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SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF UNIVERSAL COMPUTER SCIENCE ON ADAPTIVE SERVICES FOR THE FUTURE INTERNET Submission deadline: April 4th, 2014 SCOPE AND TOPICS The Future Internet has emerged as a new initiative to pave a novel infrastructure linked to objects (things) of the real world to meet the changing global needs of business and society. It offers internet users a standardized, secure, efficient and trustable environment, which allows open and distributed access to global networks, services and information. To be consistently adopted, the Future Internet will be enabled through standards-based notations for messaging, semantics, process and state (such as those RDF, OWL, SOAP, REST and WS-BPEL), enabling distributed systems and entities to be described in a scalable and flexible robust dynamic environment. Multi-tenancy will enable their remote access as Software as a Service (SaaS), by performing the integration into larger networks of communicating software (e.g., a mashup or a plug-in to a Cloud platform). Future Internet applications will have to support the interoperability between many diverse stakeholders by governing the convergence and life-cycle of Internet of Contents (IoC), Services (IoS), Things (IoT), and Networks (IoN). These applications should handle dynamic and continuous change: for example, in the provisioning of services, availability of things and contents, connectivity of networks, diversity of user devices, etc. They should also bear in mind that the Future Internet should provide a better experience for the user journey, with personalized and context-aware contents, adapted to their preferences, and where users also play an active part in creating or sharing services. There is a need for both researchers and practitioners to develop platforms made up of adaptive Future Internet applications. In this sense, the emergence and consolidation of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), Cloud Computing and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) give benefits, such as flexibility, scalability, security, interoperability, and adaptability, for building these applications. Although there already are emerging solutions to host software services and data on remote computers and create public sensor networks by using these technologies; the mentioned solutions employ simple technical approaches related to replication strategies to ensure availability and to achieve a load-balancing scalability. Future Internet systems however, will also need to sense and respond to a huge amount of signals sourced from different entities in real-time. In this context, an event would be detected if, for example, there is non-existence of a signal which normally occurs, affecting the execution of other services. These events would be produced by IoT and processed in the IoS. In order to build business level events Complex Event Processing (CEP) may be used. CEP allows detecting complex and meaningful events and inferring valuable knowledge for end users.The main advantage of using CEP to process complex events is that the latter can be identified and reported in real time, reducing the latency in decision making, unlike the methods used in traditional software for event analysis. Event-Driven Service-Oriented Architectures (ED-SOA or SOA 2.0) are also being used to respond to events that occur as a result of business processes. The aim of this Special Issue is to address different aspects of adaptive Future Internet applications, emphasizing the importance of governing the convergence of contents, services, things and networks in order to achieve building platforms for efficiency, scalability, security and flexible adaptation. It will cover the foundations of the aforementioned technologies as well as new emerging proposals for their potential in Future Internet services. Then, this special issue encourages a multidisciplinary perspective and welcomes papers that address challenges of Future Internet applications. Topics of the special issue include: * Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) * Cloud Computing Environments (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) * Services Mashups Development * Service Discovery, Semantic Web and Ontology * Secure Data Management and Adaptation, Privacy and Trust * Self-Adaptive Services and Applications and Autonomic Computing * Context-Aware, Mobile and Pervasive Adaptive Services on the Cloud * Emerging Internet of Things Business Models * Business Models for Quality of Services (QoS) and Cost of Services (CoS) * Adaptation Contract and Service Level Agreements (SLA) * Service Adaptive Composition, Orchestration and Choreography * Dynamic Adaptation of Services on the Cloud * Dynamic Internet Content Delivery * Run-Time Monitoring, Services Evolution and Maintenance * Model-Driven SOA and Service Systems Deployment * Sensor Web Enablement and Web-Connected Devices (Sensor Web, smartphone, RFID) * Services Computing in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET) * Service-Oriented Middleware Deployment for Sensor as a Service * Software Engineering for Sensors in the Internet of Things (IoT) * Formal Methods in Services Computing * SOA Reference Models and Frameworks to Adaptive Services * Event-Driven Service-Oriented Architectures (ED-SOA or SOA 2.0) * Complex Event Processing * Linked Open Data * JSON for Linking Data * Hypermedia Driven Web APIs * Software Service Engineering (SSE) Practices, Case Studies and Experience Reports * Novel Applications based on Content Networks * Application Scenarios as eHealth (AAL), Transport and Logistics (ITS), Smart Cities SUBMISSION FORMAT AND PROCEDURE This public call for papers is open to all potential authors worldwide. We solicit high-quality papers on the previous themes and topics to appear in this Special Issue. All submissions will be rigorously peer-reviewed by at least 3 international and prestigious reviewers in the areas of Service-Oriented Architectures, Cloud Computing and Wireless Sensor Networks, in particular drawn from the Programme Committee of the third edition of WAS4FI http://was4fi.lcc.uma.es/committees.html. All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated on originality, significance, clarity and quality. Additionally, this Special Issue will include extended submissions of selected papers of the third edition of the International Workshop on Adaptive Services for the Future Internet (WAS4FI 2013) http://was4fi.lcc.uma.es/, in conjunction with the European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2013) http://esocc2013.lcc.uma.es/ submitted as new papers. The extended version of these papers must contain at least 30-50% new material and the title must clearly and unmistakably differ from the title of the article presented at the workshop. All submissions must be in English, formatted according to the guidelines of Journal of Universal Computer Science (JUCS), and submitted as via the EasyChair system https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specialissuewas4fi20 in PDF format. The length of a paper may not exceed 20 pages. The submission guidelines can be found at http://www.jucs.org/ujs/jucs/info/submissions (with sample formats in LaTeX and Word). IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: April 4th, 2014 Notification to authors: May 21st, 2014 Final versions: June 18th, 2014 Final check and/or 2nd round of review, notification to authors: July 9th, 2014 Camera-ready versions: July 23rd, 2014 Publishing date: Autumn, 2014 GUEST EDITORS Javier Cubo, University of Málaga, Spain Guadalupe Ortiz, University of Cádiz, Spain Juan Boubeta-Puig, University of Cádiz, Spain Howard Foster, City University London, United Kingdom Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany CONTACT EMAIL: [email protected]
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