[Tccc] Call for Book Chapters: Creating Personal, Social, and Urban Awareness through Pervasive Computing (IGI Global)

Bin Guo guobin.keio
Tue Jul 17 18:48:43 EDT 2012


*CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS*

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*Creating Personal, Social, and **U**rban Awareness through Pervasive
Computing*



A book edited by**

*Bin Guo*, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China**

*Daniele Riboni*, University of Milano, Italy**

*Peizhao Hu*, NICTA, Australia



To be published by IGI Global: http://bit.ly/KJEiMp



*Introduction*

Over the last few years, several research efforts have been made to model,
extract, and manage the context data of users, devices, and surrounding
environment, in order to enhance the user experience. The recent emergence
of social network applications, the prevalence of sensor-equipped mobile
devices (e.g., GPS, accelerometers), and the availability of large amounts
of geo-referenced data (Twitter messages, Foursquare check-ins, etc.) have
enabled the analysis of new context dimensions that involve individual, social,
and urban context. Data available nowadays include not only people's
mobility patterns, but also emotional status and activities; these data are
massively produced and shared in real time by users. Extracting the
collective intelligence process that generates those data is a fundamental
research issue with important applications, which could improve not only
the experience of single users, but also the community, organizations, and
societies. In order to exploit these massive data sets, novel methods must
be devised to model and understand the way in which people interact and
behave in the environment.



*Objective of the Book*

With the development of sensor-enhanced mobile phones, the prevalence of
sensing devices in buildings and urban facilities, as well as the growth of
social network services, pervasive computing is stepping out from lab
environments into our daily life. The ?big data? obtained from real
environments presents unprecedented opportunities to understand human life,
organizations, and societies. Under this background, the objective of this
book is to make a thorough exploration of the emerging research trends of
pervasive computing, more specifically defined as: *personal
awareness*, *social
awareness*, and *urban awareness*. We will provide an overview of the
theories, state-of-the-art techniques, and practical applications that are
related to the three dimensions of context awareness, and provide a remark
on how far we are from the new era of context-awareness.**

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*Target Audience*

The proposed title covers a new era of context-aware computing, with a
focus extension from personal awareness to social and urban awareness. It
discusses topics overlapping a number of disciplines and fields in computer
science: context-awareness (context gathering, modeling, and management),
pervasive and ubiquitous computing, activity recognition, social and urban
intelligence, data mining, etc. Therefore, the most typical audience is
from the field of context-awareness and pervasive computing research. We
believe the proposed title will aid to the prospective audience, e.g. to
university lecturers and professors, students, researchers, and developers
of the context-aware applications. With a focus on the current theme of
?big data?, industry practitioners can also benefit from the latest
development in the field of context-aware and pervasive computing, and
understand how ?big data? contribute to the realization of personal,
social, and urban awareness.



*Recommended topics include, but are not limited to the following:*

?         Context-awareness

?  Emerging trends of context awareness

?  Context gathering and modeling

?  Context reasoning/extraction from large-scale data

?  Infrastructure support for the next generation context systems

?         Personal awareness

?  Mobile phone sensing

?  Personal activity recognition

?  Personal awareness in smart environments

?  Healthcare

?         Social awareness

?  Social context understanding

?  Enhancing social interaction among peers

?  Mobile social networks

?  Community service provision

?         Urban awareness

?  Urban sensing

?  Traffic planning

?  Intelligent Transportation Systems

?  Human mobility patterns



*Submission Procedure*

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit *on or before **Jul.** *
*30**, 201**2*, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission
and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Please be noted that we will
only accept original work (or at least 30% difference) that has not been
published elsewhere. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by *Aug.
** **30**, 201**2* about the status of their proposals and sent chapter
guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by *Nov.** **30**,
201**2*. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review
basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this
project.



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*Publisher*

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group
Inc.), publisher of the ?Information Science Reference? (formerly Idea
Group Reference), ?Medical Information Science Reference,? ?Business
Science Reference,? and ?Engineering Science Reference? imprints. For
additional information regarding the publisher, please visit
www.igi-global.com. This book is anticipated to be released in 2013.**

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*Important Dates***

*Jul.**  **30**, 201**2**:**              *Proposal Submission Deadline**

*Aug.** **30,** 201**2**:**              *Notification of Acceptance**

*Nov.** **30**, 201**2**:**      **             *Full Chapter Submission**

*Jan.  30**, 201**3**:**   **            *Review Results Returned**

*Feb.** **28**, 201**3**:**       **            *Final Chapter Submission**

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*Editorial Advisory Board Members:*

Prof. Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia

Prof. Claudio Bettini, Univ. of Milano, Italy

Prof. Marco Mamei, Univ. Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy

Prof. Daqing Zhang, Institut TELECOM SudParis, France

Prof. Jian-nong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Prof. Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Dr. Yu Zheng, Microsoft Research Asia, China

Dr. Anand Ranganathan, IBM Watson Research Center, USA**

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Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document)
to:

Bin Guo, Email: guobin.keio at gmail.com

Daniele Riboni, Email: riboni at di.unimi.it

Peizhao Hu, Email: Peizhao.Hu at nicta.com.au



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