<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><br>Call for Papers</div><div><br>A Focused Topic Issue on<br>“Engineering for Mobile Clouds and Services”</div><div>The International Journal on Software Engineering and Knowledge<br>Engineering (IJSEKE)(SCI Indexed)</div><div> </div><div> </div><div>1. Focused Theme</div><div>The advance of cloud computing and mobile computing brings a new </div><div>paradigm shift from conventional mobile computing services to mobile cloud</div><div>computing services for mobile users over the Internet and wireless networks. </div><div>Many people believe that Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) will not only </div><div>completely change the current way of delivering mobile computing and </div><div>communication services to global mobile users, but also alter their working
</div><div>and life styles with seamless global mobile resource sharing and accesses.</div><div> </div><div>In current mobile computing and wireless services, mobile users commonly use mobile devices with limited computing power and resources to receive </div><div>regional wireless communication services and limited data services. </div><div>Unlike mobile computing, MCC leverages emergent cloud infrastructures, </div><div>mobile networking and mobile device resources to deliver innovative and</div><div>diverse services to mobile users and businesses at anytime and anywhere;</div><div>including mobile cloud infrastructures, platforms, and software-as-as-services. </div><div>Mobile cloud service systems take advantage of existing cloud infrastructures </div><div>and services to allow mobile devices (such as smartphones and tablets) to</div><div>overcome the limited computing power and resources on mobile devices. </div><div> </div><div>There are
many different types of useful applications that can be deployed </div><div>on a MCC platform such as mobile commerce, mobile learning, mobile</div><div>healthcare, and mobile computing. There are also many fundamental issues </div><div>to be resolved in developing mobile clouds, applications and services. For example, how to effectively increase the performance of hardware-limited </div><div>mobile devices using cloud computing, and how to address the major </div><div>concerns about cloud services for mobile devices, such as data privacy, </div><div>data ownership, service reliability, and service security. </div><div> </div><div>To develop high-quality MCC software, software engineering and knowledge <br>engineering methodologies and techniques must be critical in developing <br>mobile clouds and services to develop elastic mobile cloud infrastructures, <br>platforms, and services.</div><div> </div><div>This focused topic issue for the
International Journal of Software Engineering <br>and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE) focus on engineering issues and</div><div>solutions in building high-quality mobile cloud computing infrastructures, platforms, and services. It provides an outlet for researchers and industry</div><div>practitioners to present innovative ideas, practical solutions and methods, </div><div>and software technologies and tools relating to mobile cloud computing and services.</div><div> </div><div>2. The Focused Topics</div><div> </div><div>This focused topic issue seeks unpublished original papers, which </div><div>proposes novel ideas, methods, solutions, and enabling technologies in engineering high-quality mobile cloud software, application systems, </div><div>and tools. We invite original papers from both academia and industry on, </div><div>but not limited to, the following topics:</div><div> </div><div>- Mobile cloud computing models, infrastructures,
architectures, and frameworks<br>- Formal methods and engineering methodologies for mobile clouds and services<br>- Green computing and energy saving solutions in mobile clouds and services<br>- Network communication protocols and connectivity in mobile clouds<br>- Mobile Data as a Services (MDaaS)<br>- Mobile Software as a Services (MSaaS)<br>- Mobile Platform-as-a-Service (MPaaS)<br>- Mobile Infrastructure-as-a-Service (MIaaS)<br>- Mobile cloud data security techniques and privacy solutions</div><div>- Quality validation techniques and QoS services in mobile computing and cloud computing<br>- Mobile cloud applications and enterprise systems<br>- Engineering tools and maintenance in building mobile cloud applications and services<br>- Modeling and simulations of mobile cloud computing applications<br>- Service composition, adoption, customization, and configuration for mobile clouds<br>- Knowledge
engineering and data mining and tools in mobile clouds<br>- Ontologies and methodologies for mobile cloud computing and services<br>- Experience reports, case studies and evaluation experiments</div><div> </div><div>3. Important Dates</div><div> </div><div>* Paper submission due date: January 15, 2014<br>* Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2014<br>* Camera-ready copy: March, 2014<br>* Expected publication: June 2014</div><div> </div><div>4. Paper Submission</div><div> </div><div>Papers should be prepared following the guidelines posted at the IJSEKE <br>web site(<a href="http://www.worldscinet.com/ijseke/mkt/guidelines.shtml">http://www.worldscinet.com/ijseke/mkt/guidelines.shtml</a>). <br>The authors must submit their original papers to IJSEKE website, specify <br>paper type as special issue, and then select this special issue from a <br>pull-down menu. Additionally, each paper is limited to 25
double-spaced </div><div>pages in 11 pt font size. </div><div> </div><div>For more information, please contact the guest editors.</div><div> </div><div>5. Paper Review and Publication</div><div> </div><div>All submitted papers will be reviewed by the selected researchers and experts <br>in the research field committee. Each paper will be reviewed at least by <br>three reviewers based on the review process of the International Journal of <br>Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. The accepted papers will be published in IJSEKE in a journal focused topic issue on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering for Mobile Cloud Computing and Services in 2013.</div><div> </div><div>6. Guest Editors</div><div>Jerry Gao (<a href="mailto:jerry.gao@sjsu.edu">jerry.gao@sjsu.edu</a>), San Jose State University, USA<br>Haiping Xu (<a href="mailto:hxu@umassd.edu">hxu@umassd.edu</a>), University of Massachusetts Dartmouth,
USA<br>Yan Bai (<a href="mailto:yanb@u.washington.edu">yanb@u.washington.edu</a>), University of Washington Tacoma, USA<br>George Roussos (<a href="mailto:g.roussos@dcs.bbk.ac.uk">g.roussos@dcs.bbk.ac.uk</a>), Birkbeck College, University of London, UK<br></div></div></body></html>