Recent Advances in Social Internet of Things 2021-2022
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 509
Special Issue Editor
Interests: Internet of Things; social networks; inclusive smart cities
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Social Internet of Things (SIoT) refers to the convergence of the Internet of Things and Social Networking paradigms for the creation of social networks in which things are nodes that establish social links as humans do. This concept has become a hot topic in academia research thanks to the benefits deriving from the potentials of the social networks within the IoT domain, such as simplification in the navigability of a dynamic network of billions of objects, robustness in the management of the trustworthiness of objects when providing information and services, and efficiency in the dynamic discovery of services and information.
The social interaction among SIoT objects contributes a huge volume of data to be processed and used by various applications, such as social VANET, social connected health, SIoT-based recommendation service, traffic service, policing, energy management, etc. in the area of smart cities, smart homes, smart grid, and smart factories to satisfy human needs, interests, and objectives. Such a dynamic landscape with billions of social communities of objects and devices requires new models, theories, and approaches of interaction and collaboration based on the experience people have already gained in the social networking domain over the past few years.
This Special Issue aims to highlight the latest research results and advances on technologies for sensors and wireless networks for SIoT-oriented applications. You are therefore invited to submit original papers presenting significant advances with respect to the state of the art in the following topics, which include but are not limited to:
- Active and collaborative sensing in the SIoT
- Social content distribution in the SIoT
- Cognitive data processing in the SIoT
- Data collection, organization, and dissemination methods in the SIoT
- Service discovery method and technology of the SIoT
- Link selection method and technology of the SIoT
- Trust management method and technology of the SIoT
- Community discovery method and technology of the SIoT
- Deployment and field testing in the SIoT
- Smart environments
- SIoT application in smart home systems
- SIoT application in vehicular information systems
- SIoT application in hospital information systems
Dr. Michele Nitti
Guest Editor
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