[AISWorld] CFP: PUC Special Issue on Advances in Context-Aware Mobile Services

[Michael Sheng]

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (PUC)
Special Issue on Advances in Context-Aware Mobile Services


Context awareness refers to the system capability of both sensing and reacting to situational changes. It is one of the most exciting trends in computing today that holds the potential to make our daily life more productive, convenient, and enjoyable.

Recently, with the rapid advances in mobile technologies, context-aware mobile services are emerging as an important technology to underpin the new breed of user-centric smart applications on the future ubiquitous mobile Web. Although mobile devices naturally have the capability to capture both the physical context, such as location, and the social context, such as presence and relationships, of users, there are many hurdles to cross in order to realize the full potential of context-aware mobile services. For example, how to represent and manage physical and social contextual details that change over time and how to make services respond to these changes. How to measure the quality of context information? How to define social sensors that can be used to capture social contexts? How, when, and where to track the provenance of data and meta-data? Another important issue is how to unify physical and social context and how to seamlessly bind context to mobile services, given the!
  fact that there is still no standard way to model and access context information. In particular, how to define and use effective and practical metrics to manage adaptation? Finally from the application and usage perspective, what are the experiences so far in real-world application development? What are the user needs for context-awareness? And what is the user experience of context-aware services?

This special issue aims at presenting the latest developments, trends, and research solutions of context-aware mobile information services.  Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

- User context modeling, retrieval, and management in personalized services
- Ontologies and context modeling for mobile services
- Models and languages for formal specification of context and policies
- Visualization of context quality
- Context-based semantic matching for mobile services composition
- Software agents and context-aware mobile services
- Context-aware mobile services discovery
- Security and privacy in context-aware mobile services development
- Context awareness and mobile services standards
- Social context acquisition, modeling and integration
- Pilots and real-world applications
- User experience of context-aware mobile services


Important Dates

Paper submission deadline:              Nov 30, 2012
1st round review due:                      Jan 30, 2013
1st revision due:                              Feb 28, 2013
2nd round review due:                     Mar 15, 2013
2nd revision due:                             Apr 15, 2013
Final acceptance approved by EiC:    May 15, 2013

Submission

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pucsicams2013


Guest Editors
Jian Yu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia (jianyu at swin.edu.au)
Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia (qsheng at cs.adelaide.edu.au)
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK (m.younas at brookes.ac.uk)
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada (elhadi.shakshuki at acadiau.ca)

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