Special issue on ubiquitous multimedia services 

                         Vol 14, No 3

Guest Editors


Dr. Shiguo Lian, France Telecom R&D (Orange Labs), China

         Dr. Jean-Henry Morin, University of Geneva, Switzerland

         Dr. Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece

         Dr. Gregory L. Heileman, University of New Mexico, USA

Table of Contents


Papers for Special Issue


1. TMILC: A Secure and Privacy-Preserving Mobile Instant Locator with Chatting

Athanasios Loukas, Dimitrios Damopoulos, Sofia A. Menesidou, 

Maria E. Skarkala and Georgios Kambourakis, et al


2. Effective distributed service architecture for ubiquitous video surveillance

Ray-I Chang, Te-Chih Wang, Chia-Hui Wang, Jen-Chang Liu and Jan-Ming Ho


3. Automatic and fast temporal segmentation for personalized news consuming

Yuan Dong and Shiguo Lian


4. Advanced secure multimedia services for digital homes

Rodrigo Roman, Javier Lopez, Olivier Dugeon, Marc Lacoste and Pierre Yves Plaza, et al.


5. Security model for emergency real-time communications in autonomous networks

Emmanouil A. Panaousis, Christos Politis, Konstantinos Birkos, 

Christos Papageorgiou and Tasos Dagiuklas


6. Third party application control on quality of service in IP based multimedia networks

Evelina Pencheva and Ivaylo Atanasov


7. Modeling the influence of network delay on the user experience in distributed home-automation networks

Mark Umberger, Satja Lumbar and Iztok Humar


Papers for General Issue


8. Resource management activities in healthcare information systems: A process perspective

Say Yen Teoh, Shan L. Pan and Anand M. Ramchand


9. Efficient category-based service discovery on multi-agent platform

Seungwok Han, Hee Yong Youn and Ohyoung Song


10. Secure XML querying based on authorization graphs

Artem Chebotko, Seunghan Chang, Shiyong Lu and Farshad Fotouhi


11. Analysis of pricing strategies for community-based group buying: The impact of competition and waiting cost

Yung-Ming Li, Jhih-Hua Jhang-Li, Ting-Kai Hwang and Ping-Wen Chen


12. Vulnerabilities of RFID protocols proposed in ISF

Selwyn Piramuthu


13. A case-based reasoning based multi-agent cognitive map inference mechanism: 

An application to sales opportunity assessment

Namho Lee, Jae Kwon Bae and Chulmo Koo


14. Technological research plan for active ageing (Open Access)

Hamideh Afsarmanesh, Simon Samwel Msanjila and Luis M. Camarinha-Matos


15. Study of the digital divide evaluation model for government agencies 

– a Taiwanese local government’s perspective

She-I Chang, David C. Yen, I-Cheng Chang and Jung-Chu Chou


16. Collaboration among mobile agents for efficient energy allocation in mobile grid

Chunlin Li and Layuan Li


17. Intelligent forest fire monitoring system

Maja Stula, Damir Krstinic and Ljiljana Seric


18. CASE-mediated organizational and deutero learning at NASA

Gary F. Templeton and James F. Dowdy Jr.


19. Ensuring reliability in B2B services: Fault tolerant inter-organizational workflows

Haluk Demirkan, Sagnika Sen, Michael Goul and Jason Nichols


20. Agile test framework for business-to-business interoperability

Jungyub Woo, Nenad Ivezic and Hyunbo Cho


21. A role-involved purpose-based access control model

Md. Enamul Kabir, Hua Wang and Elisa Bertino