Special Issue on: "Advances in Mobile Computing and Applications"

Guest Editors:
Per Hilletofth, Jönköping University, Sweden
Vittorio Rampa, IEIIT-CNR, Italy
Yean-Fu Wen and Chih-Chien Wang, National Taipei University, Taiwan
Chien-Chang Chen, Tamkang University, Taiwan

Today, mobile computing has been broadly deployed around the world to support mobile services and applications. However, emerging technologies such as advanced communication systems and networks, energy efficiency, fault tolerance, schedule and load balancing are still open issues for the pervasive adoption of the mobile computing paradigm. In addition, agent-based systems, human-computer interaction, multimedia communications and mobile cloud computing are important research areas able to play a key role in the efficient design and testing of mobile computing applications.

This special issue aims to collect significant contributions addressing innovative ideas, emerging technologies, methods and solutions for mobile computing systems and applications.

The issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Applied and Theoretical Information Systems Research (ATISR 2014; 18-21 June, 2014, Taipei, Taiwan). However, we also strongly encourage researchers unable to participate in the conference to submit articles for this special issue.

Subject Coverage

Suitable topics include, but are not limited, to the following in the context of mobile computing and applications:

Artificial intelligence, neural networks and genetic algorithms
Computer and information science
Advanced communication systems and networks
Intelligent agent technology, agent-based systems
Internet technologies and applications
Mobile/wireless computing
SaaS, PaaS, IaaS models and applications
Web engineering and applications
Software engineering and information engineering
Mobile cloud computing
Web services and applications
Mobile application development methods and tools
Software performance
Intrusion detection and malware protection
Access control techniques and applications
Cryptography
Information hiding and watermarking
Digital rights management
Image processing and pattern recognition
Visual and multimedia computing
Multimedia communications
Multimedia compression
Multimedia databases
Multimedia applications

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written and if appropriate written permissions have been obtained from any copyright holders of the original paper).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process.

All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please read our Submitting articles page.

Important Dates

Paper submission: 31 December, 2014

Decision notification: 30 April, 2015

Revised manuscript submission: 31 July, 2015

Final paper submission: 31 October, 2015