Call for Papers:
Special Issue on “Ubiquitous e-Learning Solutions over Heterogeneous
Networks”
The recent advent and proliferation of wireless networking solutions such as DVB/DVBRCS, VSAT, DVB-S/S2, WiFi, WiMax, and UMTS/3G, to name but a few, has raised
the expectations for delivering media rich e-learning content any time, any place.
Towards meeting this challenge, bandwidth, reliability of content delivery, as well as
economic feasibility are key factors that require fresh research on innovative end-to-end
tele-education systems.
This special issue solicits original papers on the implementation, deployment and use of
ubiquitous e-Learning solutions delivering content over heterogeneous networks. We are
looking for both theoretical and applied research submissions in topics including, but not
limited to:
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Architectures for end-to-end ubiquitous e-Learning
Networking and quality-of-service management
Interoperability issues in ubiquitous e-Learning
User-adaptive learning and personalisation
Empirical investigations of ubiquitous e-Learning solutions
Usage scenarios for ubiquitous e-Learning
Learning content creation, description, archiving, management and presentation
for ubiquitous e-Learning
Adaptation techniques for ubiquitous e-Learning content delivery
Context-aware ubiquitous e-Learning
Usability Evaluations of ubiquitous e-Learning systems
Human factors in ubiquitous e-Learning
In preparing manuscripts, authors should follow the ACM Personal and Ubiquitous
Computing ‘Instruction for Authors, which can be found at:
http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/Instr_Print_007
79.040717.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-73581-p1118980
Submission:
All the manuscripts should be submitted via e-mail to all the guest editors.
Important Dates:
4th September 2006
4th December 2006
19th February 2007
30th April 2007
14th May 2007
18th June 2007
Call for Papers out
Full manuscripts submitted.
First round review completed and notification.
Revised manuscripts due.
Final notification.
Camera ready papers due.
Guest Editors:
Dr. George Ghinea
Dr. Lampros Stergioulas
School of Information Systems, Computing
School of Information Systems, Computing
and Mathematics
and Mathematics
Brunel University
Brunel University
Uxbridge
Uxbridge
Middlesex
Middlesex
UB8 3PH
UB8 3PH
UNITED KINGDOM
UNITED KINGDOM
e-mail: George.Ghinea@brunel.ac.uk
e-mail: Lampros.Stergioulas@brunel.ac.uk
Dr. Sherry Chen
Dr. Thanassis Tiropanis
School of Information Systems, Computing
Athens Information Technology (AIT)
and Mathematics
Peania,
Brunel University
Athens,
Uxbridge
GR- 19002
Middlesex
GREECE
UB8 3PH
e-mail: ttir@ait.edu.gr
UNITED KINGDOM
e-mail: Sherry.Chen@brunel.ac.uk
Dr. Sofia Tsekeridou
Athens Information Technology (AIT)
Peania,
Athens,
GR- 19002
GREECE
e-mail: sots@ait.edu.gr
Dr. George Ghinea received the B.Sc. and B.Sc.(Hons) degrees in computer science
and mathematics in 1993 and 1994, respectively, and the M.Sc. degree in computer
science, in 1996, from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;
he then received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Reading,
United Kingdom, in 2000.
He is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Information Systems, Computing and
Mathematics at Brunel University and the Director of the department’s MSc course in
Distributed Information Systems. Dr. Ghinea has over 70 published papers in leading
international, peer-reviewed journals and publications and he has consistently consulted
for both public and private sector organizations. His research interests span ubiquitous
and mobile computing issues, in particular targeting perpetual aspects of multimedia and
quality of service topics, as well as inter-networking and resource allocation.
Dr. Lampros K. Stergioulas is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of
Information Systems and Computing at Brunel University, UK. He is a qualified
Chartered Engineer and has studied Informatics and Physics in his first degree (1991) at
the University of Athens, and later received an M.Sc. (1992) and Ph.D. (1997) in
Electrical Engineering from the University of Liverpool, UK, specialising in Information
Engineering and Communications. From 1996 to 1998 he worked as a Research
Associate in Cambridge University Engineering Department. He has held Lectureship
posts in Manchester School of Engineering at Manchester University (1998-1999) and in
the Communication Systems Department of Lancaster University (1999-2003). Over the
past ten years, he has taught a large number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in
Computer Science and Engineering. Dr. Stergioulas has published over 100 papers in
journals and international conferences. His research interests include intelligent data
processing, human-centred computing, educational computing, and intelligent
information systems.
Dr. Sherry Chen received her Master degree in 1987 from the University of Maryland,
United States of American; she then received the Ph.D. degree in Information Studies
from the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, in 2000.
She is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Information Systems, Computing and
Mathematics at Brunel University. Her research interests include data mining, digital
libraries, educational technology, and human-computer interaction. Dr. Chen has over 70
published papers in these areas. She has been involved in numerous projects. In
particular, she is the principle investigator of research projects funded by the Engineering
and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) and Arts and Humanity Research
Council (AHRC). The former has been recognized as “outstanding” by the EPSRC panel
and peer reviewers, in terms of the communication of research outputs.
Dr. Thanassis Tiropanis holds a DipIng in Computer Engineering and Informatics from
the University of Patras (1993) and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of
London (2000). Thanassis is currently Assistant Professor at the Athens Information
Technology (AIT) centre and co-founder/co-head of the Software Engineering and Web
Applications Research Group. He is also AC representative for AIT in the W3C.
Thanassis is involved in European collaborative Research Projects (FP6) and Nationallyfunded projects in the areas of e-Learning, Grid technologies and Semantic Web
technologies. His research work has been published and presented at international
conferences and fora on many occasions. Prior to joining AIT, he was Research Follow
for University College London and has participated as a researcher or served as technical
coordinator in research related to telecommunications network and service management,
distributed systems architectures, web technologies, telecom business processes and B2B
management frameworks (1994-2002). He has gained additional experience as a project
manager in research in the area of eHealth services (2002).
Dr. Sofia Tsekeridou received the Diploma of Electrical & Computer Engineering in
1996 and the PhD degree in Computer Science in 2001 both from Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, Greece. She has been involved in many European funded and national
R&D Projects mainly in the areas of video analysis and processing, next generation
enhanced and interactive digital TV, multimedia management and representation,
personalization, e-learning. She has served as a temporary Assistant Professor at the
Cultural Technology Department, University of the Aegean, and as a Lecturer at the
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Democritus University of Thrace. She
collaborated as senior researcher and project manager with the Cultural and Educational
Technology Research Institute, and she taught at the Greek Open University. She
currently holds the position of Assistant Professor at Athens Information Technology.
She has published seven papers at international scientific journals, many international
conference papers and has contributed to the TV Anytime standardization body. She has
also served as a reviewer to many international scientific conferences and well-known
journals. Her research interests lie in the areas of video processing and computer vision,
intelligent multimedia information systems, metadata standards, user profiling and
personalization, context awareness and content adaptation.