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Editors:
Sajal K. Das (Editor-in-Chief), Marco Conti (Associate Editor-in-Chief), Behrooz Shirazi (Editor-in-Chief, Special Issues)
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Description
Pervasive computing, often synonymously called ubiquitous computing, is an emerging field of research that brings in revolutionary paradigms
for computing models in the 21st century. Tremendous developments in such technologies as wireless communications and networking, mobile
computing and handheld devices, embedded systems, wearable computers, sensors, RFID tags, smart spaces, middleware, software agents,
and the like, have led to the evolution of pervasive computing platforms as natural successor of mobile computing systems. The goal of
pervasive computing is to create ambient intelligence where network devices embedded in the environment provide unobtrusive connectivity
and services all the time, thus improving human experience and quality of life without explicit awareness of the underlying communications
and computing technologies. In this environment, the world around us (e.g., key chains, coffee mugs, computers, appliances, cars, homes,
offices, cities, and the human body) is interconnected as pervasive network of intelligent devices that cooperatively and autonomously
collect, process and transport information, in order to adapt to the associated context and activity.
The Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Journal (PMC) is a professional, peer-reviewed journal that publishes high-quality scientific articles (both theory and practice) covering
all aspects of pervasive computing and communications. Topics include, but not limited to:
• Pervasive/Ubiquitous computing
and communications architectures and protocols
• Autonomic computing and communications
• Mobile computing systems
and services
• Ambient, invisible, implicit, and adaptive computing
• Mobile grid and peer-to-peer computing
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Algorithmic paradigms, models and analysis of pervasive computing systems
• Smart spaces and intelligent environments
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Enabling technologies (e.g., Bluetooth, BANs, PANs, 802.11 wireless LANs)
• Embedded systems and wearable computers
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Wireless sensors networks and RFID technologies
• Virtual immersion communications
• Multiple inter-connected networking
technologies (e.g., cellular, ad hoc, hybrid)
• Positioning and tracking technologies
• Auto-configuration and authentication
• Context-aware computing and location-based services and applications
• Service creation, discovery, management,
and delivery mechanisms
• Middleware and agent technologies
• Application layer protocols and services
• Programming
paradigms for pervasive and ubiquitous computing applications
• User interfaces and interaction models
• Runtime support
for intelligent, adaptive agents
• (Innovative) applications requirements, performance, and benchmarking
• Security,
privacy, fault-tolerance and resiliency issues
Bibliographic & ordering information
ISSN: 1574-1192
Imprint: ELSEVIER
Commenced publication 2005
Subscriptions for the year 2009,
Volume 5,
6 issues
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