CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue of Journal and Computer Applications on
"RFID Technology, Systems and Applications"

http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jnca

Scope:
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has been around for more than half
a century. It is only in recent years that this technology has begun to
attract a lot of attention, due to the convergence of lower cost and
increased capabilities of RFID tags. Currently, RFID is emerging as an
important technology for revolutionizing a wide range of applications
including supply chain management, retail, anti-counterfeiting, baggage
handling, and healthcare. Many organizations are planning or have
already exploited RFID in their main operations to take
advantage of the potential of more automation, efficient business
processes, and inventory visibility. While RFID provides promising
benefits such as inventory visibility and business process automation,
significant challenges on information systems and technologies need to
be overcome before these benefits can be realized.

This special issue will present the latest developments, trends,
industrial applications, and research challenges for RFID technology.
This issue will explore how organizations can gain competitive
advantages by applying RFID technology in real-world settings.
Submissions on studies which demonstrate RFID techniques for specific
application problems are encouraged. Survey articles that
emphasize research and application in a particular RFID domain are welcomed.
Research areas of relevance would therefore include, but not only
limited to, the following topics:

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has been around for more than half
- Data management issues in RFID applications
- RFID and physical user interfaces
- Security/privacy and RFID
- RFID and sensor networks
- Web services and RFID
- RFID case studies, field trials, industrial applications
- RFID middleware and Intergration of RFID with other applications
- Next generation RFID technologies and RFID standards
- Commercial experience with RFID
- RFID network management
- COTS and Open Source RFID infrastructure
- Performance evaluation of RFID systems and applications


Submission Format:
The submitted papers must be written in English and describe original
research which is not published nor currently under review by other
journals or conferences. Author guidelines for preparation of manuscript
can be found at www.elsevier.com/locate/jnca. For more information,
please contact the Editorin-Chief, Mohammed Atiquzzaman (atiq@ou.edu )


Guest Editors:
Dr. Michael Sheng
School of Computer Science
The University of Adelaide, Australia
Email: qsheng@cs.adelaide.edu.au

Dr. Sherali Zeadally
Department of Computer Science and
Information Technology , University of
the District of Columbia, USA
Email: szeadally@udc.edu

Dr. Katerina Mitrokotsa
Department of Mediamatics
Technical University of Delft
The Netherlands
Email: A.Mitrokotsa@TUDelft.nl

Dr. Zakaria Maamar
College of Information Technology
Zayed University, U.A.E
Email: zakaria.maamar@zu.ac.ae

Important Dates:
Paper submission: 31 October, 2009
Acceptance notification: 31 January, 2010
Final papers: 30 March, 2010
Publication: Third Quarter 2010

Submission Guideline:
All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted
through Elsevier Editorial System (EES). The
authors must select SI: RFID Zeadally when they reach the ?Article
Type step in the submission process.
The EES website is located at http://ees.elsevier.com/jnca/