Special Issue on "Recent Trends in Embedded Technologies and Wearable Systems: Computational Intelligence Solutions"

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Aim and Scope:

The rapid advance in presence of real time control for embedded systems and
wearable system and relates to Computational Intelligence (CI) approaches,
have played a vital role in many applications. Today's embedded technologies
and wearable systems are becoming even more intimate and control to human
lives. As with any technology there are number of challenges encircling the
use of wearable and embedded technology like security and privacy, energy
consumption, application development platform and human-computer
interaction. Further, latest advancement in health monitoring and other
related applications, we expect that it is timely and important to reveal
the extent to which embedded and wearable system developments in CI might be
offer a paradigm shift in this context. This special issue will bring
together the recent trends in CI focusing real-world applications for next
generation embedded and wearable technologies, to address the problem of how
to handle the uncertainty (for ex. noisy sensors) with probabilistic, machine learning and adaption
methodologies. The CI branches that is not limited to expert systems,
artificial immune system, swarm intelligence, fuzzy system, neural network,
evolutionary computing and various hybrid systems, which are combinations of
two or more of the branches.

The main idea of this special issue is to explore the capabilities of CI
methods and significant impact towards embedded and wearable systems.
Moreover, this special issue is to address comprehensive nature of embedded
wearable computing systems and to emphasize the character of CI in
modelling, identification, optimization, prediction, forecasting, and
control of future generative systems. Thus, this special issue solicits
state-of-the-art research findings from both academia and industry, with a
particular emphasis on novel techniques to ensure the impact of CI in
wearable embedded technologies and its related applications. Proposed
submissions should be original, unpublished, and present novel in-depth
fundamental research contributions either from a methodological/application
perspective in accomplishing embedded wearable systems for society.

Topics of Interest:

The topics relevant to this special issue include the following:

Computational intelligence solutions (data fusion, association,
classification)
Challenges to data analysis arising from the miniature size of sensors
and supporting electronics, such as data power levels and artefacts
Access control for wearable systems
Adaptive and Hybrid CI systems for wearable computing systems
Fully integrated ultra-wearable sensing platform
Privacy and security challenges in wearable embedded systems
Multimodal sensors - next generation space-saving and unobtrusive
solutions
Wearable embedded technologies and its applications (examples: auditory
and visual brain computer interfaces, fatigue, sleep physiological stress
and etc)
Energy harvesting and management for pervasive sensing
Specification, Validation and Verification of Wearable Embedded System
and Software
Signal processing solutions for wearable physiological sensing (data
conditioning, detection, estimation)

Coherent list of topics:

Papers must be tailored to the emerging fields of CI paradigms in embedded
wearable computing systems and explicitly consider the recent deployments
models, challenges, and novel solutions. The guest editors maintain the
right to reject papers they deem to be out of scope of this special issue.
Only originally unpublished contributions and invited articles will be
considered for the issue. The papers should be formatted according to the
journal guidelines.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: 15 November, 2016 First review notification: 20
January, 2017 Submission of revised papers: 28 February, 2017 Second review
notification: 15 April, 2017 Final manuscript due: 15 May, 2017 Acceptance
notification: 15 June, 2017 Tentative date of publication: October, 2017

Submission Guidelines

Unpublished manuscripts or extended versions of the papers that have been
published in related conference proceedings are welcome. All submissions
must be original and not currently under review for publication elsewhere.
All submitted papers will be peer reviewed using the normal standards of the
journal. By submitting a paper to this issue, the authors agree to referee
one paper (if asked) within the time frame of the special issue. Authors
must select the Article Type SI-etws at time of submission.

Guest Editors

Prof. Arun Kumar Sangaiah, VITUniversity, Vellore, India
Email: [email protected]

Prof. Nadia Nedjah, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Email: [email protected]

Prof. Zhiyong Zhang, HenanUniversity of Science&Technology, China
Email: [email protected]