-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Authors] CfP Pervasive and Mobile Computing Special Issue on Pervasive Urban Applications Datum: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 13:41:56 +0100 Von: Santi Phithakkitnukoon santi@mit.edu Antwort an: Authors of IM, NOMS & CNSM authors@inf.ufsc.br An: authors@inf.ufsc.br

***CALL FOR PAPERS***

Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing Special Issue on Pervasive Urban Applications

Over the past decade, the development of digital networks and operations has produced an unprecedented wealth of information. Handheld electronics, location devices, telecommunication networks, and a wide assortment of tags and sensors are constantly producing a rich stream of data reflecting various aspects of urban life. For urban planners and designers, these accumulations of digital traces are valuable sources of data in capturing the pulse of the city in an astonishing degree of temporal and spatial detail. Yet this condition of the hybrid city - which operates simultaneously in the digital and physical realms - also poses difficult questions about privacy, scale, and design, among many others. These questions must be addressed as we move toward achieving an augmented, fine-grained understanding of how the city functions - socially,economically and yes, even psychologically.This special issue aims to advance understanding of research challenges and opportunities in applying the pervasive computing paradigm to urban spaces. We are seeking multi-disciplinary contributions that reveal interesting aspects about urban life and exploit the digital traces to create novel urban applications that benefit citizens, urban planners, and policy makers.In this special issue, we are seeking high quality papers reporting original research results on Pervasive Urban Applications with a preference for works including evaluation studies based on empirical data of actual urban environments. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):

- Pervasive computing applications for urban planning and design - Mining of data collected from urban networks e.g. transportation, energy - Urban mobility and geo-localization - Multi-source urban information integration - Real-time urban information processing - Knowledge representation and reasoning on city data - Case studies and applications of mixed urban sensing and mining - Analysis of social networks in urban space - Middleware for mobile urban computing - Context-aware systems for urban space - Pervasive urban applications for smart cities - Intelligent urban transportation systems - Empirical evaluation of pervasive urban applications - Wireless sensor networks, and social network sensing for pervasive urban applications - Security, privacy, reputation, and trust issues in urban computing - Impact of pervasive technologies in urban space e.g. social, economical, and psychological.

**Submission process** All submissions must be prepared according to the Guide for Authors as published in the Journal website at http://www.ees.elsevier.com/pmc/. Authors should select SI: Pervasive UrbanApplications, from the pull-down menu during the submission process. All contributions must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. A submission based on one or more papers that appeared elsewhere must have major value-added extensions over what appeared previously (at least 33% new material). Authors are requested to submit their relevant, previously published articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version.

**Important Dates** Paper submission deadline: November 15, 2011 First Notification: March 1, 2012 Final Notification: May 15, 2012

**Guest Editors of the Special Issue** Francesco Calabrese, IBM Research, Dublin, Ireland Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy Dominik Dahlem, MIT, USA Giusy Di Lorenzo, IBM Research, Dublin, Ireland Santi Phithakkitnukoon, Newcastle University, U