Call for Book Chapters: Context-Aware Mobile and UbiquitousComputing for Enhanced Usability

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CALL FOR CHAPTERS

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Proposals Submission Deadline: 31/10/2007 Full Chapters Due: 15/3/2008

 

 

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Context-Aware Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing for Enhanced Usability:
Adaptive Technologies and Applications

 

http://gislab.elfak.ni.ac.yu/dstojanovic/Context-AwareBook.htm

 

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Editor

Dragan Stojanovic

dragans@elfak.ni.ac.yu

Computer Science Department, University of Nis, Faculty of Electronic
Engineering, Serbia

 

Publisher

IGI Global

DISSEMINATOR of KNOWLEDGE

Book Entry on IGI Global

 

 

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INTRODUCTION

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Advances in mobile and ubiquitous computing, wireless communications, mobile
positioning and sensor technologies have given a rise to a new class of
mobile and ubiquitous applications and services that are aware of the
context of the application usage. Context-aware applications are able to
modify and adapt their behaviour, operations and interface to best meet the
user's current and continuously changing context without explicit user
intervention. Context represents any information that can be used to
characterize the situation of entities that are considered relevant to the
interaction between a user and an application, such as the user location,
his preferences, his activities, nearby people and objects, the
environmental conditions, the availability of computing and communication
resources etc. Context-aware applications provide enhanced usability,
minimize distraction and needed attention of the user and can be used in
various application domains, such as traveller guides, smart homes, mobile
games, disaster management, etc. Context-aware computing has attracted much
attention from researchers in recent years and several context-aware
systems, frameworks and applications have been developed to demonstrate the
usefulness of technologies and concepts. It also opens up a lot of novel
research and development opportunities and poses new challenges upon mobile
and ubiquitous computing technologies and systems. The book Context-Aware
Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing for Enhanced Usability: Adaptive
Technologies and Applications is focused on the context-aware mobile and
ubiquitous computing research theme, which attracts a lot of attention from
the Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing, as well as Mobile and Wireless
Applications and Services research communities. The book is oriented toward
fundamental concepts, theoretical issues and context-aware technologies and
applications, which have become of relevant interest for next-generation
mobile and ubiquitous systems and services. To create successful
context-aware applications and services in highly dynamic, mobile
environments where user is always on the move and nearby resources and
network features constantly change, a lot of research issues must be
considered, such as:

- Context sensing and acquisition,

- Context modelling and management

- Processing, aggregation and reasoning on contextual data, 

- Context-aware middleware and platforms, 

- Service-oriented frameworks and architecture of context-aware systems 

- Security and privacy of context-aware systems and context data 

- Knowledge discovery and mining over historical and streaming context data,
etc. 

 

Context-aware computing is a research area that is still growing and every
related study and research work contributes to richness of this field. The
objective of this book is to provide throughout insight in main concepts of
context-awareness, which led to enhanced usability of mobile and ubiquitous
applications and services. The understanding of these concepts ultimately
leads to more effective design and implementation of mobile and ubiquitous
systems and services that can access accurate, high quality context
information on the fly in highly dynamic environments and adapt their
behaviour accordingly.

 

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RECOMMENDED TOPICS INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING:

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- Context sensing and acquisition

- Context modelling, representation and storing 

- Context modelling and management 

- Context representation and storing 

- Data management for context-aware applications and services 

- Querying and retrieval of context and context information 

- Context processing and aggregation 

- Context reasoning techniques and algorithms 

- Context-aware service frameworks 

- Context-aware middleware and infrastructure 

- Context information discovery and sharing 

- Service-oriented architecture of context-aware systems 

- Context-aware resource and service discovery 

- Security and privacy of context-aware systems and context information 

- Knowledge discovery and mining over historical and streaming context data 

- Adaptivity and enhanced usability of context-aware applications 

- User interfaces for context-aware applications and services 

- Context-aware applications and services in mobile collaboration, smart
homes, health care, mobile games, emergency response, disaster management,
etc.

- Challenges in context-awareness, open problems and future trends 

 

 

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TIMETABLE

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October 31, 2007         Chapter proposal submission deadline 

November 30, 2007      Notification of the acceptance of chapter proposal 

March 15, 2008           Full chapter submission deadline 

May 5, 2008                Review results and notification of authors 

June 5, 2008               Revised chapter submission deadline 

July 1, 2008                Notification of authors of final
acceptance/rejection

July 31, 2008              Final chapter submission deadline

 

 

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OBJECTIVES

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The mission of the book is to bring together high-quality chapters
investigating the emerging field of context-aware mobile and ubiquitous
computing. The book aims to provide thorough insights in the fundamentals,
state-of-the-art technological foundations, the emerging applications and
services, as well as future trends of context-awareness that enhance
usability of mobile and ubiquitous applications and services. In this
respect, this book will stimulate the submission of chapters from
highly-referred researchers in the field.

 

 

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TARGET AUDIENCE

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The book appeals to a broad computer science and computer engineering
audience, including researchers, PhD students, graduate students and
practitioners in Computer Science and Computer Engineering. It is
considerably valuable to all kind of specialists in mobile and ubiquitous
computing, by covering all important concepts of context-awareness in
development of context-aware applications and services.

 

 

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND INSTRUCTIONS

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Authors are invited to submit on or before October 31, 2007, a 2-5 page
manuscript proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the
proposed chapter via e-mail to Dragan Stojanovic (dragans@elfak.ni.ac.yu),
editor. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by November 30, 2007
about the status of their proposals and will receive the guidelines for
preparing the chapter and terms and definitions. The authors of accepted
proposals will have to submit the final chapter until March 15, 2008.
Chapters, consisting of 7,000-10,000 words (including 7-10 related terms and
their appropriate definitions), should be original and should not have been
submitted for publication or published elsewhere. All submitted chapters
will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis.

 

 

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BOOK PUBLICATION

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The book Context-Aware Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing for Enhanced
Usability: Adaptive Technologies and Applications will be published by IGI
Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.) (http://www.igi-pub.com
<http://www.igi-pub.com/> ), an imprint of Information Science Reference
(formerly Idea Group Reference) (http://www.igi-pub.com/reference/), in
2009.

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or
by mail to:

 

 

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Dragan Stojanovic

Computer Graphics & GIS Lab, Computer Science Department 

University of Nis, Faculty of Electronic Engineering 

Aleksandra Medvedeva 14, 18000 Nis, Serbia 

E-mail:  dragans@elfak.ni.ac.yu

Phone:    +381 18 529 235

Fax:      +381 18 588 399

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