ve explored the space of his ideas in that time. It’s time to explore new wild and crazy — “hot” — ideas! The goal of PerHot is to discuss such new and controversial ideas in the whole of Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing.

• Is pervasive middleware dead? Tell us.
• Do we really need another context paper? If not, what is your proposal to replace it?
• Are new approaches like cyber-physical systems changing our understanding of Pervasive Computing? Or are the new approaches just a new name for the same vision?
• Should we stop citing the Weiser paper? If so, please submit “the next Weiser paper” to this workshop.

Program

Keynote

The Operating System of the 21st Century
Christian Becker (Universität Mannheim)

The Future of Pervasive Computing

1. New directions for system support in Pervasive Computing
   Helena Rodrigues (Universidade do Minho, Portugal); Rui Jose (University of Minho, Portugal); Arlindo Santos (University of Minho, Portugal); Bruno Silva (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
2. A Spatiotemporal Model for Ephemeral Data in Pervasive Computing Networks
   Jonas Michel (University of Texas at Austin, USA); Christine Julien (The University of Texas at Austin, USA); Jamie Payton (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA); Gruia-Catalin Roman (University of New Mexico, USA)
3. Self-Adaptive Mechanism for Disaggregated Computing
   Ichiro Satoh (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

Pervasive Civilizations

1. New Instruments of Governance for our Societies
   Alexander Gluhak (The University of Surrey, United Kingdom); Rob Van Kranenburg (Council, Thinktank for IoT & University of Liepaja, Belgium)
2. Transforming Traditional Pervasive Computing for Emerging Markets — Underlying Challenges and Opportunities
   Puneet Kaur (Aalto University, Finland); Amandeep Dhir (Aalto University, Finland); Ibrahim Albidewi (King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia); Daniyal M Alghazzawi (King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia)

Roundtable Discussion

Open discussion of the workshop and future directions in Pervasive Computing.

Important Dates

Topic Areas

We specifically call for early ideas, demo systems, challenges papers and well-reasoned attacks on the status quo of Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. Papers will be judged on their ability to generate discussion and encourage brainstorming among workshop participants as well as their technical quality and presentation. Example areas for paper submissions include but are not limited to:

1. New directions in platform and system research in Pervasive Computing
2. New abstractions and architectural models for Pervasive Computing beyond context-awareness and “pervasiveness”
3. New user interface paradigms and models for Pervasive Computing
4. New programming models and languages for Pervasive Computing
5. Experience papers from deployment or development of existing Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing systems
6. The convergence of systems models, e.g., Pervasive Computing and Augmented Reality Systems or Pervasive Computing and Mobile Computing
7. Challenges of previously published approaches and why they do or do not work
8. Overlooked problems and evolving challenges facing the PerCom community
9. Social, ecological, and economic impact of Pervasive Computing

Systems presented at PerHot need not be fully built or evaluated; they need only provoke discussion.

Submission

Submissions of papers are solicited in the IEEE 8.5x11 conference format and should be 4-6 pages. Papers must be original prior unpublished work and not under review elsewhere. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and selected based on their originality, merit, and relevance to the workshop.

Paper submissions will be handled through EDAS.

Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop, and will appear in the IEEE PerCom workshop proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library. At least one author must have a full registration for the conference (there is no workshop only registration) and present the paper. Failure to do so will result in the paper not being included in the IEEE Digital Library.

Organization

Workshop Organizers

• Gregor Schiele, Universitaet Mannheim, Germany
• Justin Mazzola Paluska, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA

Technical Program Committee

• Marcus Handte, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
• Brent Lagesse, BBN, USA
• Verena Majuntke, Universitaet Mannheim, Germany
• Hubert Pham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
• Archan Misra, Singapore Management University, Singapore
• Enrico Rukzio, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
• Florian Michahelles, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Contact

If you have any questions regarding the workshop, feel free to contact us at: perhot@csail.mit.edu.