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International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks

"Advance in Safe and Useful Social Network Services with Context-sensitive Data in Cyber-Physical System"

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Recently, people enjoy social network services (SNS) with their smart devices including phones and tablets. Those are mostly equipped with sensory devices such as global positioning system (GPS) and camera. However, the information produced from the sensory devices is often sensitive to people’s privacy and raises security concerns. The sensitive information is often uploaded to SNS and could be shared with a number of friends socially or random people for fun. Some information is used for providing users with user-customised or context-aware services by commercial companies.

Under the context, we raise some questions: how could we share our sensitive data with friends without security and privacy concerns? How much information is required or appropriate for balancing between safety and social engagement? Could misleading context information be a big threat to context-aware or user-customised services? For those questions, we invite academics and professionals to contribute original research as well as review current articles on those topics and other related topics. Papers on practical and theoretical topics are both welcomed. Potential topics include, but not are limited to:

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal’s Author Guidelines which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdsn/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/ijdsn/ssn/ according to the following timetable:

Manuscript Due Friday, 6 December 2013

First Round of Reviews Friday, 28 February 2014

Publication Date Friday, 25 April 2014

Lead Guest Editor

Jong M. Choi, Department of Computer Engineering, Mokpo National University, South Korea

Guest Editors

Hoon Ko, Department of Informatics, University of J. E. Purkinje, Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic

Marek R. Ogiela, AGH University of Science 8 Technology, Krakow, Poland

Goreti Marreiros, Institute of Engineering-Polytechnic of Porto, Porto, Portugal