Call for Chapters - Internet of things and inter-cooperative computational technologies for collective intelligence
Important dates
- Proposal Submission EXTENDED Deadline: 13 January 2012
- Notification of Proposal Acceptance: 21 January 2012
- Full Chapter Submission: 30 April 2012
- Notification of Full Chapter Acceptance: 14 June 2012
- Revised Chapter Submission: 20 July 2012
- Final Notification of Acceptance: 30 July 2012
- Final Material Submission: 3 September 2012.
To be published in the "Studies in Computational Intelligence" book series, Springer (2012).
Editors
- Nik Bessis, University of Derby, United Kingdom
- Fatos Xhafa, Universitat Politechnica De Catalunya, Spain
- Dora Varvarigou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- Richard Hill, University of Derby, United Kingdom
- Maozhen Li, Brunel University, United Kingdom.
Introduction
The book is dedicated to discuss the theories, practices and concepts of utilising inter-operable and inter-cooperative next generation computational technologies including mobile and the emerging e-infrastructures of Web 2.0, SOA, P2P, Grids and Clouds, which could support the Internet of Things advanced functioning towards an integrated collective intelligence approach for the benefit of various organisations including both business and science.
Objective of the book
During the last years, each resource provider has developed their own e-infrastructure platforms in a computationally isolated fashion, which are not necessarily inter-operable and inter-cooperative with each other for effective data portability, service and resource sharing, discovery, scheduling and integration. The inter-operable and inter-cooperative initiatives were always of a particular interest and although significant progress has been made there is still evidence of current trends keep pushing towards this direction. Specifically, the rapid developments in networking and resource integration domains have resulted in the emergence and in some instances to the maturisation of various distributed and collaborative computational technologies including Web 2.0, SOA, P2P, Grids and Clouds.
A number of relevant e-infrastructure implementations demonstrate the applicability of these technologies in a manner that enables improved intelligence in decision-making through their agile and synergetic capacity, which in turn, seems a promising way forward for solving complex computational problems and real-world grand challenges. These technologies are becoming even more popular as they provide an improved utility, consumption, delivery and efficient model for the future Internet, the Internet of Things.
However, as the number of resource consumers is increasing, it has become apparent that the capacity-oriented e-infrastructures require coming together and agreeing on common acting behaviours for improving their quality of service (QoS), thus providing an optimisation of aggregated workloads. The underlined inter-operable and inter-cooperative requirements highlight the current need for supporting a coordinated distribution of the workload between different e-infrastructures for the benefit of their Internet users. The computational vision is to continue developing inter-functionality between e-infrastructures, that is to say, forming a pool of inter-operable and inter-cooperative sub- e-infrastructures that enables the dynamic collaboration of networked inter-connected organisations. Thus, one of the aims of the book is to discuss the progress made, as well as prompt future directions on the theories, practices, standards and strategies that are related to the inter-operability and inter-cooperation of emerging computational technologies and their association with supporting the Internet of Things advanced functioning for various organisational settings including both business and science.
A second aim of the book is to deal with a notable opportunity namely, the current trend in which a collectively shared and generated content is emerged from Internet end-users. Specifically, the book aims to discuss advances about utilising and exploiting data generated from within inter-operable and inter-cooperative e-infrastructures including crowd sourcing, Web 2.0, SOA, P2P, Grids and Clouds towards an integrated, collective intelligence approach. This is because, inter-functionality between e-infrastructures enables the store and continuously generation of a vast amount of data, which if combined and analysed through an agile, synergetic, collaborative and collective intelligence manner will make a difference in the organisational settings and their user communities.
Topics
Chapters should be written in a manner readable for both specialists and non-specialists. Chapters should be related to inter-cooperative emerging technologies towards an integrated collective intelligence approach.
Recommended topic areas include, but are not limited to:
Foundations and Principles of Inter-cooperative Technologies for Collective Intelligence:
- Pervasive Computing and Computational Technologies for Collective Intelligence
- Internet of Things, Architecture, Components, RFID, Sensors and Actuator Technologies
- Inter-networking and Radio Access Protocols, Technologies, Near Field Communications
- Inter-operability and Inter-cooperative Protocols, Standards and Technologies
- Concurrency and Synchronisation, Wireless and Mobile Communications, Protocols and Standards
- Context Aware Communities, Network Communities, User Communities Structures and Dynamics
- Artificial Intelligence, Classifier, Self-adaptive Ant Colony, Swarm and Evolutionary Agents
- Data/Text Mining, Data Clustering, Graph Partitioning, Collective Decision Making
- Multi-objective Optimisation Techniques in Dynamic Computational Environments.
Advanced Modelling of Inter-cooperative Emerging e-Infrastructures for Collective Intelligence:
- Social Networks Analysis, Formal Concept Analysis, Temporal Analysis, Topic Maps
- Ad-Hoc Networks, RF Modelling, Object and Context Representation, Ontology Management
- Meta-Data, Annotation, Intra-/Inter- Tagging, Semantic Web, Web Services, Multi-Agents
- Service Architectures, Discovery, Retrieval, Scheduling, Allocation, Monitoring
- Mobility Management, Traffic Models, Process Workflow, Resource and Device Management
- Enabling Technologies (Web 2.0, Grids, P2P, Cloud, Internet of Things, Mashups, etc)
- Data Centres, Real-time and (Historical) Data Management, Data Growth, Storage, Implications
- Crowd Sourcing, Crowd Dynamics, Crowd Source Data Modelling, Management and Analysis
- Context-Aware Infrastructures and Services, Smart Objects, Positioning Location-Based Services
- Security, Privacy, Identity, Trust and Reputation Management, Collective Behaviour.
Advanced Applications of Inter-cooperative Emerging e-Infrastructures for Collective Intelligence:
- Applications, Services and Business Models, Strategies, Interaction Paradigms
- Middleware, Languages, Components, Programs and Portals
- User Community/Organisational Needs Developments in various settings, i.e. Smart Cities
- Performance, Scalability, Robustness, Reliability Verification, Validation, Benchmarking
- Concepts and/or Frameworks of Applicable Future Technologies, Implications and Trends.
Submission information
Academics, researchers and practitioners are invited to submit by 13 January 2012 (extended deadline), a 2-page manuscript proposal detailing the background, motivations and structure of their proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by 21 January 2012 and will be given instructions and guidelines for chapter preparation.
Full chapters will be due on 30 April 2012 and should be of around 8,000 words in length and/or 25 pages long. All chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind basis. The book is to be published in the "Studies in Computational Intelligence" book series, Springer(http://www.springer.com/series/7092) This publication is anticipated to be released in 2012.
Important dates
- 2-page Proposal Submission EXTENDED Deadline: 13 January 2012
- Notification of Proposal Acceptance: 21 January 2012
- Full Chapter Submission (in Word of PDF): 30 Aprl 2012
- Notification of Full Chapter Acceptance: 14 June 2012
- Revised Chapter Submission: 20 July 2012
- Final Notification of Acceptance: 30 July 2012
- Final Material Submission: 3 September 2012.
Submission of manuscripts
Inquiries (e-mail) and submissions (in Word or PDF) can be forwarded electronically to either:
- Prof Nik Bessis
Email: n.bessis@derby.ac.uk
University of Derby, United Kingdom - Dr Fatos Xhafa
Email: fatos@lsi.upc.edu
Universitat Politechnica De Catalunya, Spain.
