Large Scale, Opportunistic Sensing
Submission deadline: CLOSED
Publication: October–December 2011
Works-in-progress on this topic are also solicited for WIPs department. Deadline: 25 July 2011
Much of the past pervasive computing research has been devoted to systems that are composed of a small number of devices and interact with a single user or a small group of users. However, as technology becomes truly pervasive, heterogeneous systems that operate and collaborate over different spatial and temporal scales and involve large numbers of diverse sensors such as mobile phones, cars, instrumented buildings, or public safety infrastructure have to be considered. Large-scale opportunistic sensing systems have recently generated much interest in the research community with applications ranging from using mobile phone traces to predict traffic jams and model human activities, social interactions and mobility patterns to community health tracking and large-scale environmental sensing.
This special issue is devoted to all aspects of large-scale opportunistic sensing systems including algorithmic and technological foundations, usability studies, applications, and practical experience reports. Relevant topics include but are not limited to
- Infrastructure and tools for the collection and analysis of data from large ensembles of distributed pervasive devices. Of particular interest are systems aimed at heterogeneous, dynamic system configurations.
- Algorithms for the analysis of data collected from large numbers of pervasive devices. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to) environmental monitoring, traffic and mobility, social interactions, crowd behavior, or epidemiology
- Application case studies and experience reports from system deployment.
- User experience and usability, in particular questions related to ways of soliciting and incentivizing user participation.
- Privacy and security aspects of massive, opportunistic sensing systems and associated applications.
- Interaction between massive opportunistic sensing systems and social networking platforms and applications
IEEE Pervasive Computing is interested in a variety of submission types including research papers, project retrospectives, surveys, and tutorials. Research articles should present summaries of new contributions that are significantly different from previously published work. Retrospective articles give a summary of lessons learned for important longer-term projects, synthesizing the results that might have appeared elsewhere. Survey articles provide a comprehensive overview of a critical topic that is relevant to the special issue but not found in any other forum and would be useful to educate the readers of this magazine. Tutorials provide relevant how-to knowledge of some important technology or technique that would inform the readership, again in a way that would not likely be found in any other publication forum.
Submissions should be 4,000 to 6,000 words long and should follow the magazine’s guidelines on style and presentation. All submissions will be peer-reviewed in accordance with normal practice for scientific publications, and all accepted articles will be edited according to Computer Society guidelines. Submissions should be received by 15th January 2011 to receive full consideration.
In addition to full-length submissions, we also invite work-in-progress submissions of 250 words or less. These will not be peer-reviewed, but will be edited by the staff into a feature for the issue. The deadline for work-in-progress submissions is 25th July 2011.
Questions?
For more information about the focus, contact the Guest Editors:
- Paul Lukowicz, University of Passau
- Hans Gellersen, Lancaster University
- Taneem Choudhury, Dartmouth College
For general author guidelines or submission details: www.computer.org/pervasive/author.htm or pervasive@computer.org
To submit your article directly to our online peer-review system, Manuscript Central.
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