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Advanced Location-Based Services Guest Editors Miguel A. Labrador University of South Florida, USA Axel Küpper University of Munich, Germany Katina Michael University of Wollongong, Australia PUBLICATION: SPRING 2008 Advances in end-system devices, localization techniques and availability of positioning data, information technology, mobile cellular networks, and the Internet are allowing innovative applications and services that may have been unattainable only a few years ago. At the same time, the proliferation of powerful and handy mobile devices makes these innovations more convenient than ever. This special issue of Computer Communications will provide researchers from academia and industry an avenue to present their possible solutions on the development, deployment, and application of advanced Location-Based Services (LBS). The focus of this issue is on advanced LBS and the regulatory and technical platforms that are needed to make them possible. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Advanced indoor and outdoor location-based applications: real-time tracking, multimedia, bidirectional, proactive applications Protocols, architectures and middleware in support of LBS New positioning techniques in support of LBS (indoor, cellular, satellite, hybrid) Standards and guidelines LBS based on integrated cellular, ad hoc, RFID, and sensor networks IP-based location services Position and location management Quality of location data Location representation, ontology, management, and distribution Geographic Information Systems for supporting LBS Algorithms and solutions for LBS-related functions (geocoding, reverse geocoding, ...) LBS applications for national security and community services Profiling using location information LBS regulatory, policy, and privacy issues and solutions LBS value chain and stakeholder management
Papers describing current research are solicited. Survey, tutorial, industry experience, and business models and case study papers are also solicited. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submissions: June 1, 2007
Notification of acceptance: November 1 2007
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Guidelines onpresenting your paper are at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/525440/authorinstructions. Authors are invited to submit full original papers in electronic form (PDF or postscript) to the either of the guest editors: Miguel A. Labrador Department of Computer Science and Engineering 4202 E. Fowler Ave., ENB 118, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620 E-mail:
[email protected] Axel Küpper Mobile and Distributed Systems Group Institute for Informatics - Research Unit 1 Ludwig-Maximilians, University of Munich Oettingenstr. 67, 80538 Munich, Germany E-mail:
[email protected] Katina Michael School of Information Technology and Computer Science University of Wollongong, NSW Australia 2522 E-mail:
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