Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services 2013

Kurzfassung

This volume presents the proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services (MUCS 2013), which was held in San Diego, California, USA, March 18, 2013, as an integrated part of the 11th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2013). As such, Ubiquitous Communications and Services, being part of pervasive computing and smart space applications, present a set of important management challenges for the successful delivery of highly adaptive services across heterogeneous networks, mobile networks, ad-hoc and sensor networks, middleware, applications, and devices. Such challenges include: managing user-centric services and context services, extreme distribution and scalability, extensive system and network and semantic heterogeneity, ad-hoc formation and disassociation of systems and services, and intelligent support for user centric applications. Today’s management systems need to keep pace with the complexity, heterogeneity, and automation required by the pervasive computing vision. The workshop in 2013 provides a single-track scientific program containing a blend of a keynote presentation, peer-reviewed papers, and a panel discussion addressing wireless and M2M communications and services for disaster management. While the goal of the workshop is to investigate the state of the art in managing pervasive/smart space applications from a broad perspective, the program reflects this goal in a coherent manner. The call for papers attracted 14 submissions, which have been received from authors in 9 different countries in Europe, Asia and North America, including one paper recommended from the PerCom main track. All submissions have been peer-reviewed, and 8 papers have been selected for full presentation at the workshop. The key topics in the workshop covered the areas of managing ubiquitous services and policies, context management and context-aware service management, managing smart spaces and environments, and infrastructure virtualization in next generation wireless sensor networks. These topics provide both a unique insight into the current state of the art in management of ubiquitous communications and services and suggest avenues for future research in this area. The keynote for MUCS 2013 was given by Prof. Mani Srivastava, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A. on a perfectly well fitting topic termed "Balancing Behavioral Privacy and Information Utility in Pervasive Sensing", which discussed the challenges inherent in designing a sensor information flow and processing architecture that is sensitive to the concerns of both producers and consumers. The team of General as well as TPC chairs would like to thank those researchers who submitted papers to the event, to the MUCS Technical Program Committee, for their advice and support through all the stages of the workshop preparation, the members of the PerCom 2013 conference organization committee, and to the sponsors giving financial support to running what we hope was a stimulating, rewarding and, most importantly, an enjoyable workshop for all its participants. March 2013 Dirk Pesch, Korbinian Frank, Karoly Farkas