Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services 2013

Ubiquitous Communications and Services, being part of pervasive computing and smart space applications, present a set of important management challenges for the successful delivery of highly adaptive services across heterogeneous networks, mobile networks, ad-hoc and sensor networks, middleware, applications, and devices. Such challenges include: managing user-centric services and context services, extreme distribution and scalability, extensive system and network and semantic heterogeneity, ad-hoc formation and disassociation of systems and services, and intelligent support for user centric applications. Today's management systems need to keep pace with the complexity, heterogeneity, and automation required by the pervasive computing vision.The MUCS workshop 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. The workshop in 2013 provided a single-track scientific program containing a blend of a keynote presentation, peer-reviewed papers, and workshop interaction.The key topics in the workshop covered the areas of managing ubiquitous services and policies, context management and context-aware service management, managing smart spaces and environments, and infrastructure virtualization in next generation wireless sensor networks. 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 for MUCS 2013 was given by Prof. Mani Srivastava, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A. on a perfectly well fitting topic termed "Balancing Behavioral Privacy and Information Utility in Pervasive Sensing", which discussed the challenges inherent in designing a sensor information flow and processing architecture that is sensitive to the concerns of both producers and consumers.The 10th International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services (MUCS 2013) was held in San Diego, California, USA, March 18, 2013, as an integrated part of the 11th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2013).