Introduction and Goals

1. Introduction and Goals Rodger Lea, Mike Blackstock Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre (MAGIC) University of British Columbia (UBC) Canada

2. UbiSys • Systems support for Ubiquitous computing • 3rd year – ’03, ’04, ‘06 • 29 submissions • 6 full papers chosen • 43 participants – largest at UbiComp

3. Thanks • Jalal Al-Muhtadi, King Saudi U. • Christian Becker, U. Stuttgart • Michael Blackstock, UBC • Roy Campbell, UIUC • Charles “Buck” Krasic, UBC • Rodger Lea, UBC • Alan Messer, Samsung • Nitya Narasimhan, Motorola • Paddy Nixon, UCD • Umar Saif, LUMS, Pakistan • Sotirios Terzis, Strathclyde

4. Topics • Common abstractions, models toward interoperability and portability, supported by systems and tools for porting or adapting applications between ubiquitous environments. • Use of new and emerging middleware and software engineering approaches such as service oriented, decentralized, and peer to peer architectures in ubicomp systems. • Wide scale inter-domain ubicomp deployment and experiences of deployed ubicomp systems infrastructure. • Techniques and benchmarks for the effective evaluation of ubicomp systems

5. Program - morning 9:00 - 9:15 Introduction and goals of the workshop 9:15 - 9:45 One Minute Madness 9:45 - 10:45 Panel 1: Barriers to Adoption and Evaluation Roy Campbell, UIUC 10:45 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 12:15 Paper Session 1 Charles Krasic, UBC 12:15 - 1:30 Lunch and Posters

6. Program - afternoon 1:30-2:30 Panel 2 Middleware Directions and Challenges Nitya Narasimhan, Motorola 2:30-3:45 Paper session 2, Mike Blackstock, UBC 3:45 - 4:15 Break 4:15-5:45 Panel 3 Research Challenges and Directions, Rodger Lea, UBC 5:45 - 8:00 Reception

7. Goals • Generate discussion – you need to participate • Identify key areas for future research • Common abstractions, • New and emerging middleware • Wide scale inter-domain ubicomp deployment • Techniques and benchmarks for evaluation • Identify areas we now understand • Get to know the community • Have some fun