Call for papers
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST)
Special Issue on
Participatory Sensing and Crowd Intelligence (PS/CI)
Participatory Sensing (PS) is an emerging computing paradigm that tasks
everyday mobile devices to form participatory sensor networks. It allows
the increasing number of mobile phone users to share local knowledge
acquired by their sensor-enhanced devices, e.g., to monitor pollution
level or noise level, traffic condition, etc. Here, we make an extension
to the original definition of sensing sources in participatory sensing,
from mobile devices to any human life-loggers, such as sensor-equipped
vehicles, smart cards, social network services (the so-called virtual
sensors), and so on. The sensing data from volunteer contributors can be
further analyzed and processed to form Crowd Intelligence (CI), and
leveraged in many areas such as environment monitoring, urban planning,
emergency management, as well as public healthcare/safety. Numerous
challenges are raised: How can people and devices be connected so that
they act more intelligently than any individuals or devices have ev!
er done before? How to accomplish the tasks unintentionally or with
minimum user effort? How to extract crowd intelligence/knowledge from
multimodal, low quality data contributed by volunteers? What are the
incentive mechanisms to encourage human participation? How to protect
human data privacy¡
This theme issue of ACM TIST (indexed by SCI-E and EI) provides the
opportunity for researchers and product developers to review and discuss
the state-of-the-art and trends of PS/CI techniques and intelligent
systems.
Topics may include (but are not limited to):
- AI techniques in PS/CI
- Crowd Data Collection and Intelligent Task Allocation
- Incentive Mechanisms for Human Participation
- Data Processing and Crowd Intelligence Mining
- Data Quality, Trust, and Privacy
- Knowledge Modeling and Management in PS/CI
- Intelligent applications supported by PS/CI (Smart City, Public Health, etc.)
- Crowd Intelligence Systems
- Intelligent User Interfaces for PS/CI
- Evaluation Metrics and Empirical Studies of PS/CI
It should be noted that we welcome papers that are relevant to the above
topics, but discourage papers that make contributions to only
networking/sensor issues but do not contribute to topics of interest to
TIST (e.g., topics on AI, intelligent systems).
Submissions
Manuscripts should be submitted online:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tist (please select "Special Issue:
Participatory Sensing and Crowd Intelligence" as the manuscript type).
Details of the journal and manuscript preparation are available on the
website: http://tist.acm.org/authors/.
Guest Editors
Bin Guo (Corresponding Guest Editor)
Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
guobin.keio@gmail.com
Alvin Chin
Nokia
alvin.chin@nokia.com
Zhiwen Yu
Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
zhiwenyu@nwpu.edu.cn
Runhe Huang
Hosei University, Japan
rhuang@hosei.ac.jp
Daqing Zhang
Institut TELECOM SudParis, France
daqing.zhang@it-sudparis.eu
Important Dates
Deadline for manuscript submission: Dec. 31, 2013.
Notification of first review: Feb. 28, 2014
Submission of revised manuscript: Apr. 15, 2014
Notification of final acceptance: May. 31, 2014
Final manuscript due: Jun. 30, 2014
Publication date: 3rd Quarter, 2014 (Tentative)
Contact Information
Corresponding Guest Editor, Dr. Guo (guobin.keio@gmail.com)
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