Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (JUCI)

Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (JUCI)
American Scientific Publishers (ASP)

			EDITORS-IN-CHIEF Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan

INTRODUCTION

The any place/any time/any means vision of ubiquitous computing has explosive impact on academics, industry, government and daily life. This emergence is the natural result of research and technological advances in wireless and sensor networks, embedded systems, mobile computing, distributed computing, agent technologies, autonomic computing and communication. Many novel but more specific computing mechanisms and paradigms have been recently driven from the broad view of ubiquitous computing, such as pervasive, context-aware, sentient, invisible, disappearing, everyday, wearable, proactive, autonomic, organic, sustainable, handheld, palpable, amorphous, spray, embedded computing, ambient intelligence, etc.

Following ubiquitous computers and networks, is a road towards ubiquitous intelligence, i.e., computational intelligence pervasion in both the physical world and the cyber world. Such right place/right time/right means vision of ubiquitous intelligence will greatly reform our world to create a smart world filled with a variety of embedded intelligence or smart real and virtual things ranging from software to hardware, from man-made artifacts to natural objects, from everyday appliances to sophisticated systems, from small rooms to large buildings, from enclosed sites to open spaces, from stationary places to moveable vehicles, etc. The computational intelligence will not only function as the methods or tools in systems but also result in ubiquitous existence residing in everyday objects, surrounding environments, diverse systems and even ourselves. Such future existence of ubiquitous intelligence calls for re-thinking of the conventional intelligent computing, identifying implications and important issues of the foreseen smart world, and finding corresponding solutions by joint efforts and fusions of multiple disciplines. The ubiquitous intelligence, as an emerging and very promising multidiscipline, aims at new models and technologies for graceful integrations and mutual actions of real worlds and virtual e-worlds with different scales and purposes.

JUCI addresses the most innovative researches and developments in this multidiscipline and includes all aspects related to ubiquitous computing and ubiquitous intelligence as well as the smart world, with emphasis on methodologies, models, semantics, awareness, architectures, middleware, tools, designs, implementations, experiments, evaluations, and non-technical but crucial factors in the practical applications of ubiquitous computing and intelligence related to economics, society, culture, ethics and so on.

OBJECTIVES

The objective of the JUCI journal is to provide an outstanding channel for academics, industrial professionals, educators and policy makers working in the different disciplines to contribute and to disseminate innovative and important new work in the broad ubiquitous computing areas and the emerging ubiquitous intelligence field.

READERSHIP

Scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, graduate students, managers, and industrial professionals.

CONTENTS

JUCI is a refereed international journal, initially published quarterly, providing an international forum to report, discuss and exchange experimental or theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas. Papers should be of a quality that represents the state-of-the-art and the latest advances in methodologies, models, semantics, awareness, architectures, middleware, tools, designs, implementations, experiments, evaluations, applications, non-technical factors and stimulating future trends.

SUBJECT COVERAGE

The JUCI journal covers all research and application aspects of the ubiquitous computing and ubiquitous intelligence. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1.	Embedded Hardware and Systems
	Embedded hardware support, system-on-a-chip (SOC), embedded system architecture, hardware/software co-design, real-time systems, power and energy-aware designs, testing and verification, sensor networks, application-specific processors, wearable computers/devices, etc.
2.	Ubiquitous Networking and Intelligent Services:
	Ubiquitous wired and wireless networks, intelligent network, ad hoc networking, intelligent sensor network, ubiquitous/pervasive platform and middleware, automated and adapted service, situated service, open service architecture, intelligent web service, intelligence service grid, etc.
3.	Ubiquitous Interaction and Intelligent Management:
	Natural and palpable interfaces to invisible computers, spontaneous and continuous interaction, user intention/demand anticipation and proactive computing, self-management system and autonomic computing, organic computing, sustainable computing, intelligence scalability, etc.
4.	Embedded Software and Intelligence:
	Embedded related operating system, compiler, assembler, middleware, software architecture and design, memory management, scheduling, embedded agent, embedded learning/reasoning program, embedded communication and networking, etc.
5.	Smart Objects and Environments:
	Smart artifact/appliance/material, smart label and card, smart textile and cloth, smart furniture, smart home and office, smart laboratory and factory, smart classroom and school, smart hospital and health care, aware room and building, smart road and vehicle, intelligent environment, smart hyperspace, smart platform and middleware, novel smart applications, etc.
6.	Context-aware Computing:
	Context acquisition and representation, context media processing, context database, context management, context framework and middleware, context analysis and utilization, location-aware application, power-aware system, resource-aware computation, self-aware computers and systems, etc.
7.	Real and Cyber World Semantics:
	Real world models and semantic representations, real world reasoning, user activity recognition and prediction, relations between real and cyber spaces, cyber world ontology and axiom, web/cyber semantics, web intelligence, etc.
8.	Ubiquitous Intelligence Modeling:
	Distributed artificial intelligence (DAI), distributed soft computing, natural/biological modeling for ubiquitous intelligence, multi-agent modeling approach, massive multi-agent system, heterogeneous intelligence management and collaborations, intelligence competition and evolution, amorphous computing, spray computing, etc.
9.	Ubiquitous Privacy and Trust:
	Privacy issues in ubiquitous society, privacy regulation and low, privacy intrusion automatic detection, privacy protection framework and infrastructure, identity and behavior trust, trust model and measure, risk estimation, trust management, security technology for privacy and trust guarantee, etc.
10.	Ubiquitous Intelligence Implications and Social Factors:
	Meaning and impact of ubiquitous intelligence, social implications of ubiquitous intelligence and smart world, positive and negative sides of ubiquitous computing, ethical issues, training, policy and legal issues, economic and culture impacts, psychological and emotional factors, politeness in computational intelligence, etc.