Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing http://www.springer.com/engineering/computational+intelligence+and+complexit... Editor-in-Chief: Vincenzo Loia Special Issue on Systems and Applications of Internet of Things for building Smart Environments Aims and Scope The new advances on embedded systems and mobile computing provide great potential to the development of the information and communication society. Progress made open new possibilities for designing value-added applications for the user. The purpose of this special issue is to foster quality research in this field. The scope of this special issue deals with the scientific and technological issues for building smart environments made of connected devices and cloud computing support. Overview Most of the current IoT advances are mainly focused on sensors, connectivity networks and architectures, however the key-enabling aspect of this paradigm is the implementation of user-centred applications that focus on improving the life of citizens and the places in which they live. Smart cities, assisted living, transportation, sport monitoring and health applications are just some examples of applications which have emerged in this domain. The development of smart objects, embedded intelligence, and smart networks may further aid progress. In addition, connecting the Internet-of-Things to the Cloud can address the problem of access to near-limitless computational power and allows to unlock advanced multi-tiered IoT applications and to provide smarter behaviour of the IoT systems. However, this paradigm still has technological and scientific challenges related to several areas of computing and communications. The objective of this special issue is to bring together the state-of-the-art research contributions that address key aspects of Smart Environments powered by Internet of Things and related areas. Original papers describing completed and unpublished work not currently under review by any other journal/magazine/conference/workshop are solicited. Why this subject is important to Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing readers The Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing is an international and prestigious journal in the field of IoT applications; in this perspective, this SI focusing on IoT and building of smart environments, will be able to collect several scientific contributions from different research areas, since the IoT paradigm can be considered a quite consolidated but at the same time an emerging paradigm with an increasing interest from academics, government and industry. List of the topics to be covered Topics of interest around IoT include, but are not limited to, the following scope:  Application development trends for IoT.  IoT system design, modeling and evaluation.  Cyber-Physical Systems  Mobile Cloud Computing.  Real-time computing for IoT.  Cloud Computing and IoT.  Embedded sensing and actuating.  Smart Cities development.  Ubiquitous computing.  Human centric computing.  Distributed smart systems and applications.  Data management in IoT.  Quality of Service in IoT applications.  Scalability and mobility issues.  Specialized embedded architectures. Proposals should address some of the above-mentioned topics, and identify the added value of the proposed approach specific to IoT and smart environments. It is expected to include usage scenarios to demonstrate the practicality of the approach. Submission Guidelines All the papers should be full journal length versions and follow the guidelines set out by JAIHC http://www.springer.com/engineering/computational+intelligence+and+complexit.... Manuscripts should be submitted online at https://www.editorialmanager.com/aihc/default.aspx. All the papers will be peer-reviewed following the journal reviewing procedures. Authors have to select the Article Type “IoT for Smart Environments” in the submission system. Schedule – important dates  Paper submission due: Oct. 30, 2017  1st round review notification: Dec. 30, 2017  Revised version submission due: Jan. 30, 2018  2nd round review notification: Feb. 30, 2018  Final Acceptance notification: Mar. 30, 2018 Guest Editors Dr. Higinio Mora Mora Senior Researcher. Computer Technology and Computation Department. University of Alicante. Spain. Dr. Bruno Volckaert Professor. Department of Information Technology. Ghent University. Belgium. Dr. Virgilio Gilart Iglesias Senior Researcher. Computer Technology and Computation Department. University of Alicante. Spain. Dr. Raquel Pérez del Hoyo Senior Researcher. Department of Building Sciences and Urbanism, University of Alicante, Spain _______________________________________________ CONFERENCES-UCAMI-IWAAL-AMIHEALTH mailing list CONFERENCES-UCAMI-IWAAL-AMIHEALTH@sercontecpma.com http://sercontecpma.com/mailman/listinfo/conferences-ucami-iwaal-amihealth_s...