CALL FOR PAPERS
Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal
Special Issue on Information Management in Mobile Applications
Scope
Mobile devices pose tremendous challenges to the design and implementation of
information systems suited for mobile environments. While users expect similar
functionality on their smartphone as provided on their laptop or desktop
computer, the hardware and communication platforms are still limited.
Especially, data-intensive mobile applications require new ways of data
management, processing, and analysis. Crucial issues include energy-efficiency,
limited CPU power and storage, real-time processing, small displays, and
communication costs.
The rapid development in mobile hardware and software has enabled new
applications which pose new challenges for mobile data management. Improvements
in the area of mobile communication and increased bandwidth provide new
possibilities for exchanging and sharing data. Mobile data can have various
forms, such as sensor data, user profiles & user context, spatial data, and
multimedia data. Smartphones, mobile and wearable sensors, and other portable
systems are used in various applications to collect, process, and exchange an
increasing amount of data. Applications can run on several devices (mobile, PCs,
multimedia), but the exchange, the integration, and the querying of data between
these devices remains a challenging problem.
The special issue aims at publishing recent, outstanding research results about
technologies and mechanisms, which support the management of mobile, complex,
integrated, distributed, and heterogeneous data-focused applications. We invite
research papers as well as papers which address challenges in developing
industrial-strength mobile applications.
The list of topics includes, but is not limited to:
- Data management and integration in mobile peer-to-peer networks
- Data stream management in mobile applications/environments
- Data stream mining for mobile applications
- Mobile Cloud Computing
- Data integration in mobile settings
- Context-aware mobile computing
- Applications using mobile data management techniques
- Query processing and optimization for mobile systems
- Real-time data processing in mobile applications
- Security and privacy for mobile data management
- Pervasive data management
- Transaction processing in mobile applications
- Expert systems for mobile information systems
- Sensing and acquisition of data in mobile environments
- Data sharing and interoperability in mobile applications
- Managing data intensive mobile applications
- Management and processing of geospatial data
- Mobile health data management and analysis
- Pervasive health systems and services
- Location-based services
- Mobile data management systems and middleware
- Knowledge representation and reasoning in mobile applications
Important Dates
Submission deadline: November 30th, 2012
Expected Publication of Special Issue: 2013
Submission Guidelines
All submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide for Authors as
published in the Journal website at http://www.ees.elsevier.com/pmc/. Authors
should select "SI: Info Mgmt", from the "Choose Article Type" pull-down menu
during the submission process. All contributions must not have been previously
published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. A submission
based on one or more papers that appeared elsewhere has to comprise major
value-added extensions over what appeared previously (at least 33% new
material). Authors are requested to attach to the submitted paper their
relevant, previously published articles and a summary document explaining the
enhancements made in the journal version.
Guest Editors of the Special Issue:
- Thierry Delot, University of Valenciennes & Inria Lille, France - Thierry.Delot@univ-valenciennes.fr
- Sandra Geisler, Information Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Germany - geisler@dbis.rwth-aachen.de
- Daniela Nicklas, Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg, Germany - dnicklas@acm.org
- Christoph Quix, Information Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Germany - quix@dbis.rwth-aachen.de
- Bo Xu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA - boxu@cs.uic.edu
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