[Tccc] CfP Springer ANTE SI on Belief Functions in Telecommunication and Networks (Deadline: June 30, 2012)
Abdelhamid Mellouk
mellouk
Thu Jun 7 16:07:29 EDT 2012
Call for papers Springer Annals of
Telecommunications (ISI and Scopus
Indexed)
Special Issue on Belief Functions in Telecommunication and Networks
In the last few years, Dempster-Shafer theory
also known as Theory of Belief Functions (TBF) or
Evidence theory have received growing attention
in many fields of applications such as finance,
technology, biomedecine, etc. This theory may be
seen as a generalization framework of different
instances such as probability, fuzzy sets and
possibility theories. Using Demspster-Shafer
belief functions to express available information
allows considering two kind of uncertainty:
aleatory uncertainty due to the variability of
the variable of interest in the population and
epistemic uncertainty due to a lack of knowledge on the state of the variable.
Different sources of uncertainty and imprecision
may arise in network and telecommunication
domains. Such imperfection may be due to
imprecision of many aspects regarding the
environment: signal, data link, network, etc .
For example, it may be due to communication links
that might be unreliable, either due to
operational tolerance levels or environmental
factors. The theory of belief functions has
proved to be particularly useful to represent and
reason with partial information in a wide range
of applications, including signal processing,
coding, supervision, localization, resource
provisioning, etc. In such case, the belief
function theory provides a flexible framework for
handling and mining imprecision and uncertainty
as well as combining different disparate evidence
about uncertain events. Indeed, this theory
allows modeling different concepts such as
imprecision, ambiguity, ignorance. Also, a
variety of combination operators is available in the fusion process.
This special issue is intended to provide the
recent advances on the use of theory of Belief
Functions in Telecommunication and Network
Technologies. It focused on how Belief Functions
has affect different aspects (protocols,
algorithms, paradigm, energy, signal coding,
etc.) for a large family of applications
(Healthcare, Medical, Underwater, Vehicular,
Robotic, etc.) using network technologies (Sensor
Networks, MANET, VANET, etc.). In particular,
authors are encouraged to submit papers
addressing the fundamental and applications of
mathematical tools such as fuzzy sets intervals,
belief functions, random sets or imprecise
probability models in Telecommunication and
Network fields. We solicit papers covering all
aspects of approaches and related topics with
fundamental research and/or experimental studies.
Papers submitted for consideration should
describe original research not published or
currently under review by other journals and
conferences. Parallel submissions will not be
accepted. All submitted papers will be rigorously
reviewed and we will select papers based on their
originality, timeliness, significance, and relevance to this SI.
Key topics and domain applications to be covered
in this special issue include but are not limited to:
- Signal Coding
- Resource Provisioning
- Monitoring and Supervision
- Localization and Deployment in AdHoc and Sensor Networks
- Cognitive Radio Networks
- Turbo code
- Quality of Service and Quality of Experience
- Network management and allocation, scheduling
- Green, Smart, Underwater Communication
- e-Health Application
- Cloud Computing and Internet of things
- Pervasive communication in autonomous application fields
Guest editors:
? Glenn Shafer (Honorary Guest Editor), Rutgers Business School ? Newark, USA
? Latifa Oukhellou, IFSTTAR (ex. INRETS), France.
? Abdelhamid Mellouk, UPEC, LiSSi, France
? Lei Shu, Osaka University, Japan
Papers must be written in English and describe
original research not published or currently
under review by other journals or conferences.
Submissions should be sent according to the
editorial procedure described in the instructions
available at:
<http://www.annals-of-telecommunications.com/p_en_publish_6.html>http://www.annals-of-telecommunications.com/p_en_publish_6.html
Proposed schedule
- Manuscript submission: June 30, 2012
- Expected publication: 1st Semester 2013
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