Welcome from General Chairs

On behalf of the Steering and Organizing Committees, we are delighted to welcome you to the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2024), to be held in Biarritz, France, from March 11-15, 2024. IEEE PerCom is a flagship annual conference that provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to present new discoveries and discuss future developments in pervasive computing and communications research and technologies.

Following the previous PerCom edition in Atlanta, we are delighted to continue the conference as a physical event. Thanks to the dedication and hard work of all members of the Organizing Committee, the conference will strive to provide the best possible meeting experience. PerCom 2024 offers a technically rich program over five days. The main conference, spanning three days from March 12-14, consists of single-track research paper sessions, two outstanding keynote talks, and an exciting panel. The five-day program also includes seventeen cutting-edge workshops related to pervasive computing and other affiliated events, such as Work in Progress, the Industry Track, Demos, the PhD Forum, and the N2Women event.

The excellent program is the result of the collective efforts of many volunteers. We owe special thanks to the Program Chair, Chiara Boldrini, and the Program Vice Chairs, Sara Khalifa, Nirmalya Roy, and Stephan Sigg, for their dedication and commitment. They, along with the Program Committee members, have done an outstanding job managing the double-blind reviews of the submitted manuscripts and selecting top-quality papers for presentation at PerCom 2024 and for publication in the IEEE proceedings. We recognize and appreciate the contributions and hard work of the Program Committee members. Our sincere appreciation also goes to the Workshop Chairs, Gabriele Civitarese and Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, who tirelessly worked with various workshop organizers to ensure excellent workshop programs.

We would like to thank the Keynote Chairs, Christian Becker and Sajal Das, for attracting two outstanding keynote speakers: Cecilia Mascolo from Cambridge University, UK, and Shashi Shekhar from the University of Minnesota, USA. They will speak on visionary topics. We are also grateful to the Panel Chair, Daniela Nicklas, for moderating an interdisciplinary panel on a timely topic, 'Machine Learning for Pervasive Computing', and for recruiting excellent panelists.

Our EDAS Chairs, Stefano Mariani and Franca Delmastro, along with the Website Chair, Vincent Lestideau, have been a constant reference to ensure a smooth process for manuscript submissions, the review process, and information updates. We would like to thank the PhD Forum Chairs, François Portet and Kristina Yordanova; the Work-In-Progress Chairs, Hirozumi Yamaguchi and Juan Ye; the Demo Chairs, Qin Lv and Gregor Schiele; the Industry Track Chairs, Paul Castro and Abhishek Mukherjee; the Artifacts Chair, Christian Krupitzer; and the Diversity and Inclusion Chairs, Amy Murphy and Qi Han, for their committed support. The Publicity Chairs, Ruidong Li, Ella Peltonen, Janick Edinger, and Chenyang Wang, did an outstanding job with publicity via email and social media, attracting high-quality submissions to all the events.

The Publication Chairs, Tony Luo and Manuele Kirsch-Pinheiro, meticulously handled the challenging task of preparing two sets of IEEE proceedings: one for the main conference and the other for workshops and affiliated events. Alexander Bolz, as the Finance and Registration Chair, along with Nirmalya Roy and Jadwiga Indulska, as the Student Travel Award Chairs, also performed very well. Our special thanks go to all of them for jobs well done. We appreciate the trust and confidence placed in us by the PerCom Steering Committee; in particular, we are grateful to the Steering Committee Chair, Mohan Kumar, who guided us throughout the entire process.

We sincerely thank the Local Organizing Chair, Philippe Roose, for his dedication and hard work in planning PerCom 2024 as an in-person event and managing all the logistics. Special thanks are also due to Michelle Ocampo of the IEEE Computer Society for overseeing the pre-event and on-site local arrangements. In addition to the chairs and committee members, we would like to acknowledge the technical sponsorship of the IEEE Computer Society, including its Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) and Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC), as well as Elsevier's Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal, and the financial sponsorship of the National Science Foundation.

We cordially welcome all participants and sincerely thank them for attending in person, which is essential to making IEEE PerCom 2024 a grand success. We hope that the participants will enjoy all the events associated with this premier conference, including the social events. May they meet old friends and make new ones, initiate exciting collaborations, and enjoy exploring the beautiful city of Biarritz!

Philippe Lalanda, Grenoble University, France and
Claudio Bettini, University of Milan, Italy
General Chairs, IEEE PerCom