Call for Papers
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Special issue on Emerging Networked Computer Applications for Telemedicine
Submission deadline: December 15th, 2017
Nowadays, all over the world, the number of ICT investments in health and well-being is rapidly increasing. In this context, there is a growing interest about telemedicine that allows the provisioning of various kinds of health-related services and applications over the Internet. The benefit of telemedicine is twofold: on one hand it pushes down clinical costs and on the other hand, it improves the quality of life of both patients and their families. Telemedicine solutions are typically aimed at tele-nursing, tele-rehabilitation, tele-dialog, tele-monitoring, tele-analysis, tele-pharmacy, tele-trauma care, tele-psychiatry, tele-radiology, tele-pathology, tele-dermatology, tele-dentistry, tele-audiology, tele-ophthalmology, etc. In recent years the rapid advent and evolution of emerging ICT technologies (such as Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud computing, Edge computing and so on) is revolutionizing telemedicine. This special issue focuses on emerging networked computer applications in all the fields of telemedicine.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Emerging architectures and technologies for telemedicine;
- Computer aided clinical diagnosis and therapy;
- Networked applications for tele-health;
- Medical signal and data processing;
- Algorithms for decision support and therapy improvement;
- Evolutionary computing and swarm intelligence applications for e-health and tele-health.
SUBMISSION FORMAT AND GUIDELINE
All submitted papers must be clearly written in excellent English and contain only original work, which has not been published by or is currently under review for any other journal or conference. A detailed submission guideline is available as “Guide to Authors” at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622893/authorinstructions.
All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through Elsevier Editorial System (EES). The authors must select as “SI-Telemedicine-Celesti” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. The EES website is located at: http://ees.elsevier.com/jnca/
Requests for additional information should be addressed to the guest editors.
EDITOR IN CHIEF
Mohammed Atiquzzaman
University of Oklahoma
GUEST EDITORS
Antonio Celesti
University of Messina, Italy
acelesti@unime.it
Antoine Bagula
University of Western Cape, South Africa
abagula@uwc.ac.za
Ivanoe De Falco
ICAR – CNR, Italy
ivanoe.defalco@icar.cnr.it
Pedro Brandão
University of Porto, Portugal
pbrandao@dcc.fc.up.pt
Giovanna Sannino
ICAR – CNR, Italy
giovanna.sannino@icar.cnr.it
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: December 15th, 2017
Acceptance notification: February 15th, 2018
Final papers: March 31st, 2018
ABOUT THE JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
The Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Impact Factor (2016): 3.500) welcomes research contributions, surveys and notes in all areas relating to computer networks and applications thereof. The following list of sample-topics is by no means to be understood as restricting contributions to the topics mentioned:
- new design techniques, interesting or novel applications, components or standards
- computer networks with tools such as WWW
- emerging standards for internet protocols
- Wireless networks
- Mobile Computing
- emerging computing models such as cloud computing, grid computing
- emerging network protocols such as sensor networks, delay tolerant networks, Internet of things
- applications of networked systems for remote collaboration and telemedicine
- applications of an educational, transactional and cooperational nature
- applications of security in computer and networks