[CFP] Elsevier CAEE Journal [Impact Factor=0.817] -- Special Issue on "Social Collaborative Internet of Things"

Dear All,

Please find below a call for papers of the special issue for
Computers and Electrical Engineering Journal (Elsevier) on "Social
Collaborative Internet of Things".
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announcement.
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Call for papers for the special issue of the Computers and Electrical
Engineering Journal (Elsevier) on
"Social Collaborative Internet of Things"

Link:
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-electrical-engineering/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-social-collaborative-internet-of-things/

AIMS AND SCOPE
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Explosive developments of mobile devices and growing number of smart
objects connections to the Internet is realizing the idea of the Internet
of Things (IoT). IoT can play a noteworthy role in improving the quality of
our lives by employing IoT technologies in various fields of life such as
industrial automation, healthcare, and transportation. In parallel, a
social networking services have emerged to facilitate in building the
online social relations among people with common interests, backgrounds,
real-life connections, or activities. Recently researchers have coined a
term of Social Collaborative Internet of Things (SCIoT) to leverage the
social networking services for enabling the interaction and sharing
information among the smart objects of IoT to achieve a common goal. SCIoT
refers to the augmented use of social networks for collaboration between
machines in IoT. A smart sprinkler system integrated with SCIoT can be an
example of such environment where smart sprinkler can listen to a local
weather tower equipped with sensors and also part of social network made of
other devices. Smart sprinkler can collect the information from SCIoT to
make the turn off decision considering the rain forecast.

In this special issue, we are seeking new and unpublished work on recent
developments in Social Collaborative Internet of Things.

Topics of interest include:

Social collaborative network platforms for IoTs
SCIoT analysis and visualization
Applications of SCIoT analysis
Structural and functional characterisation of SCIoT
SCIoT representation models
Recommendation systems for SCIoT
Data mining and machine learning techniques for SCIoT
Real-world applications of SCIoT
Information diffusion in SCIoT
Prevention of misbehaviors in SCIoT
Integration of SCIoT with Cloud and Fog computing platforms
The impact of SCIoT on different industries
Information extraction in SCIoT
SCIoT Big Data/Data analytics
Prototyping and standardization of interaction over SCIoT
Graph analysis applied to SCIoT
Probabilistic models for SCIoT
Testbed and simulation tools for SCIoT
Security and privacy concerns in SCIoT


IMPORTANT DATES
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Manuscript Due: 28 February 2016
First Round Review Notification: 30 May 2016
Revised Paper Due: 31 July 2016
Second Round Review Notification: 30 September 2016
Final Manuscript Due: 31 October 2016
Expected Publication of the Special Issue: February 2017


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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All submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide for Authors as
published in the Journal website at
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-electrical-engineering.
Authors should select “SI-sciot”, from the “Choose Article Type” 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 has to
comprise major value-added extensions over what appeared previously (at
least 30% new material). Authors are requested to attach to the submitted
paper their relevant, previously published articles and a summary document
explaining the enhancements made in the journal version.


GUEST EDITORS OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE
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* Ejaz Ahmed, Lead Guest Editor
  University of Malaya, Malaysia
  Email: [email protected]

* Mubashir Husain Rehmani
  COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan
  Email: [email protected]

<[email protected]>


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Associate Editor, Elsevier CAEE and JNCA Journals
Associate Editor, Springer Wireless Networks
Associate Editor, AHSWN Journal and JCN Journal
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Cantt, Pakistan
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