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

[Ejaz Ahmed]

​​Dear All,

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

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement.
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Call for papers for the special issue of the Computers & 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In this special issue, we are seeking new and unpublished work on recent developments in Social Collaborative Internet of Things.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 characterization 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 misbehavior 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: ime...@gmail.com

* Mubashir Husain Rehmani
  COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan
  Email: mshre...@gmail.com

Kind Regards,
Ejaz Ahmed

Associate Technical Editor, IEEE Com. Mag., 

Associate Editor, Wiley WCMC

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Senior Researcher,

High Impact Research Project,
Centre for Mobile Cloud Computing Research (C4MCCR),
University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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