IJAHUC 2010 - Special Issue of International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC) on The Smart Digital Home

*International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC)*

*Special Issue on: \"The Smart Digital Home\"*

*Guest Editors:*

*Prof. Prof. Shing-Tsaan Huang, National Central University, Taiwan, R.O.C.
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*Dr. Fong Pong, Broadcom Corporation, California, USA *
*Assoc. Prof. Jehn-Ruey Jiang, National Central University, Taiwan, R.O.C.*

A smart digital home refers to a living space with devices that are
connected through wired or wireless networks. The connected devices may be
sensors, actors, consumer electronics, appliances, mobile and PC devices
that cooperate transparently for facilitating living and improving usability
in the home. Sensors can capture the and/or detect physical phenomena, like
temperature, humidity, illumination, etc., of living environments and notify
other devices of the phenomena; actors and other devices can then act
according to the phenomena to provide context aware services.

Home care of the old, the young, the sick and the disabled can benefit from
smart digital home technologies, by which carers are able to acquire the
states of the home and the residents anytime, anywhere and to take proper
actions immediately. By the technologies, proper actions can also be
triggered automatically in the presence of specific events, such as resident
falling, and stove catching fire, etc.

Smart digital home technologies enable working from home, remote education,
network shopping, online gaming, etc. High speed broadband network access
and all-IP technologies enabled by frameworks of IMS (IP Multimedia
Subsystem), SDP (Service Delivery Platforms), DLNA (Digital Living Network
Alliance), and so on, offer new communication capabilities. We can foresee
that innovative smart digital home applications benefiting from high network
capabilities will be blooming in the near future. Since a variety of devices
presents in a smart digital home, convergent (across all the screens of TVs,
PCs, appliances and mobile devices) and personalized user experience is
evidently the key for the success of new residential applications.

*Subject Coverage*

The goal of this special issue is to bring together the researchers from
academia and industry as well as practitioners to share ideas, problems and
solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of the smart digital home.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Broadband digital home networks

- Sensor networks and visual sensor networks for home care

- Context-aware intelligent living environments

- Continuous or event-driven inhabitation monitoring

- Fall detection, posture and activity recognition

- Assistive devices for localization and orientation

- Decision support algorithms for sensor data analysis

- Middleware for interoperability

- Convergent and personalized user experience

- Fully automated home applications

- Energy savvy digital home applications

- Entertainment, educational and motivational aids

- Security and privacy in smart digital homes

*Notes for Prospective Authors*

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently
under consideration for publication elsewhere. 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*

Paper submission deadline: 5 January, 2010

Acceptance notification: 15 February, 2010

Camera ready copy due: 15 March, 2010

*Editors and Notes*

A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for
submitting papers are available on the (Author Guidelines) page. Authors are
invited to submit original, unpublished manuscripts to web site:
http://acnlab.csie.ncu.edu.tw/IJAHUC-SI. All submitted papers will be
refereed by reviewers in terms of originality, contribution, correctness,
and presentation.

*Corresponding Editor:*
*Jehn-Ruey Jiang*
*Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering*
*National Central University, Taiwan, R.O.C.*
*jrjiang-AT-csie.ncu.edu.tw*

ISSN (Online): 1743-8233
ISSN (Print): 1743-8225