[AISWorld] CFP: Computing (Springer) Special Issue on Mobile Web Information Systems

[Michael Sheng]

Computing Journal (By Springer)
Special Issue on Mobile Web Information Systems


Over the years, advances in mobile technologies are gradually bringing the full potential of desktop computers to potable mobile devices. As a matter of fact that the number of mobile phone users is already much higher than desktop users, most Internet and Web based services such as search engine querying, reading news, downloading multimedia, email, instant message, online shopping, and also social networking will soon be accessed mainly through a large variety of mobile devices instead of desktop computers. These new developments however introduce many new challenging problems as users demand fast, easy and reliable access to the high volume of web information and services from anywhere, on any device and any platform.

Personalized services are generally designed and developed using context-aware services. These services are rapidly emerging as an important technology to underpin the new applications (user centric, highly personalized) on the future ubiquitous mobile Web. Mobile devices have the capability to capture both the physical context, such as location, and the social context, such as presence and relationships, of users. However, there are still many hurdles to cross in order to realize the full potential of context-aware mobile information services. For example, how to represent and manage physical and social contextual details that change over time and how to make Web 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, what are the experiences so far in real-world application development?

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

- Context-aware services
- Mobile cloud services
- Data management in mobile Web
- Mobile Web security, trust, and privacy
- HCI in mobile applications
- Middleware for mobile applications
- Mobile Web searching
- Internet of Things
- Mobile Web and social networks
- Mobile Web P2P applications
- User context modeling, retrieval, and management in personalized services
- Mobile services personalization
- Ontologies and context modeling for personalized mobile services
- Models and languages for formal specification of context and policies in mobile Web
- Light and flexible approaches to mobile service and data integration
- Quality-aware framework for publishing and discovering mobile services and sources
- Context-based semantic matching for mobile services composition
- Model-driven development of adaptive mobile services
- Requirements engineering for mobile context services
- User cases, real-world applications

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: 			Apr 15, 2013
2nd revision due: 			May 15, 2013
Final acceptance approved by EiC: 	Jun 15, 2013

Submission

When submitting at the journal's submission website, please choose the manuscript type "SI: MobiWIS 2012"

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)