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Special issue

Advances and Emergence in Participatory Sensing on Mobile Social Media Analytics

EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking welcomes submissions to the new thematic series on Advances and Emergence in Participatory Sensing on Mobile Social Media Analytics.

It has become ever emerging when the analytics of mobile Participatory Sensing face the big data era. Several challenges have been raised, for instance, how to design a suitable cloud/distributed architecture, how to carry out online computing efficiently, and how to handle the scalability issue. When being applied to big data applications, lots of the existing tools and systems for mobile Participatory Sensing analytics would become questionable. On the other hand, the big data itself has provided unique opportunity to accomplish the above tasks. This special issue will investigate all these aspects of the Participatory Sensing.

Participatory Sensing is a process of acquisition, integration, and analysis of big and heterogeneous data generated by a diversity of sources in urban spaces, such as sensors, devices, vehicles, buildings, and human. With the help of cloud computing, Internet of Things, and Big Data, Participatory Sensing connects unobtrusive and ubiquitous sensing technologies, advanced data management and analytics models, and novel visualization methods, to create solutions that improve urban environment, human life quality, and city operation systems. The proliferation of mobile devices has led to a bright new stage in which multimedia search and analysis are increasingly moving from the desktop to the cloud. Nowadays, it has become convenient to capture images and videos on the mobile end and associate them with social and contextual metadata such as comments and GPS tags. Such a hybrid data structure can benefit a wide variety of potential multimedia applications on the mobile end, such as location recognition, landmark search, augmented reality, and commercial recommendations. One intrinsic potential is to explore large-scale social multimedia to assist and facilitate location related applications, which is further promoted by the evolution of mobile devices. With the combination of social and mobile cues, several problems that are previously difficult to be tackled in multimedia content analysis have also become more tractable. For example, multiple images can be captured for accurate object research and recognition. Current research in Participatory Sensing addresses the following issues: Participatory Sensing as a novel methodology for user-centered research; development of new services and applications based on human sensing, computation, and problem solving; engineering of improved Participatory Sensing platforms including quality control mechanisms; incentive design of work; usage of Participatory Sensing for professional business; and theoretical frameworks for evaluation. This is opening a vast space of opportunities to extend the current networks, communications, and computer applications to more pervasive and mobile applications.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Participatory Sensing visual search and augmented 
  • Location based recommendation systems
  • Participatory Sensing computing and communication
  • Participatory Sensing big data computing for social and mobile applications
  • Multi device scene modeling in ad hoc wireless network
  • Mobile and social network privacy
  • Cloud-terminal collaboration in Participatory Sensing computation
  • Future trends in mobile Participatory Sensing analytics
  • Real-time Participatory Sensing and mobile crowd sensing 
  • Adaptive Participatory Sensing platforms  
  • Social media, semantic web viewpoints, and Participatory Sensing blog platforms 
  • Experience reports and studies of Participatory Sensing (i.e., services, testing, and measurements) 


Submission instructions:

Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have carefully read the Instructions for Authors for EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. The complete manuscript should be submitted through the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking submission systemTo ensure that you submit to the correct thematic series please select the appropriate sectionin the drop-down menu upon submission.  In addition, indicate within your cover letter that you wish your manuscript to be considered as part of the Thematic Series on Advances and Emergence in Participatory Sensing on Mobile Social Media Analytics. All submissions will undergo rigorous peer review and accepted articles will be published within the journal as a collection.


Deadline for submissions: CLOSED


Lead guest editor:

Zheng Xu, Tsinghua University & The Third Research Institute of the Ministry of Public Security, China


Guest editors :

Yunhuai Liu, The Third Research Institute of the Ministry of Public Security, China

Zhisheng Huang, Vrije University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Yingxu Wang, University of Calgary, Canada

 

Submissions will also benefit from the usual advantages of open access publication:

  • Rapid publication: Online submission, electronic peer review and production make the process of publishing your article simple and efficient
  • High visibility and international readership in your field: Open access publication ensures high visibility and maximum exposure for your work - anyone with online access can read your article
  • No space constraints: Publishing online means unlimited space for figures, extensive data and video footage
  • Authors retain copyright, licensing the article under a Creative Commons license: articles can be freely redistributed and reused as long as the article is correctly attributed 

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