[agents] Special Issue on Network Surveillance and Intruder Detection - The Scientific World Journal, Hindawi

[Zahoor Khan]

CALL FOR PAPERS


SPECIAL ISSUE on 
Network Surveillance and Intruder Detection
The Scientific World Journal, Hindawi

URL: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/si/120405/cfp/


Visual surveillance networks are installed in many security sensitive places in today’s world. In most of the cases, human security officers are required to continuously stare at large numbers of monitors simultaneously and for long periods of time. Constant alert vigilance for hours on end is difficult to maintain for human beings with natural cognitive limits on concentration and attention spans. It is thus important to remove the onus of detecting untoward activity, events which rarely occur, from the human security officer to an automated system. While various automated surveillance techniques are being developed based on installed static camera network, some other technologies like wireless visual or multimedia sensor networks could contribute in the process to make the systems more efficient by employing event-based activation strategies. All these camera-equipped networked devices of different categories could be assigned distinctive identification tags and thus, they could form an Internet of Things (IoT) to allow efficient network surveillance with minimal involvement of human operators. Many Internet-connected devices in this way would allow us to sense, warn, and control the physical world around us. Numerous research issues on the relevant fields are emerging as a need of time. This special issue opens the door for the researchers to publish their thoughts, models, findings, analysis, and future expectations in the broad field of automated network surveillance and intruder detection. Any topic related to automated network surveillance and intruder detection would be considered. Both original research and review articles on the topics are welcome. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

- Automated surveillance algorithms
- Cost effective network surveillance using sensors
- Surveillance network models
- Adoption of IP-based cameras in surveillance networks
- Metadata analysis in IoT based surveillance networks
- Visual sensor based IoT
- Security and reliability of IoT-based surveillance networks

Before submission, authors should carefully read over the journal’s Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/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/tswj/computer.science/nsid/ according to the following timetable:

Manuscript Due    Friday, 17 October 2014
First Round of Reviews    Friday, 9 January 2015
Publication Date    Friday, 6 March 2015

Lead Guest Editor

Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Department of Computer Science, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Malaysia, sakib.pathan at gmail.com <mailto:sakib.pathan at gmail.com> 

Guest Editors

Tarem Ahmed, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, BRAC University, Bangladesh, taremahmed at yahoo.com <mailto:taremahmed at yahoo.com> 
Danda B. Rawat, Georgia Southern University, USA, db.rawat at ieee.org <mailto:db.rawat at ieee.org> 
Zahoor Khan, Dalhousie University, Canada, zahoor.khan at dal.ca <mailto:zahoor.khan at dal.ca> 
Pasquale Pace, DIMES - University of Calabria, Italy, ppace at dimes.unical.it <mailto:ppace at dimes.unical.it>  

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Zahoor Khan, PhD, MCSc, MSc (Computer Engineering), MSc (Electronics), BSc, MCSE

Faculty/Postdoctoral Fellow, Internetworking Program

Faculty of Engineering, Dalhousie University

Halifax, NS Canada B3J 1Y9

Phone: +1-(902)-494-3571

 <http://www.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan> www.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan

 <mailto:Zahoor.Khan at Dal.ca> Zahoor.Khan at Dal.ca

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Part-time Faculty of Computing & Information Systems
Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary’s University
Halifax, NS Canada B3H 3C3
 <mailto:Zahoor.Khan at smu.ca> Zahoor.Khan at smu.ca

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