-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP: Special Issue on Web of Things, Information Systems Frontiers Datum: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 10:16:41 +0930 Von: Michael Sheng qsheng@cs.adelaide.edu.au An: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

CALL FOR PAPERS Information Systems Frontiers (ISF) Special Issue on Web of Things

As indicated by the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, "it isn't the documents which are actually interesting; it is the things they are about!". The last level of abstraction for the Web is to connect real things. Indeed, with the recent advances in radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology, wireless sensor networks, and Web services, the Web has emerged as the platform to connect billions of physical objects, i.e., "Web of Things" (WoT). WoT offers the capability of integrating the information from both the physical world and the virtual one, which creates tremendous business opportunities such as efficient supply chains, smart cities, and improved environmental monitoring.

While it is widely understood that WoT offers exciting capabilities to change the world and improve our life quality just as what the Web has done in the past 20 years, WoT also presents significant challenges. With billions of things interconnected and present over the Web, one inevitable challenge in the new era of WoT lies in how to efficiently and effectively manage things, which is critical for a number of important applications such as object discovery (e.g., finding a quiet restaurant), recommendation (e.g., suggesting a device that can consume a video stream), and mashup (e.g., composing device functionalities for a new service). In addition, massive volumes of real-time data ("big data") will be produced by these connected things and their associated sensors. Novel solutions are therefore required to effectively collect, process, analyze, and mine this big data. These solutions need to consider challenging issues of WoT data such as dynamicity, uncertainty, and high dimensionality.

This special issue aims at presenting the latest developments, trends, and research solutions of Web of Things. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

* Things discovery in WoT * Semantic services for WoT * High dimensional data processing in WoT * Cloud computing and WoT * RFID, sensors, and WoT * Scalable WoT architectures * Information modeling for WoT * Context-aware services in WoT * Business and social models of WoT * WoT testbeds * WoT security and privacy * WoT standardization * WoT applications, deployments and use cases

Important Dates

Sep 30, 2013: Paper submission deadline Dec 15, 2013: 1st round review due Jan 31, 2014: 1st revision due Mar 15, 2014: 2nd round review due Apr 15, 2014: 2nd revision due: May 15, 2014: Final acceptance approved by EiC

Submission Guidelines

The submitted papers must describe original research which are not published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. Information Systems Frontiers (ISF, , http://link.springer.com/journal/10796) offers a web-enabled online manuscript submission and review system. Papers should be submitted from http://www.editorialmanager.com/isfi/. Authors should choose manuscript type: "Special Issue: WoT" when submitting their papers.

All papers must be written in clear English and submitted in electronic form (PDF preferred). When preparing the manuscripts, the authors should carefully follow the "Instructions for Authors", available from the web site of Springer's Information Systems Frontiers (http://www.springer.com/business+%26+management/business+information+systems...).

Guest Editors Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia (michael.sheng@adelaide.edu.au) Xue Li, The University of Queensland, Australia (xueli@itee.uq.edu.au) Anne H.H. Ngu, Texas State University, USA (angu@txstate.edu) Dong Xie, Hunan Uni. of Humanities, Science and Tech., China (dong.xie@hotmail.com) _______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. Go to www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld for guidelines and posting forms. To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworld .

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