Calls for papers

 

International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering

 

Special Issue on: "Ubiquitous Multimedia Networks and Services"

Guest Editors:
Francisco Isidro Massetto, Federal University of ABC, Brazil
Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Kuan-Chou Lai, National Taichung University, Taiwan
Chi-Yi Lin, Tamkang University, Taiwan

As contemporary computing and communication devices foster human interactions in cyberspace, social events are taking place ubiquitously in the form of multimodal adaptive interactions between participants. Cutting edge interactive systems therefore focus on how to deliver multimodal media in different contexts of use to humans in a way that offers better quality of experience.

To achieve this there are a great deal of challenging problems yet to be solved, mainly in how to bring together ICT technologies for context adaptation, inter-device interaction, and media/data communication for the wellbeing of humans. This special issue strives to foster state-of-the-art research pertaining to the area of ubiquitous multimedia networks and services, covering various areas of computation/communication infrastructure, middleware, human-computer interaction, and applications for ubiquitous multimedia.

Subject Coverage
Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

• Sensor networks/RFID for ubiquitous multimedia
• Heterogeneous infrastructure for ubiquitous multimedia
• 3G and advanced communication techniques
• Storage and indexing for ubiquitous multimedia
• Cross-network communication and servers for ubiquitous multimedia
• Multimedia embedded systems
• Context-aware multimedia
• Computational intelligence for ubiquitous multimedia
• Semantic web and knowledge grids
• Multimedia content protection and security
• Privacy and security in ubiquitous environments
• Plasticity and dynamic composition of user interfaces
• Multimodal interaction
• Social networks
• Ubiquitous multimedia services for commerce
• Ubiquitous multimedia services for games
• Ubiquitous multimedia services for healthcare
• Ubiquitous multimedia services for smart homes

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page

Important Dates

Submission deadline: 15 December, 2011

Acceptance notification: 15 February, 2012

Final paper due: 15 April, 2012