This workshop is in conjunction with the 9th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2005)) (http://www.ieee.im.org/) to be held in Nice Paris, May 15-19th.

We are seeing an increased demand for mobilility which is seen as a way to enhance the reach of networked services e.g., allowing mobile users to connect to an application, enhance networked applications e.g., using the user's location with a resource discovery protocol to discover the "nearest" service with respect to the user's location, and develop new applications e.g., using mobile ad-hoc networks to exchange information between emergency teams in disaster recovery. Providing a management infrastructure in an environment where increasingly the computing environments incorporate wireless and wired components such that the distinctions are fuzzy and that provides information not only "anytime anywhere" but also "all the time everywhere" in a timely and seamless fashion presents many challenging research problems.

The goal of this workshop is to gather people with different backgrounds to analyze and discuss challenges and possible solutions in providing a management infrastructures for mobile computing environments. Areas of interest include location management, Quality of Service (QoS) management, security management, management of of handoffs among content providers, and managing adaptive offloading.

Topics of interest to this workshop include, but are not limited to, the following:

• managing the organization of MANETs and sensor networks
• adaptive offloading
• managing location and other context information
• QoS management
• resource management
• energy-aware network management
• management issues in heterogeneous networks
• policies for vertical handoff
• load balancing
• service discovery
• managing distributed commuting in mobile environments
• intrusion detection in wireless and mobile networks

The structure of this workshop will encourage discussions and foster future collaborations. Attendance will be limited to 50 participants. Authors should submit 4-page position papers to <hanan@csd.uwo.ca> in PDF format. Selected papers will be available on the workshop website (no transfer of copyright).

This workshop is sponsored by:

Technical co-sponsors and patrons: currently under discussion.