Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services 2015

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 2015 provided a single-track scientific program comprising nine peer-reviewed papers and an interactive working session. The key topics in this year’s workshop covered the areas of managing metwork links and their metrics, managing network resources, and managing applications with focus on toolkits and reasoning. 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 12th International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services (MUCS 2015) was held in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, 23th March 2015, in conjunction with the 13th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2015).