[Tccc] Call for papers: ACM Trans. on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST), Special Issue on Participatory Sensing and Crowd Intelligence (PS/CI)

Bin Guo guobin.keioatgmail.com
Tue Jul 9 01:27:31 EDT 2013



 *Call for papers*

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST)  

 Special Issue on

*Participatory Sensing and Crowd Intelligence (PS/CI)** ***

http://tist.acm.org/CFPs/TIST-SI-PSCI.html

Introduction

*Participatory Sensing (PS)* is an emerging computing paradigm that tasks
everyday mobile devices to form participatory sensor networks. It allows
the increasing number of mobile phone users to share local knowledge
acquired by their sensor-enhanced devices, e.g., to monitor pollution level
or noise level, traffic condition, etc. Here, we make an extension to the
original definition of sensing sources in participatory sensing, from
mobile devices to any human life-loggers, such as sensor-equipped vehicles,
smart cards, social network services (the so-called *virtual sensors*), and
so on. The sensing data from volunteer contributors can be further analyzed
and processed to form *Crowd Intelligence (CI)*, and leveraged in many
areas such as environment monitoring, urban planning, emergency management,
as well as public healthcare/safety. Numerous challenges are raised: How
can people and devices be connected so that they act more intelligently
than any individuals or devices have ever done before? How to accomplish
the tasks unintentionally or with minimum user effort? How to extract crowd
intelligence/knowledge from multimodal, low quality data contributed by
volunteers? What are the incentive mechanisms to encourage human
participation? How to protect human data privacy

This theme issue of ACM TIST (indexed by SCI-E and EI) provides the
opportunity for researchers and product developers to review and discuss
the state-of-the-art and trends of PS/CI techniques and intelligent
systems.



Topics may include (but are not limited to):

- AI techniques in PS/CI

- Crowd Data Collection and Intelligent Task Allocation

- Incentive Mechanisms for Human Participation

- Data Processing and Crowd Intelligence Mining

- Data Quality, Trust, and Privacy

- Knowledge Modeling and Management in PS/CI

- Intelligent applications supported by PS/CI (Smart City, Public Health,
etc.)

- Crowd Intelligence Systems

- Intelligent User Interfaces for PS/CI

- Evaluation Metrics and Empirical Studies of PS/CI



*It should be noted that we welcome papers that are relevant to the above
topics, but discourage papers that make contributions to only
networking/sensor issues but do not contribute to topics of interest
to TIST<http://tist.acm.org/charter.html>(e.g., topics on AI,
intelligent systems).
*



Submissions

Manuscripts should be submitted online:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tist(please select "Special Issue:
Participatory Sensing and Crowd
Intelligence" as the manuscript type). Details of the journal and
manuscript preparation are available on the website:
http://tist.acm.org/authors/.





Guest Editors

Bin Guo (Corresponding Guest Editor)

Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

guobin.k... at gmail.com



Alvin Chin

Nokia

alvin.c... at nokia.com



Zhiwen Yu

Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

zhiwe... at nwpu.edu.cn



Runhe Huang

Hosei University, Japan

rhu... at hosei.ac.jp



Daqing Zhang

Institut TELECOM SudParis, France

daqing.zh... at it-sudparis.eu



Important Dates

Deadline for manuscript submission: Dec. 31, 2013.

Notification of first review: Feb. 28, 2014

Submission of revised manuscript: Apr. 15, 2014

Notification of final acceptance: May. 31, 2014

Final manuscript due: Jun. 30, 2014

Publication date: 3rd Quarter, 2014 (Tentative)



Contact Information

Corresponding Guest Editor, Dr. Guo (guobin.k... at gmail.com)
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