IMIS 2009 Workshop Welcome Message

Abstract

Welcome to the 3rd International Workshop on Intelligent, Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing, which is held in Fukuoka, Japan on March 16-19, 2009. With the proliferation of wireless technologies and electronic devices, there is a fast growing interest in Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing (UPC). UPC enables to create a human-oriented computing environment where computer chips are embedded in everyday objects and interact with physical world. Through UPC, people can get online even while moving around, thus having almost permanent access to their preferred services. With a great potential to revolutionize our lives, UPC also poses new research challenges. IMIS 2009 focuses on the challenges and solutions for UPC with an emphasis on intelligent, mobile and internet services, providing an opportunity for academic and industry professionals to discuss the latest issues and progress in the area of UPC. IMIS 2009 workshop provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address all resulting profound challenges including technical, safety, social, legal, political, and economic issues, and to present and discuss their ideas, results, work in progress and experience on all aspects of intelligent, mobile and internet services in ubiquitous and pervasive computing. The accepted papers cover a wide range of exciting topics in all aspects on above issues. IMIS 2009 had received high quality submissions from all over the world. All papers went through a rigorous peer-review process and each was reviewed by at least three TPC members or external reviewers. After several rounds of online discussions among the program chairs, we finally accepted 19 papers to be presented in the workshop. We believe that all of these accepted papers are of high quality and can also stimulate future research innovations in the area of intelligent, mobile and internet services in ubiquitous and pervasive computing. The excellent program required a lot of efforts from many people. First, we would like to thank all the authors for their hard work in preparing submissions to the workshop. We deeply appreciate the efforts and contributions of the program committee members who worked very hard to select the very best submissions and to put together an exciting program. Last but not least, we would like to greatly thank the CISIS 2009 local organizing team for their hard work, nice services, and wonderful local arrangements. We hope that attendees enjoy this conference, find the technical program to be exciting, and have a wonderful time in Fukuoka, Japan, together with the social activities of the conference.