Special Issues
1. Invasive and Non-invasive Body Sensor Networks
Body Sensor Networks allow the integration of autonomous, intelligent, low power, miniaturized, invasive and non-invasive wireless sensor nodes to monitor body status and the surrounding environment. BSNs play an important role in smart healthcare services, remote diagnostic and telemedicine, interactive and real time applications. The inclusion of wireless sensor nodes within the body requires many more constraints to be met for safe and reliable operations. There are number of enormous issues and challenges that need to be resolved in order to develop proactive, flexible, secure, power-efficient, and ambulatory BSNs.
This special issue invites high quality unpublished research papers and review articles that disseminate the state-of-the-art research and development on BSNs for medical and non-medical applications, articulate new perspectives, and highlight open issues and challenges. Topics of interest include, but not limited to:
1- Invasive and Non-invasive architectures
2- Interactive and real time BSNs
3- Pervasive health monitoring
4- Medical and Non-medical applications
5- Low Power MAC protocol Design
6- Antenna Design
7- In-body and on-body channel models
8- Telemedicine
9- Security and privacy
10- QoS provisioning
11- Wireless Implantable devices
Manuscript Submission:
Authors are requested to send the electronic version (Doc or PDF) file to sanajcs@gmail.com. In addition, authors should submit a separate cover letter, which contains the paper title, 250-words abstract, the corresponding author’s name and affiliation. All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed and evaluated on originality and suitability to the special issue. For further inquires, please contact corresponding editor by sanajcs@gmail.com
Schedule:
Full manuscript due:
Acceptance notification:
Final manuscript due:
Publication date: August 2009
Technical Committee
Dr. Qinghai Yang (Xidian University, China)
Dr. Yingji Zhong (Shandong University, China)
Mr. Henry Higgins (Zarlink Company, UK)
Mr. Bart Braem (Antwerp University, Belgium)
Huaming Li (MTU, United States)
Saurabh Mehta (Inha University, South Korea)
Riazul Islam (Inha University, South Korea)
Ali Kashif (Korea University, South Korea)
Linguistic Committee
1- Pervez Khan (Inha University, South Korea)
2- Murad Ali (Inha University, South Korea)
3- Ziaurahman (KAIST, South Korea)
4- Niamatullah (Inha University, South Korea)
5- Asdaque Hussain (Inha University)
Guest Editors:
Graduate
Email: sanajcs@hotmail.com
Henry Higgins
Design Engineer
Zarlink Seminconductor Company ,
Email: henry.higgins@zarlink.com
HyungSoo Lee
Advance PAN research Team, ETRI
1104-302 YeolMae Apt., Noeun-Dong, Yusung-Gu,
Email: hsulee@etri.re.kr
Kyung Sup Kwak
Professor
Graduate
Email: kskwak@inha.ac.kr
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2. Security of Wireless Broadband Networks
Wireless broadband networks offer organizations and users many benefits such as portability and flexibility, increased productivity, and lower installation costs. Most popular wireless broadband networks are
- IEEE 802.11 WLAN/ Wi-Fi
- IEEE 802.16 WMAN/ WiMax
- IEEE 802.11 Wireless Mesh Networks
There are many characteristics such as open wireless medium, emergence of advanced services, roaming and mobility, limited resource constraints and dynamic network topology, which has created challenging issues in the security of wireless broadband networks. The objective of the special issue is to seek for the development of new techniques, models and theories that help for a better protection of the wireless broadband networks.
Scope of Special Issue
With this special issue, we aim to provide a reference issue covering the latest advances in the wireless broadband network. This special issue provides a chance for academia and industry to present latest research on all aspects of wireless broadband networks security. The special issue will consider original research, review, and survey, which are original, completed and unpublished work not currently under review by any other journal/magazine/conference.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
· Denial-of-Service attacks and defences.
· Large scale attacks and countermeasures.
· Intrusion detection systems
· Network forensics
· Security architectures
· Access control and trust management
· Identity management and authentication
· Key management
· Performance and security trade offs
· Novel attacks and exploits
· Intrusion prevention systems
Submission
Authors are asked to submit their papers (Preferably MS WORD /PDF) for this issue, through email to Shafiullah.khan@brunel.ac.uk OR Jonathan.loo@brunel.ac.uk , OR rashidkh08@yahoo.com, with the subject indicating "Submission to JDCTA Special issue". Authors are asked to note that the paper must contain abstract of 100 to 150 words to express the significance and contribution of your paper. All submitted papers will be subject to the standard journal referring process and evaluated on originality, relevance, significance, and readability.
Important Dates
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Manuscript Due |
January 31st, 2009 |
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Acceptance Notification |
March 14th, 2009 |
Publication Date June, 2009
For more information contact the editors directly
Guest Editors
Shafiullah Khan
School of Engineering and Design Brunel University, UK
Kohat University of Science and Technology (KUST), Pakistan
Email: shafiullah.khan@brunel.ac.uk, skkust@hotmail.co.uk
Jonathan Loo
School of Engineering and Design Brunel University, UK
Email: Jonathan.loo@brunel.ac.uk
Abdul Rashid
I.C.I.T Gomal University, Pakistan
Email: rashidkh08@yahoo.com
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4. Digital Technologies, Distance Learning and Language
CALL FOR PAPERS
SUBMISSION DUE DATE: September 15th, 2009
International Journal of Digital Content Technology and its Applications / JDCTA
Special Issue on Digital Technologies, Distance Learning and Language Education
Guest Editor: Michael Thomas Ph.D.
SPECIAL EDITION
Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for publication in a
special edition of the International Journal of Digital Content Technology and
its Applications (JDCTA).
Potential topics for the special edition include the following in relation to the
distance education contexts and language education:
• Autonomous learning and technology
• Materials design
• Web 2.0 Applications and distance education
• Computer Mediated Communication and distance education
• Blended Learning
• Assessment design and implementation
• Virtual Learning Environments
• Virtual Worlds
• Emerging technologies
• Social Networking Software
• Serious gaming
• Telecollaboration projects
• e-learning
• Web-based learning
• Open Access Learning
• Lifelong learning
• Mobile learning
• Collaborative learning
• The Semantic Web
Submissions on other topics not included in this list are welcome. Prospective
authors are welcome to contact the editor with proposals prior to submission.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submissions to the special edition of the journal should be original papers and
not previously published. Guidelines for submission to the special edition are
available at: http://www.aicit.org/jdcta/submission_select.html
All submissions will undergo a refereed process in which they will be
submitted to at least 2 members of the editorial board. It is expected that all
papers will pass through a process of improvement and review.
All submissions for the special edition should be sent by e-mail as a Microsoft
Word attachment to the guest editor at <michael.thomas@gmx.co.uk> to be
received no later than September 15, 2009.
IMPORTANT DATES
September 15, 2009 Submission of papers due
October 15, 2009 Return of reviewed manuscripts to authors
November 15, 2009 Submission of corrected papers due
December 20, 2009 Delivery of all materials to the publisher
PUBLISHER
The International Journal of Digital Content Technology and its Applications
(JDCTA) is published by AICIT (Advanced Institute of Convergence
Information Technology). The aim of the journal is to publish high quality
original research papers. JDCTA is a refereed, multidisciplinary journal for
bridging the latest advances in the digital content technologies and its
applications. It provides an international forum for presenting authoritative
references, academically rigorous research, and case studies. The journal
publishes well-written and academically validated manuscripts in both
theoretical development and application research.
All inquiries and submissions regarding the special edition on digital
technologies, distance learning and language education should be directed to
the guest editor:
Michael Thomas Ph.D.
International Journal of Digital Content Technologies and its Applications /
JDCTA
E-mail: michael.thomas@gmx.co.uk
http://www.aicit.org/jdcta/
5. Advances and Challenges in Software Testing
Special Issue on: "Advances and Challenges in Software Testing"
Software testing is the process of validation and verification of the software product. Effectively software testing will contribute to the delivery of reliable and quality oriented software product, more satisfied users, lower maintenance cost, and more accurate and reliable result. However, ineffective testing will lead to the opposite results, low quality products, unhappy users, increased maintenance costs, unreliable and inaccurate results. Hence, software testing is necessary and important activity of software development process. The importance of testing can be understood by the fact that “around 35% of the elapsed time and over 50% of the total cost are expending in testing programs”.
Suggested topics that this special issue will endeavour to address include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Software testing
- Object oriented software testing
- Agent oriented software testing
- Software testing effort
- Software testing method
- Regular expression
- Use of artificial intelligence over software testing
- Mathematical model over software testing
- Software testing process model
- Software quality assurance
- Software reliability
- Capability maturity model
- Quantification of software quality & reliability model
- Software testing complexity
- Validation and verification
- UML based testing
- Test case prioritization
- Test component prioritization
- Graph theory
- Control theory
- Advanced topics in software testing
- More topics related to software quality, reliability and software engineering
Notes for Prospective Authors
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere
All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are standard format as IEEE.
Deadline for submission of manuscripts: 15th June 2009 (extended) 15th august
Notification of peer review to authors: 30th July 2009 (extended) 15th September
Deadline for submitting revised manuscripts: 30th August 2009 (extended) 15th October
Publication Date: October 2009 (extended) Nov 2009
You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word/PDF attached to an e-mail to the following:
Editor: Praveen Ranjan Srivastava
Email: testing.jdcta@gmail.com
Please include in your submission the title of the Special Issue, the title of the Journal
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