HotMobile 2006: Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications Digest of Proceedings

Like the first WMCSA, the goal of this workshop was to foster interaction between practitioners of mobile computing. In keeping with this goal, we decided to return a small, informal workshop with few papers, but significant discussions. We accepted just nine papers, but we had two significant group discussions, two exciting panels, and an insightful keynote address. Approximately 40 people attended the two-day event. To reflect these changes, the organizers announced a name change for this workshop during the Opening Remarks. They reported that the workshop will now be known as "HotMobile 2006: The 7th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications". What follows is a summary of the workshop’s proceedings. It is intended as a supplement to the papers that appear in this volume, but not as a substitute for reading those papers. You can expect to find precious little information summarizing the papers because you can presumably read them in the preceding pages. Instead, I present a very short summary of the paper - just enough to remind you of its premise - and I focus my attention on the discussions that took place during the workshop.