-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] CFP - Special Issue on *Pervasive Services: Concepts, Paradigms and Applications* Datum: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:28:09 +0400 Von: Zakaria Maamar Zakaria.Maamar@zu.ac.ae Organisation: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.optimanumerics.com
The Ubiquitous Computing and Communication Journal (http://www.ubicc.org/)
Special Issue on 'Pervasive Services: Concepts, Paradigms and Applications' CALL FOR PAPERS The term 'pervasive era' as a characterization of the 21st century can hardly be considered as an exaggeration. In times where mobile phone penetration is well above the 50% mark in some countries, and has even surpassed fixed line penetration in a few cases, it is not surprising that pervasive applications and services are claiming much of the industrial, academic, and even popular media attention. However, there is still some progress to be made before pervasive applications fully shift from the research mode to the commercial and intensive use modes. The support technologies, however, are improving at an impressive pace. Most of the research and development activities are currently aimed at improving the devices themselves and the technologies these devices will use to communicate. At present, the main use of mobile devices is still voice-oriented, but several indicators show that this is changing. 3G networks (e.g., GPRS, UMTS) and recent development of communication and presentation protocols (e.g., XML, WAP) are being combined to give users a high-quality experience of data-centric services. Besides the central role that hardware infrastructure plays in the expansion and penetration of pervasive applications and services, other issues still need to be tackled to better assist developers. Indeed, developers are put on the front line of satisfying the promise of businesses and service providers for delivering Internet content to mobile devices. The fact that an application for mobile or pervasive users has different requirements, calls for new techniques to identify and specify these requirements. With regard to users, it is expected that they will be frequently engaged in complex operations such as searching the net for better business opportunities. Therefore, their association with intelligent components, to act as proxies, is deemed appropriate.
Papers are invited for a special edition of the Ubiquitous Computing and Communication Journal (UBICC) on'Pervasive Services and Applications'. The aim is to publish high quality original work identifying and studying pervasive services research challenges. Theoretical and empirical research papers are welcome, including case studies and pilot implementations.
Contributed papers may deal with, but are not limited to: * Research into the design, development, implementation, and management of pervasive applications and services. These may include localized, personalized, contextualized and pervasive applications and services. * Research into methods for the proactive design of emerging applications and services ahead of the market. Methods may address the assessment of emerging pervasive technologies, the formulation of entrepreneurial strategies for commercial exploitation of services and markets, ways of eliciting the future demand for pervasive applications and services (for example, through empirical tests with potential customer groups), and others. * Research into technology and infrastructure advances (for example, third generation mobile technologies, innovative positioning technologies and systems, and others). The emphasis should not be on technology development per se, but rather on how these advances can be put in place towards the provision and management of value added pervasive applications and services. * Research into regulatory and policy issues surrounding pervasive services and applications. * Real-life applications (case studies, pilot implementations, experiments with users, and so on) demonstrating the above issues in a practical setting. Full papersshould be 4000-5000 words in length following the UBICC manuscript format and should be submitted electronically (MS-Word or PDF format) via the UBICC system by30 September 2007. Papers should contain a title page giving the name(s) and full address (es) of the author(s), the title of the paper, its word count, 5 keywords, an abstract and the body of the paper. All contributions will be subjected to a rigorous blind review by at least two expert reviewers.
Guest Editor for the Special Issue: Dr. Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui, Dr. Zakaria Maamar and Dr. George M. Giaglis
Contact: kouadris@open.ac.uk