Pervasive Computing in Hostile Environments
Submission deadline: 18 Jan. 2010
Publication: October–December 2010
Works-in-progress on this topic are also solicited for WIPs department
This special issue will report on the latest research related to applications of pervasive computing systems in environments that are potentially dangerous and physically challenging to both humans and electronics. Examples of such application areas include disaster management, safety and security, aeronautics, environmental monitoring in harsh and/or remote environments (underground, submarine, arctic, desert, jungle), extreme sports, and the military. The special issue aims to span a broad range of topics, from requirements and usability analysis through specific technological challenges (sensing, communications, power supply, ruggedized electronics, reliability) to concrete application and experience reports.
Suitable paper submissions include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Requirements analysis for hostile environments-related applications
- Sensing in hostile environments
- Location services for hostile environments
- Support for communication and collaboration in hostile environment
- Power supply considerations
- Role of context awareness in hostile environment-related applications
- Reliability and robustness considerations
- Human-computer interaction in hostile environment-related applications
- Middleware support specifically focused on applications in hostile environments
- Security, trust, and privacy considerations
- Pervasive systems and system architectures designed for hostile environments
- Experience reports with specific applications in areas such as (but not limited to)
- monitoring of hostile environments (underground, submarine, desert, jungle, space, arctic, and so on)
- monitoring of hazardous industrial sites and processes
- disaster management support (in case of fire, earthquake, chemical incidents, terrorist attack, and so on)
- security-related applications
- military applications, including battlefield systems
- environmentally challenging sports (such as yachting, mountaineering, skiing, and so on)
Questions?
For more information about the focus, contact the Guest Editors:
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.