Call for Papers for Special Issue on Digital Vehicular Safety

[Hossam Kiwan]

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Special Issue - Call for Papers
Journal of Safety Engineering
Digital Vehicular Safety


Submission deadline: February 27, 2015

Scope and purposes
Advances in vehicular technology and demands for safer transportation present more challenges now than ever. In the USA alone, accidents accounted for more than $300 billion in damaged property, more than 2 million nonfatal injuries, and almost 50,00 deaths annually. There has been shared consensus among researchers and governments that those figures can be brought down by applying modern safety applications. Applications like Cooperative Intersection Collision Avoidance Systems (CICASs), safe lane change, and autonomous auto-drive have captured the attention of researchers and provide solid platform to evaluate and compare different performance enhancement approaches.

Topics of primary interest include, but are not limited to:
* Localization techniques
* Absolute and relative positioning
* Experimental test beds and simulations
* Network configurations and architectures
* Internetwork coexistence and interoperability
* High-speed mobility management
* Data sensing and probing
* MAC, routing, and analysis
* Congestion control and cooperative approaches
* Context-awareness approaches
* Channel measurement and modeling (I2V, V2V, and in-vehicle)
* PHY layer and multiple radio integration and control
* Quality of service delivery
* Security and privacy issues
* Safety and non-safety applications

Important Dates
Deadline for submission: February 27, 2015
Deadline for revision: May 15, 2015
Notification of final decision: May 25, 2015

Estimated Publication: August 1, 2015 (Tentative)

Submission
Abstracts addressing one or more of these themes/topics or further questions should be emailed to an editor by February 27, 2015 at yasser...@uregina.ca, kiwa...@uregina.ca.
Manuscript submissions are invited by the submission deadline. All papers will undergo a double or triple-blind peer review process.

Guest Editors
Dr. Y. Morgan
University of Regina
yasser...@uregina.ca, kiwa...@uregina.ca

Manuscript submission deadline February 27, 2015
http://www.sapub.org/journal/specialissue.aspx?journalid=1118

Author Guidelines

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General Information




Language All manuscripts should be written in English -- British or American as long as consistency is observed.



Acknowledgements All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an acknowledgments section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, writing assistance, or a department chairperson who provided only general support. Financial and material support should also be acknowledged.



Conflict of interest and funding Authors are responsible for disclosing financial support from the industry or other conflicts of interest that might bias the interpretation of results.



Statistic validity If complicated statistical data are provided, the authors may be requested to submit a statement issued by a certified statistician regarding the validity of methods used.





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Manuscript Template


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Submission Preparation Checklist


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(1)
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(2)
Gather the information about the manuscript:
(a) For all authors: first name, last name, postal address, e-mail address, affiliation, etc;
(b) Manuscript title;
(c) Manuscript abstract.
(d) Contact information (name, e-mail address and affiliation) of suggested and/or excluded reviewers (if any).



(3)
The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).



(4)
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(5)
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(6)
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(7)
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(8)
Supplemental files are submitted in accordance with instructions and information is given on a separate page at the end of the main manuscript.


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Submission Steps



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Step1
Journal Information

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Step2
Manuscript General Information

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Step3
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Step4
Reviewers' Information

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You may also submit a list of reviewers to be excluded.



Step5
Validation and Submission

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Peer Review Process

Manuscipts submitted for publication in SAPUB will be reviewed anonymously by at least two independent experts in the particular area, the author will receive evaluation results within a month to decide the manuscript would be accepted or rejected.













H. Kiwan
PhD Candidate
University of Regina
Canada, S4S 0A2