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       The Fourth International Conference on Mobile Business
                   IEEE Sponsored Conference
                         m-Business 2005
                        Sydney, Australia

                       July 11 - 13, 2005

          Conference URL: http://www.mbusiness2005.org
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The annual, International m-Business Conference, attracts leading scholars
and industry leaders in the m-Business/ wireless space from across the
world. The m-Business 2005 Conference takes place in Sydney, Australia,
July 11-13, 2005 with the theme of Mobile Transformation - Enterprise
transformation through mobile technologies and applications.

The main aim of the m-Business 2005 Conference is to further research,
business understanding, strategy and policy in the m-Business wireless
sector. The conference will focus on major trends and challenges in the
mobile domain and will help provide a roadmap for future scholarship and
business success in this important and wide-ranging arena by fusing the
state of the art in diverse research fields with best practices in industry.

We are pleased to announce this Call for Papers and invite  experts from
industry, academia, and government and policy makers to actively
participate in m-Business 2005. We expect and encourage a wide diversity of
subjects across m-Business.

IMPORTANT DATES

 February 21, 2005     Paper submissions
 March 31, 2005        Paper acceptance notifications
 April 30, 2005                Final camera-readies
 July 11-13, 2005      Conference

AREAS OF INTEREST
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

  - Mobile Enterprise implications for Society, Business and Security
    - National security applications of mobile computing
    - Mobile marketing
    - Mobile applications for logistics, learning, health
    - Mobile applications via industry sector
    - Adoption studies
  - Mobile Applications for the Extended Enterprise
    - Mobile commerce models and architecture
    - Mobile information systems applications in organizations
    - New collaboration paradigms
    - e-services in mobile information systems
    - Data management in mobile systems
    - Mobile workforce management
 - Enabling Technologies
    - Wireless sensor networks
    - Wireless LANs, 3G & 4G technologies, ZigBee
    - Wireless ad hoc networks
    - Client devices including 3G & 4G handsets, smartcards
    - RFID
 - Mobile Service Technologies
    - Ontology-based mobile systems and agents
    - XML-based mobile services
    - Location-based services
    - Mobile agents
    - Model-driven architectures
    - Interface design and usability
    - Mobile portals
 - Mobile to Consumer Applications
    - Mobile banking , Mobile investing
    - Mobile shopping, Mobile ticketing, Mobile epayments
    - Mobile passports, Mobile record keeping
    - Mobile games
 - Enabling Applications
    - Corporate and personal email
    - Instant messaging
    - Mobile chat
    - Mobile multimedia and video

PAPER SUBMISSIONS:

Submissions should be completed papers in MS-Word format. Please see the
conference Web site (http://www.mbusiness2005.org) for detailed formatting
and submission instructions.

The Program Committee will review all submissions. Accepted papers will be
published in the Conference Proceedings. High quality papers may be
elligible
for journal publication. Authors of accepted papers are required to register
for the conference and present their papers in the allotted sessions.

For further information please contact:

       Dr Elaine Lawrence, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

       EMAIL: elaine AT it.uts.edu.au

       Dr Robert Steele, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
       EMAIL: rsteele AT it.uts.edu.au

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

General Co-chairs
       Elaine Lawrence         University of Technology, Sydney
       Robert Steele           University oF Technology, Sydney

Program Co-chairs
       Elizabeth Chang         Curtin University of Technology
       Wayne Brookes           University of Technology, Sydney

Technical Chair
       Andy Simmonds           University of Technology, Sydney

Activities Chair
       Karla Felix-Navarro     University of Technology, Sydney