ICST Transactions on Real-World Web (ISSN: 2032-9415)

Description

In a relatively short period of time the Web has become a fundamental component of our technical and social infrastructure, and provides a crucial platform for managing and interacting with information. The utility of the Web, as it continues to evolve, will be deeply intertwined with its relevance to our real world ? the world of objects, actions, activities, and events ? the “world of things”.
In much the same way that the Information Web has led to a fundamentally reshaping of our personal, professional and social activities and interactions, the Real-World Web will trigger another, even more fundamental shift. The Real-World Web will be constructed through connecting the Web to the real world through a phenomenally rich set of ubiquitous networked and embedded devices. The ability to directly address, access, and influence not just information, but almost any aspect of our physical environment will change our concepts of the connections between action, response, place and time. Imagine accessing through a virtual world, in real-time and in high fidelity, global deep ocean nutrient levels. Can you conceive of being in London and ‘experiencing’ fully, a hug from your child in Sydney? How might city design change if everyone could see accurate and current data on traffic flows? Would I change my diet if could monitor, in real-time, the state of my own biochemistry and how it relates to others?
Almost no-one could have predicted, a quarter of a century ago, the phenomenal impact that the Web would have. In the same way, we are unlikely to be able to foresee the consequences over the next few decades of connecting the Web to the our physical world. This journal however aims to help explore these consequences and the technologies that underpin them. Of special interest are publications that provide a vision for, or insight into, the ongoing evolution of the Web. This includes reporting on the potential implications for new applications of the novel research outcomes being reported, and/or demonstrating capabilities that heretofore were not considered or not feasible.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Web-based remote sensing and actuation;
Integration of real-time information into the Web;
The Web of Things;
Integration, management, access and utilisation of web-enabled sensors;
Real-world web standards;
Web-based monitoring and control dynamics;
Integration of wireless technologies and web systems;
Design and use of Web-enabled microcontrollers;
Real-world web applications;
Real-time data access control, security, and privacy;
Networking technologies and the implications on protocols of real-world constraints;
User interfaces and real-time interactivity;
Device coordination;
Real-world Web architectures;
Remote and distributed user interfaces;
Policy management;
Real-world event handling;
Web device location awareness.
EIC’s Keywords

Real-world Web, web-enablement, sensor networks, web of things, real-time, distributed monitoring and control.
Editors-in-Chief
Prof. David Lowe B.E. (hons), PhD, GradCert (Higher Educ.), SMIEEE, MACM:
graduated with Honour and the University Medal in 1990 and received his PhD in Engineering in 1993 from the University of Technology, Sydney. He is currently the Director of the Centre for Real-Time Information Networks in the Faculty of Engineering and IT at UTS. From 2002 to 2008 he was the Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning for the Faculty of Engineering at UTS, and prior to that he was the Director of Undergraduate Programs and the Head of Computer Systems Engineering. He has held visiting research appointments at the University of Southampton and Cambridge University in the U.K. and Create-Net in Italy.
He has active research interests in the areas of Web development and technologies, and software engineering. In particular he focuses on real-time control in the web environment, Web-based sensing through wireless sensor networks, and the development and use of remote laboratories. He has published widely in these areas, including over 100 papers and three books (most recently Web Engineering: A Practitioner’s Approach, McGraw-Hill, co-authored with Roger Pressman). He is also on numerous Web conference committees and journal editorial boards (including as a Managing Editor of the Journal of Web Engineering). He has undertaken numerous consultancies related to software evaluation, Web development (especially project planning and evaluation) and Web technologies.
He is also passionate about teaching, and particularly the role of practice-based engineering education. He has been heavily involved in teaching at all levels (undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing professional education). He co-developed and was program director for the innovative Information Systems Engineering graduate programs, and co-developed the joint UTS-Thomson Masters program in Software Engineering. He also serves as a Higher Education Generalist on Australian Government Department of Education and Training Assessment panels. He was the recipient of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education 2001 McGraw Hill New Engineering Educator Award.
Dr. Novella Bartolini graduated with Honors in 1997 and received her PhD in computer engineering in 2001 from the University of Rome, Italy. She is now assistant professor at the University of Rome. She was researcher at the Fondazione Ugo Bordoni in 1997, visiting scholar the University of Texas at Dallas in 1999-2000 and research assistant at the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’ in 2000-2002. She was program chair and program committee member of several international conferences. Her research interests lie in the area of web based systems and wireless mobile networks.
Editorial Board
Performance Models and Tools, Large Scale Distributed Systems
Virgilio Almeida
University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Measurement of Distributed Systems, Performance Evaluation
Martin Arlitt
Hewlett Packard Labs, USA
Security and Data Privacy, Hypertext and Hypermedia, Community Content Analysis, Bioinformatics, Emergence and Social Networks
Helen Ashman
University of South Australia, Australia
Remote Laboratories, Embedded Systems, e-learning
Michael Auer
Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Mobile and Ubiquitous Communication, Self-Organized Collaboration, Embedded Systems and SOA, Pervasive Computing Technologies, Novel Information Appliances, Location Models and Systems, Context Awareness
Michael Beigl
Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Scalable internet Protocols and Systems, Real-Time Embedded Systems, Device Networks
Azer Bestavros
Boston University, USA
Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems, Quality of Service, High Performance Systems, Distributed Systems for Ubiquitous Access, Performance Analysis and Simulation
Valeria Cardellini
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy
Distributed Systems, Streaming Media Systems, Performance Analysis, System and Algorithm Optimization, Shared Memory Systems
Lucy Cherkasova
Hewlett Packard Labs, USA
Distributed Systems, Mobile and Pervasive Computing, Privacy, Middleware
Maria Ebling
IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre, USA
Federated Systems, Middleware, Web Design
Martin Gaedke
Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
Real-World Impacts, Social Implications
Lorenz Hilty
Empa, Switzerland
Daeyoung Kim
Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Autonomic Computing, e-commerce, Performance Modelling and Analysis, Performance Engineering
Daniel Menascé
George Mason University, USA
Context Aware Knowledge Spaces, Representation of Experiences, Representation of Media, Interactive Storytelling, Media Theory and Semiotics
Frank Nack
Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica ( CWI ), The Netherlands
XML, Network Appliances, Privacy
Dave Raggett
W3C, USA
Daniel Schwab
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Large-Scale Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing and Grid Computing, Large-Scale Wireless Distributed Systems, Infrastructure-less Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Maarten Van Steen
Vrije Univ., The Netherlands
Spatial Data Mining, Location Based Services, Mobile and Pervasive Computing, Web Search
Xing Xie
Microsoft Research, China
Bin Xu
Tsinghua University, China
Data Mining, Database Systems, Internet Applications and Technologies, Parallel and Distributed Processing, Performance Modelling
Philip Yu
University of Illinois, USA