NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Nov 12, 2012 International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Opportunistic and Participatory Sensing Using Mobile Phones Call for Papers http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdsn/si/637873/cfp/ The number of mobile phone subscriptions worldwide is increasing on a daily basis and so is the number of services offered to customers and applications running on mobile phones. Mobile phones have a number of valuable features, which have given them the potential to become the one and only operational large-scale wireless sensor network. Their pervasive communication, built-in and expandable sensing functionality, powerful processing capability and memory capacity, reasonable small size, light weight, and public availability as well as ubiquitous network infrastructures have made them suitable sensing, communication, processing, and data mulling devices. Mobile phones are now all about data, services, and applications as voice usage decreases. An interesting observation here is the willingness and interest of mobile consumers to enhance their experience and performance of the applications at hand on a voluntary basis. This special issue solicits original contributions, addressing trends, potential, requirements, and challenges of use of mobile phones on a voluntary and participatory basis for monitoring, maintenance, and control applications. Papers describing novel solutions and practical approaches or engineering contributions that are extensively tested in either simulation environments or real-world experimental settings are especially welcome. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: - Participatory sensing, crowdsourcing, and opportunistic sensing paradigms and applications - Novel architectures to support participatory sensing applications - Large-scale mobile and sensing data mining, learning, and reasoning - Mobile cloud computing - Experiment and campaign design - Availability and research prototypes of miniature sensors and their integration into cellular phones - Integration of on-phone and off-phone sensing - Incentive paradigms for mobile sensing applications - Energy-efficient and computationally inexpensive privacy preservation and security mechanisms - Data validation techniques to deal with erroneous data (intentionally and unintentionally) - Data visualization techniques - New business models for mobile sensing data and applications - Software platforms for remote sensing using smartphones - Effect of mobility models on opportunistic collaboration Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdsn/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due: November 12, 2012 First Round of Reviews: Friday, 4 January 2013 Publication Date: Friday, 1 March 2013 Lead Guest Editor Nirvana Meratnia, Pervasive Systems Group, University of Twente, 7522 NB Enschede, The Netherlands Guest Editors Emiliano Miluzzo, AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA Gerd Kortuem, Computing Department, Faculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology, The Open University, Buckinghamshire MK7 6AA, UK ******************************************************************************************************* - Emiliano --- AT&T Labs - Research www.research.att.com/~miluzzo _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
