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Smart devices and spaces for pervasive computing
Journal of Systems Architecture 60 (2014) 668–670
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Article history: Available online xx xxx xxxxy
a b s t r a c t Applications and services for pervasive computing have been dramatically grown and have contributed extensively to our daily experiences in recent years. Smart systems, devices, and spaces are proactive for ubiquitous and pervasive computing. Smart information technology (IT) is also an outcome of the state of the art and novel mobile and ubiquitous computing technologies that include highly capable handheld device, pervasive and personal device, etc. This special issue will be a trigger for further related research and technology improvements in pervasive and ubiquitous computing using smart devices and services. This special issue called for original papers describing the latest developments, trends, and solutions of smart devices and spaces for pervasive computing including real-time operating systems (OS), tiny OS and middleware supports, mobile system performance, trustworthy Internet and communications, agents and mobile and pervasive services, among others. In particular, this special issue focuses on a remote control and media-sharing system, flash storage-based smart system, heterogeneous mobile OS, and prediction and auto-execution system for pervasive computing. Ó 2014 Published by Elsevier B.V.
1. Introduction Ubiquitous and pervasive computing have emerged rapidly as an exciting new paradigm, and influenced every aspect of our lives and cultures. Smart IT is also an outcome of a state of the art and novel ubiquitous and pervasive technologies that include highly capable handheld device, pervasive and personal device or cellphone with advanced features such as iPhone OS, Android, Linux Mobile, Windows Mobile/Phone operation system, access to the Internet, and other computer-like processing capabilities similar to personal computer. Recently, smartphones have been widely used and are reaching over 4 billion subscribers these days due to their innovative capabilities of supporting many valuable applications and handheld mobile Internet services. On the other hand, the rapid growing trends of smartphones throughout the past several years have contributed to increasing ubiquitous pervasive computing for providing a variety of convergence services, playing a key role to connect with smart and intelligent computing devices. They range from the micro architecture level via the system software level up to the application-specific architecture level. Aspects such as real-time systems, OS, FPGA programming, programming languages, communications, mobile systems, parallel and distributed architectures as well as additional subjects in the computer and system architecture areas fall within the scope of this special issue. The technology will not be a main focus, but its use and relevance to particular designs will be. Case studies are welcome but must contribute more than just a design for a particular piece of software. All submitted papers were peer-reviewed and selected on the basis of both their quality and their relevance to the theme of this special issue. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sysarc.2014.08.001 1383-7621/Ó 2014 Published by Elsevier B.V.
We have received many manuscripts. Only four outstanding manuscripts among them were finally selected for this special issue. Each manuscript selected was blind reviewed by at least three reviewers consisting of guest editors and qualified external reviewers. 2. Scanning the special issue The first paper entitled ‘‘A remote control and media-sharing system using smart devices’’ by Shou-Chih Lo, Ti-Hsin Yu, ChihCheng Tseng [1] presents a design and implementation of an integrated service architecture that supports the remote control of home appliances and the sharing of digital media between indoor and outdoor devices. The proposed design follows standards related to digital homes, and this study presents the details of its hardware and software components. The proposed system has the following distinguishing features: (1) it removes the restriction of media sharing among only indoor Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) devices. The proposed system allows mobile phones to access this service regardless of whether they are in the home. (2) The home appliances without automatic control and networking capability can also be integrated with this platform when they are equipped with a simple control board. (3) The proposed system is based on an open-source software stack, existing equipment, and inexpensive hardware. (4) Various home services can be easily integrated into the proposed service platform. In the second paper entitled ‘‘Journaling deduplication with invalidation scheme for flash storage-based smart systems’’ [2], Seung-Ho Lim and Young-Sik Jeong propose a simple and efficient invalidation scheme for multiple copies of data in a common
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journaling module. They identify two types of duplications: (1) an explicit duplication of the journal region and original region with the same data. (2) An implicit duplication of transaction commits operations. The invalidation of duplicated data reduces write and erase operations and garbage collection overhead for the flash device, which would otherwise increases external I/O bandwidth. They conclude that the overall performance improves by roughly 5–35% during their experiments. The third paper entitled ‘‘Design and implementation of the WIPI-to-Android automatic mobile game converter for the contents compatibility in the heterogeneous mobile OS’’ [3] by Yang Sun Lee and Yun Sik Son presents a WIPI-to-Android automatic mobile game converter as a means to solve the problems of heterogeneous mobile OS platforms. With the recent appearance of smart phones, the mobile game market has dramatically grown, and game content has become killer content in the mobile market. However, because mobile communication companies have different mobile OSs and platforms with own programming language and development environment, mobile game developers must create content designed specifically for each platform or convert to provide game content to consumers. The proposed converter offers a means to solve the problems of heterogeneous mobile OS platforms. It can ensure quick and automatic conversion of existing WIPI game content into game content for the Android smart phone platform, thus it increases the reusability of existing content and provides smart phone users with more diverse content. In addition, the time and expense required throughout the development and conversion processes in order to provide game content designed for the WIPI feature phone platform on the Android smart phone platform can be significantly reduced. In the last paper entitled ‘‘A prediction and auto-execution system of smartphone application services based on user contextawareness’’ [4], Meeyeon Lee, Changgyu Bak, and Jung-Won Lee propose a system to predict smartphone applications based on inferring user context. Smartphones have emerged as suitable environments for user context-awareness and intelligent service provision. However, the existing works through the three steps process (log collection, context inference, and service provision) did not consider smartphone applications as the target service. Various application services on smartphones are still used by users’ own decision and manual controls. In this research, authors define a mobile context model with a new level of context and its inference method to perceive users’ intention or purpose related to the application usage. The proposed system provides the autonomous management of smartphone applications, so it can improve the usage of application by helping users who often miss the appropriate moment for executing or do not know which applications will be useful in the context. Acknowledgements Our special thanks go to Prof. I.J. Bate who is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Systems Architecture and all editorial staffs for their valuable supports throughout the preparation and publication of this special issue. We would like to thank all authors for their contributions to this special issue. We also extend our thanks to the external reviewers for their excellent help in reviewing the manuscripts. References [1] Shou-Chih Lo, Ti-Hsin Yu, Chih-Cheng Tseng, A remote control and mediasharing system using smart devices, J. Syst. Architect. (2014) 671–683. Available online: 15 May. [2] Seung-Ho Lim, Young-Sik Jeong, Journaling deduplication with invalidation scheme for flash storage-based smart systems, J. Syst. Architect. (2014) 684– 692. Available online: 26 April.
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[3] Yang Sun Lee, Yun Sik Son, Design and implementation of the WIPI-to-Android automatic mobile game converter for the contents compatibility in the heterogeneous mobile OS, J. Syst. Architect. (2014) 693–701. Available online: 24 October. [4] Meeyeon Lee, Changgyu Bak, Jung-Won Lee, A prediction and auto-execution system of smartphone application services based on user context-awareness, J. Syst. Architect. (2014) 702–710. Available online: 26 April.
Dr. James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park received his Ph.D. degree in Graduate School of Information Security from Korea University, Korea and Graduate School of Human Sciences from Waseda University, Japan. From December, 2002 to July, 2007, Dr. Park had been a research scientist of R&D Institute, Hanwha S&C Co., Ltd., Korea. From September, 2007 to August, 2009, He had been a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyungnam University, Korea. He is now a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech), Korea. Dr. Park has published about 100 research papers in international journals and conferences. He has been serving as chairs, program committee, or organizing committee chair for many international conferences and workshops. He is a president of the Future Technology Research Association International (FTRA) and Korea Information Technology Convergence Society (KITCS). He is editor-in-chief of Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences(HCIS) by Springer, International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) by InderScience, and Journal of Convergence (JoC) by FTRA Publishing. He is Associate Editor/Editor of 14 international journals. In addition, he has been serving as a Guest Editor for international journals by some publishers: Springer, Elsevier, John Wiley, Oxford Univ. press, Hindawi, Emerald, InderScience. His research interests include security and digital forensics, Human-centric ubiquitous computing, context awareness, multimedia services, etc. He got the best paper awards from ISA-08 and ITCS-11 conferences and the outstanding leadership awards from IEEE HPCC-09, ICA3PP-10, IEE ISPA-11, and PDCAT-11. Dr. Park’ s research interests include Digital Forensics, Security, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing, Context Awareness, Multimedia Service, etc. He is a member of the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, KIPS, KICS, KIISC, KMMS, KDFS and KIIT.
Professor Mohammad S. Obaidat (Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of SCS) is an internationally well-known academic/researcher/scientist. He received his Ph.D. and M. S. degrees in Computer Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA. Dr. Obaidat is currently a full Professor of Computer Science at Monmouth University, NJ, USA. Among his previous positions are Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Director of the Graduate Program at Monmouth University and a faculty member at the City University of New York. He has received extensive research funding and has published about Thirty (30) books and about Six Hundreds (600) refereed technical articles in scholarly international journals and proceedings of international conferences, and currently working on three more books. Professor Obaidat has served as a consultant for several corporations and organizations worldwide. Mohammad is the Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems, the FTRA Journal of Convergence and the KSIP Journal of Information Processing. He is also an Editor of IEEE Wireless Communications. Between 1991 and 2006, he served as a Technical Editor and an Area Editor of Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulations (SCS) International, TSCS. He also served on the Editorial Advisory Board of Simulation. He is now an editor of the Wiley Security and Communication Networks Journal, Journal of Networks, International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence, IJITCC, Inderscience. He served on the International Advisory Board of the International Journal of Wireless Networks and Broadband Technologies, IGI-global. Prof. Obaidat is an associate editor/editorial board member of seven other refereed scholarly journals including two IEEE Transactions, Elsevier Computer Communications Journal, Kluwer Journal of Supercomputing, SCS Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation, Elsevier Journal of Computers and EE, International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, The Academy Journal of Communications, International Journal of BioSciences and Technology, International Journal of Information Technology and ICST Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems. He has guest edited numerous special issues of scholarly journals such as IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Systems Journal, SIMULATION: Transactions of SCS, Elsevier Computer Communications Journal, Journal of C & EE, Wiley Security and Communication Networks, Journal of Networks, and International Journal of Communication Systems, among others. Obaidat has served as the steering committee
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chair, advisory Committee Chair and program chair of numerous international conferences. He is the founder of two well-known international conferences: The International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems (CITS) and the International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS). He is also the co-founder of the International Conference on Data Communication Networking, DCNET. Between 1994 and 1997, Obaidat has served as distinguished speaker/visitor of IEEE Computer Society. Since 1995 he has been serving as an ACM distinguished Lecturer. He is also an SCS distinguished Lecturer. Between 1996 and 1999, Dr. Obaidat served as an IEEE/ACM program evaluator of the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board/ Commission, CSAB/CSAC. Obaidat is the founder and first Chairman of SCS Technical Chapter (Committee) on PECTS (Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems). He has served as the Scientific Advisor for the World Bank/UN Digital Inclusion Workshop – The Role of Information and Communication Technology in Development. Between 1995 and 2002, he has served as a member of the board of directors of the Society for Computer Simulation International. Between 2002 and 2004, he has served as Vice President of Conferences of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International SCS. Between 2004 and 2006, Prof. Obaidat has served as Vice President of Membership of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International SCS. Between 2006 and 2009, he has served as the Senior Vice President of SCS. Between 2009 and 2011, he served as the President of SCS. Four of his recent papers have received the best paper awards from IEEE AICCSA 2009, IEEE GLOBCOM 2009, IEEE DCNET 2011, and IEEE CITS 2013 International Conferences. Prof. Obaidat has been awarded a Nokia Research Fellowship and the distinguished Fulbright Scholar Award. He received the SCS Outstanding Service Award for his excellent leadership, services and technical contributions. Dr. Obaidat received very recently the Society for Modeling and Simulation Intentional (SCS) prestigious McLeod Founder’s Award in recognition of his outstanding technical and professional contributions to modeling and simulation. He received in December 2010, the IEEE ComSoc-GLOBECOM 2010 Outstanding Leadership Award for his outstanding leadership of Communication Software Services and Multimedia Applications Symposium, CSSMA 2010. He received very recently the Society for Modeling and Simulation International’s (SCS) prestigious Presidential Service Award for his outstanding unique, long-term technical contributions and services to the profession and society. He has been invited to lecture and give keynote speeches worldwide. His research interests are: wireless communications and networks, telecommunications and Networking systems, security of network, information and computer systems, security of e-based systems, performance evaluation of computer systems, algorithms and networks, green ICT, high performance and parallel computing/computers, applied neural networks and pattern recognition, adaptive learning and speech processing. During the 2004/2005, he was on sabbatical leave as Fulbright Distinguished Professor and Advisor to the President of Philadelphia University in Jordan, Dr. Adnan Badran. The latter became the Prime Minister of Jordan in April 2005 and served earlier as Deputy Director General of UNESCO. Prof.
Obaidat is a Fellow of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International SCS, and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). For more info; see: http://bluehawk.monmouth.edu/mobaidat/.
Vincenzo Loia received the PhD in Computer Science from the University of Paris VI, France in 1989, and the bachelor degree in Computer Science from the University of Salerno in 1984. From 1989 he is Faculty member at the University of Salerno where he teaches Operating Systems based Systems and Multi Agent-based Systems. His current position is as Professor of Computer Science and chairman of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. He was principal investigator in a number of industrial R&D projects and in academic research projects. He is author of over 100 original research papers in international journals, book chapters, and in international conference proceedings. He edited four research books around agent technology, Internet, and soft computing methodologies. He is co-founder of the Soft Computing Laboratory and founder of the Multi Agent Systems Laboratory, both at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. He is Managing Editor of Soft Computing, an International Springer-Verlag Journal. His current research interests focus on merging soft computing and agent technology to design technologically complex environments, with particular interest in Web Intelligence applications. He is chair of the Task Force ‘‘Intelligent Agents’’ of Emergent Technologies Technical Committee (ETTC), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He is also member of the International Technical Committee on Media Computing, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society. From 2000, Dr. Loia has been involved as member of Program Committee for over 30 international conferences by IEEE Society.
Guest Editors Jong Hyuk Park Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea Mohammad S. Obaidat Monmouth University, USA E-mail address: [email protected] Vincenzo Loia University of Salerno, Italy E-mail address: [email protected]
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
Journal of Systems Architecture journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/sysarc
Preface
Smart devices and spaces for pervasive computing a r t i c l e
i n f o
Article history: Available online xx xxx xxxxy
a b s t r a c t Applications and services for pervasive computing have been dramatically grown and have contributed extensively to our daily experiences in recent years. Smart systems, devices, and spaces are proactive for ubiquitous and pervasive computing. Smart information technology (IT) is also an outcome of the state of the art and novel mobile and ubiquitous computing technologies that include highly capable handheld device, pervasive and personal device, etc. This special issue will be a trigger for further related research and technology improvements in pervasive and ubiquitous computing using smart devices and services. This special issue called for original papers describing the latest developments, trends, and solutions of smart devices and spaces for pervasive computing including real-time operating systems (OS), tiny OS and middleware supports, mobile system performance, trustworthy Internet and communications, agents and mobile and pervasive services, among others. In particular, this special issue focuses on a remote control and media-sharing system, flash storage-based smart system, heterogeneous mobile OS, and prediction and auto-execution system for pervasive computing. Ó 2014 Published by Elsevier B.V.
1. Introduction Ubiquitous and pervasive computing have emerged rapidly as an exciting new paradigm, and influenced every aspect of our lives and cultures. Smart IT is also an outcome of a state of the art and novel ubiquitous and pervasive technologies that include highly capable handheld device, pervasive and personal device or cellphone with advanced features such as iPhone OS, Android, Linux Mobile, Windows Mobile/Phone operation system, access to the Internet, and other computer-like processing capabilities similar to personal computer. Recently, smartphones have been widely used and are reaching over 4 billion subscribers these days due to their innovative capabilities of supporting many valuable applications and handheld mobile Internet services. On the other hand, the rapid growing trends of smartphones throughout the past several years have contributed to increasing ubiquitous pervasive computing for providing a variety of convergence services, playing a key role to connect with smart and intelligent computing devices. They range from the micro architecture level via the system software level up to the application-specific architecture level. Aspects such as real-time systems, OS, FPGA programming, programming languages, communications, mobile systems, parallel and distributed architectures as well as additional subjects in the computer and system architecture areas fall within the scope of this special issue. The technology will not be a main focus, but its use and relevance to particular designs will be. Case studies are welcome but must contribute more than just a design for a particular piece of software. All submitted papers were peer-reviewed and selected on the basis of both their quality and their relevance to the theme of this special issue. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sysarc.2014.08.001 1383-7621/Ó 2014 Published by Elsevier B.V.
We have received many manuscripts. Only four outstanding manuscripts among them were finally selected for this special issue. Each manuscript selected was blind reviewed by at least three reviewers consisting of guest editors and qualified external reviewers. 2. Scanning the special issue The first paper entitled ‘‘A remote control and media-sharing system using smart devices’’ by Shou-Chih Lo, Ti-Hsin Yu, ChihCheng Tseng [1] presents a design and implementation of an integrated service architecture that supports the remote control of home appliances and the sharing of digital media between indoor and outdoor devices. The proposed design follows standards related to digital homes, and this study presents the details of its hardware and software components. The proposed system has the following distinguishing features: (1) it removes the restriction of media sharing among only indoor Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) devices. The proposed system allows mobile phones to access this service regardless of whether they are in the home. (2) The home appliances without automatic control and networking capability can also be integrated with this platform when they are equipped with a simple control board. (3) The proposed system is based on an open-source software stack, existing equipment, and inexpensive hardware. (4) Various home services can be easily integrated into the proposed service platform. In the second paper entitled ‘‘Journaling deduplication with invalidation scheme for flash storage-based smart systems’’ [2], Seung-Ho Lim and Young-Sik Jeong propose a simple and efficient invalidation scheme for multiple copies of data in a common
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journaling module. They identify two types of duplications: (1) an explicit duplication of the journal region and original region with the same data. (2) An implicit duplication of transaction commits operations. The invalidation of duplicated data reduces write and erase operations and garbage collection overhead for the flash device, which would otherwise increases external I/O bandwidth. They conclude that the overall performance improves by roughly 5–35% during their experiments. The third paper entitled ‘‘Design and implementation of the WIPI-to-Android automatic mobile game converter for the contents compatibility in the heterogeneous mobile OS’’ [3] by Yang Sun Lee and Yun Sik Son presents a WIPI-to-Android automatic mobile game converter as a means to solve the problems of heterogeneous mobile OS platforms. With the recent appearance of smart phones, the mobile game market has dramatically grown, and game content has become killer content in the mobile market. However, because mobile communication companies have different mobile OSs and platforms with own programming language and development environment, mobile game developers must create content designed specifically for each platform or convert to provide game content to consumers. The proposed converter offers a means to solve the problems of heterogeneous mobile OS platforms. It can ensure quick and automatic conversion of existing WIPI game content into game content for the Android smart phone platform, thus it increases the reusability of existing content and provides smart phone users with more diverse content. In addition, the time and expense required throughout the development and conversion processes in order to provide game content designed for the WIPI feature phone platform on the Android smart phone platform can be significantly reduced. In the last paper entitled ‘‘A prediction and auto-execution system of smartphone application services based on user contextawareness’’ [4], Meeyeon Lee, Changgyu Bak, and Jung-Won Lee propose a system to predict smartphone applications based on inferring user context. Smartphones have emerged as suitable environments for user context-awareness and intelligent service provision. However, the existing works through the three steps process (log collection, context inference, and service provision) did not consider smartphone applications as the target service. Various application services on smartphones are still used by users’ own decision and manual controls. In this research, authors define a mobile context model with a new level of context and its inference method to perceive users’ intention or purpose related to the application usage. The proposed system provides the autonomous management of smartphone applications, so it can improve the usage of application by helping users who often miss the appropriate moment for executing or do not know which applications will be useful in the context. Acknowledgements Our special thanks go to Prof. I.J. Bate who is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Systems Architecture and all editorial staffs for their valuable supports throughout the preparation and publication of this special issue. We would like to thank all authors for their contributions to this special issue. We also extend our thanks to the external reviewers for their excellent help in reviewing the manuscripts. References [1] Shou-Chih Lo, Ti-Hsin Yu, Chih-Cheng Tseng, A remote control and mediasharing system using smart devices, J. Syst. Architect. (2014) 671–683. Available online: 15 May. [2] Seung-Ho Lim, Young-Sik Jeong, Journaling deduplication with invalidation scheme for flash storage-based smart systems, J. Syst. Architect. (2014) 684– 692. Available online: 26 April.
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[3] Yang Sun Lee, Yun Sik Son, Design and implementation of the WIPI-to-Android automatic mobile game converter for the contents compatibility in the heterogeneous mobile OS, J. Syst. Architect. (2014) 693–701. Available online: 24 October. [4] Meeyeon Lee, Changgyu Bak, Jung-Won Lee, A prediction and auto-execution system of smartphone application services based on user context-awareness, J. Syst. Architect. (2014) 702–710. Available online: 26 April.
Dr. James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park received his Ph.D. degree in Graduate School of Information Security from Korea University, Korea and Graduate School of Human Sciences from Waseda University, Japan. From December, 2002 to July, 2007, Dr. Park had been a research scientist of R&D Institute, Hanwha S&C Co., Ltd., Korea. From September, 2007 to August, 2009, He had been a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyungnam University, Korea. He is now a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech), Korea. Dr. Park has published about 100 research papers in international journals and conferences. He has been serving as chairs, program committee, or organizing committee chair for many international conferences and workshops. He is a president of the Future Technology Research Association International (FTRA) and Korea Information Technology Convergence Society (KITCS). He is editor-in-chief of Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences(HCIS) by Springer, International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) by InderScience, and Journal of Convergence (JoC) by FTRA Publishing. He is Associate Editor/Editor of 14 international journals. In addition, he has been serving as a Guest Editor for international journals by some publishers: Springer, Elsevier, John Wiley, Oxford Univ. press, Hindawi, Emerald, InderScience. His research interests include security and digital forensics, Human-centric ubiquitous computing, context awareness, multimedia services, etc. He got the best paper awards from ISA-08 and ITCS-11 conferences and the outstanding leadership awards from IEEE HPCC-09, ICA3PP-10, IEE ISPA-11, and PDCAT-11. Dr. Park’ s research interests include Digital Forensics, Security, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing, Context Awareness, Multimedia Service, etc. He is a member of the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, KIPS, KICS, KIISC, KMMS, KDFS and KIIT.
Professor Mohammad S. Obaidat (Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of SCS) is an internationally well-known academic/researcher/scientist. He received his Ph.D. and M. S. degrees in Computer Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA. Dr. Obaidat is currently a full Professor of Computer Science at Monmouth University, NJ, USA. Among his previous positions are Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Director of the Graduate Program at Monmouth University and a faculty member at the City University of New York. He has received extensive research funding and has published about Thirty (30) books and about Six Hundreds (600) refereed technical articles in scholarly international journals and proceedings of international conferences, and currently working on three more books. Professor Obaidat has served as a consultant for several corporations and organizations worldwide. Mohammad is the Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems, the FTRA Journal of Convergence and the KSIP Journal of Information Processing. He is also an Editor of IEEE Wireless Communications. Between 1991 and 2006, he served as a Technical Editor and an Area Editor of Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulations (SCS) International, TSCS. He also served on the Editorial Advisory Board of Simulation. He is now an editor of the Wiley Security and Communication Networks Journal, Journal of Networks, International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence, IJITCC, Inderscience. He served on the International Advisory Board of the International Journal of Wireless Networks and Broadband Technologies, IGI-global. Prof. Obaidat is an associate editor/editorial board member of seven other refereed scholarly journals including two IEEE Transactions, Elsevier Computer Communications Journal, Kluwer Journal of Supercomputing, SCS Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation, Elsevier Journal of Computers and EE, International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, The Academy Journal of Communications, International Journal of BioSciences and Technology, International Journal of Information Technology and ICST Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems. He has guest edited numerous special issues of scholarly journals such as IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Systems Journal, SIMULATION: Transactions of SCS, Elsevier Computer Communications Journal, Journal of C & EE, Wiley Security and Communication Networks, Journal of Networks, and International Journal of Communication Systems, among others. Obaidat has served as the steering committee
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chair, advisory Committee Chair and program chair of numerous international conferences. He is the founder of two well-known international conferences: The International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems (CITS) and the International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS). He is also the co-founder of the International Conference on Data Communication Networking, DCNET. Between 1994 and 1997, Obaidat has served as distinguished speaker/visitor of IEEE Computer Society. Since 1995 he has been serving as an ACM distinguished Lecturer. He is also an SCS distinguished Lecturer. Between 1996 and 1999, Dr. Obaidat served as an IEEE/ACM program evaluator of the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board/ Commission, CSAB/CSAC. Obaidat is the founder and first Chairman of SCS Technical Chapter (Committee) on PECTS (Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems). He has served as the Scientific Advisor for the World Bank/UN Digital Inclusion Workshop – The Role of Information and Communication Technology in Development. Between 1995 and 2002, he has served as a member of the board of directors of the Society for Computer Simulation International. Between 2002 and 2004, he has served as Vice President of Conferences of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International SCS. Between 2004 and 2006, Prof. Obaidat has served as Vice President of Membership of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International SCS. Between 2006 and 2009, he has served as the Senior Vice President of SCS. Between 2009 and 2011, he served as the President of SCS. Four of his recent papers have received the best paper awards from IEEE AICCSA 2009, IEEE GLOBCOM 2009, IEEE DCNET 2011, and IEEE CITS 2013 International Conferences. Prof. Obaidat has been awarded a Nokia Research Fellowship and the distinguished Fulbright Scholar Award. He received the SCS Outstanding Service Award for his excellent leadership, services and technical contributions. Dr. Obaidat received very recently the Society for Modeling and Simulation Intentional (SCS) prestigious McLeod Founder’s Award in recognition of his outstanding technical and professional contributions to modeling and simulation. He received in December 2010, the IEEE ComSoc-GLOBECOM 2010 Outstanding Leadership Award for his outstanding leadership of Communication Software Services and Multimedia Applications Symposium, CSSMA 2010. He received very recently the Society for Modeling and Simulation International’s (SCS) prestigious Presidential Service Award for his outstanding unique, long-term technical contributions and services to the profession and society. He has been invited to lecture and give keynote speeches worldwide. His research interests are: wireless communications and networks, telecommunications and Networking systems, security of network, information and computer systems, security of e-based systems, performance evaluation of computer systems, algorithms and networks, green ICT, high performance and parallel computing/computers, applied neural networks and pattern recognition, adaptive learning and speech processing. During the 2004/2005, he was on sabbatical leave as Fulbright Distinguished Professor and Advisor to the President of Philadelphia University in Jordan, Dr. Adnan Badran. The latter became the Prime Minister of Jordan in April 2005 and served earlier as Deputy Director General of UNESCO. Prof.
Obaidat is a Fellow of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International SCS, and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). For more info; see: http://bluehawk.monmouth.edu/mobaidat/.
Vincenzo Loia received the PhD in Computer Science from the University of Paris VI, France in 1989, and the bachelor degree in Computer Science from the University of Salerno in 1984. From 1989 he is Faculty member at the University of Salerno where he teaches Operating Systems based Systems and Multi Agent-based Systems. His current position is as Professor of Computer Science and chairman of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. He was principal investigator in a number of industrial R&D projects and in academic research projects. He is author of over 100 original research papers in international journals, book chapters, and in international conference proceedings. He edited four research books around agent technology, Internet, and soft computing methodologies. He is co-founder of the Soft Computing Laboratory and founder of the Multi Agent Systems Laboratory, both at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. He is Managing Editor of Soft Computing, an International Springer-Verlag Journal. His current research interests focus on merging soft computing and agent technology to design technologically complex environments, with particular interest in Web Intelligence applications. He is chair of the Task Force ‘‘Intelligent Agents’’ of Emergent Technologies Technical Committee (ETTC), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He is also member of the International Technical Committee on Media Computing, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society. From 2000, Dr. Loia has been involved as member of Program Committee for over 30 international conferences by IEEE Society.
Guest Editors Jong Hyuk Park Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea Mohammad S. Obaidat Monmouth University, USA E-mail address: [email protected] Vincenzo Loia University of Salerno, Italy E-mail address: [email protected]