Call for Papers
A Focused Topic Issue on
“Engineering for Mobile Clouds and Services”
The International Journal on Software Engineering and Knowledge
Engineering (IJSEKE)
1. Focused Theme
The advance of cloud computing and mobile computing brings a new paradigm shift from
conventional mobile computing services to mobile cloud computing services for mobile users
over the Internet and wireless networks. Many people believe that Mobile Cloud Computing
(MCC) will not only completely change the current way of delivering mobile computing and
communication services to global mobile users, but also alter their working and life styles with
seamless global mobile resource sharing and accesses.
In current mobile computing and wireless services, mobile users commonly use mobile devices
with limited computing power and resources to receive regional wireless communication services
and limited data services. Unlike mobile computing, MCC leverages emergent cloud
infrastructures, mobile networking and mobile device resources to deliver innovative and diverse
services to mobile users and businesses at anytime and anywhere; including mobile cloud
infrastructures, platforms, and software-as-as-services. Mobile cloud service systems take
advantage of existing cloud infrastructures and services to allow mobile devices (such as
smartphones and tablets) to overcome the limited computing power and resources on mobile
devices.
There are many different types of useful applications that can be deployed on a MCC platform
such as mobile commerce, mobile learning, mobile healthcare, and mobile computing. There are
also many fundamental issues to be resolved in developing mobile clouds, applications and
services. for example, how to effectively increase the performance of hardware-limited mobile
devices using cloud computing, and how to address the major concerns about cloud services for
mobile devices, such as data privacy, data ownership, service reliability, and service security.
To develop high-quality MCC software, software engineering and knowledge engineering
methodologies and techniques must be critical in developing mobile clouds and services to
develop elastic mobile cloud infrastructures, platforms, and services.
This focused topic issue for the International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge
Engineering (IJSEKE) focus on engineering issues and solutions in building high-quality
mobile cloud computing infrastructures, platforms, and services. It provides an outlet for
researchers and industry practitioners to present innovative ideas, practical solutions and
methods, and software technologies and tools relating to mobile cloud computing and services.
2. The Focused Topics
This focused topic issue seeks unpublished original papers, which proposes novel ideas, methods,
solutions, and enabling technologies in engineering high-quality mobile cloud software,
application systems, and tools. We invite original papers from both academia and industry on, but
not limited to, the following topics:
o Mobile cloud computing models, infrastructures, architectures, and frameworks
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Formal methods and engineering methodologies for mobile clouds and services
Green computing and energy saving solutions in mobile clouds and services
Network communication protocols and connectivity in mobile clouds
Mobile Data as a Services (MDaaS)
Mobile Software as a Services (MSaaS)
Mobile Platform-as-a-Service (MPaaS)
Mobile Infrastructure-as-a-Service (MIaaS)
Mobile cloud data security techniques and privacy solutions
Quality validation techniques and QoS services in mobile computing and cloud computing
Mobile cloud applications and enterprise systems
Engineering tools and maintenance in building mobile cloud applications and services
Modeling and simulations of mobile cloud computing applications
Service composition, adoption, customization, and configuration for mobile clouds
Knowledge engineering and data mining and tools in mobile clouds
Ontologies and methodologies for mobile cloud computing and services
Experience reports, case studies and evaluation experiments
3. Important Dates
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Paper submission due date: January 15, 2014 (Extended to 1/31/2014)
Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2014
Camera-ready copy: March, 2014
Expected publication: June 2014
4. Paper Submission
Papers should be prepared following the guidelines posted at the IJSEKE web site
(http://www.worldscinet.com/ijseke/mkt/guidelines.shtml). The authors must submit their
original papers to IJSEKE website, specify paper type as special issue, and then select this
special issue from a pull-down menu. For more information, please contact the guest
editors.
5. Paper Review and Publication
All submitted papers will be reviewed by the selected researchers and experts in the research field
committee. Each paper will be reviewed at least by three reviewers based on the review process of
the International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. The accepted
papers will be published in IJSEKE in a journal focused topic issue on Software Engineering and
Knowledge Engineering for Mobile Cloud Computing and Services in 2013.
7. Guest Editors
Jerry Gao (jerry.gao@sjsu.edu), San Jose State University, USA
Haiping Xu (hxu@umassd.edu), University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA
Yan Bai (yanb@u.washington.edu), University of Washington Tacoma, USA
George Roussos (g.roussos@dcs.bbk.ac.uk), Birkbeck College, University of London,UK
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