The deadline for industrial paper submission is 30 September, 2008 -------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Industry Papers 7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOBILE AND UBIQUITOUS MULTIMEDIA (MUM2008) In cooperation with ACM SIGMOBILE www.mum2008.org December 3–5, 2008, Umea, Sweden MUM 2008 is a leading annual international conference, which provides a forum for presenting latest research results on mobile and ubiquitous multimedia. MUM 2008 welcomes papers from the mobile industry and testing practitioners. The focus is on practical experiences, quality improvements, product prototyping, empirical results and open problem reporting on mobile multimedia systems. All industrial papers are encouraged to discuss broader implications and usage of the presented topic. *** CONFERENCE TOPICS *** Submissions are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics on mobile and ubiquitous multimedia: * Architectures, protocols, and algorithms to cope with mobility, roaming, limited bandwidth, or intermittent connectivity * Case studies, field trials and evaluation of new applications and services * Mobile user interfaces, interaction design and techniques, user-centered studies * Intelligent, aware, proactive, and attentive environments, perception and modeling of the environment * Middleware and distributed computing support for mobile and ubiquitous multimedia * context-aware mobile and ubiquitous multimedia * Mobile computer graphics, games and entertainment * Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia in intelligent transportation systems * Novel adaptive mobile/ubiquitous/wireless multimedia applications and systems * Mobile media management * Rich media applications on mobile devices * Streaming mobile multimedia * Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia in ad hoc networks *** IMPORTANT DATES *** September 30, 2008: Submission deadline October 15, 2008: Notification of acceptance/rejection November 1, 2008: Camera-ready version due December 3–5, 2008: Conference dates *** PAPER SUBMISSION *** Full paper (3000 - 5000 words) submissions are solicited. Authors are encouraged to use the ACM paper format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates), as the conference proceedings will be archived in the ACM Digital Library. Industrial papers will be short-tracked for review. The evaluation criteria for industry papers are more oriented towards the relevance to practice, empirical results, and implications for deployment. Papers should be submitted electronically as PDF files to the conference industry chairs as follows: thanh-van.do@telenor.com jmb@cdt.ltu.se INDUSTRY CO-CHAIRS Do van Thanh, Telenor and Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Mikael Borjeson, CDT,Lulea University of Technology, Sweden *** NORTHERN SWEDEN *** Norrland, the northern part of Sweden; an exciting and exotic place, known for its lovely spring sun, enchanted summer nights and autumns of wonderful beauty. When you visit us in December you’ll get to experience a Norrland preparing for Christmas; the winter dark is lit up by Christmas illuminations and decorated trees, and in many places you can find Christmas fairs, with genuine Swedish handicraft and Christmas presents to bring home. There is much to experience here, and much to see not the least; from extensive mountains and forests, to beautiful old houses and works and fairylike places like the Jukkasjarvi Icehotel. Sweden’s biggest rivers and highest mountains are all located in Norrland. And in the middle of all this untamed nature, you at the same time find a vastly expanded IT-infrastructure, with wireless connection, high quality mobile networks and almost constant access – the best of two worlds!