Special Issue Call for Papers
Wireless Personal Communications
An International Journal
Editor-in-Chief: Ramjee Prasad
Special Issue on
“Security and Multimodality in Pervasive Environments”
Overview
Pervasive computing environments present unique challenges related to specific aspects of security and
multimodality (SMPE). In fact, the accessibility of such an environment can be certainly improved using natural
interfaces and multimodal interaction systems, which offer users the freedom to select one of multiple modes of
interaction with services. They also offer users the opportunity to break through barriers on human-computer
interaction making communication intuitive and spontaneous. On the other hand, while extending and
facilitating the ways of accessing the environment, security threads arise and the environment must be properly
instrumented in order to protect itself from malicious attacks and/or from erroneous actions performed by nonexpert users.
This special issue aims to extend the dissemination of high quality research in innovative SMPE approaches,
methods, theories, and techniques. The objective of this special issue is to showcase the most recent
developments and research in the SMPE field, as well as to enhance its state-of-the-art. Original and research
articles are solicited in all aspects of SMPE including new communication technology, theoretical studies,
practical applications, and experimental prototypes for SMPE.
Topics
Original contributions, not currently under review to another journal or conference, are solicited in relevant
areas including, but not limited to, the following:
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Intelligent systems for FGC
Trust and reputation management in Pervasive computing Environments (PE)
Security applications and services in PE
Security model PE
Intelligent multimedia security services in PE
Key management and authentication in PE
Network security issues and protocols in PE
Access control and privacy protection in PE
Security Standard for next PE
Security in Human Centric Environments
Natural interfaces security issues
Advanced multimodal interfaces
Human oriented interfaces
Multimodal mobile and ubiquitous services
Methods for multimodal integration
Middleware services for multimodal and pervasive applications
Context-Awareness in multimodal applications
Multimodal analysis and recognition of context
Next ubiquitous and immersive environments
Submissions
Papers, which have appeared previously in proceedings of conferences, could be submitted to this special issue
if they are substantially revised or improved from their earlier versions, due to copyright issues. Paper
submissions must conform to the layout and format guidelines in Wireless Personal Communications.
Instructions for Contributors are in:
http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/
instr_print_11277.070125.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-127291-p35706624.
Manuscripts should be emailed to the guest editors (dglee2000@gmail.com and yanzhang@ieee.org) as pdf
file. This special issue additionally selects high quality papers (best papers) from the SMPE-08
(http://www.na.icar.cnr.it/smpe08/index.php), Ireland, July 2008.
Schedule
Deadline for paper submission
Final decision notification:
Revision due
Publication date
Sept. 15, 2008
Jan. 15, 2009
Feb. 15, 2009
Summer, 2009
Guest Editors
Dr. Deok Gyu Lee (Corresponding Editor)
ETRI, Korea
Email: dglee2000@gmail.com
Website: http://sec-cse.sch.ac.kr/~deokgyulee
Prof. Sajid Hussain
Acadia University, Canada
E-mail: dr.sajid.hussain@gmail.com
Website: http://cs.acadiau.ca/~shussain/
Dr. George Roussos
Birkbeck College,
University of London, UK
E-mail: roussos@dcs.bbk.ac.uk
Website: http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~gr/
Dr. Yan Zhang
Simula Research Laboratory, Norway,
E-mail: yanzhang@ieee.org
Website: http://home.simula.no/~yanzhang/