Secure and Advanced Technology for Intelligent Environments
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (I.F. 2020: 1.595)

Rationale

Intelligent Environments (IE) refer to physical spaces in which IT and other pervasive computing technologyare woven and used to achieve specific goals for the user, the environment or both. IEs have the ultimateobjective of enriching user experience, better manage, and increase user awareness of that environment.From a computing science perspective, IE must exploit rich combinations of small distributedsensing/computational nodes to identify and deliver personalized services to the user when they areinteracting and exchanging information with the environment. This calls for new ways of interacting withusers, perceiving and understanding the world, designing living spaces and living together with artificialagents. IE has a large area of applications including well-being, education, working environment, energymanagement, AAL, etc. However, this spreading of IE in many areas, including the public space, must be accompanied with highsecurity standard. Indeed, such technology can be vulnerable to attack from the outside and personal datacan be recorded and used without explicit consent of the user. Solutions for increasing security, privacy,transparency and trustworthiness is thus mandatory for full adoption of such technology in our daily life. Thegoal of this thematicissue is to highlight state-of-the-art research that address new research challenges onadaptation, sensing, human interaction and security in intelligent environments.

Topics

We invite the submission of original technical papers on topics including but not limited to:
•Ambient intelligence•Smart buildings
•Ubiquitous/Pervasive computing
•IE for home, work and education
•Context awareness•Sustainable design
•Smart cities
•HCI
•Robotics
•Sensors
•Wireless sensor networks
•Virtual/Mixed reality
•Mobile and wearable computing
•Architecture and interaction design
•Design and reliability of systems
•Security and privacy requirements engineering of IE
•Privacy protection of big data in IE
•Trustworthy computing model for IE
•Security and privacy vulnerability assessment in IE

Notes for Authors
Contributions must be at least 12 pages in length. Submitted papers should not have been previouslypublished nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Conference papers may besubmitted if the paper has been rewritten and expanded to at least 30% (justifications to be included in thecover letter), and, when appropriate, written permissions must have been obtained from any copyrightholders of the original paper. For preparation of your manuscript, please follow the instructions at https://www.iospress.nl/journal/journal-of-ambient-intelligence-and-smart-environments/, under section “Manuscript Submission & Author Instructions”.

Important Dates
Submission Deadline Date: October 10th, 2021
Authors Notification Date: January 10th, 2022
Revised Papers Due Date: March 7th, 2022
Final notification Date: April 7th, 2022
Scheduled publication: May 2022
All Deadlines at 11:59pm PST

Guest Editors
Prof. François Portet, Laboratoire d'informatique de Grenoble (LIG), Université Grenoble Alpes, FRANCE
Prof. Guillaume Lopez, Dpt of Integrated Information Technology, Aoyama Gakuin University, JAPAN
Prof. Philippe Lalanda, Laboratoire d'informatique de Grenoble (LIG), Université Grenoble Alpes, FRANCE
Prof. Massimo Mecella, Dipartimento di Ingegneria informatica, automatica e gestionale, Sapienza Università di Roma, ITALY