Editorial

Citation

Khalil, I. (2013), "Editorial", International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, Vol. 9 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPCC-09-2013-0027

Editorial

Article Type: Editorial From: International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, Volume 9, Issue 4

Four papers are included in this issue. The first paper is a survey paper “Integrating social sensors and pervasive services: approaches and perspectives” by Alberto Rosi, Marco Mamei and Franco Zambonelli. The paper introduces the main concepts related to social sensing and pervasive sensing. Social sensors act as sources of information to measure properties of individuals and groups and to acquire up-to-date information about facts happening in the real world. Behind their sociological and business value, social sensors promises to be able to effectively complement ICT-based sensing devices in the support of adaptive context-aware services. Several proposals exist to effectively integrate social and ICT sensors to this purpose. Authors frame and analyze these approaches that can be undertaken to pursue such integration and survey the relevant proposals in the area.

The second paper “An OpenLS privacy-aware middleware supporting location-based applications” by Khanh Tran Dang, Nhan Trong Phan, and Nam Chan Ngo proposes an elastic and open design platform named OpenLS privacy-aware middleware for location-based applications as a solution to address the issues of heterogeneity, user privacy, and context-awareness in location-based services. In addition, authors have implemented the middleware and conducted experiments in order to show the assistance and the utility of the middleware towards location-based applications.

The third paper “Recognising indoor/outdoor activities of low entropy people using Bluetooth proximity and object usage data” by Muhammad Awais Azam, Jonathan Loo, Usman Naeem, and Muhammad Adeel describes a tired approach to recognize daily life activities of low entropy people with wireless proximity and object usage data. Both indoor and outdoor activities are considered and number of different scenarios and experiments are performed. Wireless proximity data is used for outdoor activities whereas object usage data obtained through non-obtrusive sensors used for the indoor activities. The experiments indicate the considerable potential of the technique for recognizing tasks and activities.

The fourth paper “High level geospatial information discovery and fusion for geocoded multimedia” by Andrew Ennis, Liming Chen, Chris D. Nugent, George Ioannidis, and Alexandru Stan proposes a generic approach to reverse geocoding by cross-referencing several geospatial data sources with the intension to facilitate semantic enrichment of multimedia. Authors have developed a method to extract relevant POIs from several geospatial databases for a given piece of multimedia using the embedded GPS coordinates. This method finds the most relevant POIs for the multimedia and extracts the information from these POIs and annotates it to the multimedia. A case study scenario was conducted which showed that relevant POIs can be found from several geospatial databases which can be fused to determine the context of the multimedia.

This issue concludes the ninth year of IJPCC which has served a large community of researchers and academics around the world with the highest quality articles in the timely and important field of pervasive computing and communication which represents the new era of computing every time, every where, and by all means.

Taking this opportunity, we would like to thank all the authors, referees, and the journal editorial board for their contributions and valuable comments on this issue. We would like to also thank the publishers Wendy Lynch and Kieran Booluck for their continuous support, advice, and hard work.

Ismail Khalil
Editor-in-Chief