Managing ubiquitous communications and services 2016

Ubiquitous Communications and Services, as evidenced in pervasive computing and smart space applications, present significant management challenges for successful delivery of highly adaptive services across heterogeneous networks, mobile networks, ad-hoc networks, sensor networks, middleware, applications and devices. Such challenges include: managing user centric services and context services, extreme distribution and scalability, extensive system / network / semantic heterogeneity, ad- hoc formation and disassociation of systems and services, intelligent support for user centric applications, managing smart cities and smart grids, managing software defined networks. Today’s management systems need to keep pace with the complexity, heterogeneity and automation required by the pervasive computing vision. The MUCS workshop series builds up synergies between the domains of Ubiquitous Computing and Communications Management, providing a forum for researchers and practitioners to explore the theoretical, technological, and organisational challenges, and to present advances in management techniques and technologies, for pervasive computing and smart space applications. MUCS 2016 provided a single-track scientific program comprising a keynote talk, eight peer-reviewed papers and an interactive working session. The key topics in this year’s workshop covered the areas of managing ubiquitous data and information, application-level support for the Internet of Things, as well as models and architectures for managing ubiquitous communications. These topics provide both a unique insight into the current state of the art in management of ubiquitous communications and services and suggest avenues for future research in this area. The keynote was given by Prof. Sanjay Jha, Director of the Cyber Security and Privacy Laboratory, The University of New South Wales, on the challenging subject of the Changing Landscape of Securing the Internet of Things. The 13th International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services (MUCS 2016) was held in Sydney, Australia, 18th March 2016, in conjunction with the 14th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2016).