This section summarises the public workshops organised by the M-Zones
programme since it started. Each of the three major events is summarised. The
aim in doing these activities was to create a critical mass of publication
activity to stimulate debate and feedback from the academic community, and
potentially industrial researchers. There is a twin pronged strategy to this
approach:
1)
to establish an International Workshop MUCS
(Management of Ubiquitous Communications and Services) in Ireland hosted by the
M-Zones partner institutions;
2)
to organise thematic workshops in existing conferences
with established audiences for the key messages from M-Zones
To date both strategies have produced results. Two iterations of the
MUCS workshop have run: MUCS 2003 (in Waterford), MUCS 2004 (in Cork), and a third is
planned MUCS 2005 (in Cork). Here the aim is
to establish this international workshop as an IEEE Computer Society/ACM
sponsored conference by establishing a strong track record. One workshop has
been organised in a wider interest conference at eChallenges
2004 (in Vienna). This conference
has a large attendance with primary, though not exclusive, focus on EU-funded
IST research projects.
