Game-Based Learning

Editor-in-Chief

Carlos Vaz de Carvalho
Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto

Baltasar Fernandez Manjon
Department of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (DISIA), Complutense University of Madrid (UCM)

Journal Email Contact

gbl@icst.org

ISSN# 2034-8800

Scope

Games are structured contexts where players have clear objectives, with victory as end goal. In a game, players must overcome challenges and face opponents (real or game characters) but always respecting a clearly-defined set of rules. Failure to follow these rules implies a punishment or penalty. Games can involve one player acting alone, two or more players acting cooperatively, or players or teams of players competing between themselves. Computer games are played through a computer, on a standalone or networked form. They are highly interactive and motivating products.
The use of games for learning is effective because they create rich contexts where educational objectives can be defined and theoretical concepts can be applied in practical situations. Furthermore, educational games promote the development of personal and social skills because they favor cultural awareness, socialization, respect for others, teamwork, leadership, decision making and collaborative learning. It is therefore possible to get a convergence of games and learning in three distinct areas: training (professional and social context); formal education (classroom and school context), non-formal education (outside the school context).
However, there is still a limited use of game-based learning in formal education. This has mainly to do with social concerns and stereotypes about the relation of games and education. Other issues relate to physical and cost barriers, hardware and license cost, access (for online games), maintenance and support, teachers’ confidence in using the game for a specific curriculum goal. But this limited use is also related to the lack of extended evidence of effective application. Therefore a dedicated journal is necessary to demonstrate the validity of this learning methodology.
The ICTS Transactions on Game-Based Learning is a multidisciplinary approach to the presentation of research, theory, application, practice and validation in the field of Game-Based Learning for any level and any area of education. As such it will cover areas like cognition, psychology, technology-enhanced education, evaluation and assessment, multimedia and information technology. By Game-Based Learning, are considered all forms of formal or informal learning which are supported by digital (or not) simulations, games, modeling, virtual and augmented reality, new interaction devices, toys and playthings.

Keywords

Game-based Learning, Games, Simulations, Serious Games, Learning Games, Training Games, Edutainment.

Editor-in-Chief

Carlos Vaz de Carvalho has a Master’s Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering by the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto and a Ph.D. in Information Systems and Technology by the School of Engineering of the University of Minho.
He has been a Professor for the last 19 years in the Computer Engineering Department of Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP), the School of Engineering of the Porto Polytechnic. He was responsible for several disciplines in the fields of Algorithms, Programming and Multimedia and responsible for introducing innovative online components and methodologies (e-learning/b-learning) in these disciplines. He participated in several processes of curricular reform, like the one resulting from the Bolonha Declaration, where he was the lead promoter of the Graphics and Multimedia branch of the Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering.
He has, in parallel, remarkable activity in short-term/vocational training with emphasis on actions related to e-learning, in collaboration with outstanding organizations in this area.
Scientifically, he was researcher at INESC (Group on Computer Graphics), a private R&D organization, between 1988 and 1996. From that moment he developed his scientific career, in the field of e-Learning, at ISEP where he is currently the Director of the R&D Group GILT (Graphics, Interaction and Learning Technologies). He tutored/is tutoring seven PhD theses and 30 Master theses, has authored over 100 publications and communications, including nine books (as author and editor) and participated in more than 20 national and European projects, assuming the coordination of five of them.
He served as Vice President of Computer Engineering Department from 2000 to 2001 and Head of that Department between 2003 and 2005. He was e-learning Director (2001-2005) of ISEP and directed (1997-2000) the Distance Education Unit of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto. He was also a member of the Scientific Council in the ISEP between 1994 and 2009.

Baltasar Fernandez Manjon Associate professor in the Department of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (DISIA) at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). Dr. Fernández-Manjón is also the Vice Dean of Research and Foreign Relationships at the Computer Science School of this university. He co-leads the Complutense e-learning research group (www.e-ucm.es) . He is the former Academic Director of the Computer Science Technical School of Centro de Estudios Superiores Felipe II (Aranjuez, Spain) (2001-2006). He received Bachelor in Physics (major in Computer Science) and a PhD in Physics from the UCM. He is member of the Working Group 3.3 “Research on the Educational uses of Communication and Information Tecnlogies” of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and of the Spanish Technical Committee for E-learning Standarization (AENOR CTN71/SC36 “Tecnologías de la información para el aprendizaje”). He is also liason person between IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology (LTTC) and IFIP WG3.3. His main research interests are e-learning technologies, educational uses of markup technologies, educational uses of serious games, application of educational standards and user modelling on which he has published more than 60 research papers. He is also co-organizer and program committee member of several conferences (e.g. SIIE, ICALT, SCORM) and associate editor of several special issues about e-learning: Journal of Universal Computer Science (Springer, 2005 and 2007), Computers In Human Behaviour (2008), Simulation and Gaming (2008).

Editorial Board

Janet C Read
University of Central Lancashire, UK

Pedro Latorre
Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

Dr Margaret Linehan
Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland

Joze Rugeli
Faculty of Education University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Nicholas Mitchell
University of Central Lancashire, UK

Francisco Serón
Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

Martin Sillaots
Tallinn University, Estonia

Hariklia Tsalapatas
University of Thessaly, Greece

Gearóid Ó Súilleabháin
Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland

Paula Escudeiro
Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

Olivier Heidmann
University of Thessaly, Greece

Nick Kearney
Andamio Education and Technology S.L., Spain

Romana Křížová
Accord International s.r.o., Czech Republic

Martin Kuštek
Cordia a.s., Slovakia

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Future Intelligent Educational Environments

Editors-in-Chief

Vic Callaghan
University of Essex, UK

Minjuan Wang
San Diego State University, USA

Juan Carlos Augusto
University of Ulster, UK

Journal Email Contact

tofiee@icst.org

ISSN# 2034-8819

Scope

As the world moves steadily to become a knowledge-based economy, education and learning have never been more important. Technology is playing an increasingly crucial role in the delivery of education, which in turn is driving research into the search for ever better technological solutions. Each wave of technological advance has opened new opportunities teachers and students. First the arrival of personal computers popularized computer aided learning, next the internet introduced eLearning; now the age of intelligent environments is bringing such pedagogical advances as smart classrooms, intelligent campuses, immersive reality, affective learning, mobile learning, intelligent learning clouds and personalised intelligent avatar-like tutors to revolutionize current learning practices, and to challenge the traditional notion of a university or school. Intelligent Environments have been heralded as a technology to radically transform our society, and the nature of teaching and learning. There is an urgent need for a journal that acts as a focus for researchers and practitioners to pool knowledge together and to advance the science and art of teaching, learning, and pedagogical practice, making it more efficient, cost-effective, and fun.

To achieve the above outcomes, this Journal (TOFIEE) will focus on showcasing new technologies that can help to make a difference to teaching and learning experiences, by enriching the learning process and the teaching infrastructure. Central to our forum will be enriched physical and environments such as smart classrooms, virtual / mixed reality environments, intelligent learning clouds or mobile and augmented reality systems that can interact with students and teachers at a pedagogical level, so as to bring true innovations to education. We will also include the systems that support the learning of practical skills, such as those typified by science and engineering laboratories that are critical to students following technology courses. The journal will also include consideration of the wider campus infrastructure which can also impact the cost and effectiveness of education. Examples include smart signage that can guide people around a campus or smart applications for timetabling or managing the environment of the teaching facilities. Education is increasingly global and multicultural in nature and thus, the cultural dimension is a topic we would seek to include.
This Journal will serve as a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss the latest intelligent technologies that can support the development of new educational technologies and environments around the world. Given the multi-disciplinary nature of the areas involved, the journal aims to promote participation from several different communities covering a variety of topics: pedagogical strategies, technical (infrastructure), social-cultural influences; interaction, inclusion, and socialization in intelligent educational environments and systems, etc.

The journal will aim to attract reports on research and development related to a number of areas, including:

• Smart classrooms;
• Intelligent campus;
• Virtual & Mixed Reality Learning Environments;
• Digitally Enhanced Teaching Laboratories;
• Technologically supported Pedagogy;
• Affective Learning;
• AI Tutoring Systems;
• Learning clouds;
• Mobile Learning;
• Instructional design methods, models and Tools;
• Smart global and multi-cultural learning environments;
• Curriculum Development for Intelligent Education systems;
• Evaluation of intelligent learning environments;

Keywords

Technology supported education, assisted learning, smart classrooms, tutoring systems, intelligent interaction, intelligent campus, pervasive & ubiquitous education.

Editor-in-Chief

Victor Callaghan is Professor of Computer Science, leader of the Intelligent Environments Group (IEG) and a director of the interdisciplinary Digital Lifestyles Centre (DLC) at Essex University. He established and directed mobile robotics research at Essex before founding the intelligent environments group (IEG). Both areas now host world-class teams and facilities. In particular, the IEG hosts the iSpace which is a full size digital home, the iClassroom is a high tech teaching facility, the iCampus, a Living lab based on an instrumented campus and the iWorld, and online mixed –reality implementation of these spaces. Professor Callaghan holds a B.Eng and PhD in Electronics and Computing, respectively, from Sheffield University. In general terms, his main expertise concerns the application of pervasive computing technology to the creation of intelligent environments that range from smart classrooms to immersive educational technology environments. He works closely with colleagues in the Network Education College in Shanghai (the online education arm of Shanghai Jiao Tong University) and the Department of Educational Technology at San Diego State University. In addition he is one of the founding board members of the Creative Science Foundation, a collaboration with Intel for introducing creative methodology to regular science teaching. He is also working with other commercial companies on the development of cutting edge teaching technology such as the Immersive Displays Ltd range of immersive reality teaching desks and the FortTo Ltd range of student laboratory equipment for teaching embedded-computing. Professor Callaghan has authored around 200 papers in international journals, conferences and books and he holds 4 key patents in his field. He has been principal investigator on numerous international and national projects in the area of pervasive computing attracting over 2 million pounds in research funding. He is a founder and principal organiser of the international annual IEEE sponsored conference, Intelligent Environments, a key member of the organizational team for the Pervasive Computing & Applications, Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing conferences, founder member of the Creative Science Foundation (and associated workshops) and a member of the editorial teams of the Intelligent Buildings International, Pervasive Computing & Communications, Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments journals.

Dr. Minjuan Wang is an Associate Professor of Educational Technology at San Diego State University (SDSU). Her current research specialties focus on the sociocultural aspects of online learning, mobile learning, intelligent systems, and Cloud learning.. Currently, she conducts research on teaching and learning in international multicultural settings and the use of mobile learning in formal and informal learning. Minjuan serves on the editorial boards for three outstanding journals: Open Education Research, International Journal on E-Learning (IJEL), and the Open Education Journal. She has also been a long-time reviewer for the premier journal—Educational Technology Research and Development, and a reviewer for more than 10 other international journals. In addition, she edited the Handbook of Research on Hybrid Learning Models. A winner of several research awards, Minjuan has more than 100 peer-reviewed articles published in premier journals, such as Educational Technology Research and Development, IEEE Transactions on Education, Computers and Education, British Journal of Educational Technology, and Educational Technology and Society. She has also published several book chapters on Best practices in teaching online or hybrid courses, Cross-cultural issues in online learning, Cybergogy for interactive learning online, and assessment of mobile learning in large classrooms. The Cybergogy for Engaged Learning Model she created has been recognized as an instructional design model (http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Cybergogy).

Juan Carlos Augusto has two decades of experience in teaching and R&D. His research has been recently focused on the development of Intelligent Environments, especially on their application to healthcare and education. Some of his latest publications include: the Handbook on Ambient Assisted Living (2012), the Handbook on Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (2009), Human-Centric Interfaces for Ambient Intelligence (2009) and Advances in Ambient Intelligence (2007). He is also actively involved in the organization of events that can stimulate research in the area by contributing as a Steering/Scientific/Program Committee member in various relevant international conferences. His editorial experience includes being co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal on Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (IOS Press), Editor-in-Chief of the Open Innovation Series (EAI Press), and Editor-in-Chief of the book series on Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (IOS Press), as well as being a permanent Editorial Board member of four other journals.

Editorial Board

Dianne Cook
(Washington State University, USA)

Susi Daryanti
(Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia)

Simon Egerton
(Monash University, Malaysia)

Michael Gardner
(University of Essex, UK)

Anne Holohan
(Trinity College Dublin, Eire)

Gordon Hunter
(Kingston University, UK)

Shang Junjie
(Beijing University, China)

Achilles Kameas
(CTI, Greece)

Jason Ng
(BT, UAE)

Angélica Reyes
(Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain)

Maria Jose Rodriguez Fortis
(University of Granada, Spain)

Hedda Schmidtke
(CMU, Rwanda)

Michael Weber
(University of Ulm, Germany)

Zhihui Wei
(Open Education Research, China)

Hsuan-Yi Wu
(National University of Taiwan)

Victor Zamudio
(Instituto Tecnológico de León, México)

Ping Zheng
(Canterbury Christ Church University, UK)

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Ambient Systems

Editors-in-Chief

Dr. Silvia Gabrielli
CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy

Prof. Tiziana Catarci
DIS, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

Journal Email Contact

as@icst.org

ISSN# 2032-927X

Scope

The design of Ambient Systems is a cross disciplinary endeavour aimed at supporting and augmenting people’s activities in everyday life, by embedding computational intelligence in the distributed network of devices available in their living environment. While technology needs to become more and more invisible to provide smart support, novel forms of user experience and multimodal interaction need to be devised to enable fluid, intuitive and appealing transitions between the physical and digital world.

This journal seeks contributions from leading experts and visionary thinkers in industry and research, about the principles, interaction paradigms, methods and applications that best can drive the future design of Ambient Systems and their human-centred, situated interfaces.

Relevant topics covered by this journal concern:

• Methods and tools for the development of Pervasive Environmental infrastructure
• Design of highly immersive contents for Ambient Media
• Trustful mechanisms for context awareness, social sensing and inference
• AIterative design and evaluation studies of multimodal interfaces
• Adaptive and personalized solutions for ambient intelligence
• Embodied agents and affective interfaces
• Personal, social, safety and ethical issues raised by Ambient system applications, such as Domotics, Ambient Assisted Living, Pervasive Edutainment Environments

Keywords

Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing and Applications; Multimodal Interaction Design; Context awareness, social sensing and inference; Automatic Behavioural Analysis; Embedded Smart Agents; Advanced Networking Architectures; User Experience studies of Ambient Media content; Security, Privacy and Trust; User Preferences and decision-making processes in Ambient Systems; User adoption and appropriation of Ambient Systems; Mixed Reality applications; Smart Homes; Ambient Assisted Living.

Editors-in-Chief

Silvia Gabrielli is a senior researcher in the Ubiquitous Interaction group at the CREATE-NET Research Consortium, Trento (Italy), which she joined in 2010. Since 2008 she is also adjunct Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Trento (Faculty of Cognitive Sciences) within the Interfaces and Communication Technologies BSc Program. Over the last ten years she has been research scientist at FBK-IRST (Trento), HCI-Lab University of Udine, DIS University of Rome La Sapienza, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (Torino) and Interact Lab (University of Sussex, Brighton, UK). She received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Sciences and a Master degree in Psychology from the University of Padova (I) in 2001 and 1994 respectively. Her research interests include the human-centred design of Smart Environments and Interfaces for Personal Healthcare, Assisted Living and Edutainment.

Tiziana Catarci got her Ph.D. in Computer Engineering in 1992 from the University of Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy. From 1987 to 1990, from 1990 to 1998, and from 1998 to 2000 she was research assistant, assistant professor and associate professor respectively at the University of Roma “La Sapienza”, where she is now a full professor. Her main research interests are in theoretical and application oriented aspects of visual formalisms for databases, information visualization, database design, cooperative information systems, user interfaces, usability, digital libraries, data quality and Web access. On these topics she has published over 150 papers in leading journals and conferences and 20 books. Her contribution can be regarded as one of the first and most significant examples of deep analysis and formalization of the interaction between the user and the database, which takes in consideration both usability issues and language related aspects.

With respect to applications, she has led or participated in various projects on visual query systems, usability studies and developed methodologies for database design. Particularly relevant are some European projects, including KIM, VENUS, FADIVA, LAURIN, SEWASIE,DELOS, Interop, WORKPAD, SM4All, aiming at investigating different aspects of interface design and human-computer interaction. Outside of academia, she has been a consultant to large (private and government) organisations. Since January 2009, she is delegate provost for ICT at “La Sapienza”. Dr. Catarci is regularly in the programming committees of the main database and human-computer interaction conferences and is associate editor of ACM SIGMOD Digital Symposium Collection (DiSC), VLDB Journal, World Wide Web Journal, and Journal of data Semantics. She has been associate editor of IEEE MULTIMEDIA for several years. She has been the PC Co-chair of WISE 2003 and of ODBASE 2004, the Workshop co-chair of Interact 2005, and the tutorial co-chair of VLDB 2006. In 2008, she has been the Note Co-chair of the 2008 edition of the largest and most important conference on human-computer interaction, ACM CHI. In 2009 she is one of the Track Chairs of ICDE 2009. She has been the organizing chair of the 27^th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB2001), has been the program co-chair of the Fifth IFIP Working Conference on Visual Database Systems (VDB5) and has been the program co-chair of the International Workshop on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) in 1996 and is in the AVI steering committee. AVI is bringing together researchers in Human Computer Interaction and Databases since 1992. She has been guest co-editor of two special issues of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing (on “Visual Query Languages”), of ACM SIGMOD Record (on “Information Visualization”), of Information Systems (on “Data quality” and on “Data and Service Integration”), of the WWWJ (on “Multi-channel Adaptive Information Systems on the World Wide Web”) and of the VLDB Journal (on “Metadata Management”).

Editorial Board

Context Aware Systems, Architectures and Services Embedded Systems
Schahram Dustdar
Technical University of Wien, Austria

Ambient Media, Context Awareness
Artur Lugmayr
Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland

Usability of Intelligent Systems, User-Adaptive Systems and Intelligent User Interfaces, User-Centred Design of Systems Based on Semantic
Anthony Jameson
DFKI, Germany

Multimedia Content Analysis, Social Signal Processing
Alessandro Vinciarelli
IDIAP, Switzerland
Glasgow University, UK

Context Aware Middleware, Mobile Mixed Reality Interaction, 3D Modelling in AR/VR, Multimodal Interaction
Pedro Santos
Fraunhofer IGD, Germany

Ubiquitous Computing, Smart Environments, Adaptive User Interfaces, Usability and Interaction
Oscar Mayora
CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy

Ambient Intelligence, AAL, Smart Homes, Behaviour recognition
Juan Carlos Augusto
University of Ulster, UK

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e-Business

Editor-in-Chief:

Dr. Dickson K. W. Chiu

Journal Email Contact

eb@icst.org

ISSN#2032-9288

Scope

Electronic Business (or “e-Business”) is the utilization of information and communication technologies (ICT) in support of various types of business activities. As the economy becomes globalised and organisations are evolving to become service-oriented, together with recent rapid advancement of ICT, especially the Internet, many challenges as well as opportunities have arisen. For example, recent advancement in service computing, mobile computing, and intelligent applications has wide and deep impact to how businesses are being performed. Efficiencies and effectiveness have general been much improved, while complexities have emerged. Various emerging social, legal, and ethnical issues have also drawn wide attention. Therefore, knowledge from various disciplines is required to achieve excellence in e-Business in response to the ever complicating requirements in the rapidly evolving global environment. The industry and academia has also been shifting the focus to a cross-disciplinary and holistic approach.

The creation, operation, and evolution of the research and practice in e-Business raise concerns that range from high-level requirements and business modelling through to the deployment of specific implementation technologies and paradigms, as well as involve a wide (and ever growing) range of methods, tools, and technologies. They also cover a broad spectrum of vertical domains, industry segments, and even government sectors.

As such, this journal aims at providing an open, formal publication for high quality articles developed by theoreticians, researchers, managers, educators, developers, and practitioners for professionals to face the multiple dimensions and aspects of the opportunities and challenges of e-Business.

Articles of this journal are encouraged to present novel combination of multiple aspects of e-Business such as (but are not limited to):

• Principles, theories, opportunities, and challenges
• Strategies, modelling, requirement elicitation, and methodologies
• Innovations, designs, architectures, infrastructures, implementations, standards, tools, applications,  systems, and experiences
• Social, legal, ethnical, organizational, international, economics, and values issues
• Adoption, diffusion, and governance issues
• Experimental, behavioural, survey-based, case-based, computation, and empirical research

Analytical attention is suggested in (but not limited to) the following areas related to e-Business:

• e-Business collaboration such as supply chains, value chains, virtual organizations, and virtual societies
• Interchange and integration of information, processes, services, and payment
• Management and transformation of business processes, services, and organizations
• Enterprise resources management and human resources management
• e-Business marketing, personalization, and relationship management
• Electronic marketplace, matchmaking, recommendation, negotiations, and auctions
• Business intelligence technologies and applications such as agents, machine learning, cybernetics, ontology, semantics, data mining, planning, and optimization
• Trust, reputation, security, forensic, and privacy
• Business channels and globalisation
• Mobile and pervasive computing for e-business
• Knowledge, content, and metadata management
• Decision support and strategic information systems
• Digital rights management and property management
• e-Business in government and NGO sectors
• Emergency preparedness and crisis management
• Electronic education and training
• Integration of research and practice
• Emerging architectures, computing paradigm, and applications such as Web X.0, Cloud / Grid Computing, autonomous computing, and peer-to-peer systems
• Services and systems in new application domains (e.g., Aviation services)

Keywords

business process, business collaboration, business intelligence, mobile business, business modelling, business information systems, electronic marketplaces, customer relation management, information management, knowledge management, electronic government, emerging technologies, service computing, virtual communities, value chains, enterprise computing, e-business marketing, security and privacy, crisis management

Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Dickson K. W. Chiu received the B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Computer Studies from the University of Hong Kong in 1987. He received the M.Sc. (1994) and the Ph.D. (2000) degrees in Computer Science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He started his own computer company while studying part-time. He has also taught at several universities in Hong Kong. His research interest is in e-business with a cross-disciplinary approach and the results have been published in over 120 papers in international journals and conference proceedings, including many practical master and undergraduate project results. He received a best paper award in the 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences in 2004. He is the founding Editor-in-chief of the International Journal on Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering and serves in the editorial boards of several international journals. He co-founded several international workshops and co-edited several journal special issues. He also served as a program committee member for over 70 international conferences and workshops.

Editorial Board

ZhiMing Cai
Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau

Christer Carlsson
Åbo Akademi University, Finland

Kuo-Ming Chao
Leader – Distributed Systems and Modelling Research Group, UK

Shing-Chi Cheung
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

William Cheung
Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau
ESSEC Business School Paris, France

Wai-Wa Fung
Information Security and Forensics Society, Hong Kong

Hua Hu
Hangzhou Dianzi University, China

Wendy W. Y. Hui
University of Nottingham at Ningbo, China

Patrick C.K. Hung
University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada

Marijn Janssen
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Eleanna Kafeza
Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

Irene Kafeza
Irene Law Office, Greece

P. Radha Krishna
SET Labs, Infosys Technologies Limited, India

Ibrahim Kushchu
Mobile Government Consortium International, UK

Raymond Y.K Lau
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Ho-fung Leung
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Fu-ren Lin
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Chengfei Liu
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Zakaria Maamar
Zayed University, UAE

Nicholas C Romano
Oklahoma State University, USA

Hideyasu Sasaki
Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan

Yuqing Sun
Shangdong University, China

Juan Trujillo
University of Alicante, Spain

Pasi Tyrväinen
University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Pirkko Walden
Abo Akademi University, Finland

Maggie M. Wang
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Stephen J. H. Yang
National Central University, Taiwan

Jian Yang
Macquarie University, Australia

Yi Zhuang
Zhejian Gongshang University, China

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Ubiquitous Environments

Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Krishna M. Sivalingam
Department of CSE, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai, India

Journal Email Contact

ue@icst.org

ISSN# 2032-9377

Scope

This journal will provide a venue for publishing the latest research and developments in the area of ubiquitous environments. Marc Weiser’s original vision of an ubiquitous computing environment may not be fully realized yet. However, several significant strides have been made in the past decade in bringing us closer to realizing this vision. The journal will deal with contributions in the topics of smart spaces with ambient intelligence where sensors in the environment help a system to appropriately react to people, context-aware pervasive computing systems where the current context enables the system to guide the user’s tasks, home area networking systems that can intelligently monitor, track and control a home’s environment, and vehicular sensor networks, where a collection of sensors monitor and control the vehicle’s well-being.

The journal in particular welcomes contributions that deal with the various aspects of computing and communications that help achieve this goal. These include Ubiquitous Environments Infrastructure Design and Implementation, Operating Systems and Programming Environments for Smart Mobile Devices, Embedded Systems and Networking Support for Ubiquitous Environments, Middleware, Security and Privacy Support for Ubiquitous Environments, and Hardware/Software Co-design principles. Papers that describe innovative applications and test-beds that demonstrate the utility of ubiquitous environments, and tools that enable development of novel applications are also welcome.

Keywords

Smart spaces and ambient intelligence, context-aware pervasive computing, home networking; vehicular sensor networks; ubiquitous environments infrastructure design and implementation; operating systems and programming environments for smart mobile devices; embedded systems and networking support for ubiquitous environments; middleware, security and privacy support for ubiquitous environments; hardware/software co-design; ubiquitous environments applications.

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View the latest call for papers here: http://icst.org/ubiquitous-environments-cfp/.

Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Krishna M. Sivalingam is a Professor in the Department of CSE, IIT Madras, Chennai, INDIA. Previously, he has held faculty positions in the Department of CSEE at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA from 2002 until 2007; the School of EECS at Washington State University, Pullman from 1997 until 2002; and the University of North Carolina Greensboro from 1994 until 1997. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1994 and 1990 respectively; and his B.E. degree in Computer Science and Engineering in 1988 from Anna University’s College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai (Madras), India. His research interests include wireless networks, optical wavelength division multiplexed networks, network security and performance evaluation.

He is serving or has served as a member of the Editorial Board for ACM Wireless Networks Journal, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Elsevier Optical Switching and Networking Journal, International Journal of Security and Networks, Ad Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks Journal, International Journal of Vehicular Technology, and KICS Journal of Communications and Networks. His homepage is at www.cse.iitm.ac.in/~skrishnam.

Editorial Board

Secure and Ubiquitous Storage, Mobile Collaboration Systems, Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Systems, Resource Management in Peer Computing Systems
Surendar Chandra
University of Notre Dame

Smart Environments
Diane Cook
Washington State University

Intelligent Networked Systems in General and Mobile Computing
Anupam Joshi
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Sensor Networks, Mobile Networking, Vehicular Communication, Wireless Mesh Networks and Network Security
Salil Kanhere
University of New South Wales, Sydney

Ubiquitous computing, smart and cognitive objects, human-computer and human-robot interaction, and especially multi-modal user interfaces
and information processing
Matthias Kranz
Distributed Multimodal Information Processing Group
Technische Universität München

Pervasive Networking
Mohan Kumar
University of Texas at Arlington

Distributed Systems, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing Mobile and Ad-hoc Networks, Mobile Computing Context Awareness, Location Awareness, Proactive Services Service Discovery, Service Trading, Service Management Applications in E-learning, Economics, Social Science
Claudia Linnhoff-Popien
Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich

Sensor Network and Pervasive Computing; Peer-to-Peer Computing; Privacy and Security
Yunhao Liu
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Wireless Networks and Security
Wenjing Lou
Worcester Polytechnic University

Real-time analytics and mobile computing, Pervasive e-Healthcare Technologies, Socio-Technical Network Science, Smart Appliance and Electrical Grid Management
Archan Misra
Singapore Management University

Human-centered Multimedia Computing, Content-based and Compressed Domain Indexing and Retrieval of Images and Video, Multimedia Communication, Face/Gait Analysis and Recognition, Haptic User Interfaces, Confidence Measures for Medical Decisions, Medical Image Processing, Genomic Signal Processing, Media Processor Designs and Ubiquitous Computing Environments for Individuals with Disabilities
Sethuraman (Panch) Panchanathan
Arizona State University

Mobile and Secure Computing
Wenye Wang
North Carolina State University (NCSU)

Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Wireless and Mobile Security, Algorithm Design and Analysis
Susan Zheng
George Washington University

International Advisory Board

Concepts and algorithms for self-organizing and adaptive pervasive computing systems
Christian Becker
University of Mannheim, Germany

Cognitive Radio Networks, Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing, Social Networks and Applications, QoS Routing (Secure Routing, Reliable and Robust Routing, Power Aware Routing), Wireless Security and Privacy
Yuguang “Michael” Fang
University of Florida, USA

Next Generation Systems and Smarter Planet Solutions, Computer Networking, Traffic Management, High Performance Wireless Networking
Shivkumar Kalyanaraman
IBM Research — India

Large-scale content distribution in the Internet, Peer-to-Peer media streaming, the Internet topology, cloud computing, green computing and communications
Bo Li
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

Personal communications, mobile computing, intelligent network
signaling, computer telephony integration, and parallel simulation
Yi-Bing (Jason) Lin
National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan

Computer Networks, Wireless and Sensor Networks, Parallel and distributed computing
C. S. Raghavendra
University of Southern California, USA

Photonic networks and systems, Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, Wireless communications, Smart antennas, Low power wireless protocols, Energy-sustainable mesh networking, Solar powered networking, SolarMESH, Bluetooth, Performance evaluation, Queueing Theory
Terry Todd
McMaster University, Canada

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Financial Systems

Editor-in-Cief:

Dr. Eliezer Dekel
IBM Research - Haifa Research Laboratory, Israel

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ISSN# 2032-9458

Scope

The Financial System comprises many entities that interact with each other to provide financial services that are the lifeline of the world economy. The financial business world entails a complex landscape of actors, including banks, regulatory agencies, financial service providers and the communication networks linking them. These actors and their interrelations are related to the area of financial intermediates and financial regulation that were formed to serve a viable world economy. The financial intermediates and the regulators serve as entities that should increase welfare in the economy through efficient capital allocation and risk sharing.

In order to satisfy the requirements of the financial ecosystem, there are a number of market-specific technical requirements for: responsiveness, data integrity, transparency, security and privacy. The financial market indeed stipulates its own specific needs and therefore software and service providers have, over time, implemented domain specific solutions to meet them.

Research in financial infrastructure (FI) falls is in the intersection of three areas: Finance/Economics, Information Systems and Distributed Computing. Finance/Economics needs to define the roles of financial players and the nature of connectivity needed between them. Given that, Information Systems and Distributed Computing should address how these relationships are best architected and implemented by the technological infrastructure.

The need for active research in this area is becoming more apparent in the after mess of the financial crisis of 2008. The ongoing transformation of the financial business is enabled by new technology and research results. This research should propose models and architecture for Financial Systems that will allow smarter control over these critical infrastructures. For example, getting the IT closer to financial business processes is part of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). These models should allow Financial Systems to grow and expand to improve the economy by taking advantage of the best technology. This technology should provide for sometimes conflicting requirements, like: better security and privacy, improved risk mitigation, transparency to regulators and customers.

The ICST Transactions on Financial Systems publishes research in the area of financial infrastructure, providing a forum for both academics and practitioners.

Keywords

Business Intelligence, Analytics, Hedging, Value-at-risk, Pricing, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Complex Event Processing, Streaming, Messaging, Fraud, Identity Authentication Management, Risk Management, Security, Privacy, Regulation, Compliance, Standards, Anti Money Laundering, Globalization

Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Eliezer Dekel is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member. He is managing the Distributed Middleware group in the IBM Haifa Research Lab. He led the development of the Distribution and Consistency Services (DCS) component for WebSphere. The DCS component is the foundation for WebSphere’s High Availability. It is the first virtual synchrony group communication implementation that is part of commercial application server. Another technology developed by the Distributed Middleware group is a high throughput low latency publish/subscribe messaging technology. This technology is now available as a low latency product offering from IBM: WMQ LLM. Eliezer Dekel is a subject area editor for the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC). He served on numerous conference program committees and organized, or served as chair in some of them. Since joining the Haifa Research Lab in 1992, he has been involved in research in the areas of distributed and fault-tolerant computing, service-oriented technology, and software engineering. He is currently working on technologies for providing Quality of Service, with a focus on dependability, in very large scale multi-tier environments. For this area he initiated together with colleagues the very successful International Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADIS). He is also involved in the ICT funded CoMiFin (Communication Middleware for Monitoring Financial Critical Infrastructure) project. Eliezer has a Ph.D.and M.Sc. in computer science from the University of Minnesota, and a B.Sc.in mathematics from Ben Gurion University, Israel. Prior to joining the IBM Haifa Research Lab, Eliezer served on the faculty of the University of Texas at Dallas computer science department for over ten years.

Editorial Board

Roberto Baldoni
University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Italy

James Clarke
Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland

Evangelos Kotsovinos
Vice President at Morgan Stanley, UK

Francis N. Parr
IBM Research – Watson

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Social Informatics

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Katarzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska
ESIGETEL, Fontainebleau, France

Journal Email Contact

si@icst.org

ISSN# 2032-9385

Scope

Social networks provide a powerful abstraction of the structure and dynamics of diverse kinds of people or people-to-technology interaction. These social network systems are usually characterized by the complex network structures and rich accompanying contextual information. Recent trends also indicate the usage of complex network as a key feature for next generation usage and exploitation of the Web. This journal is focused on the foundations of social networks as well as case studies, empirical, and other methodological works related to the computational tools for the automatic discovery of Web-based social networks. This Journal provides an opportunity to compare and contrast the ethological approach to social behaviour in animals (including the study of animal tracks and learning by members of the same species) with web-based evidence of social interaction, perceptual learning, information granulation, the behaviour of humans and affinities between web-based social networks. The main topics cover the design and use of various computational intelligence tools and software, simulations of social networks, representation and analysis of social networks, use of semantic networks in the design and community-based research issues such as knowledge discovery, privacy and protection, and visualization.

We solicit original research and technical papers not published elsewhere. The papers can be theoretical, practical and application, and cover a broad set of intelligent methods, with particular emphasis on Social Network computing.

The scope of the journal includes (but is not restricted to) :

• Network evolution and growth mechanisms;
• On-line communities and computer networks;
• Information diffusion in social networks;
• Detection of communities by document analysis;
• Topology of real networks;
• Information diffusion in social networks;
• Recommendations for product purchase, information acquisition and establishment of social relations;
• Impact of recommendation models on the evolution of the social network;
• Classification models and their application in social recommender systems;
• Economical impact of social network discovery;
• Use of social networks for marketing;
• Web page ranking informed by social media;
• Search algorithms on social networks;
• Collaborative Filtering;
• Anomaly detection in social network evolution;
• Data protection inside communities;
• Crime data mining and network analysis;
• Modeling trust and reputation in social networks;
• Misbehavior detection in communities;
• Geographical clusters, networks, and innovation;
• International Collaborations in e-Social network;
• Automatic discovery and analysis of Web based social networks;
• Link Topology and Site Hierarchy;
• Web communities;
• Web-Based Cooperative Work;
• Benchmark creation;
• Measures and methodologies.

Keywords

Network evolution, Network Dynamics, Information diffusion, Social recommender systems, Collaborative filetering, Social network mining, Trust and reputation, Misbehavior detection, Discovery and analysis, Link topology, Evaluation

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Editor-in-Chief

Katarzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska received a Master of Science degree in Electronic Engineering from the Silesian Technical University of Gliwice, Poland and a further M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Val d’Essonne, France. She received her Ph.D. degree (2001) in Automatics, Real Time Computing and Computer Science from the Ecole Superieur des Mines de Paris, France.

Katarzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska is Associate Professor at the LRIT Laboratory at ESIGETEL, France. She was, for several years, head of the Computer and Network Department at ESIGETEL, and now she is a head of an SITR team attached to the LRIT research laboratory at ESIGETEL.

She has been involved in the organization of several international conferences: General Chair of the Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference AWIC2007, Programme Chair in the First International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN), then Programme Chair in AWIC 2009 and CASON 2010, Proceeding Chair in the International Conference Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications (CISIM 2010), now she is involved as Programme Co-Chair in the International Workshop on Social Computing, Network, and Services which will be held in Crete, Greece (June, 2011), CASoN 2011 and CISIM 2011.

She is also a member of Program Committees in several international conferences (AINA, AH3D, AWIC, BICA, CASoN, CISM, EPIA, INCoS, MIT, NWESP …) as well as an expert for the group Information Society Technologies (IST) active in the European Community. She also serves as a reviewer for various conferences and journals.
She was invited for the lecture within the ERASMUS-Program in Poland (Silesian University of Technology, Katowice) and Portugal (University of Beira Interior, Covilhã).

In 2008, she was an invited Keynotes speaker on New Challenges of Search Engines at the international conference Znalosti in Bratislava, Slovakia and in 2009 she was a plenary speaker on Driving Intelligent Cars Down Futuristic Highways at the IX International Conference Telematics, Logistics and Transport Safety (TL&TS’09) in Katowice-Szczyrk, Poland.
Her main interests are Information Retrieval, Search Engines, Web Based Support Systems and Web Intelligence, Web Mining and Opinion Mining.

She is a Member of IEEE (USA), Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs) and Future Technology Research Association International (FTRA).

Editorial Board

Adam Wierzbicki
Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland

Aris Anagnostopoulos
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Athanasios V. Vasilakos
University of Western Macedonia, Greece

Athena Vakali
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Bill Grosky
University of Michigan, USA

Bingjun Sun Ebay Inc., USA

David Zeng
University of Arizona, USA

Elena Ferrari
University of Insubria, Italy

Ghassan Qadah
American University of Sharjah, UAE

Jie Tang
Tsinghua University, China

Jiming Liu
Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Malek Mouhoub
University of Regina, Canada

Mehmet Kaya
Firat University, Turkey

Mohammad Mahdian
Yahoo Research, USA

Nader Mohamed
UAE University, UAE

Osmar R. Zaiane
University of Alberta, Canada

Przemysław Kazienko
Wrocław University of Technology, Poland

Ronald Yager
Iona College, USA

Tanzel Ozyer
TOBB Economics and Technology University, Turkey

Xiaowei Xu
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA

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Dynamic Resource Management

Editors-in-Chief

Dr. Raffaele Giaffreda
Open Systems for Communities (OSCO), CREATE-NET, Italy

Dr. James Irvine
Mobile Communications Group University of Strathclyde, Scotland

Dr. Thomas Magedanz
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

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ISSN# 2032-9261

Scope

Future networks, increasingly dynamic and diverse, require new approaches to resource management. The communication services world is moving increasingly towards openness, with services made of components originating from different providers, who themselves are growing in number and becoming more specialized. Networks themselves are becoming more specialized and adaptive in a quest for increasing bandwidth and efficiency, and this means that the underlying communications medium is much more dynamic. All these factors increase the demands on resource management systems.

Existing approaches to resource and service management, such as walled gardens, subscribers-ownership based business models, are breaking down in this new environment. Business models are changing for traditional operators and infrastructure providers, as this “trend to openness” worsens the situation of “bottom OSI layer” providers, whose already commoditised businesses are going to be further depleted of value and ROIs. Growing numbers of providers and virtualisation of resources at different levels have created a need for new dynamic resource management methods, such as market based approaches, acting as catalysts between offer and demand.

The scope for this journal publication is to cover all those technologies that sustain the creation and the operations of dynamic, distributed resource management functionality. The topics of interest span from marketplace platforms, enabling network and service providers of any size to trade their resources, to network virtualisation, where providers can create new networks spanning multiple administrative domains; from cross-layer service composition and delivery platforms to negotiation and trading techniques that facilitate the use of resources from other providers; from virtualisation techniques that enable reuse of modularised resources to models and languages for the common description of telecommunication resources to interfacing techniques that ensure interoperability between traded components; from new business models enabled by market based resource management to performance-monitoring, reputation management features that foster quality and reliability of traded resources; from techniques for securing, policing and regulating the operations of marketplaces to those that ensure adequate SLA monitoring and subsequent compensation; from autonomic resource management within network components to verification of system operation at a network level.

We therefore encourage multidisciplinary submissions supporting the creation and operations of dynamic management of communication resources in the following areas:

• Next Generation service overlay networks
• Open APIs to expose network and device functionalities and related SDKs
• Internet resource management
• Next Generation Network resource management
• Future Internet resource management
• Market based resource management systems
• Cross-layer multi-domain service composition and delivery platforms
• Virtualisation, interfacing and description of generic resources (spanning from network resource to service resources)
• Service Brokering and Orchestration
• Negotiation, trading and dynamic SLA mechanisms
• Securing marketplace operations
• Verification of system operation
• Monitoring and policing participation
• Autonomic resource management
• Socio-Economic and regulatory constraints
• Performance monitoring
• Reputation and reward management
• New business models associated virtualised and market based approaches
• New business models related to brokerage services such platforms enable
• Green / carbon efficient resource management

Keywords

digital marketplace operations, network virtualization, cross-layer service delivery platforms, virtualisation, modularisation, service brokering, resources as a service, open telco and web APIs, service mashups, cloud computing, dynamic SLAs, communication resources modularisation, autonomic resource management, resource description and trading, federation, competition, negotiation, performance monitoring, resource management in SOA, future internet services and resource management

Editors-in-Chief

Dr. Raffaele Giaffreda is a network and services research scientist. He received his first degree in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 1995 and his Master of Science in Telecom Engineering from University College of London in 2001. After a brief work experience at the Optical Systems unit of Telecom Italia Labs, in 1998 he joined British Telecom (BT) where he served for more than ten years as a researcher in future networking concepts, mainly working on information retrieval systems and context-aware networks. He contributed to a number of European collaborative projects and between 2003 and 2007 was involved in the FP6 EU project Ambient Networks as a leader of the Context, Network and Policy Management activities. In his most recent work at BT before joining CREATE-NET, Raffaele was involved in shaping research activities on potential roles for Telecom operators in future open service environments and the related technology enablers. Despite his industrial background, Raffaele has published more than 20 papers in international conferences and journals. He is currently Area Head for the OSCO group at CREATE-NET and his research interests relate to open, context-aware and dynamic orchestration of communication services.

Dr. James Irvine is a Reader in the EEE Department of the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, from where he obtained his BEng (Hons) in 1989 and PhD in 1994. His research work focuses on novel resource management for future dynamic, heterogeneous communications networks, and he is currently working in the Mobile VCE programme, where he was one of the inventors of the digital marketplace. He has worked on all core Mobile VCE programmes, co-ordinating Software Based Systems (Core 2) and Personal Distributed Environment (Core 3). He is currently Academic Co-ordinator of the Core 4 Security programme, Instant Knowledge, and assisting in the development of the Core 5 programme, Flexible Networks. Prior to working within Mobile VCE, he worked on the ACTS MOSTRAIN project, where he was leader of System Architecture work-package. His research interests include resource management, agents systems, coding theory and security. He holds four patents, with three more being pursued, and over 60 papers in the past 5 years. He has co-authored two books with a further one in press. Technical Programme Chair of VTC2004-Spring in Milan, and Editor in Chief of the IEEE VT Magazine 2005-8, he is currently President of IEEE VTS.

Dr. Thomas Magedanz (Ph.D.) is full professor in the electrical engineering and computer sciences faculty at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, leading the chair for AV Next Generation Networks since 2003. In addition, he is director of the “next generation network infrastructure” division of the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS. Since more than 20 years Prof. Magedanz is working in the convergence field of fixed and mobile telecommunications, the internet and information technologies, which resulted in many international R and D projects centred around the implementation of open API-based Service Delivery Platforms for for converging networks, Next Generation Networks, and the future Internet. In the course of his research activities he published more than 200 technical papers/articles. In 2007 Prof. Magedanz joined the European FIRE (Future Internet Research Experimental Facilities) Expert Group introducing the service orientation into future internet research. In addition, Prof Magedanz is senior member of the IEEE, and editorial board member of several journals and TP member of many related conferences and workshops.

Editorial Board

Web-Telco Convergence Architectures

• R. Clark, Georgia Institute of Technology, US
• N. Crespi, Sud Paris Telecom Institute, France
• S. Fallis, BT, UK
• J. Heuer, Deutsche Telekom, Germany
• R. Glitho, Concordia University, Canada

Market-Based Resource Management

• J. Barria, Imperial College London, UK
• J. Zuidweg, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
• S. Olafsson, Reykjavik University, Iceland

Mobile Service Platforms and Network Mobility

• K. Moessner, University of Surrey, UK,
• T. Melia, Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs, France
• G. Christensen, MindCommerce, US
• A. Jaokar, futuretext, UK

Next Generation Communication Services

• R. Minerva, Telecom Italia, Italy
• A. Gavras, Eurescom, Germany
• V. Varma, Telcordia, US
• U. Naoki, NTT, Japan

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Algorithms Engineering

Editors-in-Chief

Dr. Michael Segal
Communication Systems Engineering Department Ben-Gurion University of The Negev, Israel

Dr. Alberto Marchetti Spaccamela
Department of Computer and Systems Sciences Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

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ae@icst.org

ISSN #2032-9202

Scope

The aim of the ICST Transactions on Algorithms Engineering (TAE) is to provide a forum for presentation of original research in the design, implementation and evaluation of algorithms. TAE dedicated to the use, design and evaluation of algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems (either efficient optimal or efficient approximation algorithms) and to real-world applications, engineering and experimental analysis of algorithms. It aims, in particular, at fostering the cooperation among researchers in computer science, networking, discrete mathematics, mathematical programming and operations research.

The journal focuses on the design, engineering, theoretical and experimental performance analysis of algorithms for problems arising in different areas of computation. We invite submissions that present significant case studies in theoretical and experimental analysis and evaluation of algorithms with specific areas including communications networks, combinatorial optimization and approximation, parallel and distributed computing, computer systems and architecture, economics, game theory, social networks and the world wide web. Novel uses of discrete algorithms in all disciplines and the evaluation of algorithms for realistic environments are particularly welcome.

Keywords

Discrete alogrithms, Combinatorial optimaization and approximation , Parallel and distributed computing , Networking computing, Computer systems and Architecture, Game theory

Editors-in-Chief

Dr. Michael Segal completed B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 1994, 1997, and 1999, respectively. During the period of 1999-2000 Professor Michael Segal held a MITACS National Centre of Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow position at University of British Columbia, Canada. Professor Segal joined the Department of Communication Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Israel in 2000 where he currently serves as Department Chairman. Recently, Prof. Segal served as the General Chair and the Program Committee Chair of ACM/SIGMOBILE DIALM-POMC Joint Workshop on Foundation of Mobile Computing 2008 and the Program co-Chair of International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks, 2008. His primary research is algorithms (sequential and distributed), data structures with applications to optimization problems, mobile wireless networks, wireless ad hoc sensor networks, communications, and security.

Dr. Alberto Marchetti Spaccamela is Professor at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, since 1991. Previously he was visiting scholar at University of California at Berkeley and Professor at the University of L’Aquila. He has co-authored a book on “Approximation Algorithms” (Springer Verlag) and four textbooks for University classes (in Italian). He has chaired International Conferences and Workshops (WG 96, ICALP 97, WSDAAL 97, ICTCS 91, OLA 99, WAE 01, Hot TiNA 08) and track C of ICALP09 on “Foundations of networked computation”; he has been guest editor of special issues of Theoretical Computer Science, ACM Computing Surveys, Discrete Applied Mathematics, J. of Discrete Algorithms and is in the editorial board of the open access journal Algorithms; he has co-edited four volumes published by Springer Verlag and has served in the program committee of many international conferences and workshops. He has served in the steering committee of ESA and is currently member of the WG and ATMOS steering committees. His current research interests concern the design and the analysis of algorithms, and their applications to computer networks, bioinformatics and scheduling

Editorial Board

Stefano Basagni
Northeastern University, USA

Weifa Liang
The Australian National University, Australia

Alex Kesselman
Google Inc., USA

Andrzej Pelc
Université du Québec, Canada

Peng-Jun Wan
Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

Peter Widmayer
ETH, Switzerland

Stefan Funke
Universität Greifswald, Germany

Alessandro Panconesi
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Leen Stougie
VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Shmuel Zaks
Technion, Haifa, Israel

Alon Efrat
University of Arizona, USA

Jack Snoeyink
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Andrei Broder
Yahoo Inc., USA

Gerhard Woeginger
Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

Pierre Fraigniaud
CNRS and Université Paris Diderot, France

Michael Juenger
Universität Köln, Germany

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e-Education and e-Learning

Editors-in-Chief

Dr. Giovanni Vincenti
Towson University Towson, MD, USA

James Braman
Towson University Towson, MD, USA

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eeel@icst.org

ISSN# 2032-9253

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Scope

Education is one domain that has accompanied civilization throughout the centuries, adapting its tools to fulfill the expectations of students and the needs of teachers. Such tools can be as obvious and traditional as pencils and notebooks, or as complex and innovative as websites or multi-user virtual environments. Typical in-person learning environments, such as classrooms and meeting rooms, are at times not the best solution to enable and maximize a student’s ability to learn. Although they do fulfill their purpose of giving students the opportunity to understanding course material and to of reaching their instructors, they sometimes can create barriers that cannot be easily overcome.

Web-based instruction and multi-user virtual environments allow more freedom in terms of time restraints and the physical limitations innate to typical lectures and classroom settings. Through these innovative mediums we can explore concepts while being a part of a learning community through socialization and collaboration online. Many universities, public institutions and private businesses are projecting themselves on the Internet and in virtual worlds to reach the customer at any time, giving them the notion of a virtual presence that cannot be delivered through a simple website. This observation sparks the idea that is at the very foundation of this publication with a focus on e-learning and e-education.

This journal’s aim is to become a central repository of information about the utilization of on-line education through web-based instruction and multi-user virtual environments. With this journal we wish to create a one-stop resource to teachers, researchers and practitioners who wish to access information of high quality and broad coverage. Topics to be discussed in this journal focus on (but not limited to) the following concepts:

• Teaching/Educational Models and Frameworks
• Accessibility and usability of web-based instruction in the classroom
• Best Practices
• Developing courses and content to be used in on-line educational environments
• Student engagement
• Experiments
• Impacts of on-line on traditional teaching and learning strategies
• Cost analysis

Keywords

Teaching, Multi-User Virtual Environments, Learning, Classroom Extension, Teaching Practices, Education Research, Distance Learning, Instructional Technologies, Computer-Based Training, On-line Education

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Editors-in-Chief

Dr. Giovanni Vincenti is a Lecturer for the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Towson University, in Towson, MD. He received his Doctorate of Science in Applied Information Technology from Towson University in 2007. He has been teaching undergraduate and graduate courses for several years, letting him develop his interest in instructional technologies that range from simple learning objects as a supplement to in-person instruction, all the way to the utilization of virtual worlds in the classroom. He has been collaborating for years with James Braman, co-authoring several published works including the edited volumes titled Teaching through Multi-User Virtual Environments: Applying Dynamic Elements to the Modern Classroom and Multi-User Virtual Environments for the Classroom: Practical Approaches to Teaching in Virtual Worlds. Vincenti and Braman are also leading e-Learning projects for the Institute of Computer Sciences, Social Informatics, and Telecommunications Engineering (ICST). In addition, Dr. Vincenti also serves as a consultant to companies and universities that focus on online learning.

James Braman is a Lecturer in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Towson University. He earned a M.S. in Computer Science in 2006 and is pursuing a D.Sc. in Information Technology. James serves as joint editor-in-chief for the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (ICST) Transactions on E-Education and E-Learning along with Dr. Vincenti. He has published several edited books, the most recent, Multi-User Virtual Environments for the Classroom: Practical Approaches to Teaching in Virtual Worlds. He has been involved in virtual world research for several years, along with providing consulting and research services for businesses and organizations utilizing virtual worlds and augmented reality. He has also published numerous research articles related to affective computing, intelligent agents, computer ethics and education in virtual and immersive environments.

Editorial Board

Adams, Nan
Southeastern Louisiana University, USA

Bellido, Francisco
Universidad de Córdoba

Bucciero, Alberto
Università del Salento, Italy

Buckner, Melody
University of Arizona

Crosby-Nagy, Michelle
George Washington University, USA

Ferlosio, Alessandro
Entròpia for Innovation

Johnson, Shaun
Towson University

Kaplan-Rakowski, Regina
Southern Illinois University

Laughlin, Daniel
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Trajkovski, Goran
Virginia International University

Wood, Denise
University of South Australia, Australia

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