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The Second International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies

UBICOMM 2008

September 29 - October 4, Valencia, Spain


Preliminary Program

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

UBICOMM 2008 // ADVCOMP 2008 // ENICS 2008

Conferences take place at
Polytechnic University of Valencia
8G Building or CPI Building (third floor)

Entries:
First entry: “Ingeniero Fausto Elio” Street // Entrance "Meeting point 7"
[go to -1 floor, take  access B, go upstairs or by elevator, to the third floor]

Second entry:  From inside the Campus, entering from “Los Naranjos Avenue”

See map:

City: Valencia
Zip code: 46022

Monday, September 29

13:00

Registration starts
Place: CPI, 8G Building // third floor

14:00 – 17:00

Tutorial

Distributed Sensor Networks

Dr. Sitharama S. Iyengar, Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge, USA
Roy Paul Daniels Professor and Chairman, Computer Science
Louisiana State University
ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, AAAS Fellow
Satish Dhawan Distinguished Professor

 

18:00 – 19:00

Welcome Cocktail
Place: CPI, 8G Building

Tuesday, September 30

09:00 - 9:15

Opening session

Prof. Dr. Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA // Concordia University, Canada
Prof. Dr. Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Prof. Dr. Lourdes Peñalver Herrero, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Prof. Dr. Candid Reig, University of Valencia, Spain

09:15 - 10:15

Invited Speaker

Researching Research: Are we going the right way?
Mischa Dohler, CTTC - Barcelona, Spain

10:15 - 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:15

UBICOMM1

ADVCOMP1

ENICS1

12:15 - 13:45

Lunch on your own

13:45 - 15:30

UBICOMM2

ADVCOMP2/e-Spanish

ENICS2

15:30 - 15:45

Coffee break

15:45 – 17:30

UBICOMM3

ADVCOMP3/e-Spanish

UBICOMM13

 

17:30 – 19:30

IARIA Work Group Meeting on Ubiquitous Systems

UBICOMM15: PhD Forum

Open discussion: UBICOMM’s topics, journals, directions

DEMO:
P2P Agent Platform and Virtual P2P Environment for Testing Mobile P2P Agents Network

presented by Sergey Balandin and Sergey Serebryakov
Nokia-NRC, Finland

Wednesday, October 1

09:15 - 10:15

Invited Speaker

Hyperspectral imaging: sensors, algorithms and challenges
Javier Calpe-Maravilla, University of Valencia, Spain

10:15 - 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:15

UBICOMM4

ADVCOMP4

ENICS3

12:15 - 13:45

Lunch on your own

13:45 – 15:30

UBICOMM5

ADVCOMP5/e-Spanish

ENICS4

15:30 – 15:45

Coffee Break

15:45 – 17:30

UBICOMM6

ADVCOMP6/e-Spanish

UBICOMM14

 

17:30 – 18:30

IARIA Working Group Meeting on Advanced Computing

Open discussion: ADVCOMP’s topics, journals, directions

 

21:00-24:00

UBICOMM 2008 // ADVCOMP 2008 // ENICS 2008
Gala Dinner

Thursday, October 2

09:15 - 10:15

Invited Speaker/Mini-tutorial
EGEE Grid
Antonio Fuentes, RedIRIS, Spain

10:15 - 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:15

UBICOMM7

ADVCOMP7

ENICS5

12:15 - 13:45

Lunch on your own

13:45 - 15:30

UBICOMM8

ADVCOMP8

UBICOMM20

15:30 - 15:45

Coffee break

15:45 - 17:30

UBICOMM9

ADVCOMP9

UBICOMM16

 

17:30 - 18:30

IARIA Open discussion on Electronics and Microelectronics

Open discussion: ENICS’ topics, journals, directions

Friday, October 3

08:30 - 10:15

UBICOMM17

UBICOMM19

ENICS6

10:15 - 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:15

UBICOMM10

ADVCOMP10

ENICS7

12:15 – 13: 45

Lunch on your own

13:45 – 15:30

UBICOMM11

ADVCOMP11

ENICS8

15:30 – 15:45

Coffee Break

15:45 – 17:30

UBICOMM12

ADVCOMP12

UBICOMM18

 

17:30 – 18:00

Closing session

Saturday, October 4

8:00 - 18:00

One day visit Valencia and Requena (by bus)

Lunch included
See the registration form!
On site registration only if available

Getting outside Valencia (1h drive) to Requena, well-known place, for its wine cellars and its caves

Lunch in Requena in a typical restaurant

After lunch we will return to Valencia and we will visit The Arts and Science City and the Historic Center

DETAILED PROGRAM

UBICOMM 2008

UBICOMM 1: Ubiquitous Networks I

RFID Applied to Optical Spectrum for Network Resources Inventory Management
MIH based SIP Mobility Management Scheme in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
Self-Managed Fault Management in Wireless Sensor Networks
Auditable and Privacy-Preserving Authentication in Vehicular Networks
Specification and Implementation of Multicast Congestion Control Stair Protocol: Use Case with Multimedia Ubiquitous Networks

UBICOMM 2: Ubiquitous Networks II

How ubicomp affects our lives?
Dedicated Programming Support for Context-aware Ubiquitous Applications
A traffic-aware infrastructure-based architecture for inter-vehicles file sharing
Server Impersonation Attacks on RFID Protocols

UBICOMM 3: Ubiquitous Multimedia Systems and Processing

Achieving Low Latency of Multimedia Content Browsing in UPnP AV Architectures
Acoustic Environmental Monitoring System for acoustic maps
Light protocol and buffer management for automatically recovering streaming sessions in WiFi mobile telephones
A Novel Schema for Multipath Video Transferring Over Ad hoc Networks

UBICOMM 4: Information Ubiquity I

A Context-Aware Application based on Ubiquitous Location
Knowledge Representation and Inference in Context-Aware Computing Environments
The Bayeslet Concept for modular Context Inference
Auditory Context Recognition Using SVMs

UBICOMM 5: Information Ubiquity II

A Transaction Framework for Mobile Data Sharing Services
A Semantic-based Architecture for Sensor Data Fusion
VPIN: User-Session Knowledge Base for Self-Management of Ambient Networks
ICT devices as Ubiquitous Tools for Information Seeking Activity

UBICOMM 6: Wireless Technology

Subcarrier Block Power Control for Adaptive Downlink OFDM with Frequency Spreading and Equalization
Performance of Antenna Permutation for Multi-Rate Gigabit MIMO-LDPC
Performance Study of Non-beaconed and Beacon-Enabled Modes in IEEE 802.15.4 Under Bluetooth Interference
Bluetooth 2.0 based wireless network testbed deployment
A New MIMO Algorithm for Gbps Transmission in Nomadic Local Wireless Access

UBICOMM 7: Ubiquitous mobile services and protocols I

Handling membership dynamicity in service composition for ubiquitous computing
Performance Improvement of a Grid-Based Location Service in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
An Automatic Content Classification Method to Improve User Experience on the Mobile Web
Design and Implementation of a Mobile Devices-based Real-time Location Tracking

UBICOMM 8: Ubiquitous mobile services and protocols II

OLSR and WCPD as Basis for Service Discovery in MANETs
A3ME - An Agent-based Middleware Approach for Mixed Mode Environments
UCare: Context-Aware Services for Disabled Users
Towards the UPnP-UP: Enabling User Profile to Support Customized Services in UPnP Networks

UBICOMM 9: User and applications I

Map-based Interaction with a Conversational Mobile Recommender System
Distributed emulator for a pedestrian tracking system using active tags
Using Handhelds to Search in Physical and Digital Information Spaces
Personalizing Web-Based Information Systems through Context-Aware User Profiles

UBICOMM 10: Ubiquitous mobile services and protocols III

A Policy-Based Approach for Resource Specification in Small Devices
Towards Context Aware Adaptation in Wireless Networks
A User-Balanced System for IP Telephony in WLANs
On The Deniability of Some Deniable Authentication Protocols

UBICOMM 11:  User and Applications II

A remote multi-sites communication system providing gaze control by body movement
Using OSGi UPnP and Zigbee to provide a wireless ubiquitous home healthcare environment
Development of a cooperative application for sending SMS on wifi mobile phones
SyncDecor: Communication Appliances for Couples Separated by Distance

UBICOMM 12:  User and Applications III

Development of agent-based, peer-to-peer mobile applications on ANDROID with JADE
Distributing Essential Logical Deductions to Surveillance Personnel and a Video Recorder
A Holistic Approach to Enhance Universal Usability in m-Learning
“My phone is a part of my soul” – How People Bond with Their Mobile Phones
Ubiquitous IT towards Sustainable City Development in Korea

UBICOMM 13:  User and Applications IV

PiggyBrothers: Emotional Communication Devices for the Saving Habits of Children
To be or not to be Aware: Reducing interruptions in Pervasive Awareness Systems
Tagged World: an Intelligent Space Providing Services by Interaction between a User and an Environment
Dynamic Management of Real-Time Location Data on GPS-Enabled Mobile Phones

UBICOMM 14: Ubiquitous software and security I

A Secure Lightweight Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks
Serialization For Ubiquitous Systems: An Evaluation of High Performance Techniques on Java Micro Edition
Tag Initiated Authentication Module for RFID
Requirements Analysis for Identity Management in Ambient Environments: The HYDRA Approach

UBICOMM  15: PhD Forum

LBS 2.0 -– Enabling User-Driven Provision and Context-aware Utilisation of Location-based Services
Video traffic optimization in mobile wireless environments using adaptive applications
A Process to fuse Bicycle Tracks automatically

UBICOMM 16: Ubiquitous software and security II

An Enumeration of RFID Related Threats
Initalizing Mobile User's Identity From Federated Security Infrastructure
fakePointer: An Authentication Scheme for a Better Security against a Peeping Attack by a Video Camera
An Efficient Key Management Solution for Personal Network Federations

UBICOMM 17: Ubiquitous devices and operative systems

Wearable device for patients affected by neurodegenerative diseases
Mobile acquisition of sales operations based on a BlackBerry infrastructure with connection to an inventory and ERP management system
FPGA-powered Embedded Vector Graphics

UBICOMM 18: Collaborative ubiquitous systems

Virtual P2P Environment for Simulation and Testing of P2P Nomadic Agents Networks in Mobile Environment
Sharing resources in group-oriented networks: Fednet and related paradigms
A Novel, Community-enabled Mobile Information System for Hikers
Hybrid Seamless Mobility Supporting Pervasive Service Collaboration
A Semantic Context-based Policy Modeling Approach for Secure Adaptability in Ubicomp

UBICOMM 19: Mobility

Roaming Issues in 3GPP Security Architecture and Solution using UMM architecture
Maximum Node Degree Mobility Metric for Wireless Ad hoc Networks
Real-time Service Migration for VoIP Services
Optimal Design of Multiple Fractional Guard Channel Policy in Multiservice Cellular Networks

UBICOMM 20: Web Services

Dynamic and Ubiquitous Security Architecture for Global SOA
EzWeb/FAST: Reporting on a Successful Mashup-based Solution for Developing and Deploying Composite Applications in the Upcoming ‘Ubiquitous SOA’
Leveraging Collaboration of Peer-to-Peer and Web Services
Semi-automatic Context-aware Composition of Semantic Web Services
A model of scope for verification of implementation of choreography with exception handler using UPPAAL

 

ENICS 2008

ENICS 1:  Low power electronics & Nano electronics

Mapping SysML State Machine Diagram to Time Petri Net for Analysis and Verification of Embedded Real-Time Systems with Energy Constraints
Bluetooth 2.0 based wireless network testbed deployment
Nanoscale Triple Material Double Gate (TM-DG) MOSFET for Improving Short Channel Effects
A in-depth study of CMOS inverters based on the novel Surrounding Gate Transistors

ENICS 2: Programmable Circuits

CSDL & GLIDER: CAD tools for hardware implementation of Cellular Automata
Intelectual Property protection of IP cores at HDL Design Level with Automatic Signature Spreading
A mixed HW-SW system for fast codebook generation with the LBG algorithm
A Handel C Implementation of a Computationally Intensive Problem in GF(3)

ENICS 3: Navigation Electronics & VLSI Design

Inertial events identification using neural networks in railway environments
Geometry optimization in basic CMOS cells for improved power, leakage, and noise performances

ENICS 4:  Micro-electronics

The Design of Bi-CMOS LVDS Output Buffer with ESD Protection Circuit using 90nm CMOS Technology
A 3-mode Switched-gain Low Noise Amplifier for Wireless Bands Applications using an MMIC Technology
Switched Current 12-bit Capacity to Digital Delta-Sigma Modulator
New Technologies for Improving High Frequency Performance of AlGaN/GaN High Electron Mobility Transistors

ENICS 5: Lasers & High speed signal processing

Pulse Generation from Gain-Switched Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser at 1.5 µm
Directly Modulated Laser Intrinsic Parameters Optimization for WDM Systems
Joint Optimal Detection of Ordering SIC ZF and SIC ZF MAP for V-BLAST/STBC Wireless Communication Systems
A Reconfigurable Platform to drive High Frequency Class S Power Amplifiers using Multi-Gigabit Transceivers

ENICS 6:  Industrial electronics & Telemed and Health electronics

Vibration Control of High Speed Spindle
Review of Concepts Involved in Mixed PCBs Design for Electronic Devices
Microsensors for Partial Discharge
Computer Audiometer for Hearing Testing

ENICS 7: Home oriented electronics, Signal processing & Design of reconfigurable micro-chips

SoPC Implementation of the TP-KNX Protocol for Domotic Applications
Energy Efficient Home Gateway based on User Service Traffic in Always-On Home Network Environment
A Low-cost Continuous-Flow FFT Processor for Ultra-Wideband Applications
A Novel Countermeasure Enhancing Side Channel Immunity in FPGAs

ENICS 8: Application Oriented Electronics

Microcoaxial Double Slot Antenna for Interstitial Hyperthermia: Design, Modeling and Validation
Chromatic Modelling in Liquid Crystal Films for Ultrasonic Thermography
Multiprocessor SoC Implementation of Neural Network Training on FPGA
GSM Based Remote Ionized Radiation Monitoring System
LightNet a Reliable Option for Lighting Applications

 

ADVCOMP 2008

ADVCOMP 1: Semantic Processing

Semantic Core to Acquire and Distribute Design Information
Computing aggregations from linguistic web resources
UML-Based representation of Textual Objects
Everything You Ever Wanted to Learn from the Semantic Web but Were Unable to Ask

ADVCOMP 2: Spanish e-Science I

The Portuguese Grid Initiative
Dynamic Deployment of Custom Execution Environments in Grids
Introducing High-Performance and High-Throughput Processing in the TRENCADIS Data Sharing Architecture

ADVCOMP 3: Spanish e-Science II

Enabling Digital Repositories on the Grid
WINGS: Versatile Workflow for the Grid
Adapting ROMS to execute on GRID using a hybrid parallelization model
GridQTC: A Desktop Client for the Computational Chemistry Grid Infrastructure

ADVCOMP 4: Computing Techniques I

Compromising Structural and Bag Of Words Approaches for Heterogenous XML Documents Clustering
Intelligent Electronic Nose Systems for Fire Detection Systems Based on Neural Networks
Analysis of Parameter Settings for Differential Evolution Algorithm to Solve a Real-World Frequency Assignment Problem in GSM Networks
Studying Different Variants of PBIL to Solve a Real-World FAP Problem in GSM Networks

ADVCOMP 5: Spanish e-Science III

Large Scale Data Management in Grids
The Andalusian e-Science Initiative (e-CA). An application to Astrophysics
The GRID Computing face with the Start of the LHC Experiments

ADVCOMP 6: Spanish e-Science IV

Grid computing devoted to Fusion applications
A Heuristic Approach to Task Scheduling in Internet-based Grids of Computers
Interactivity and Parallelism in Grids: support of advanced applications across distributed infrastructures

 ADVCOMP 7: Computing Techniques II

Population-Based Incremental Learning to Solve the FAP Problem
Frequency Response of Discrete Dual-Rate Systems
Optimizing the Configuration of a Broadcast Protocol through Parallel Cooperation of Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms
A novel visual discriminator on network traffic pattern

ADVCOMP 8: Computing Techniques III

Independent Directions - Based Algorithm for Classification Tasks
A Biologically-Inspired Preventive Mechanism for Self-Healing of Distributed Components
Fault Detection and Diagnosis Based on PCA and Contribution Plots
A Non-Rigid Registration Using Elastic Model, Finite Element Method and Mutual Information in Parallel Environment

ADVCOMP 9:  Computing Techniques IV

Parameter estimation for Radial Basis Function Neural Network design by means of two Symbiotic algorithms
Applying Differential Evolution to a Realistic Location Area Problem Using SUMATRA
Constrained Intelligent K-Means: Improving Results with Limited Previous Knowledge
Portable Inter process Communication Programming

ADVCOMP 10: Computing Techniques V

Schema-Based Analysis of XSLT Streamability
Integrating Function Point Project Information for Improving the Accuracy of Effort Estimation
A Sparse Nonlinear Bayesian Online Kernel Regression
Modeling of Response Surface Methodology In Fuzzy Environment

ADVCOMP 11:  Computing Support

Efficient VLSI Implementation of Radix-4 SUT Adder
Implementing interoperability between the AEGIS and DIET GridRPC middleware to build an International Sparse Linear Algebra Expert System
Middleware with QoS support to control intelligent systems
A comprehensive ontology-based approach for SLA Obligations monitoring

ADVCOMP 12: Application Domains

Matrix Weighted Back-Projection Accelerates Tomographic Reconstruction
Analyzing the Network Traffic Requirements of Multiplayer Online Games
Searching and ranking similar clusters of polyhedra in crystal structures

 
 

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