Call For Papers http://csr.bu.edu/aswn2004 4th Workshop on Applications and Services in Wireless Networks Boston, Massachusetts, USA August 9-11, 2004 ASWN 2004 is the fourth workshop on Applications and Services in Wireless Networks. The previous events were held in France and Switzerland, and in 2004 the workshop will take place in the United States for the first time. ASWN 2004, to be held in Boston, aims at investigating new developments in wireless networks focusing on applications and services. The workshop will provide three-day presentations of invited and regular papers from academia and industry. Authors are invited to submit full technical papers on both theoretical and practical aspects of leveraging wireless and mobile environments. Tutorial proposals are also requested. All papers, including invited papers, will go through a thorough review process. TOPICS Specific areas of interest in Applications and Services on Wireless Networks include, but are not limited to: * Media Distribution over Wireless Networks * New Data Services for Wireless Networks * Audio-visual Applications for Home and Business * Mobile Multimedia * Middleware for Mobile Applications and Services * Service Execution Environments * Service Creation * Mobile Service Interworking * Service Discovery * Location-based Services * Context Awareness and Personalization * Service Development, Validation, Testing & Deployment * Inter Domain and Inter System Mobility * QoS Profiling and Pricing, end-to-end QoS * Security and AAA Aspects * Nomadic Services, Interface Management * Mobile ad-hoc Networks, Multihop Wireless Nets, Sensor Nets * Wireless Personal Area Networks * Reconfigurable Systems and Networks * Self Organizing Systems * Enabling 3G and Beyond Technologies and Architectures * Performance of Wireless Networks and Systems * Cooperative Networks PAPERS Prospective authors are invited to submit for review, papers that neither have been previously published nor are under review by another conference or journal. Priority will be given to original contributions describing recent and innovative research results or developments in the scope of the workshop. Papers must be written in English, using font no smaller than 10 points and not exceed 10 pages. Only PDF and PostScript formats will be accepted. All submissions will be handled electronically. Further details on submission available on the Applications and Services in Wireless Networks Workshop main page: http://csr.bu.edu/aswn2004. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Additionally, the best papers of the workshop will be considered for publication in a special issue of Elsevier's Computer Communications Journal. IMPORTANT DEADLINES Full paper submission: March 1, 2004 Notification of acceptance: April 16, 2004 Camera ready due: May 7, 2004 ORGANIZATION The workshop is sponsored by IEEE and its Communications Society (IEEE Technical Committee on Personal Communications), and WWRF-WG2 on Applications and Services. The workshop is organized by the Web and InterNetworking Group (WING) from the Computer Science Department at Boston University. The workshop will be held on the BU campus. GENERAL Co-CHAIRS Taieb Znati, University of Pittsburg, USA Azer Bestavros, Boston University, USA TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIR Ibrahim Matta, Boston University, STEERING COMMITTEE Hossam Afifi, INT, France Azer Bestavros, Boston University, USA Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Nada Golmie, NIST, USA Ibrahim Matta, Boston University, USA Djamal Zeghlache, INT, France TECHNICAL COMMITTEE Hossam Afifi, INT, France Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Tech, USA Nancy Alonistioti, University of Athens, Greece Eitan Altman, INRIA, France Stefan Arbanowski, FOKUS, Germany Chadi Barakat, INRIA, France Khaled Ben Letaief, Hong Kong U. of Science & Technology Elizabeth Belding-Royer, UCSB, USA Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Andrew Campbell, Columbia University, USA François Carrez, Alcatel, France Mark Corner, University of Massachusetts, USA Sajal Das, Univ. Texas at Arlington, USA Olaf Droegehorn, University of Kassel, Germany Henk Eertink, Telematica Institut, Netherlands Jeremy Elson, UCLA, USA Anthony Ephremides, Univ. Maryland College Park, Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University, USA Ioannis Fikouras, University of Bremen, Germany Savo Glisic, University of Oulu, Finland Nada Golmie, NIST, USA Wendi B. Heinzelman, University of Rochester, USA Ahmed Helmy, USC, USA Wolfgang Kellerer, NTT DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC, USA Marwan Krunz, University of Arizona, USA Peter Langendoerfer, IHP Microelectronics, Germany Whay Lee, Motorola Labs, USA Mingyan Liu, University of Michigan, USA Eytan Modiano, MIT, USA Luis Munoz, University of Cantabria, Spain Ramjee Prasad, Aalborg University, Denmark Guy Pujolle, Université Paris VI, France Jochen H. Schiller, Freie University, Germany David Starobinski, Boston University, USA Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece Suresh Singh, Portland State University, USA Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Demokritos University, Greece Hector Velayos, KTH, Sweden Thiemo Voigt, SICS, Sweden Cedric Westphal, Nokia Research, USA Halim Yanikomeroglu, Carleton University, CA Djamal Zeghlache, INT, France Lixia Zhang, UCLA, USA