===================================================================== Call For Papers. Journal of Convergence http://www.ftrai.org/joc/ ISSN 2093-7741(Print)/ISSN 2093-775X(Online) Special Issues ===================================================================== 1. Special Issue on Green IT Convergence: The Role of Information Technology in Environmentally Sustainable Organizations 2. Special Issue on "Advances in Convergence of Multimedia, Communications and Social Mobility" 3. Special Issue on "Convergence Application and Platform for Smart Devices" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Special Issue on Green IT Convergence: The Role of Information Technology in Environmentally Sustainable Organizations These days, many companies are increasingly going green, and CEO's are looking to IT operations to help them reduce corporate energy consumption and become more environmentally responsible. Indeed, these companies are seeking to change their poor environmental practices resulting in many forms of waste (e.g., unused resources, energy inefficiency, noise, and emissions) while improving productivity, reducing costs, and enhancing profitability. Beside, the IT industry has also shown great interest in sustainability, singling out "Green IT" as the most important strategic technology for many companies. It is also expected that the ¡°Green IT¡± service market will reach nearly $5 billion by 2013. This special issue aims to provide the readers with a focused set of peer-reviewed articles to reflect the latest research results on advanced issues in green IT convergence: The Role of Information Technology in Environmentally Sustainable Organizations. The papers will be peer reviewed by at least three independent reviewers and will be selected on the basis of their quality and relevance to the theme of this special issue. Papers on practical as well as on theoretical topics and problems are invited. Topics include (but are not limited to): - Issues surrounding the assessment of information systems sustainability - The use of IT to change human behaviors towards sustainable business practices - A green strategy for company - Development of green IT infrastructure, systems, products, applications, policies, practices, etc - The role of IT in sustainability - The design, implementation, and use of IT to reduce organizations¡¯ environmental impact Important Dates : - Submission due: April 15, 2011 - Acceptance Notification: June 15, 2011 - Final versions due: July 15, 2011 - Publication date: Fall/Winter in 2011 Submission Details: Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. The manuscripts have to be submitted in the form of a PDF file to the Corresponding Guest Editor - Prof. Hangbae Chang(hbchang@daejin.ac.kr). The submission must include the title, abstract of your paper, and all the authors' names, affiliations and emails. Paper submissions must conform to the layout and format guidelines in Journal of Convergence. Instructions for Authors are in: http://www.ftrg.org/joc/author.html Guest Editors - Prof. Hangbae Chang(Corresponding Editor), Daejin University, Korea E-mail: hbchang@daejin.ac.kr - Prof. Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan E-mail: chh@chu.edu.tw - Prof. Jongsung Kim, Kyungnam University, Korea E-mail: jongsung.k@gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Special Issue on "Advances in Convergence of Multimedia, Communications and Social Mobility" With the proliferation of multimedia data on the web and the widespread use of multimedia contents via mobile devices such as Smartphone, there has been a tremendous growth in multimedia data that needs to be considered with bandwidth, storage capabilities, and processor speed in networked multimedia applications during the last few years. Moreover, due to the increasing popularity of social networking services such as Twitter, Flickr and YouTube, many researchers and industries have been focused on the convergence of mobile/networked multimedia systems and social web technology. The convergence of multimedia communications and the constantly increasing capability of web technologies to deliver digital media such as video, images, and audio will allow for more media rich content to be delivered over the Web. This special issue aims to provide the readers with a focused set of peer-reviewed articles to reflect the latest research results on advanced issues in convergence of multimedia, communications and social mobility (e.g., Web 2.0). It will include a number of related topics such as particularly communication and semantic issues in multimedia systems, mobile contexts, social networking services and ubiquitous computing environments. The papers will be peer reviewed by at least three independent reviewers and will be selected on the basis of their quality and relevance to the theme of this special issue. Papers on practical as well as on theoretical topics and problems are invited. Topics include (but are not limited to): - Advances in Multimedia coding, networking and streaming - Innovative Internet video, mobile video, and IPTV services - Multimedia convergence services and applications - Multimedia transmission networks, systems, and applications - Multimedia security in communication - Multimedia indexing and retrieval in Web 2.0 - Multimedia web applications - Multimedia and multimodal signal processing, and user interfaces - New idea and standard for mobile multimedia convergence - QoS management for audio/video streaming and IPTV Important Dates(Tentative) : - Submission due: April 30, 2011 - Acceptance Notification: May 31, 2011 - Final versions due: June 15, 2011 - Publication date: 2Q/3Q in 2011 Submission Details: Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. The manuscripts have to be submitted in the form of a PDF file to the Corresponding Guest Editor - Dr. Seungmin Rho(pc.seungminrho@gmail.com). The submission must include the title, abstract of your paper, and all the authors' names, affiliations and emails. Paper submissions must conform to the layout and format guidelines in Journal of Convergence. Instructions for Authors are in: http://www.ftrg.org/joc/author.html Guest Editors -Seungmin Rho(Corresponding Editor), Korea University, Korea E-mail: pc.seungminrho@gmail.com -Habib M. Ammari, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, USA E-mail: Habib.M.Ammari@hofstra.edu -Yangsun Lee, Chosun University, Korea E-mail: yslee48@gmail.com -Gregorio Matinez, University of Murcia, Spain E-mail:gregorio@um.es ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Special Issue on "Convergence Application and Platform for Smart Devices" In recent years, the rapid development of information technology eventually brought the highly intelligent system into consumer devices. Recent consumer electronic devices such as TV, DVD, Home theatre, Video, Refrigerator, and Air-conditioner have intelligent and smart control system. Also, smart phones such as iPhone, Android, Web-OS and Windows Phones enable the pc-like capabilities with fully mobility. Wide use of smart devices invokes the concept of convergence of such devices. We can expect the communication between consumer electronic devices and smart phones. For example, we may control TV with smart phone from outside. However, such applications also invoke the security problems. The goal of this issue is to bring together the state of the art research contribution that describes original and unpublished work addressing for convergence application and platform for smart devices. It will reflect the state-of-the-art of the various convergence application, convergence services, platform convergence, security for new processing techniques in engineering, science, and other disciplines related to the convergence applications and platform for smart devices. Papers on practical as well as on theoretical topics and problems are invited. Topics include (but are not limited to): - Smartphone Applications and Services o Browsing/E-mail/Photos/Video/Music/Games/eBooks o SNS/Web/Internet/Location/SMS/MMS/Health/Mobile Ad/etc o SmartGrid/Energy/Home and Building Automation - Mobile Platform for Applications and Services o Android/Linux/ iPhone OS/ o Bada/Symbian/Windows Mobile/Windows Phone - Multimedia/Middleware for Application and Services o Widget/Contents Eco system/Open Market/Contents Security/DRM o Multi-media/3D contents/Augmented Reality/UX/UI - Connectivity for Applications and Services o Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/ZigBee/RF4CE/UWB/NFC o Discovery/Pairing/Security/Privacy - Smart device Challenges and Future Trends o Smart Appliance/Wearable Device/etc,. Important Dates : - Submission due: December 10, 2011 - Acceptance Notification: February 10, 2012 - Final versions due: February. 28 - Publication date: March 2012 Submission Details: Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. The manuscripts have to be submitted in the form of a PDF file to the Corresponding Guest Editor - Dr. Deok Gyu Lee(hankyusuk@kaist.ac.kr). The submission must include the title, abstract of your paper, and all the authors' names, affiliations and emails. The JoC journal manuscripts should be prepared by the authors, following the JoC author guidance (http://www.ftrai.org/joc/author.html). The submission instruction will be further notified to the authors of the recommended papers. Guest Editors -Dr. Kyusuk Han, KAIST, Korea Email: hankyusuk@kaist.ac.kr -Dr. Edward Hua, QED Systems, USA Email: edwardyhua@gmail.com -Prof. Jose A. Onieva, Univ. of Malaga, Spain Email: onieva@lcc.uma.es -Prof. Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, IIUM, Malaysia Email: sakib.pathan@gmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------