Pervasive services and computing are emerging as the next computing paradigm in which infrastructure and services are seamlessly available anywhere, anytime, and in any format. This exciting new paradigm is the result of recent research and technological advances in wireless & sensor networks, distributed systems, mobile & agent computing and autonomic computing & services. The 2006 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS’06), to be held in Lyon, France provides a forum for researchers, engineers, application & service developers and users to present their latest advances in the field of pervasive computing and services.

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Original contributions are solicited in all pervasive computing & services research and applications. Contributions for industry and application sessions are also solicited. Topics include, but are not limited to:
Pervasive and autonomous computing and architectures
Mobile Computing
Wearable Computing
Smart Devices and Networks
Wireless & Sensor Networks
Middleware support for pervasive and mobile computing
Pervasive computing and Management
Speech processing / advanced computer vision
User interfaces and interaction model
Positioning and Tracking Technologies
Programmable and active networks
Service dissemination and discovery protocols
Environments & algorithms for pervasive application development
Runtime support for intelligent, adaptive agents
Security services for applications in pervasive environments
Programming paradigms for pervasive computing applications
Pervasive computing applications requirements
Performance measurement and Benchmarking
Context aware computing and networking
Pervasive Grids