Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services 2010

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, 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. Today's management systems need to keep pace with the complexity, heterogeneity, and automation required by the pervasive computing vision. The MUCS workshop provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to explore the theoretic, technological, and organisational challenges, and to present advances in management techniques and technologies, for pervasive computing and smart space applications. The workshop in 2010 provided a keynote presentation by Aiko Pras about "Ubiquitous Networking: Get Pervasively Hacked", followed by a single-track scientific programme featuring leaders in the research of ubiquitous communications and services management systems, and an interactive workshop discussion. These proceedings cover the areas of modelling, management architectures and approaches, challenges brought by sensing ubiquitous environments, and testing/ evaluation of systems. These topics provide both a unique insight into the current state of the art in management in ubiquitous communications and services and suggest avenues for future research in this important research area. The Seventh IEEE International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services (MUCS 2010) was held in Mannheim, Germany, 29th March 2010, as an integrated part of the Eighth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2010).