MPAC 2004

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MPAC 2004

• 2nd International Workshop on Middleware for
  Pervasive and Ad-Hoc Computing

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Opening Remarks (2)

• Workshop organisers
• Paddy Nixon, University of Strathclyde
• Nitya Narasimhan, Motorola Laboratories
• Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde
• Workshop aim
• A roadmap for research on essential software
  infrastructures for ad-hoc and pervasive
  computing
• Workshop format
• Short presentations followed by a lot of
  discussion

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Opening Remarks (3)

• Paper review process
• 24 submission, 3 reviews per paper
• 13 accepted of which 4 are short ones
• Auxiliary reviewers
• Ian Ferguson, Richard Glassey, Andrew Jamieson,
  Martin Ritchie, Graeme Stevenson, Graham Thompson
• Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
• Special joint issue in collaboration with UbiSys
  Workshop at UbiComp
• 4 papers selected by MPAC committee for this issue

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Opening Remarks (4)

• Programme committee
• Christian Becker, University of Stuttgart
• Dan Chalmers, Imperial College
• Siobhan Clarke, Trinity College Dublin
• Simon Dobson, Trinity College Dublin
• Adrian Friday, Lancaster
• Valerie Issarny, INRIA
• Spyros Lalis, University of Thessaly
• Morris Sloman, Imperial College London
• Frank Siqueira, Federal University of Santa
  Catarina
• Tim Walsh, Trinity College Dublin