Special track on Mobile Computing and Applications: editorial message

Riding on the success of the previous Mobile Computing and Applications Track in 2003 to 2007, we are delighted to present the 2008 Mobile Computing and Applications Track that features research papers drawn from a highly diversified spectrum of mobile computing. We have been receiving an increasing number of submissions, hitting again a record high. The papers collected in this track cover three different and yet complementary areas: mobile applications that are supported by virtue of appropriate architectures and protocols, operating under specific mobile networks and devices. In particular, special attention was dedicated to draw upon research efforts and expertise from different areas of research, so as to promote better synergy and to bring forth not only core mobile communications and networking protocols for application development, but also important research applications to realize the benefits of anywhere, any place and anytime pervasive and ubiquitous computing.