A book edited by Damith Ranasinghe, Michael Sheng, and Sherali Zeadally

Full Chapter Submission Deadline: November 20^th 2009

Introduction

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has been around for more than half a century. It is only in recent years that this technology has begun to mature and attract a lot of attention, due to the convergence of lower cost and increased capabilities of RFID tags. Currently, RFID is emerging as an important technology for revolutionizing a wide range of applications including supply chain management, retail, anti-counterfeiting, baggage handling, and healthcare. Many organizations are planning or have already exploited RFID in their main operations to take advantage of the potential of more automation, efficient business processes, and inventory visibility.

While RFID provides promising benefits such as inventory visibility and business process automation, significant challenges remain with regards to RFID data management, scalable information systems, business process re-engineering and making decisions regarding investments in RFID technology. Unique Radio Innovation for the 21st Century: Building Scalable and Global RFID Networks is intended to compile the latest developments and advances towards addressing these important challenges.

The book will offer a comprehensive and systematic presentation of methodologies, architectures, and technologies that enable the development of secure, scalable and large-scale RFID networks. It will consider how such networks can transform business and where and how value can be extracted to make informed investment decisions regarding IT transformation strategies based on this emerging technology.

Unique Radio Innovation for the 21st Century: Building Scalable and Global RFID Networks is intended for an audience of IT managers, researchers and engineers who are working in the area of RFID systems, data management and applications development for building scalable, large scale and secure RFID networks. The book will also serve as a valuable source for graduate students who wish to learn and distinguish opportunities for their studies in this emerging research and development area. It will be of general interest to anyone using the RFID technology for developing traceability applications.

The book will provide a reference point for recent advances on RFID technology, organized in five parts.

Introduction. Gives a historical overview (literature survey and background) of the RFID technology, its future and associated areas explored in this book.

RFID data management. Focuses on issues, research avenues and solutions to managing noisy, dynamic and very large streams of RFID data. Topics that could be included in this part (but not limited to) are:

• - RFID data integration
• - RFID data cleaning
• - Speed issues in RFID data movement
• - RFID data stream management
• - Efficient RFID data storage and retrieval
• - Managing uncertainty on RFID data
• - Survey on RFID data management issues
• - RFID data mining

Global RFID information architectures and systems. Focuses on the infrastructures, frameworks, standards, technologies, methodologies for building secure, global and scalable RFID networks. Topics that could be included in this part (but not limited to) are:

• - RFID middleware architecture
• - RFID and sensor network integration architectures
• - RFID data sharing architectures
• - Integration with ERP, SCM and MRP
• - SOA (Services oriented architecture) and RFID Networks
• - Enterprise I.T. architecture and middleware touch points
• - RFID network management
• - COTS and Open Source RFID infrastructure
• - Integration of RFID with other applications
• - Security and Privacy
• - Internet technologies and RFID
• - Web services and RFID
• - RFID and semantic Web

RFID applications. Present the latest developments, trends, industrial applications, and challenges for deploying RFID technology and applications. This part will explore how organizations can gain competitive advantages by applying RFID technology in real-world settings. This section will include case studies, datasets, and evaluations. Topics that could be included in this part (but not limited to) are:

• - Business versus consumer applications
• - Business process redesign and RFID
• - Innovative RFID-enabled applications
• - RFID case studies and field trials of RFID applications
• - Security and accesss
• - Studies which demonstrate RFID techniques for specific application problems
• - Surveys that emphasize research and application in a particular RFID domain
• - Tools and techniques for RFID opportunity analysis

Business Issues. Takes an in-depth look at RFID value drivers and the issues faced by business regarding investing in this emerging technology. This section will include case studies, datasets, and evaluation. Topics that could be included in this part (but not limited to) are:

• - ROI analysis at unit and enterprise levels
• - Revenue models in RFID services
• - Effect of RFID on process improvement for the enterprise
• - Impact on the CIO/I.T. office
• - Legal issues in RFID
• - Studies which demonstrate RFID techniques for specific application problems
• - Surveys that emphasize research and application in a particular RFID domain

All book chapters must be original and will be peer-reviewed in a double-blind manner. The selection will base on the relevance, clarity, and technical quality. Potential contributors are invited to first submit a 2-page proposal that clearly addresses:

• - the main content,
• - issues and
• - contributions of the proposed chapter.
An initial schedule is proposed as the following:
• Proposal acceptance: 24 August 2009
• Full chapter due: 20 November 2009
• Notification: 10 January 2010
• Final chapter due: 30 January 2010
Manuscript Preparation

Authors are advised to use MSWord template provided by Springer to prepare their book chapters. The template for book chapter preparation is available here.

Manuscripts submitted for review should not exceed 20 pages following the book format.

The leading author of each book chapter may get a free copy of the book.

Submissions can be forwarded electronically or by mail to:

Dr. Damith Ranasinghe

School of Computer Science
The University of Adelaide
SA 5005 Australia
Tel: +61 8 8313 0066; Fax: +61 8 8303 4366
Email: damith@cs.adelaide.edu.au

Contact Us

If you have any enquiries, please feel free to contact the book editors:

Dr. Damith Ranasinghe (damit@cs.adelaide.edu.au)

Dr. Michael Sheng (qsheng@cs.adelaide.edu.au)

Dr Sherali Zeadally (szeadally@udc.edu)