IUPT 2015 - Special Issue: "Internet of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Things (IUPT-2015)"

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Open Journal of Internet Of Things (OJIOT) (http://www.ronpub.com/journals/ojiot)
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=== Call for Papers ===
Special Issue: "Internet of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Things (IUPT-2015)"
(http://www.ronpub.com/index.php/journals/ojiot/spe...)
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** ABOUT OJIOT
This special issue will be published in the Open Journal of Internet Of Things (OJIOT) (http://www.ronpub.com/journals/ojiot). OJIOT, an open access and peer-reviewed online journal, publishes original and creative research results on the internet of things. OJIOT distributes its articles under the open access model. All articles of OJIOT are fully open access and online available to readers free of charge. There is no restriction on the length of the papers. Accepted manuscripts are published online immediately.
** ABOUT THIS SPECIAL ISSUE:
This special issue aims at gathering researchers from the fields of wireless networking and Internet applications to discuss new opportunities and hurdles to leverage the possibilities of new applications and services for the Internet of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Things. The new developments in this area raise many research questions including interaction, security, collaboration, context, discovery, and privacy of physical things in the virtual world. Despite the tremendous progress in Internet technologies the research community continues to wrestle with some of these questions. This symposium focuses on disseminating novel ideas and research directions in this fast emerging area of the Internet of Things. This symposium also aims to bring together academics and practitioners in an effort to highlight the state-of-the-art and discuss the issues and opportunities to explore new research directions and develop new ideas for the Internet of Things. The symposium will be platform to provide opportunities for researchers from academia and industry to join hands, exchange ideas and focus on solutions that will enhance the life of the growing population on the Internet. It will lead to identifying new directions and setting the scope for developments in this area. The participants will be enlightened with intellectual discussions, highlighting the advances in technology that bridges the physical world and the digital world.
** SCOPE:
The special issue expects original and high-quality papers, including but NOT limited to the following topics:
- Communication systems and architectures for the Internet of Things
- Robustness of environmental management with the Internet of Things
- Future technologies bridging the physical and virtual worlds
- Business models and processes for the Internet of Things
- Impacts on the security, privacy and risks on the physical world
- Applications and interaction for social networking
- Location and discovery of things on the Internet
- Web of Things
- Smart Objects
- Case studies in areas of Healthcare, Agriculture, Logistics and Transport
- Green Internet of Things
- Mobile Internet of Things
- Internet of Services
- Sensor Webs
- Semantic Web of Things
** GUEST EDITORS:
- Dr. Lina Yao, The University of Adelaide, Australia
- Prof. Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia
- Ali Shemshadi, The University of Adelaide, Australia
** IMPORTANT DATES:
- Submission Deadline: 15 April, 2015
- Author Notification: 15 June, 2015
(NOTE: The sooner that authors submit their papers, the sooner that authors get the notification. Every paper, once accepted, will be published immediately.)
** PREPARATION & SUBMISSION:
For detailed information on the preparation and submission of manuscripts, please visit Author Guidelines (http://www.ronpub.com/index.php/journals/ojiot/aut...).
** OPEN-ACCESS PUBLISHING FEES:
This special issue will be published in the Open Journal of Internet Of Things (OJIOT) (http://www.ronpub.com/journals/ojiot). All articles of OJIOT are fully open access and online available to readers free of charge. In order to support open access, OJIOT has to charge a one-time publication fee for each accepted article. Please visit the journal webpage (http://www.ronpub.com/index.php/journals/ojiot/pub...) for more information.
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