MOMM

This volume consists of the Proceedings of The 7th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia (MoMM2009) held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in December 14-16, 2009. MoMM2009 is held in conjunction with iiWAS2009 conference, and in cooperation with ACM SIGMM and SIGMOBILE.

This year, iiWAS2009 and MoMM2009 feature four keynote speeches, delivered by renowned international experts: Gabriele Kotsis (Vice Rector, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria), Won Kim (Pioneer of Object-Oriented Databases), Stephan Olariu (Old Dominion University), Frank Dignum (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), and an industrial presentation by Dzaharudin Mansor (Microsoft Malaysia).

The program also includes four tutorials: model versioning by Kerstin Altmanninger (Johannes Kepler University Linz), advances in high performance database technology by David Taniar et al (Monash University), ontology-based active recognition by Luke Chen (University of Ulster) and Jit Biswas (I2R Singapore), and Web 2.0 by Hui Ma et al (Victoria University of Wellington), as well as a panel on service computing on the clouds chaired by Stephane Bressan (National University of Singapore).

Like last year, this year proceedings is published by the ACM Press and is available worldwide in its Digital Library. Six international journals have also agreed to publish special issues of MoMM2009. MoMM2009 attracted 100 submissions from 44 countries, making the conference a truly international event. The program committee consisting of worldwide researchers has selected 28 regular papers, and 14 short papers for presentation at the conference. This represents an acceptance rate of 28% for regular papers and 42% for short papers.