Themes and Goals

Pervasive Computing has become a reality and is further emerging. And even though Pervasive Computing is still in its infancy, no one can deny its potential to change how we live and do business. Pervasive Computing is pointing toward a future in which the networking web will be extended to an ever larger number of players, to smaller machines, houses, appliances, etc., which are increasingly becoming more intelligent. Applications and architectures are becoming multi modal and aware of their context. This web will allow machines to interact with other machines and humans. The sheer number of players interacting with each other and their penetration in our daily lives, such as household appliances, is going to make the impact even more formidable.

In some respects, pervasive solutions contain many elements from standard e-Business systems and are implemented with the same or similar technology. However, the combination of the pervasiveness of computing functionality and internet access, together with possibilities such as the remote monitoring of events and pushing information to users and machines, or the creation of location-aware services, is a new paradigm. Clearly, the well-known Web 'Request/Response' model, as implemented through WAP or i-mode is not enough. Disconnected Work, Intelligent Notification, Ad Hoc Networks, and Data Replication are just a few samples usage patterns where Pervasive Computing goes beyond 'internet for small screens'.

We believe Object Technology is playing a major part in shaping up this new computing paradigm. In some ways, objects can be regarded as becoming highly dynamic and more pervasive, 'living' on even the smallest device. The computing model is becoming even more distributed, possibly using Web Services as the prime means for cooperation.

This workshop will bring together practitioners who have been actively involved in the development of Pervasive Computing solutions, researchers who have been working in this area, and people who have been involved in the definition of standards. The goal is to identify recurring architecture themes and patterns typically used to build such systems, or raise issues and gaps for implementation that need to be resolved.

The workshop is a sequel to similar sessions from the previous years at OOPSLA. It will start off with a short presentation of accepted papers and will then be highly interactive, aiming for tangible outcomes, such as sketches of reference architectures or patterns identified in this field.


On the Workshop

This workshop will bring together practitioners who have been actively involved in the development of Pervasive Computing solutions, researchers who have been working in this area, and people who have been involved in the definition of standards. The goal is to identify recurring architecture themes and patterns typically used to build such systems, or raise issues and gaps for implementation that need to be resolved.

The workshop is a sequel to similar sessions from the previous years at OOPSLA. It will start off with a short presentation of accepted papers and will then be highly interactive, aiming for tangible outcomes, such as sketches of reference architectures or patterns identified in this field.

Topics of our discussions might include, but are not limited to:

• Applications for Pervasive Computing, e.g. for mobile phones, handhelds, cars, households appliances, smart machines, wearable computers, and other devices
• Mobile phone applications and communications, e.g. using WAP, SIM Toolkit, i-Mode, SMS, MMS, …
• Architectures for client devices and back-end server systems, peer to peer systems, etc.
• Wireless Portals
• Specific mobile related topics such as Content Adaptation / Transcoding, Location Based Services, Content Management or Personalization for mobile devices
• Mobile Agents
• (Micro)-Payments, mobile e-Commerce
• Management and administration of software deployed on a large number of heterogeneous devices, including OSGi capable devices
• Security and Privacy
• Supporting dramatically different user interface paradigms
• Adaptability and learning
• Networking infrastructure
  

Call for Participation

Participants of the workshop can sign up in one of two ways:

• by submitting a position paper of 2-5 pages by Sept 8. Participants who are submitting position papers will have the opportunity to present their experiences or findings at the workshop and play a more prominent role in shaping the overall workshop.
• by sending an email describing their relevant experience in the area to one of the organizers by Oct 6. This does not guarantee participation. The organizers will select some of those applicants to join the workshop, based on the experiences, positions or ideas stated in the email. Participants without position papers will not be allowed to present at the workshop. Instead, they will be asked to facilitate the workshop (by taking minutes of the workshop, preparing posters, etc.) for the benefit of all.

Accepted participants will be notified by Sept 19. Accepted position papers will be posted on the workshop's web page and participants will be asked to read the papers before coming to the workshop.

Organizers

Chair: Steffen Tom Schaefer, IBM (Steffen.Schaefer@de.ibm.com)

Steve Marney, EDS (steve.marney@eds.com)

Jens Jahnke, Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria (jens@acm.org)

Rob van den Berg, Siemens (rvdberg@gmx.net)

Jutta Eckstein, Objects in Action (pervasive@jeckstein.com)