[AISWorld] Call for book chapters: Managing the Web of Things: Linking the Real World to the Web (Morgan Kaufmann)

[Michael Sheng]

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
http://yongruiqin.org/wotbook/

Managing the Web of Things: Linking the Real World to the Web
Morgan Kaufmann, Elsevier


Over the years, the World Wide Web has gone through many 
transformations, from traditional linking and sharing of computers and 
documents (i.e., "Web of Data"), to the current connection of people 
(i.e., "Web of People"), and to the emerging connection of billions of 
physical objects (i.e., "Web of Things"). WoT aims to connect everyday 
objects, such as coats, shoes, watches, ovens, washing machines, bikes, 
cars, even humans, plants, animals, and changing environments, to the 
Internet to enable communication/interactions between these objects. The 
ultimate goal of WoT is to enable computers to see, hear and sense the 
real world. It is predicted by Ericsson that the number of 
Internet-connected things will reach 50 billion by 2020. Electronic 
devices and systems exist around us providing different services to the 
people in different situations: at home, at work, in their office, or 
driving a car on the street. Web of Things (WoT) also enables the close 
relationship between human and opportunistic connection of smart things.

To realize the goals of WoT and to fully exploit its potentials, 
building and managing the Web of Things at a global scale has created 
numerous challenges, as well as tremendous opportunities, to many 
stakeholders, including research institutions, companies, governments, 
international organizations, and so on. There is an urgent need to 
capture related technology trends, so as to guide and help all these 
stakeholders to actively contribute to the promising future of WoT.

WoT provides an Application Layer that simplifies the creation of the 
Internet of Things (IoT) applications. In other words, WoT aims to 
enable real-world objects to be part of the World Wide Web, other than 
focusing on connecting them together at a global scale. This makes WoT 
different from IoT. Therefore, a more consolidated and holistic coverage 
of engineering, management and analytics that advances the fundamental 
understanding of the Web of Things building blocks in terms of concepts, 
models, languages, productivity support techniques, and tools is 
required. This is necessary to enable effective exploration, 
understanding, assessing, comparing, and selecting WoT models, 
languages, techniques, platforms, and tools.

In addition, there is a scarcity of texts on how to manage large-scale 
of things over the Web. The book is intended to compile the newest 
developments and advances in the area of WoT. It will offer a 
comprehensive and systematic presentation of methodologies, technologies 
and applications that enable efficient and effective management of 
things over the Web, thereby helping academic researchers, 
practitioners, graduate students, and governments unveil the potentials 
of WoT.

***Features and Benefits:
This book will focus on the most recent developments in the field of the 
Web of Things. The covered new advances will range from modelling, 
searching, data analytics, to software building, applications and social 
impact. Hence, this book will provide a comprehensive view of the latest 
developments and trends in this nascent area.

 From the book, the reader will be able to gain up-to-date knowledge and 
experience on how to manage things over the Web. This can help them 
accelerate their research on the Web of Things (for researchers), gain 
immediate experiences on building the Web of Things systems (for 
practitioners), and support policy and decision making (for companies 
and governments).

In summary, the three main benefits of the book include:

1. This book will review the current trends of the Web of Things and 
provide an in-depth analysis on the state-of-the-art Web of Things 
modelling and searching technologies. The technologies on how to 
collect, clean, and analyze data generated by the Web of Things will 
also be covered. Thus, the book can represent a good reference that 
summarizes latest developments and technologies in the Web of Things.

2. This book will cover system design and software building principles 
for the Web of Things. Experiences and methods for system design and 
software building will also be covered. Thus, this book will be a timely 
guide to implementing the Web of Things systems.

3. This book will cover real-world applications and provide discussions 
and explorations of social impact for the Web of Things. These 
applications and explorations will be attractive to a wide variety of 
readers from practitioners and policy makers in both companies and 
governments.

***Target Audience:
The book is intended for researchers and postgraduate students 
interested in the areas of the Web of Things and related computational 
technologies for the purpose of integrating the Web of Things approach 
into the real world. Academic researchers, research students, 
communications and network engineers, solution architects, system 
integrators, system managers, policy makers in government agencies are 
main targeted audience.

***Tentative Table of Contents:
Additions to the topics listed below are also welcome!
Part I: Background
     A historical overview of the WoT

Part II: WoT Modeling and Searching
     Modeling techniques for the Web of Things
     Semantics-rich modeling of the Web of Things
     Ontologies and context modeling for the Web of Things
     Searching techniques for the Web of Things

Part III: WoT Data Analytics
     Data collection techniques for the Web of Things
     Data cleaning techniques for the Web of Things
     Data integration techniques for the Web of Things
     Data analytics and knowledge discovery techniques for the Web of Things

Part IV: WoT System Building
     System design methods and experiences for the Web of Things
     Software building experiences for the Web of Things
     Introduction to Web of Things Platforms
     Web 2.0 applications versus the Web of Things
     Prototyping and Course Projects for the Web of Things

Part IV: Applications and Social Impact
     Real-life Web of Things Applications
     Social Impact of the Web of Things
     Future Challenges and Opportunities

***Submission Process:
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their chapter 
proposals/abstracts (1 to 2 pages in PDF format) by the given deadline 
to wotbook2016 at gmail.com.

Please provide the following points in your proposals/abstracts:

* Title of the contribution/chapter,
* Name of author, co-authors, institution, email-address,
* Content/mission of the proposed article,
* How the contribution fits into the book.

Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by the given deadline 
about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines.

Full Book Chapter: Complete chapters are required to be submitted to 
wotbook2016 at gmail.com. A book chapter can have 20 to 30 pages. Guidlines 
on how to prepare the full book chapter/manuscript will be provided on time.

***Important Dates:
Chapter Proposal Deadline:	31 Jan 2016
Notification of Acceptance:	29 Feb 2016
Full Chapter Submission:	15 May 2016
Review Results Returned:	31 Jul 2016
Final Chapter Submission:	15 Sep 2016
Final Book Delivery:		15 Oct 2016


***Inquiries:
All inquiries are invited to send an email to wotbook2016 at gmail.com

***Editorial Team:
Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia 
(michael.sheng at adelaide.edu.au).
Yongrui Qin, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom 
(yongrui.qin at gmail.com).
Lina Yao, UNSW Australia, Australia (theresa0125 at gmail.com).
Boualem Benatallah, UNSW Australia, Australia (b.benatallah at unsw.edu.au).