<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; "><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - -</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Special Issue on </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Semantic Challenges on the SensorWeb</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Call for Papers</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">= = = = = = = =</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">The Sensor Web concept, initially developed in NASA’s </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Jet Propulsion Laboratory as an autonomously organized</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">wireless sensor network to monitor the environment, has </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">been strongly shaped over the past years by the sensor</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">web enablement (SWE) initiative of the Open Geospatial </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Consortium (OGC). The understanding of the Sensor Web </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">has changed, and it is today seen as an extension of the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">World Wide Web to allow an integration of sensors and</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">sensor networks with applications. The key functionality </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">of the Sensor Web is to allow the interoperable usage of</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">sensor resources by enabling (1) discovery, (2) access, (3) </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">tasking, and (4) eventing and alerting. Thereby, sensors that</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">can be brought into the Sensor Web infrastructure range </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">from complex satellite systems, over water gauge stations, to</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">simple sensing devices embedded in things of our day-to-day </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">life (e.g., cars or household appliances).</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">This situation of myriads of sensors emerging on the </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Sensor Web leads to various research challenges, starting</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">from an efficient integration of sensors to the scalable </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">processing of gathered sensor data. This special issue aims</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">at gathering recent research results dealing with semantic </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">challenges on the Sensor Web from a broad perspective.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Potential topics include, but are not limited to:</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">• Semantic processing of sensor data</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">• Large-scale data processing on the SensorWeb</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">• Applications of semantic technologies on the Sensor </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Web for particular problems or domains</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">• Semantic SensorWeb middleware and architectures</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">• Semantic integration and querying of heterogeneous </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">and distributed sensor data</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">• Representing of, and reasoning about, uncertainty on </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">the SensorWeb</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">• Semantic challenges for integrating sensors with the </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">SensorWeb</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">• Handling SensorWeb resources as linked data</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">• Crowd-sourced sensing and its semantic challenges</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">• Semantic sensor event stream processing</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Before submission authors should carefully read over the </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">journal’s Author Guidelines, which are located at </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><a href="http://www">http://www</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">.hindawi.com/journals/ijdsn/guidelines/ . </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Important dates</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">= = = = = = = =</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Prospective authors </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">should submit an electronic copy of their complete</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">following timetable:</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">* Manuscript Due Friday, 13 July 2012</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">* First Round of Reviews Friday, 5 October 2012</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">* Publication Date Friday, 30 November 2012</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">You are cordially invited to contact the guest editors for inquiries on scope and suitability of submissions in advance. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Guest editors</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">= = = = = = = = = </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Miguel-Angel Sicilia, Department of Computer Science,</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">University of Alcalá, Polytechnic Building, Alcalá de</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Henares, Madrid, Spain; msicilia@uah.es</font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Deshendran Moodley, Centre for Artificial Intelligence</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Research, UKZN/CSIR-Meraka, Block H1,Westville</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Campus, University Road, Chiltern Hills,Westville, Durban</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">3629, South Africa; deshen@cs.ukzn.ac.za</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Arne Bröring, Institute for Geoinformatics, University of</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Muenster,Weseler Straße 253, 48151 Münster, Germany;</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">arneb@uni-muenster.de</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font></div></div></body></html>