Workshop Program

Co-Chairs
Dr. Hans Weghorn
Information Technology & Applied Computer Science
BA-University of Cooperative Education
Stuttgart, Germany
weghorn@ba-stuttgart.de

Dr. Qusay H. Mahmoud
Department of Computing & Information Science
University of Guelph
Guelph, Canada
qmahmoud@cis.uoguelph.ca

Background and Goals
Wireless computing is an emerging field that promises new approaches for developing information systems, which offer benefits related to mobility, flexibility of distribution, and costs. This emerging field poses new challenges to the research community such as faster time-to-market, quality of wireless information, security concerns, and others.
Following the success of the first WIS 2002 in Spain, and then WIS 2003 in France, WIS 2004 in Portugal, WIS 2005 in USA, and WIS 2006 in Cyprus, this workshop will serve as a forum for researchers and practitioners to meet and share expertise in this emerging field.
The workshop will be held for two days with oral presentations, discussions, and invited talks.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Mobile applications for enterprises and in terms of consumer products
• Most recent mobile technologies like RFID and ad hoc networking
• Innovative wireless applications, protocols, and systems
• Location-based and context-aware services
• Pervasive and ambient computing concepts and applications
• Middleware and agents for wireless information systems
• Mobile commerce
• Wireless security and privacy
• Wireless information architectures
• Design techniques and tools for wireless information systems
• Databases for wireless information systems
• Data mining in wireless information systems
• Papers on related topics are also welcome

Submission of Papers
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the areas listed above. All papers must be written in English, and the length of the paper should not exceed 5,000 words or 10 pages (including figures and tables). Papers (in PDF format) should be submitted online through the online submission systems.

Workshop Proceedings
All accepted papers will be published in a workshop proceedings book with an ISBN#, which will be issued by INSTICC Press. The proceedings will be available at the time of the workshop.

Important Dates
Paper Submission: March 5, 2007 (w/o exceptions)
Author Notification: April 3, 2007
Final Camera-Ready and Registration: April 16, 2007

Workshop Program Committee
Michela Bertolotto, University College Dublin (Ireland)
Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
Alfredo Goni, University of the Basque Country (Spain)
Christina Braz, University of Quebec, Montreal (Canada)
Silke Holtmanns, Nokia Research (Finland)
Ahmed Kamel, Concordia College (USA)
Birgitta Koenig-Ries, University of Jena (Germany)
Seng Loke, Monash University (Australia)
Saravanan Muthaiyah, George Mason University (USA)
Daniel Goergen, University of Trier (Germany)
Diego Lz. de Ipiña, University of Deusto (Spain)
Alan Messer, Samsung (USA)
Cornel Klein, Siemens (Germany)
Micheal Sheng, University of New South Wales (Australia)
Jari Veijalainen, University of Jyvaskyla (Finland)
Yolanda Villate, University of Zaragoza (Spain)
Andy Zott, Nokia Mobile Phones (Germany)

Workshop Location
The workshop will take place in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2007) in Funchal, Madeira - Portugal.

Registration Information
At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the workshop. If the registration fees are not received by April 9, 2007, the paper will not be published in the proceedings. For registering go to http://www.iceis.org

Secretariat
ICEIS 2007 Secretariat - The First International Workshop on Wireless Information Systems (WIS-2007)
E-mail: workshops@iceis.org
Web site: http://www.iceis.org