CALL FOR PAPERS
JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT
Manuscript due March 31,
2006
The
increasing integration of computing power into the fabric of everyday life and
the wireless interconnection of embedded and mobile computers is making Mark
Weiser’s vision of Pervasive Computing a reality. Pervasive computing systems
must constantly adapt their behavior in order to meet the needs of users within
every changing physical, social, computing and communication context. Pervasive
computing elements need to dynamically form ad hoc collaborations to perform
useful tasks for mobile users, on-demand. To do this, they must possess
sufficient intelligence and knowledge-awareness to react appropriately to a
wide range of contexts. Care must be taken, however, to ensure that adaptive
behavior experienced by the users and operators of pervasive computing systems
is useful, relevant, non-distracting and consistent with individual and
organizational goals. However, the complexity and dynamism of pervasive
computing systems renders the manual constraint of their operation impractical,
and such systems must therefore possess the ability to self-manage and operate
within high-level constraints provided by users and operators. Such
self-managing, or autonomic, behavior is challenging given the extreme
heterogeneity, ad hoc organization and disparate ownership of the elements in
any given pervasive computing environment.
This special issue aims to bring together work
that can contribute to the effective governance of pervasive computing systems:
David Lewis, Trinity
College Dublin (Dave.Lewis@cs.tcd.ie)
Simon Dobson,
University College Dublin (Simon.Dobson@ucd.ie)
Authors are invited to
submit papers to Dave.Lewis@cs.tcd.ie. Please prepare the
manuscripts in single-column, double-spaced format, and submit Word or pdf files.
Schedule:
Manuscript
due: March 31, 2006
Notification
of Acceptance: May 30, 2006
Final
Manuscript due: August 30, 2006
Publication
Date: March 2007