<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Call for Papers from The International Journal on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE)(SCI Indexed)</div><div><br>A Focused Topic Issue on<br>“Engineering for Mobile Clouds and Services”</div><div><br></div><div>1. Focused Theme</div><div>The advance of cloud computing and mobile computing brings a new paradigm </div><div>shift from conventional mobile computing services to mobile cloud computing</div><div>services for mobile users over the Internet and wireless networks. </div><div><br></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><br></div><div>In current mobile computing and wireless services, mobile users commonly </div><div>use mobile devices with limited computing power and resources to receive regional wireless communication services and limited data services. </div><div><br></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><br></div><div>There are many
different types of useful applications that can be deployed on <br>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. </div><div>for example, how to effectively increase the performance of hardware-limited </div><div>mobile devices using cloud computing, and how to address the major concerns</div><div>about cloud services for mobile devices, such as data privacy, data ownership,</div><div>service reliability, and service security. </div><div><br></div><div>To develop high-quality MCC software, software engineering and knowledge <br></div><div>engineering methodologies and techniques must be critical in developing <br></div><div>mobile clouds and services to develop elastic mobile cloud infrastructures, <br></div><div>platforms, and services.</div><div><br></div><div>This
focused topic issue for the International Journal of Software Engineering <br></div><div>and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE) focus on engineering issues and </div><div>solutions in building high-quality mobile cloud computing infrastructures, </div><div>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><br></div><div>2. The Focused Topics</div><div><br></div><div>This focused topic issue seeks unpublished original papers, which proposes</div><div>novel ideas, methods, solutions, and enabling technologies in engineering </div><div>high-quality mobile cloud software, application systems, and tools. </div><div><br></div><div>We invite original papers from both academia and industry on, but not limited</div><div>to, the following
topics:</div><div>- Mobile cloud computing models, infrastructures, architectures, and frameworks</div><div>- Formal methods and engineering methodologies for mobile clouds and services</div><div>- Green computing and energy saving solutions in mobile clouds and services</div><div>- Network communication protocols and connectivity in mobile clouds</div><div>- Mobile Data as a Services (MDaaS)</div><div>- Mobile Software as a Services (MSaaS)</div><div>- Mobile Platform-as-a-Service (MPaaS)</div><div>- Mobile Infrastructure-as-a-Service (MIaaS)</div><div>- Mobile cloud data security techniques and privacy solutions </div><div>- Quality validation techniques and QoS services in mobile computing and cloud computing</div><div>- Mobile cloud applications and enterprise systems</div><div>- Engineering tools and maintenance in building mobile cloud applications and services</div><div>- Modeling and simulations of
mobile cloud computing applications</div><div>- Service composition, adoption, customization, and configuration for mobile clouds</div><div>- Knowledge engineering and data mining and tools in mobile clouds</div><div>- Ontologies and methodologies for mobile cloud computing and services<br>- Experience reports, case studies and evaluation experiments</div><div><br></div><div>3. Important Dates</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><br></div><div>4. Paper Submission</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 pages in 11 pt font size. For more information, please contact the guest editors.</div><div><br></div><div>5. Paper Review and Publication</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><br></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</div></div></body></html>