Techniques and Applications for Mobile Commerce (TAMoCo'13)

Kraków, Poland, September 8-11, 2013

 

Mobile Commerce (M-Commerce) comprises applications and services that are accessible from Internet-enabled mobile devices. It involves new technologies, services, and business models. Whilst it is different from traditional e-Commerce it can also be considered as an extension of it since, among other reasons, it makes e-Commerce available, in a modern way, to new application areas and to a new set of customers.

Mobile devices, such as smart phones or tablets, open the door to a great assortment of new applications and services. This may also include new types of specific application settings such as medical environments, industrial workspaces, process monitoring, automatics and diagnostics or measurement activities in remote and distributed environments. Location, other context information and personal data are used to tailor services directly to the needs of the user. This leads to pervasive environments in which users can always access the Internet. While this seems to be a good development it also means that privacy concerns become more and more important.

The goal of TAMOCO is to bring together researchers and practitioners that work in different aspects of mobile services in the context of business and industrial applications. This includes the incorporation of web services and cloud-based services, autonomic mobile computing, and the integration and interplay with urban systems, industrial settings, medical environments and other contexts. Also, application areas such as mobile learning, human centred design, ubiquitous computing and extended enterprise are covered. Finally, security is perhaps the most important factor for the success of mobile commerce and mobile applications.

Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Tools, technologies, platforms and infrastructure for mobile networks and applications
  • Concepts and methods for evaluating problems and the usefulness of mobile technologies
  • Maintenance and management of distributed, remote sensing systems in industrial workspaces
  • Autonomic middleware for mobile computing
  • Mobile learning theories, games and simulation
  • Analysis and Design of mobile web-service based applications
  • Enabling technologies for ubiquitous systems (mobility, interconnectivity, pervasiveness as well as personal and body area handheld devices examples)
  • Governance models of mobile computation
  • User experience, user interface design and user studies for mobile devices and systems
  • Human factors and user centred design in mobile technology applications
  • Collaborative, cooperative and contextual mobile learning
  • Pedagogical and social issues as well as cultural and regional differences in mobile learning
  • Integration of mobile solutions in urban infrastructure
  • Measurement, control, and evaluation of urban infrastructure by mobile solutions

Paper Submission, Publication and Indexation

  • Authors should submit full papers in English (as Postscript, PDF, MSWord, or ODF file).
  • The total length of a paper must not exceed 8 pages IEEE style (including tables, figures and references). IEEE style templates are available here.
  • Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the conference.
  • Submitted papers must be unpublished and not under review in any other conference or journal (submissions that violate this requirement will be regarded as self-plagiarism).
  • Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS events.
  • Only papers presented at the conference will be included in the IEEE Xplore® database and submitted for indexation.
  • Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference may be published as Special Issue(s) of journal(s)to be announced later.

Important Dates

  • Paper submission: May 21, 2013
  • Author notification: June 21, 2013
  • Registration opening (regular registration fee): July 5, 2013
  • Final paper submission system opening: July 5, 2013
  • Submission of the final version of the paper deadline: July 12, 2013
  • Deadline for fee payment to assure paper publication: August 12, 2013
  • Higher registration fee comes to effect: August 25, 2013
  • Conference date: September 8-11, 2013

FedCSIS is organized by :

Under auspices of :

Prof. Barbara Kudrycka

Minister of Science
and Higher Education

Dr Michał Boni

Minister of Administration
and Digitization

Prof. Michał Kleiber

President of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Prof. Tadeusz Słomka

Rector of AGH University of Science and Technology

Marek Sowa

Marshal of Małopolska

Prof. Andrzej Gospodarowicz

Rector of Wroclaw
University of Economics

Prof. Jacek Majchrowski

Mayor of Kraków