International Journal of Smart Home

Special Issue on

"ADVANCES IN SMART HOME SECURITY"

ISSN 1975-4094

SERSC

Overview

With the proliferation of the Internet technology and electronic devices, Smart Home Environments (SHE) have received significant attention in last few decades. With a great potential to revolutionize our lives, SHE also introduces new research challenges.

This special issue is focused on addressing various aspects of security in SHE. We expect that it will be a trigger for further related research and technology improvements in this important subject.

Subject Coverage

Areas of interest for this special journal issue include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• Security issues and privacy for SHE

• Key/identity management in SHE

• Access control and security policies in SHE

• Authentication and authorization in SHE

• Network architectures and protocols for security in SHE

• Ubiquitous/pervasive platform and middleware for security in SHE

• Design of businesses models with security requirements for SHE

• Services and applications for security in SHE

• Content protection and digital rights management for SHE

• Intelligent sensor network/RFID for security in SHE

• Intrusion detection and computer forensics for SHE

• Emerging standards and technologies for security in SHE

• Commercial and industrial security in SHE

• Case studies, prototypes and experiences

Important Dates

Submission due date: Jan. 31, 2007

Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2007

Camera-ready paper due date: April 30, 2007

Publication date: May or June, 2007 (Tentative)

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit original papers, and they must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors have published elsewhere or have submitted in parallel to any other journals. The papers will be peer reviewed and selected based on their quality and relevance to this special issue as well as the journal. Paper must in PDF format. For the formatting and page limit of the manuscript, please see http://www.sersc.org/index.files/Journal8.htm ..

For any query or paper submission, please contact  Guest Co-Editor, Dr. Jiyoung Lim, at jylim@bible.ac.kr.

Guest Co-Editors

Guest Editorial Board

Alvin Chan
Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
E-mail: cstschan@comp.polyu.edu.hk