JAISE 2011 - Thematic Issue in Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments: A Software Engineering Perspective on Smart Applications for AmI

JOURNAL OF AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE AND SMART ENVIRONMENTS
ISSN: 1876-1364 -- Published by IOS Press

Thematic Issue: A Software Engineering Perspective on Smart Applications
for AmI

Background

This thematic issue addresses software engineering perspectives on
the design, use and evaluation of Smart Applications for Ambient
Intelligence and solicits contributions on recent developments and
experiments with such applications in simulated smart environments as
well as successful deployments in the real world. Currently, we
witness various futuristic application domains that promise smart
interaction between humans and computers, with smart objects enabling
the internet of things, intelligent transportation systems, and smart
grids being some of the more notorious examples receiving a lot of
attention nowadays. However, do the advanced computing capabilities
of a mobile phone justify calling it a smart-phone? How can software
engineering complement artificial intelligence to create smart
applications for Ambient Intelligence? What kind of intelligent
behavior do users expect from smart software architectures? What are
good programming paradigms to implement such systems? The particular
focus of this thematic issue is on software engineering best
practices and methodologies to develop intelligent applications, case
studies on software requirements and testing of smart behavior, and
success stories from various application domains.

As this topic covers many different software engineering disciplines
we encourage submissions that cover the broad range of research
topics that include practical applications and case studies, user
studies, middleware, programming languages, application design
methodologies, empirical evaluation of systems and metrics,
underpinning theories and formal methods, and more
technical/scientific research topics. Some specific relevant
application areas to be considered, but not exclusively are:

* Smart home automation

* Intelligent web applications

* Mobile applications for smartphones

* Intelligent interfaces

* Smart mobs

* Intelligent machines and systems

* Smart grid

* Intelligent personalization and recommender systems

* Ambient assisted living

* Intelligent transportation systems

* Smart healthcare

* Intelligent multi-agent systems

* Smart surveillance and tracking

* Intelligent sensor networks

* Swarm intelligence

* Intelligent behavior and context-aware applications

* Smart energy systems

* Mobile and wearable intelligence

Submissions that use experimental data derived from real or simulated
test-beds of smart applications and intelligent environments are
especially encouraged.

We are pleased to inform you that JAISE is indexed by Scopus, ACM
Digital Library and DBLP. From January 2012, all JAISE issues will be
indexed in JCR.

Submission and Proceedings

Papers should be of 12 pages or longer and adhere to the guidelines
given on the webpage:

http://www.mstracker.com/submit1.php?jc=jaise.

When submitting, authors should highlight in the cover letter that the
submission is for this particular Thematic Issue. Prospective authors
are encouraged to contact the special issue editors in advance,
indicating their interest and a tentative title of the paper.

Important Dates and Dissemination Plan

Deadline for manuscript submission: June 15th, 2011
Notification to authors: October 31th, 2011
Submission of revised versions: January 15th, 2012
Targeted publication date: March 2012

Guest Editors

Davy Preuveneers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium,
davy.preuveneers-AT-cs.kuleuven.be
Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal, pjon-AT-di.uminho.pt
Juan M. Corchado, University of Salamanca, Spain, corchado-AT-usal.es