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Call For Papers
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The Fourth International Conference on Mobile Business
IEEE Sponsored Conference
m-Business 2005
Sydney, Australia

July 11 - 13, 2005

Conference URL: http://www.mbusiness2005.org
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The annual, International m-Business Conference, attracts leading
scholars and industry leaders in the m-Business/ wireless space from
across the world. The m-Business 2005 Conference takes place in
Sydney, Australia, July 11-13, 2005 with the theme of Mobile
Transformation - Enterprise transformation through mobile
technologies and applications.

The main aim of the m-Business 2005 Conference is to further
research, business understanding, strategy and policy in the m-
Business wireless sector. The conference will focus on major trends
and challenges in the mobile domain and will help provide a roadmap
for future scholarship and business success in this important and
wide-ranging arena by fusing the state of the art in diverse
research fields with best practices in industry.

We are pleased to announce this Call for Papers and invite experts
from industry, academia, and government and policy makers to actively
participate in m-Business 2005. We expect and encourage a wide
diversity of subjects across m-Business.

IMPORTANT DATES

February 21, 2005 Paper submissions
March 31, 2005 Paper acceptance notifications
April 30, 2005 Final camera-readies
July 11-13, 2005 Conference

AREAS OF INTEREST
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Mobile Enterprise implications for Society, Business and Security
- National security applications of mobile computing
- Mobile marketing
- Mobile applications for logistics, learning, health
- Mobile applications via industry sector
- Adoption studies
- Mobile Applications for the Extended Enterprise
- Mobile commerce models and architecture
- Mobile information systems applications in organizations
- New collaboration paradigms
- e-services in mobile information systems
- Data management in mobile systems
- Mobile workforce management
- Enabling Technologies
- Wireless sensor networks
- Wireless LANs, 3G & 4G technologies, ZigBee
- Wireless ad hoc networks
- Client devices including 3G & 4G handsets, smartcards
- RFID
- Mobile Service Technologies
- Ontology-based mobile systems and agents
- XML-based mobile services
- Location-based services
- Mobile agents
- Model-driven architectures
- Interface design and usability
- Mobile portals
- Mobile to Consumer Applications
- Mobile banking , Mobile investing
- Mobile shopping, Mobile ticketing, Mobile epayments
- Mobile passports, Mobile record keeping
- Mobile games
- Enabling Applications
- Corporate and personal email
- Instant messaging
- Mobile chat
- Mobile multimedia and video

PAPER SUBMISSIONS:

Submissions should be completed papers in MS-Word format. Please see
the conference Web site (http://www.mbusiness2005.org) for detailed
formatting and submission instructions.

The Program Committee will review all submissions. Accepted papers
will be published in the Conference Proceedings. High quality papers
may be elligible for journal publication. Authors of accepted papers
are required to register for the conference and present their papers
in the allotted sessions.

For further information please contact:

Dr Elaine Lawrence, University of Technology, Sydney
Australia
EMAIL: elaine AT it.uts.edu.au

Dr Robert Steele, University of Technology, Sydney
Australia
EMAIL: rsteele AT it.uts.edu.au


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

General Co-chairs
Elaine Lawrence University of Technology, Sydney
Robert Steele University oF Technology, Sydney

Program Co-chairs
Elizabeth Chang Curtin University of Technology
Wayne Brookes University of Technology, Sydney

Technical Chair
Andy Simmonds University of Technology, Sydney

Activities Chair
Karla Felix-Navarro University of Technology, Sydney

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,--_|\ Dr Robert Steele
/ \ rsteele AT it.uts.edu.au
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v Senior Lecturer
Department of Computer Systems
Faculty of Information Technology
University of Technology, Sydney
PO Box 123 Broadway
NSW 2007 Australia
Tel: 61 2 9514 7872, Fax: 61 2 9514 1807