CFP IJSWIS Special Issue on Mobile Services and Ontologies

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Call for Papers

International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems
http://www.idea-group.com/journals/details.asp?ID=4625

Special Issue on Mobile Services and Ontologies

Submission Deadline: May 31, 2007


Guest Editors 

- Christoph Bussler (Cisco Systems, Inc., USA)
  chbussler@aol.com 
- Birgitta König-Ries (University of Jena, Germany)
  koenig@informatik.uni-jena.de 
- Dumitru Roman (DERI Innsbruck, Austria)
  dumitru.roman@deri.org
- Jari Veijalainen (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland)
  veijalai@cs.jyu.fi


Scope and Topics 

Today, computers are changing from big, grey, and noisy equipment 
on our desks to small, portable, and constantly connected devices 
most of us are carrying around. This new form of device mobility 
imposes a shift in how we view computers and the way we use them. 

Services offer the possibility to overcome the limitations of individual 
mobile devices by making functionality offered by others available on 
an as-needed basis. Thus, using the service-oriented computing 
paradigm in mobile environments will considerably enlarge the variety 
of accessible applications and will enable new business opportunities 
in the mobile space by delivering integrated functionalities 
across wireless networks. Network-hosted mobile services will allow 
mobile operators and third party mobile service providers to extend 
their businesses by making their services available to a broader 
audience (e.g. developers, service providers, etc.); 
device-hosted services will allow great potential for major innovations 
for applications and services that can be provided to individual mobile 
device owners.

These mobile services offer functionalities and behaviours that can be 
described,advertised, discovered, and composed by others. 
Eventually, services will be able to interoperate even though they 
have not been designed to work together. This type of interoperability 
is based on the ability to understand other services and reason
about their functionalities and behaviours when necessary. In this 
respect, mobileservices could benefit from the techniques developed 
for the Semantic Web. Use of Semantic Web languages, techniques 
and technologies, including ontologies, semantic annotations (of both 
content and services), automatic metadata extraction, reasoning,
etc. may offer new capabilities for mobile applications. However, 
standard semantic web tools and technologies are too heavy-weight 
for small mobile devices. The need to appropriately combine and 
adapt mobility and semantic grounded data sharing has 
generated and is continuously triggering challenging questions in 
several areas of computer science, engineering and networking.

This special issue will cover research problems around methods, 
concepts, models, languages and technologies that enable new 
opportunities in the mobile space through adoption, usage, and 
integration of mobile services with ontologies and other Semantic 
Web enablers. Of particular interest are methodologies and 
technologies that will allow automatic tasks to be performed with 
respect to mobile servicesand the use of ontologies and semantic 
techniques in this context.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following which 
involve ontologies or other Semantic Web capabilities:

- architectures for mobile internet services
- languages for describing mobile services
- discovery and matchmaking of ontology based mobile services
- adaptive selection of mobile services
- ontology management in mobile environments
- contracting and negotiation with ontology-based mobile services 
  (service level agreements)
- semantic annotation and reasoning involving semantic metadata
- combining thematic metadata with locational/georeference metadata 
   in mobile applications
- approaches to composition of ontology based mobile services
- invocation, adaptive execution, monitoring, and management of 
  mobile services
- interaction protocols and conversation models for mobile services
- ontology-based security and privacy issues in mobile services
- mobile service applications
- analysis and design approaches for mobile services
- reasoning with mobile services
- ontology-based policies for mobile services
- tools for discovery, matchmaking, selection, mediation, composition, 
  management, and monitoring of mobile services
- mobile service development
- multi agent systems and mobile services

Submission Process 

Submissions to this special issue should follow the journal's guidelines 
for submission 
(www.idea-group.com/journals/details.asp?ID=4625&v=guidelines).
After submitting the paper, please also inform guest editors by an 
email with the paper ID assigned by the submission system. Papers 
must be of high quality and should clearly state the technical issue(s) 
being addressed as related to mobile services and ontologies. 
Research papers should present a proof of concept for any novel 
technique they are proposing. Case studies should discuss the 
significance and applicability of their proposed architecture/system. If 
a submission is based on a prior publication in a workshop or 
conference, the journal submission must involve substantial advance 
(a min. of 30%) in conceptual terms as well as in exposition (e.g., 
more comprehensive testing/evaluation/validation or additional 
applications/usage).

All papers must be submitted by May 31, 2007. The editors 
recommend that the number of pages should not exceed 35. All 
papers are subject to peer review performed by three established 
researchers selected from a panel of reviewers  established for this 
special issue. Accepted papers have an opportunity for further 
revision and an additional round of reviewer feedback. Information on  
the journal with online submission can be found at: 
http://www.ijswis.org. 
Please submit manuscripts through that online system. 

Online call for this special issue can be found at
www.idea-
group.com/journals/details.asp?ID=4625&v=callForPapersSpecial

Important Dates 
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- Submissions: May 31, 2007 
- Completion of first round of reviews July 31
- Notifications: August 15, 2007
- Revised papers: October 31, 2007
- Notifications of final acceptance: November 30, 2007  
- Final papers: December 31, 2007 
- Publication: First or Second issue 2008 (Vol. 4, issue 1 or 2)
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