Department Guidelines
In addition to full-length articles, IEEE Pervasive Computing has a range of departments:
Applications:This department addresses basic pervasive technical issues in light of case studies of deployed pervasive systems. It also explores significant issues that block organizations from deploying pervasive computing applications.
Conferences: This department carries summaries of workshops, conferences, symposia and other gatherings related to mobile systems and pervasive computing. It covers aspects of these meetings not found in the proceedings, including demo sessions, poster sessions, panels, question and answer sessions, and social events.
Education & Training: The future scientists and engineers who will conduct research and develop pervasive computing products and systems require relevant educational experiences. Current practitioners also need training to expand their capabilities and effectiveness. This column provides an in-depth description of important and innovative educational programs to meet these needs. It describes relevant academic courses, student design projects, degree and certificate programs, training courses, and other relevant topics. The goal is to disseminate innovative ideas and success stories with the hope of expanding and improving education and training in pervasive computing for students and practitioners.
New Products: This department discusses interesting new products. It primarily presents evaluations written by the editors or independent parties and provides pointers to more information. If you know of a recently announced product that the readership might be interested in, please send your information to pvcproducts@computer.org.
Standards & Emerging Technologies: This department reports on the latest in standards activities and development tools as they pertain to pervasive computing. The intended audience includes practitioners, technologists, and systems researchers who want to base their prototyping activities on industry standards and tools.
Wearable Computing: This department explores the attributes that make wearable computers a unique approach to ubiquitous computing and discusses current topics in the wearable computing field.
Works in Progress: The WiPs in this department contain brief descriptions of efforts relevant to pervasive computing. A broad range of material is suitable: early research descriptions, deployment efforts, brief summaries of recent research results that have been submitted to other journals and conferences, and so on. Preference will be given to WiPs that are relevant to the upcoming issue. If you know of a recently announced work in progress the readership might be interested in, please send your information to pvcwips@computer.org.
Each department is assigned to a specific department editor. If you'd like to contribute to a department, please contact pervasive@computer.org), and we'll direct you to the appropriate editor.
General guidelines
Read our article and editorial guidelines for more information about submission, editing, and style. For departments, we try to have articles on a Scientific American level; that is, most of the article should be accessible to a general reader, with perhaps some part of it being more technical but clearly explained. Keep in mind that our department editors want to bring readers information they can really use, not just fluff or marketing material.
Word count and formatting
Send a Word document or PDF to the department editor. Department articles should be roughly 2,500 words, with illustrations and tables counting as 250 words each. Keep formal references to a bare minimum, preferably none. Such references can be avoided by incorporating pertinent information in text. For example, say, "In Mark Weiser's seminal article, "The Computer for the 21st Century," he presents..." rather than citing the work as a reference.
