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Call For Papers

Special Issue on Toward Merging Multimedia and Embedded Services

Service Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA)

http://www.springer.com/computer/communications/journal/11761

Overview Multimedia and Embedded Service has emerged rapidly as an exciting new paradigm that offers a challenging model of service computing and poses fascinating problems regarding heterogeneous resource management, ranging from information sharing to cooperative computing. This special issue is intended to foster state-of-the-art research in the area of integration of Multimedia and Embedded Services (MES), including the topics of collaboration environment, implementation and execution on real-world architectures, and novel applications associated with this new paradigm. The published papers are expected to present high quality results for tackling problems arising from the ever-growing multimedia and embedded services. This special issue will serve as a landmark source for education, information, and reference to professors, researchers and graduate students interested in updating their knowledge about or active in multimedia and embedded services.

Topics Areas of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to, the following topics: • MES modeling and performance • Resource management for MES • MES case studies and applications • Trustworthy, Security and Privacy for MES • MES in e-Commerce • Quality of MES • Applications of MES • Protocols for MES • Emerging MES technologies • Convergence of MES and agent technology • Data Management for MES

Schedule Manuscript due: February 15, 2009 Author notification: April 1st, 2009 Revised paper due: May 1st, 2009 Notification of acceptance: June 1st, 2009 Submission of final paper: July 1st, 2009 Publication date: 4th-Quarter, 2009 or 1st-Quarter, 2010 (Tentative)

Submission & Review Instruction Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. Papers, which have appeared previously in proceedings of conferences, could be submitted to this special issue if they are substantially revised or improved from their earlier versions with at least 30% new materials or results to comply with the copyright regulations. Submissions must be directly sent via the manuscript Central at http://grid.chu.edu.tw/SI_SOCA_MES

Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least three Editorial reviewers

Criteria and Evaluation for acceptance of paper: - Significance to the journal's audience - Relevance to this special issue - Quality of the paper including originality, technical depth, significance of results, adequacy of priori works referenced, overall organization, clarity and readability, satisfactory English writing, sufficient support for assertions and conclusion, appropriate title, abstract adequately summarizes the paper, introduction provides proper orientation, clear tables and figures. - Overall recommendation on the paper - Optional confidential comments to the Editorial Committee

Guest Editors

Qun Jin Waseda University, Japan Email: jin@waseda.jp http://www.f.waseda.jp/jin/

Jinjun Chen (corresponding editor) Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Email: jchen@swin.edu.au http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/

Robert C. H. Hsu Chung Hua University, Taiwan Email: chh@chu.edu.tw http://www.chu.edu.tw/~chh