Recent advanced applications and services for intelligent ubiquitous environments
Jongsung Kim
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Han-Chieh Chao
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Uyen Trang Nguyen
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U. T. Nguyen Department of Computer Science and Engineering, York University
, 4700 Keele Street,
Toronto
, ON M3J 1P3,
Canada
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H.-C. Chao Institute of Computer Science & Information and Department of Electronic Engineering, National Ilan University
, I-Lan,
Taiwan
Intelligent ubiquitous environments (IUEs) are a new paradigm that offers computing and communication services at any time and anywhere. IUEs are normally implemented by advanced applications and services including cloud computing and mobile computing. The services computing is a new cross-discipline that covers the science and technology needed to bridge the gap between business services and IT/telecommunication services. The goal of this special issue is to develop new computing technology and thereby enables more advanced IT/telecommunication services to support business services more efficiently and effectively. This special issue aims to foster the dissemination of high quality research in any new theory, technique, and research related to recent advanced services computing technology for IUEs, as well as to enhance its state-of-the-art. Topics of primary interest include: - Application integration services - Business performance management - Social networked applications and services
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We received 56 manuscripts in total. Each manuscript was blindly reviewed by
at least three reviewers consisting of guest editors and external reviewers. After the
review process, nine manuscripts were finally selected for this Special Issue.
The selected nine manuscripts are summarized as follows: The first manuscript is
titled, Design of Online Survey System with an Advanced IPA Discrimination Index for
Customer Satisfaction Assessment. It is authored by Hsiang-Chuan Liu, Bai-Cheng
Jeng, Yi-Ting Mai, Yu-Du Jheng, Hao-Tung Lin. To analyze customer satisfaction,
importance-performance analysis (IPA) and Parasuraman, Zeithaml & Berry (PZB)
are just some of the enhanced analysis tools that measure user satisfaction. This paper
introduces a novel web-based user feedback survey system with a proposed new IPA
index. To identify customer satisfaction, the new IPA model can reveal a more accurate
quantity comparison and find potentially helpful information for customer satisfaction.
The second manuscript is titled, Quality evaluation and best service choice for
cloud computing based on user preference and weights of attributes using the
Analytic Network Process. It is authored by Cheol-Rim Choi, Hwa-Young Jeong. The
paper proposes a system that calculates the priority weights for each quality attribute
according to the quality preference of a user and the interrelation analysis results
between the attributes, and reflects the weights in selecting the cloud computing
service. Through the proposed system, users can easily perform the process of calculating
the weights and selecting the best services according to their quality preference. The
simulation results show the effectiveness of the system.
The third manuscript is titled, Lightweight Secure Storage Model with
FaultTolerance in Cloud Environment. It is authored by Mahra Ahmed, Quang Hieu Vu,
Rasool Asal, Hassan Al-Muhairi, Chan Yeob Yeun. According to several surveys, data
security is the main reason for peoples reluctance to employ cloud computing. In this
paper, the authors address the concern of data security by introducing SECRESO, a
SEcure storage model for Cloud data based on ReedSolomon code. In the proposed
model, one can enhance ReedSolomon code with an extra security layer in which
a password is always required to reconstruct the data. Additionally, to support fault
tolerance, the paper also introduces a log based data recovery scheme that allows data
recovery even if the password is unknown.
The fourth manuscript is titled, Public IT Service Strategy for Social Information
Security in the Intelligence All-Things Environment. It is authored by Jinho Yoo,
Hangbae Chang. This paper proposes ways to improve public information service for
the social information security of individuals such as personal or policy information
that are dealt with in public information service.
The fifth manuscript is titled, An Enhanced Smartphone Security Model based
on Information Security Management System (ISMS). It is authored by Jong Hyuk
Park, Ki Jung Yi, Young-Sik Jeong. A Smartphone-ISMS model based on ISMS
(Information Security Management System) is proposed in this paper. Firstly, this
paper defines the elements of smartphone security threats, which can occur in the
smartphone environment, and the requirements for smartphone security. Based on the
results, this work derives seven relevant control items by combining existing
ISMSbased information security models with the smartphone environment.
The sixth manuscript is titled, An Efficient Novel Online Shopping Mechanism
based on Quantum Communication. It is authored by Yao-Hsin Chou, Fang-Jhu Lin, (...truncated)