-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: Computer Communications Special issue on Mobile Social Sensing Datum: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 16:58:18 -0700 Von: Shibo He shibohe@IEEE.ORG Antwort an: Shibo He shibohe@IEEE.ORG An: tccc-announce@COMSOC.ORG

*Call for Papers:**Computer Communications* *Special issue on **Mobile Ubiquitous** Sensing: from Social Network Viewpoint*

*Scope:*

The emergence of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has opened up a new door to information retrieving and built up a bridge between the physical world and information domain. A major factor that impedes the applicability of sensor networks is the huge deployment cost and management overhead. The past few years have witnessed the dramatic proliferation of portable mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablet computers. Notably, these popular pocket-sized gadgets are embedded with a set of versatile sensors, which could provide abundant data about individuals, human society and environments. This new mobile sensor network formed by mobile devices provides a new horizon for ubiquitous sensing at a low cost.

Under the new paradigm of mobile ubiquitous sensing, each mobile device is held by an individual. The underlying social tie among individuals will play an important role in the mobile sensing process. It is, therefore, of great interest to study the mobile ubiquitous sensing from the perspective of social networks. This issue has not received much attention though the traditional way of ubiquitous sensing has, instead, been extensively investigated.

Topics of primary interest include, but not limited to:

l System/platform designs to enable mobile sensing

l Incentives mechanism design to guarantee the coverage, i.e., quality of sensing.

l Social structure modeling and analysis

l Coverage improvement design via social structure

l Individual behavior modeling and analysis

l Architectural, modeling and simulation of mobile ubiquitous sensing

l New applications on ubiquitous sensing

l Energy-efficient and real-time communication protocols design

l Privacy and security preserving protocol design for mobile sensing

*Tentative Schedule*

Manuscript Due: March 31, 2014

First Notification: July 31, 2014

Revised version: October 1st, 2014

Final notification: Nov. 15, 2014

Publication Date: 1st quarter of 2015 (tentative).

Prospective authors can find the submission guidelines at http://ees.elsevier.com/comcom. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the Special Issue, the authors have to select "Special Issue: Mobile social sensing" when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process.

*Guest Editor*

*Jiming Chen (corresponding editor)*

Zhejiang University (E-mail: jmchen@ieee.org)

*Shibo He*

Arizona state university (Email: shibohe@ieee.org)

*Enrico Natalizio* https://www.hds.utc.fr/~enataliz/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=

Université de Technologie de Compiègne (Email: enrico.natalizio@hds.utc.fr)

*Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini*

Politecnico di Torino http://www.polito.it/ (Email: chiasserini@polito.it )

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