Healthcare Information Technology for the Extreme and Remote Environments

Submission Deadline: 10 April 2019

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Healthcare Information Technology for the Extreme and Remote Environments.

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Healthcare Information Technology for Extreme and Remote Environments (HITERE). Extreme and rural medicine means having to treat health issues in the most challenging and sometimes inhospitable environments. It can occur in places completely removed from all of the standard procedures, comforts, protocols, and technologies, or during a crisis such as floods, tsunamis, and earthquakes that result in power failures and computer inoperability.. Knowing how to deal with the unique challenges encountered saves lives and communities. Hospitals and clinicians are being challenged to do more with less, yet there are limited attempts to develop solutions and applications that work in such challenging environments. This Special Section in IEEE Access aims to provide researchers and practitioners a platform to present innovative solutions based on emerging technologies like IoT, blockchain, electronic data interchange (EDI) and wireless sensors networks.  The main focus of this Special Section is to address the current research challenges by encouraging submissions related to the advanced Healthcare Information technologies.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Architecture, models, and design for trustworthiness for Extreme Environments
  • Network and system trustworthiness
  • Data trust, device trust and user trust
  • Identity management and identity trust
  • Modeling, Simulation and Protocols for Extreme Environments
  • Backup Technologies for Extreme Environments
  • Patient data delivery over unsecured channels
  • Medical images processing for Extreme Environments
  • Robustness against Environmental changes (cryosphere, land, oceans, and atmosphere)
  • Remote sensoring, and their associated technologies
  • Smart OTA Healthcare Apps for Extreme Environments
  • OTA Telepresence
  • Survivable Systems
  • Robotics and unmanned vehicles for Extreme Environments
  • IoT and Wearables for Extreme Environments
  • Navigation and Communication Technologies for Extreme Environments
  • Cloud Computing for Extreme Environments

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Associate Editor:  Sabah Mohammed, Lakehead University, Canada


Guest Editors:

  1. Tai-hoon Kim, Sungshin W. University, Korea
  2. Osvaldo Gervasi, University of Perugia, Italy
  3. Jinan Fiaidhi, Lakehead University, Canada


Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

 

  1. Heterogeneous Crowdsourced Data Analytics
  2. Trends and Advances for Ambient Intelligence with Internet of Things (IoT) systems
  3. Healthcare Big Data


IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to:
http://ieee.atyponrex.com/journal/ieee-access

For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact: sabah.mohammed@lakeheadu.ca

 

Advanced Sensor Technologies on Water Monitoring and Modeling

Submission Deadline: 30 July 2019

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Advanced Sensor Technologies on Water Monitoring and Modeling.

Developing new methods and technologies for water pollution control, water resources management, and restoration of watershed ecosystems are critical for securing water security and sustainable development. The biophysicochemical parameters in an aqueous system, such as flow, hydraulic heads, temperature, pH, conductivity, turbidity, microorganisms, solutes concentration, etc., are of great significance in water research. Traditional methods for aqueous environmental monitoring and modeling are heavily dependent on instant point-in-space measurements, laboratory analysis, and physical and computing infrastructure. However, these methods are not only of high cost, but also are unable to timely provide many of the required spatiotemporal features. Thus, there is a clear need for continuous on-line monitoring water quality and hydrologic conditions using advanced sensors technologies across spatiotemporal resolutions.

The rapid expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, cloud computing and big data promote unprecedented advances in signal processing and information system. Such advances support the development of sensing technologies, as well as software-defined networks, which allow effective monitoring and modeling for water issues. Sensing and control systems that are suitable for the effective monitoring of biophysicochemical parameters, as well as for detecting concentrations of interest in solutes, are crucial to investigate water health and chemical evolutions, and also to timely implement prevention and management strategies.

The purpose of this Special Section in IEEE Access is to solicit manuscripts on the emerging trends, issues, and challenges in smart sensing for aqueous environment monitoring and modeling. Practical studies describing techniques or information system for real-time and in-situ recording of biophysicochemical parameters in an aqueous environment are encouraged. Letters, reports, and reviews with a multidisciplinary focus are also welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Advanced sensing technologies in aqueous environments
  • Low cost, portable optical sensing technologies for water monitoring
  • Design, simulation and implementation of sensor systems for water leakage monitoring
  • Water quality sensing in Water Distribution System (WDS)
  • Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) for water resource management and control
  • Web-based system analysis and modeling in urban water systems
  • Smartphone-based mobile water monitoring and heterogeneous sensor network
  • Transportation and environmental pollution analysis on water quality
  • Real-time flood forecasting and warning systems
  • Novel monitoring system for municipal water pipes
  • Remote Hydrologic Sensor Networks in the context of citizen science
  • Underwater acoustic signaling and interactive visualizing technologies
  • Real-time, on-site and in-situ monitoring in water and marine environments
  • Robotic and autonomous hydraulic information monitoring infrastructures
  • Experimental network measurements and characterization for aqueous monitoring
  • Water data processing pipelines and data product generation
  • Water data life-cycle management and end-to-end systems
  • Data quality assurance and quality control for observational water data
  • Innovation in water and healthy environments research
  • Adaptive measurements collection, acquisition, management, and visualization
  • Sustainable water management and cost-benefit analysis
  • Security issues and solutions for privacy in an aqueous environment

We also highly recommend the submission of multimedia with each article as it significantly increases the visibility, downloads, and citations of articles.

Associate Editor: Xiang Huang, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China

Guest Editors:

  1. Jie Liu, Peking University, China
  2. Eftichios Koutroulis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
  3. Branko Kerkez, University of Michigan, USA
  4. Gilberto Pastorello, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
  5. Nick R. Harris, University of Southampton, UK.

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. Underwater Wireless Communications and Networking
  2. Multiphase Flow Measurement: Techniques and Applications
  3. Convergence of Sensor Networks, Cloud Computing, and Big Data in Industrial Internet of Things

IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to:
http://ieee.atyponrex.com/journal/ieee-access

For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact: huangx07@gmail.com

Microwave (X- and S-band) Marine Radars for Ocean Sensing

Submission Deadline: 30 September 2018

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Microwave (X- and S-band) Marine Radars for Ocean Sensing.

Non-coherent X-band (8-12 GHz) and S-band (2-4 GHz) marine radars have been used to aid the navigation of ships and monitor the traffic in coastal approaches for decades. These traditional marine radar (MR) applications treat the radar return from the sea surface, or sea clutter, as a noise that must be suppressed. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in X- and S-band MR ocean sensing. Non-coherent MRs have been shown to yield accurate surface wave frequency-direction spectra, maps of the sea surface elevation, the near-surface current, and the bathymetry, as well as surface wind information, among other products, under a broad range of environmental conditions. Meanwhile, MR technology is currently undergoing a transition towards a fully coherent solid state architecture. In MR ocean sensing, coherent on-receive magnetron-based systems are finding broader use. It has been shown to yield accurate significant wave heights Hs, doing away with the calibration step that is needed to retrieve Hs from non-coherent systems, and is being used to improve our understanding of grazing incidence radar scattering mechanisms. What is more, digital signal processing is becoming more commonplace in off-the-shelf commercial MRs, potentially broadening the scope of oceanographic applications.

MR ocean sensing is now being used by academia, government, and industry, e.g., for studying air–sea interaction processes, monitoring oil spills, or supporting offshore platform operations. This Special Section in IEEE Access provides a forum for MR scientists all over the world to present recent advances in the field. These advances in ocean sensing are critical to the sustainable exploration and management of the diverse coastal and off-shore resources worldwide. Authors are encouraged to submit original work related to microwave (X- and S-band) marine radar. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Surface waves
  • Upper ocean currents
  • Coastal bathymetry
  • Internal waves
  • Sea ice
  • Sea surface roughness and winds
  • Surfactants
  • Rain effect
  • Marine birds and mammals
  • Small vessels
  • Radar scattering and imaging mechanisms

We also highly recommend the submission of multimedia with each article as it significantly increases the visibility, downloads, and citations of articles.

 

Associate Editor: Weimin Huang, Memorial University, Canada

Guest Editors:

  1. Björn Lund, University of Miami, USA
  2. Jochen Horstmann, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany

 

IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to:
http://ieee.atyponrex.com/journal/ieee-access

For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact: weimin@mun.ca

Addressing Economic, Environmental and Humanitarian Challenges in the Polar Regions

Submission Deadline: 28 February 2019

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Addressing Economic, Environmental and Humanitarian Challenges in the Polar Regions.

The polar regions are experiencing significant changes, likely to be attributed to the human impact, that will dramatically change our perception of these regions, and how communications, transportation, oil exploration, fishing, etc., are performed going forward. At the same time, these changes may have environmental and health affects of unforeseen consequences.

In order to sustain these activities and be prepared for these potential threats, new remote and in situ sensors will be playing a key role to provide continuous (ideally near-real time) data to decision makers and for ship routing, while new communications and transportation systems will have to be developed to deliver food and medicines to remote rural areas.

This Special Section in IEEE Access welcomes contributions from a wide range of topics dealing with the emerging challenges in polar regions. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Environmental changes experienced by the polar regions (cryosphere, land, oceans, and atmosphere)
  • Remote and in situ sensors, and their associated technologies
  • Sensor networks for weather and climate modelling
  • Development of feature extraction working environments from imagery
  • Convolutional neural networks in image feature extraction and analytics
  • Telecommunication technologies
  • Transportation techniques and technologies, including drones and other autonomous vehicles
  • Ecological, security and health issues associated to an increased human presence in an isolated environment
  • Economic exploitation of the polar regions, including fisheries and oil exploration
  • Educational and outreach activities about the changes that polar regions are undergoing

 

We also highly recommend the submission of multimedia with each article as it significantly increases the visibility, downloads, and citations of articles.

 

Associate Editor: Prof. Bill Emery, University of Colorado, USA

Guest Editors:

  1. Prof. Marina Ruggieri, University of Tor Vergata, Italy
  2. Prof. Anthony Milne, University of New South Wales, Australia
  3. Prof. Witold Kinsner, University of Manitoba, Canada
  4. Prof. Malcon Heron, University of Townsville, Australia
  5. Mr. Paul Cunningham, external advisor of several organizations including the World Bank, as well as European and nationally funded research programs, Ireland
  6. Prof. Adriano Camps, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

 

IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to:
http://ieee.atyponrex.com/journal/ieee-access

For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact: emery@colorado.edu