IMIS July 8-th to July 10-th, 2015, Regional University of Blumenau (FURB), Blumenau, Brazil
in conjunction with CISIS 2015 International Conference

The Ninth International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (IMIS-2015)

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List of Tracks

  1. Smart Spaces and Intelligent Environments
  2. Embedded Systems and Wearable Computers
  3. Context and Location-aware Computing
  4. Data Management in Pervasive Systems
  5. Security, Trust and Privacy
  6. Energy Aware Pervasive Systems
  7. Knowledge Cities and Disaster Recovery
  8. Smartphone Applications for UPC
  9. Modeling, Simulation and Performance in UPC
  10. Internet, Wireless and Mobile Networks for UPC
  11. Intelligent Technologies and Applications on Big Data
  12. Service-Centric Networking for Innovative Cloud Services and Applications

Track 1: Smart Spaces and Intelligent Environments

Chairs

Mauro Migliardi, University of Padua, Italy
Alessio Merlo, University of Genova, Italy

PC Members

Luigi Benedicenti, University of Saskatchewan in Regina, CN
Loris Nanni, Universita' degli Studi di Padova, IT
Vincenzo Lombardo, Universita' degli Studi di Torino, IT
Carlo Ferrari, Universita' degli Studi di Padova, IT

Topics:

  • Context-awareness for smart-spaces and intelligent environment
  • Energy-awareness in smart-spaces and intelligent environment
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Security for smart-spaces and intelligent environment
  • Virtual and Augmented Reality
  • Home-automation
  • Sensor networks
  • Cloud computing for smart-spaces and intelligent environment

Track 2: Embedded Systems and Wearable Computers

Chairs

Kazuya Murao, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Elis Kulla, Okayama University of Science, Japan

PC Members

Ren Ohmura, Toyohashi University of Technology, JP
Yu Enokibori, Nagoya University, JP
Nobuchika Sakata, Osaka University, JP
Kohei Matsumura, Ritsumeikan University, JP
Makoto Takizawa, Hosei University, JP
Tomoya Enokido, Rissho University, JP
Fatos Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, ES
Arjan Duressi, IUPUI, US
Makoto Ikeda, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, JP
Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, JP
Konstantin Mikhaylov, University of Oulu, FL
Bhed Bahadur Bista, Iwate Prefectural University, JP
Noriki Uchida, Saitama Institute of Technology, JP
Klodian Xheka, Universiteti Metropolitan Tirana, AL

Topics:

  • Wearable sensing
  • Wearable devices
  • Wearable systems
  • Activity recognition
  • Locationestimation
  • Interface
  • HMD
  • Projector
  • Textile

Track 3: Context and Location-aware Computing

Chair

Massimo Ficco, Second University of Naples, Italy
Yunyoung Nam, Soonchunhyang University, Korea
Jeng-Wei Lin, Tunghai University, Taiwan

PC Members

Massimo Ficco, Second University of Naples, IT
Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
David Camacho, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid , ES
Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, IT
Geir Horn, University of Oslo, Norway
Andrei Olaru , University of Bucharest, Romania
Christian Esposito, National Research Council, IT
Antonio Gonzalez , Universidad Autónoma de Madrid , ES
Ioan Salomie, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Roberto Natella, University of Naples, IT
Hector Menendez , Universidad Autónoma de Madrid , ES
Victor Munteanu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Tudor Cioara, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Ray-I Chang, National Taiwan University, TW
Hung-Yu Kao, National Cheng Kung University, TW
Chia-Hui Wang, Ming Chuan University., TW
Shian-Hua Lin, National Chi Nan University, TW
Mu-Yen Chen, National Taichung University of Science and Technology, TW
Chia-Chen Chen, National Chung Hsing University, TW
Chun-Hsin Wu, National University of Kaohsiung, TW

Topics:

  • Methods and techniques for inferring user location and context from low-level sensor data
  • Location and context representation, management, and distribution
  • Context-aware agents and services for intelligent mobile environments
  • Context and social awareness in Mobile Computing environments
  • Mobile pervasive applications, such as mobile sensing, smart healthcare, disaster management, tourism, transportation, and enterprise solutions
  • Context-aware intelligent computing
  • Mobile pervasive applications, such as mobile sensing, tourism, transportation, and enterprise solutions
  • Intelligence in mobile, ubiquitous and wearable computing
  • New hardware platforms for sensing location and context
  • Intelligent location-aware applications in e-business/e-commerce, e-learning, e-health, e-science, e-government, crisis management, smart grid
  • Location and Discovery of Things on the Internet
  • Location-based Services and Geographic Information Systems
  • Location-based Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Location-based Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks
  • Location-Aware Applications in Smartphones
  • Localization and Tracking
  • Mobile User Interfaces, Interaction Technologies, and User Experience
  • Middleware platforms for location/context-dependent services
  • Mobile Cloud Computing
  • Social Network Applications to Mobile Computing
  • Wearable Computing
  • Body Area Networks

Track 4: Data Management in Pervasive Systems

Chairs

Marek Ogiela, AGH University of Science and Technology - Krakow, Poland
Been-Chian Chien, National University of Tainan, Taiwan

PC Members

Deok Gyu Lee, Seowon University, KR
Farookh Khadeer Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, AU
Gangman Yi Gangneung-Wonju National University, KR
Hae-Duck Joshua Jeong, Korean Bible University, KR
Hoon Ko, J. E. Purkinje University, CZ
Lidia Ogiela, AGH University of Science and Technology, PL
Libor Mesicek, J. E. Purkinje University, CZ
Sung-Ki Kim, Sun Moon University, KR
Tomasz Hachaj, Pedagogical University of Cracow, PL
Rung-Ching Chen, Chaoyang University of Technology, TW
Mong-Fong Horng, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, TW

Topics:

  • intelligent data management
  • bio-inspired models for data management
  • knowledge extraction and knowledge engineering
  • modern information systems
  • applications of information management techniques
  • cognitive informatics
  • new computation paradigms for intelligent knowledge management
  • semantic content analysis
  • security aspects of information management
  • Information retrieval in mobile environments
  • Intelligent Data Analysis for pervasive systems
  • Mobile data mining

Track 5: Security, Trust and Privacy

Chairs

Fang-Ye Leu, Thungai University, Taiwan
Aniello Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy
Nan Guo, Northeastern University, China

PC Members

Chin-Ling Chen, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan, TW
I-Long Lin, Yuanpei University, Taiwan, TW
Sergio Ricciardi, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain, SP
Ugo Fiore, University of Naples, Italy, IT
Francesco Palmieri, Second University of Naples, Italy, IT
Chiu-Ching Tuan, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan, TW
Ilsun You, Korean Bible University, Korea, KR
Fucai Zhou, Northeastern University, China, CN
Tianhan Gao, Northeastern University, China, CN
Qingshan Li, Peking University, China, CN

Topics:

  • Security architecture and protocols
  • Security threats and model
  • Security application and system
  • Authentication and Access control
  • Privacy and trust model
  • Anonymous issues
  • Cryptography
  • Data Security
  • Mobile security
  • Cloud security
  • Computer Forensics
  • Privacy, Data Integrity and Data Protection

Track 6: Energy Aware Pervasive Systems

Chairs

Jin Li, Guangzhou University, China
Zhuzhong Qian, Nanjing University, China

PC Members

Joseph K. Liu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Qian Wang, Wuhan University, CN
Weiwei Lin, South China University of Technolgoy, CN
Kaitai Liang, Aalto University, Finland
Yan Zhu, University of Science and Technology Beijing, CN
Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China
Lingling Xu, South China University of Technolgoy, CN
Duncan S. Wong, City University of Hong Kong, HK
Nan Jiang, East China Jiao Tong University, China
Xuan Li, Guangdong University of Finance & Economics
Yong Yu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Joonsang Baek, Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, United Arab Emirates
Jingwei Li, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Zheli Liu, Nankai University, China
Mianxiong Dong, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Kaoru Ota, Muroran Insitute of Technology, Japan
Sheng Zhang, Nanjing University, China.
Yanhui Gu, Nanjing Normal University, China
Yuan Wu, Zhejiang University of Technology, China

Topics:

Track 7: Knowledge Cities and Disaster Recovery

Chairs

Nik Bessis, University of Derby, United Kindom
Eleana Asimakopoulou, University of Derby, United Kindom

PC Members

Babak Akhgar, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Kevin Curran, University of Ulster, Ireland
Paul McKevitt, University of Ulster, Ireland
Sergio Toral, University of Seville, Spain
Federico Barrero, University of Seville, Spain
Daniel Reina, University of Seville, Spain
Ciprian Dobre, University Polytechnica of Buchares, Romania
Princy Johnson, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Stelios Sotiriadis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Philip Moore, Lanzhou University, China

Topics:

  • Interoperable architectures, frameworks, middleware and programming interfaces
  • Localization techniques, disaster monitoring and recovery methods
  • Resilience concepts, protocols and context aware policies
  • Energy efficient infrastructures
  • MANETs, VANETs, sensors and autonomous networks
  • Smart City data analytics and visualizations including intelligent algorithms and dashboards
  • Ubiquitous and pervasive city systems including GIS, Internet of Things and drone deployments
  • Enabling computational infrastructures and information systems including geotagging, federated clouds and ultrascale computing
  • Social aspects of information systems, such as citizens as sensors, urban dynamics, and citizen participation
  • Innovative applications in public safety, government, commerce, transportation, among others
  • Ethical and societal risks, threats for secure societies and protection on critical infrastructures

Track 8: Smartphone Applications for UPC

Chairs

Luigi Catuogno, University of Salerno, Italy
Hwamin Lee, Soonchunhyang University, Korea

PC Members

Elisa Benetti, Lepida Spa, IT
Aniello Del Sorbo, Orange Labs – Orange Innovation, UK
Clemente Galdi, University of Naples “Federico II”, IT
Stefano Turchi, University of Florence, IT
Francesco Zurolo, University of Salerno, IT
Ermelindo Mauriello, Deloitte XBS, IT
Luigi Catuogno, University of Salerno, IT
HwaMin Lee, Soonchunhyang University, KR
Daewon Lee, Seokyeong University, KR
Jaehwa Chung, Korea National Open University, KR
Jisu Park, Korea University, KR
Min-Hyung Choi, University of Colorado Denver, US
Dong-Hyuk Im, Hoseo University, KR
Hongxin Hu, Clemson University, US
Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, FR
Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, CA
Chin-Feng Lai, National Ilan University, TW
Qiang Zhu, The University of Michigan, US
Hans Loehr, Robert Bosch GmbH, Corp. Research, GE
Antonio Ferraro, NATO Communication and Information Systems Agency, BE

Topics:

  • Human-smartphone interaction
  • Identity theft in social networks
  • Mobile Trusted Computing
  • Opportunistic computation
  • Reliable cooperative apps
  • Reputation systems
  • Secure smartphone applications deployment and update
  • Smartphone integration in e-Learning infrastructures
  • Social Network data mining and analyisis
  • Social Network privacy issues
  • Trust in social networks
  • Usable security: smartphones in the loop
  • Mobile Middleware Applications for UPC
  • Wellness/U-helthcare Applications for UPC
  • Smart Home Applications for UPC
  • Multimedia Applications for UPC
  • Smart Office Applications for UPC
  • Intelligent Transport Applications for UPC
  • U-learning/E-learning Application for UPC

Track 9: Modeling, Simulation and Performance in UPC

Chair

Kin Fun Li, University of Victoria, Canada
Mohammed Mikki, Islamic University of Gaza, Palestine
Tetsuya Shigeyasu, Prefectural University of Hiroshima, Japan

PC Members

Fumiaki Sato, Toho University, JP
Nobuyoshi Sato, Iwate Prefectural University, JP
Masaaki Yamanaka, Hiroshima International University, JP
Yusuke Gotoh, Okayama University, JP
Hatem Hamad, Islamic University of Gaza, PS
Jalel Rejeb, San Jose State University, US
Yussuf Abu Shaaban, Al-Azhar University, PS
AbdulAziz AlMazyad, King Saud University, SA
Yousef Hassouneh, BirZeit University, PS
Iyad Tumar, BirZeit University, PS
Haytham Elmiligi, Thompson Rivers University, CA
Watheq El-Kharashi, Ain Shams University, EG
Michael Horie, Tutela Technologies, CA
Wei Lu, Keene University, US
Kosuke Takano, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, JP
Jinmin Yang, Hunan University, CN
Ana-Maria Sevcenco, HP Canada, CA
Martin Wedlake, IBM, US

Topics:

  • System Development for UPC
  • Network Simulation for UPC
  • Wireless Network Security for UPC
  • Network Protocol for UPC

Track 10: Internet, Wireless and Mobile Networks for UPC

Chairs

Antonio J. Jara, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland
Dominique Genoud, HES-SO, Switzerland
Yann Bocchi, HES-SO, Switzerland

PC Members

Ramon Alcarria, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, ES
Latif Ladid, University of Luxembourg, LU
Maria Rita PALATTELLA, University of Luxembourg, LU
GREGORIO MARTIN ROMERO, Telefonica Digital (M2M), ES
Pablo Lopez, HOP Ubiquitous, ES
David Fernandez, HOP Ubiquitous, ES
Rodolfo de Paz Alberola, United Technologies Research Centre, IR
Berta Caballido, United Technologies Research Centre, IR
Martin Serrano, NUIG, IR
Gianluca Rizzo, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, CH
Felix Villanueva, UCLM, ES
Walter Colitti , Inxition, BE
Domenico Rotondi, TXT Group, IT
Boris Pokric, DunavNet, SE
Diego Lopez de Ipina, DeustoTech, ES
Antonio Puliafito, Univ. Messina, IT
Diego Gachet, Univ. Europea Madrid, ES
Nabil Benamar, University of Moulay Ismail, MO
Antonio Skarmeta, Univ. Murcia, ES
Pedro Malo, Uninova, PT
Ricardo Rapuzzi, Univ. Genova, IT
Antonio Iera, UNIRC, IT

Topics:

  • Ubiquitous Networks
  • Network, and application protocols for UPC
  • Ubiquitous Networks
  • Internet of Things
  • M2M and cellular networks
  • Cyber Physical Systems
  • Smart Grid Networks
  • Smart Cities Networks
  • Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Lightweight applications protocols
  • Personal and wearable mobile networks
  • IPv6 and Future Internet
  • Security
  • Collaborative Networks
  • Green Networks
  • Semantic and networks convergence
  • Fog Computing
  • In-network processing
  • Wearable Computing
  • Crowd-sensing

Track 11: Intelligent Technologies and Applications on Big Data

Chairs

Florin Pop, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Wen-Yang Lin, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Fong-Hao Liu, National Defense University, Taiwan

PC Members

Alexandru-Florian Antonescu, University of Bern, Switzerland
Elena Apostol, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK
Dana-Maria Boldeanu, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
Giuliana Carullo, University of Salerno, Italy
Aniello Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy
Valentin Cristea, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Dorian Gorgan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Francesca Guerriero, University of Calabria, Italy
Diana Moise, InIT Cloud Computing Lab, ZHAW Winterthur, Switzerland
Gabriel Neagu, National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics, Romania
Catalin Negru, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Laércio Lima Pilla, UFSC - CTC - INE, Brazil
Maria Potop-Butucaru, University Paris 6, France
Bujar Raufi, South East European University, Republic of Macedonia
Stelios Sotiriadis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Nicolae Tapus, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Sergio Toral Marín, University of Seville, Spain
Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Mohammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Chung-Hong Lee, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, TW
Been-Chian Chien, National University of Tainan, Taiwan
Katsutoshi Yada, Kansei University, Japan
Saman Halgamuge, University of Melbourne, Australia
Damminda Alahakoon, Monash University, Australia
Yun Sing Koh, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
James Tan, SIM University, Singapore

Topics:

  • Algorithms and applications for Big Data
  • Trends and Technologies on Data Science
  • Evolving technologies (e.g. search technologies)
  • Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics
  • Big Data visualization techniques
  • Visualizing semantic & linked data
  • Big Data storage and management in the cloud, many-cloud and fog systems
  • Big Data Middleware
  • Data Science including modeling, resolving, and querying the Web of Data
  • Data Science on Technology/Competitive/Collective Intelligence
  • Data Intensive Applications
  • Trust Management in Big Data Platforms
  • Computing, scheduling and resource management for sustainability
  • Network and resource provisioning approaches
  • Network architectures to support Big Data analytics
  • Modelling, simulation and performance evaluation
  • General ontology for (open) linked data
  • (Governmental) Linked Data
  • Semantic and Social Data
  • Case studies of communities such as Twitter, Facebook

Track 12: Service-Centric Networking for Innovative Cloud Services and Applications

Chairs

Ciprian Dobre, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Ugo Fiore, University of Naples, Italy
Muhammad Younas. Oxford Brookes University, UK

PC Members

Sergio L. Toral Marín, University of Seville, ES
Rossitza Ivanova Goleva, Technical University of Sofia, BG
Waldir Moreira, COPELabs/ULHT, PT
Florin Pop, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, RO
Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, University of Nicosia, CY
George Mastorakis, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece
Matei Popovici, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, RO
Kuo-Ming Chao, Coventry University, UK
Flora Amato, University of Naples Federico II, IT
Huy Tran, University of Wien, AU
Gerben Meyer, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
Antonio Marcos Alberti, INATEL - Instituto Nacional de Telecomunicações, BR

Topics:

  • Performance modelling of networking for cloud services
  • Reliability and fault tolerance techniques for Cloud services and applications
  • Network communication protocols for Cloud data
  • Use cases and applications for service-centric networks
  • Platforms, frameworks and architectures for service-centric networking
  • Approaches for realizing service and context awareness in Cloud traffic management
  • Information models and naming schemes for service-centric networking
  • Extending information-centric networking mechanisms with service-related semantics
  • Service-centric networking as an enabler for Cloud federations
  • Application-layer traffic optimization (ALTO)
  • Social-awareness in service-centric networking
  • Service-centric networking for energy aware and green IT
  • Approaches and technologies towards global service mobility
  • Performance evaluation of service-centric approaches with respect to QoS and QoE, energy efficiency, costs for stakeholders, etc.
  • Future challenges and trends for innovative cloud services and applications

 


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