[ieeetcsc-discuss] IEEE PerCom 2008: Google Ph.D. Forum Call for Contributions

[Laurence Tianruo Yang]

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IEEE PerCom 2008: Google Ph.D. Forum Call for Contributions

IEEE PerCom 2008, Mar 17th-21st, Hong Kong, China, announces:
A Ph.D. Forum on Pervasive Computing and Communications

Sponsored by Google

Forum Chair: Joseph Kee-Yin NG, Hong Kong Baptist University, China

Submission Deadline Extended to: Jan 28th 2008

http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/conference/percom08/

For the first time, PerCom will include a Ph.D. Forum in her technical
programme. The Ph.D. Forum will  be organized as a poster  session for
Ph.D. students to present and discuss their dissertation research with
people in  the pervasive  computing and  communications community.  It
will be  an interesting  forum for  Ph.D. students  to get feedback on
their research  and for  industry to  see academic  work in  progress.
Students  planning  to graduate  within  1-2 years  or  who will  have
completed their  dissertation during  the 2007-2008  academic year are
eligible to join.

Participation  in the  forum will  be competitive  and the  top three
winners  will  have  cash   prizes  of  HK$10K,  HK$7.5K   and  HK$5K,
respectively.


Paper Submission:
Ph.D.  students  are  invited  to  submit  four-page  contributions by
January 28, 2008  describing current research  and novel ideas  in the
areas  of  pervasive  computing and  communications.  The  goal is  to
encourage constructive debate on emerging research topics in pervasive
computing and ubiquitous services.

Authors should submit a four-page (maximum) manuscript in IEEE  double
-  column format  including the  authors' names,  affiliations, Email
contacts, and a short abstract.  Paper should be sent via  email (with
Subject: "PerCom  2008 Google Ph.D.  Forum Submission")  as PDF  files
to the Forum Chair -  Prof. Joseph Kee-Yin Ng at  jng at comp.hkbu.edu.hk
and only electronic submissions written in English will be accepted.

Authors of accepted contributions will be expected to travel to PerCom
2008 and make a poster presentation on their topic at the forum. There
is no forum registration fee  for authors. Award certificates will  be
given  for  the  most  innovative  idea,  and  the  most   interesting
interdisciplinary research problem.

Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline	Jan 28, 2008
Notification of acceptance	Feb 11, 2008
Camera-ready paper due date	Feb 18, 2008
Forum				Mar 17, 2008

http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/conference/percom08/