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Call for Papers:
Large Scale, Opportunistic Sensing
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/pccfp4

Submission deadline: 15 January 2011
Publication: October–December 2011
Works-in-progress on this topic are also solicited for WIPs department.
Deadline: 25 July 2011

Much of the past pervasive computing research has been devoted to
systems that are composed of a small number of devices and interact with
a single user or a small group of users. However, as technology becomes
truly pervasive, heterogeneous systems that operate and collaborate over
different spatial and temporal scales and involve large numbers of
diverse sensors such as mobile phones, cars, instrumented buildings, or
public safety infrastructure have to be considered. Large-scale
opportunistic sensing systems have recently generated much interest in
the research community with applications ranging from using mobile phone
traces to predict traffic jams and model human activities, social
interactions and mobility patterns to community health tracking and
large-scale environmental sensing.

This special issue is devoted to all aspects of large-scale
opportunistic sensing systems including algorithmic and technological
foundations, usability studies, applications, and practical experience
reports. Relevant topics include but are not limited to

* Infrastructure and tools for the collection and analysis of data from
large ensembles of distributed pervasive devices. Of particular interest
are systems aimed at heterogeneous, dynamic system configurations.
* Algorithms for the analysis of data collected from large numbers of
pervasive devices. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to)
environmental monitoring, traffic and mobility, social interactions,
crowd behavior, or epidemiology
* Application case studies and experience reports from system deployment.
* User experience and usability, in particular questions related to ways
of soliciting and incentivizing user participation.
* Privacy and security aspects of massive, opportunistic sensing systems
and associated applications.
* Interaction between massive opportunistic sensing systems and social
networking platforms and applications

IEEE Pervasive Computing is interested in a variety of submission types
including research papers, project retrospectives, surveys, and
tutorials. Research articles should present summaries of new
contributions that are significantly different from previously published
work. Retrospective articles give a summary of lessons learned for
important longer-term projects, synthesizing the results that might have
appeared elsewhere. Survey articles provide a comprehensive overview of
a critical topic that is relevant to the special issue but not found in
any other forum and would be useful to educate the readers of this
magazine. Tutorials provide relevant how-to knowledge of some important
technology or technique that would inform the readership, again in a way
that would not likely be found in any other publication forum.

Submissions should be 4,000 to 6,000 words long and should follow the
magazine’s guidelines on style and presentation. All submissions will be
peer-reviewed in accordance with normal practice for scientific
publications, and all accepted articles will be edited according to
Computer Society guidelines. Submissions should be received by 15th
January 2011 to receive full consideration.

In addition to full-length submissions, we also invite work-in-progress
submissions of 250 words or less. These will not be peer-reviewed, but
will be edited by the staff into a feature for the issue. The deadline
for work-in-progress submissions is 25th July 2011.

For more information about the focus, contact the Guest Editors:

* Paul Lukowicz, University of Passau
* Hans Gellersen, Lancaster University
* Tanzeem Choudhury, Dartmouth College

For general author guidelines or submission details:
www.computer.org/pervasive/author.htm or [log in to unmask]

To submit your article directly to our online peer-review system,
Manuscript Central.

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