15. ICST Transactions on Ubiquitous Environments

Editor in chief:

Dr. Krishna M. Sivalingam
Dept. of CSEE, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC),Baltimore, MD, USA
Dept. of CSE, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai, INDIA
krishna.sivalingam@gmail.com

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.

EIC’s 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.

Editor in chief:
Dr. Krishna M. Sivalingam
Dept. of CSEE, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC),Baltimore, MD, USA
Dept. of CSE, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai, INDIA
krishna.sivalingam@gmail.com

Krishna M.  Sivalingam is a Professor in the Department of CSEE at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA, which he joined in 2002. He is presently on leave as a faculty member in the Department of CSE, IIT Madras, Chennai, INDIA. Previously, he was with the School of EECS at Washington State University, Pullman from 1997 until 2002; and with 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.

Area Editors:

Anupam Joshi

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Intelligent Networked Systems in general, and Mobile Computing

Wenjing Lou

Worcester Polytechnic University

Wireless Networks and Security

Sethuraman (Panch) Panchanathan

Arizona State 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

Wenye Wang

NCSU

Mobile and secure computing

Salil Kanhere

University of New South Wales, Sydney

Sensor networks, mobile networking, vehicular communication, wireless mesh networks and network security.

Antonio Krüger

 Saarland University, Germany

Mobile and Ubiquitous Spatial Assistance Systems, combining the research fields of Intelligent User Interfaces, User Modelling, Cognitive Sciences, and Ubiquitous Computing.

Mohan Kumar

University of Texas at Arlington

Pervasive Networking

Yunhao Liu

 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Sensor Network and Pervasive Computing; Peer-to-Peer Computing; Privacy and Security

Diane Cook

Washington State University

Smart Environments

Dr. Surendar Chandra

University of Notre Dame

Secure and Ubiquitous Storage, Mobile Collaboration Systems, Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Systems, Resource Management in Peer Computing Systems