[AISWorld] CFP: Special Issue on Web of Things, Information Systems Frontiers

[Michael Sheng]

CALL FOR PAPERS
Information Systems Frontiers (ISF)
Special Issue on Web of Things

As indicated by the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, "it 
isn't the documents which are actually interesting; it is the things 
they are about!". The last level of abstraction for the Web is to 
connect real things. Indeed, with the recent advances in radio-frequency 
identification (RFID) technology, wireless sensor networks, and Web 
services, the Web has emerged as the platform to connect billions of 
physical objects, i.e., "Web of Things" (WoT). WoT offers the capability 
of integrating the information from both the physical world and the 
virtual one, which creates tremendous business opportunities such as 
efficient supply chains, smart cities, and improved environmental 
monitoring.

While it is widely understood that WoT offers exciting capabilities to 
change the world and improve our life quality just as what the Web has 
done in the past 20 years, WoT also presents significant challenges. 
With billions of things interconnected and present over the Web, one 
inevitable challenge in the new era of WoT lies in how to efficiently 
and effectively manage things, which is critical for a number of 
important applications such as object discovery (e.g., finding a quiet 
restaurant), recommendation (e.g., suggesting a device that can consume 
a video stream), and mashup (e.g., composing device functionalities for 
a new service). In addition, massive volumes of real-time data ("big 
data") will be produced by these connected things and their associated 
sensors. Novel solutions are therefore required to effectively collect, 
process, analyze, and mine this big data. These solutions need to 
consider challenging issues of WoT data such as dynamicity, uncertainty, 
and high dimensionality.

This special issue aims at presenting the latest developments, trends, 
and research solutions of Web of Things.  Topics of interests include, 
but are not limited to:

* Things discovery in WoT
* Semantic services for WoT
* High dimensional data processing in WoT
* Cloud computing and WoT
* RFID, sensors, and WoT
* Scalable WoT architectures
* Information modeling for WoT
* Context-aware services in WoT
* Business and social models of WoT
* WoT testbeds
* WoT security and privacy
* WoT standardization
* WoT applications, deployments and use cases

Important Dates

Sep 30, 2013: Paper submission deadline 		
Dec 15, 2013: 1st round review due
Jan 31, 2014: 1st revision due		
Mar 15, 2014: 2nd round review due 			
Apr 15, 2014: 2nd revision due: 			
May 15, 2014: Final acceptance approved by EiC		


Submission Guidelines

The submitted papers must describe original research which are not 
published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. 
Information Systems Frontiers (ISF, , 
http://link.springer.com/journal/10796) offers a web-enabled online 
manuscript submission and review system. Papers should be submitted from 
http://www.editorialmanager.com/isfi/. Authors should choose manuscript 
type: "Special Issue: WoT" when submitting their papers.

All papers must be written in clear English and submitted in electronic 
form (PDF preferred). When preparing the manuscripts, the authors should 
carefully follow the "Instructions for Authors", available from the web 
site of Springer's Information Systems Frontiers 
(http://www.springer.com/business+%26+management/business+information+systems/journal/10796).


Guest Editors
Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia 
(michael.sheng at adelaide.edu.au)
Xue Li, The University of Queensland, Australia (xueli at itee.uq.edu.au)
Anne H.H. Ngu, Texas State University, USA (angu at txstate.edu)
Dong Xie, Hunan Uni. of Humanities, Science and Tech., China 
(dong.xie at hotmail.com)
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