Ubiquitous Environments (ISSN: 2032-9377)

Description

This journal will provide a venue for publishing the latest research and developments in the area of ubiquitous environments. Marc Weiser’s original vision of an ubiquitous computing environment may not be fully realized yet. However, several significant strides have been made in the past decade in bringing us closer to realizing this vision. The journal will deal with contributions in the topics of smart spaces with ambient intelligence where sensors in the environment help a system to appropriately react to people, context-aware pervasive computing systems where the current context enables the system to guide the user’s tasks, home area networking systems that can intelligently monitor, track and control a home’s environment, and vehicular sensor networks, where a collection of sensors monitor and control the vehicle’s well-being.
The journal in particular welcomes contributions that deal with the various aspects of computing and communications that help achieve this goal. These include Ubiquitous Environments Infrastructure Design and Implementation, Operating Systems and Programming Environments for Smart Mobile Devices, Embedded Systems and Networking Support for Ubiquitous Environments, Middleware, Security and Privacy Support for Ubiquitous Environments, and Hardware/Software Co-design principles. Papers that describe innovative applications and test-beds that demonstrate the utility of ubiquitous environments, and tools that enable development of novel applications are also welcome.
Keywords

Smart spaces and ambient intelligence, context-aware pervasive computing, home networking; vehicular sensor networks; ubiquitous environments infrastructure design and implementation; operating systems and programming environments for smart mobile devices; embedded systems and networking support for ubiquitous environments; middleware, security and privacy support for ubiquitous environments; hardware/software co-design; ubiquitous environments applications.
Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Krishna M. Sivalingam is a Professor in the Department of CSE, IIT Madras, Chennai, INDIA. Previously, he has held faculty positions in the Department of CSEE at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA from 2002 until 2007; the School of EECS at Washington State University, Pullman from 1997 until 2002; and the University of North Carolina Greensboro from 1994 until 1997. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1994 and 1990 respectively; and his B.E. degree in Computer Science and Engineering in 1988 from Anna University’s College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai (Madras), India. His research interests include wireless networks, optical wavelength division multiplexed networks, network security and performance evaluation.
He is serving or has served as a member of the Editorial Board for ACM Wireless Networks Journal, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Elsevier Optical Switching and Networking Journal, International Journal of Security and Networks, Ad Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks Journal, International Journal of Vehicular Technology, and KICS Journal of Communications and Networks. His homepage is at www.cse.iitm.ac.in/~skrishnam.
Editorial Board
Intelligent Networked Systems in General and Mobile Computing
Anupam Joshi
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Wireless Networks and Security
Wenjing Lou
Worcester Polytechnic University
Human-centered Multimedia Computing, Content-based and Compressed Domain Indexing and Retrieval of Images and Video, Multimedia Communication, Face/Gait Analysis and Recognition, Haptic User Interfaces, Confidence Measures for Medical Decisions, Medical Image Processing, Genomic Signal Processing, Media Processor Designs and Ubiquitous Computing Environments for Individuals with Disabilities
Sethuraman (Panch) Panchanathan
Arizona State University
Mobile and Secure Computing
Wenye Wang
North Carolina State University (NCSU)
Sensor Networks, Mobile Networking, Vehicular Communication, Wireless Mesh Networks and Network Security
Salil Kanhere
University of New South Wales, Sydney
Pervasive Networking
Mohan Kumar
University of Texas at Arlington
Sensor Network and Pervasive Computing; Peer-to-Peer Computing; Privacy and Security
Yunhao Liu
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Smart Environments
Diane Cook
Washington State University
Secure and Ubiquitous Storage, Mobile Collaboration Systems, Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Systems, Resource Management in Peer Computing Systems
Surendar Chandra
University of Notre Dame
Ubiquitous computing, smart and cognitive objects, human-computer and human-robot interaction, and especially multi-modal user interfaces
and information processing
Andreas Kranz
Distributed Multimodal Information Processing Group
Technische Universität München
Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Wireless and Mobile Security, Algorithm Design and Analysis
Susan Zheng
George Washington University
Distributed Systems, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing Mobile and Ad-hoc Networks, Mobile Computing Context Awareness, Location Awareness, Proactive Services Service Discovery, Service Trading, Service Management Applications in E-learning, Economics, Social Science
Claudia Linnhoff-Popien
Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich