AIIT 2017 - Special Issue on "Ambient Intelligence in the Internet of Things"

Mobile Information Systems Journal (IF JCR 1.462), Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Special Issue on "Ambient Intelligence in the Internet of Things"
CALL FOR PAPERS
Since the beginning, Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) have been characterized by cycles between centralized and personal computing. From the early mainframes to the personal computers, from the Cloud to the Smartphones, the focus has moved according to the technological advancements and the key technologies that have been enabling continuous paradigm shift from centralized computing to thin clients and vice versa.
The Internet of Things (IoT), one of the latest trends in ICT, is going to influence every aspect of our lives: tiny smart objects embedded in everyday things, equipped with computational and communication capabilities, that are interconnected among them and with the Internet. Cross-domains applications access sensors and users-generated data and interoperate among different contexts. Such smart things will cooperate to provide valuable information to the people and contribute to increase the potentialities of their actions and the comfort of their lives. In such a context, an emerging application and research field is the Ambient Intelligence, which refers to the capacity of an IoT system to sense the environment and to response to the presence of people and builds upon pervasive computing, ubiquitous computing, profiling, context awareness, and human-centric computer interaction design. Ambient Intelligence is going to change the way technology is perceived by the users: as these devices become smaller, more connected and more integrated into the environment, the technology gradually disappears into the surroundings until only the user interface remains perceivable by users. Users will interact directly or indirectly with the interfaces of the systems, and the system will respond to people presence, actions and decisions, offering integrate solutions and improving their Quality of Experience (QoE). To this end, Mobile Information Systems are crucial for the Ambient Intelligence, since the majority of the sensors and actuators relies on mobile/wireless technologies and on distributed information systems and big data to collect, store and process the data.
Such a scenario has been enabled thanks to advancements at different layers: Network (WSAN, RFID, NFC, BLE, ZigBee, IEEE 802.11ah, 6LoWPAN), Operating Systems (TinyOS, Contiki, FreeRTOS) and Service Layer Middlewares (platform such as FIWARE and CityPulse) among others. However, in spite of several efforts, the development in the IoT has followed ?vertical silos? paradigm, in which proprietary solution can hardly interoperate, thus limiting the potentialities offered by the IoT. Research and Innovation is needed to address new model-centric and predictive engineering methods and tools for cyber-physical systems and ?systems of systems? with a high degree of autonomy ensuring adaptability, scalability, complexity management, security and safety, and providing trust to humans in the loop.
Authors from the Academic and the Industry are invited to contribute with original research papers as well as review articles that illustrate and stimulate the continuing effort and collaborations in the Ambient Intelligence.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
> Pervasive computing, ubiquitous computing, profiling, context awareness, and human-centric computer interaction design
> Smart devices, sensors and actuators
> Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks
> Machine Learning, Neuronal Networks and Automatic Decision
> System-wide solutions, including interfaces and users
Guest Editors
Sergio Ricciardi
Universitat Politäcnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC), Spain
sergio.ricciardi-AT-ac.upc.edu
JosÈ Roberto Amazonas
Escola PolitÇcnica da Universidade de S.ˇPaulo, Brasil
jra-AT-lcs.poli.usp.br
Francesco Palmieri
University of Salerno, Italy
fpalmieri-AT-unisa.it
Maria Bermudez-Edo
Universidad de Granada, Spain
mbe-AT-ugr.es
Important Dates:
Manuscript Due
18 November 2016 (extended)
First Round of Reviews
30 December 2016
Publication Date
24 February 2017
Submissions at:
http://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/misy/amit
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/misy/si/961413/cfp