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Thematic Issue on: Advances in Security and Privacy for Mobile Users in Intelligent Environments

Advances in Security and Privacy for Mobile Users in Intelligent Environments

Call for Papers

Security and privacy are vital challenges for mobile users as they move around denser and more prevalent intelligent environments embedded with different connected smart objects that interact with each other and with mobile users in new ways. The focus of security and privacy is predominantly on protecting the use of personal smart tab and pad sized devices such as smart phones, tablets, and laptops by mobile users, in passive environments.

Efficiency and security of process transparency in production networks - a view of expectations, obstacles and potentials

Much of the resilience and flexibility of production networks lies in the transparency of processes that allows timely perception of actual process states and adequate decisions or intervention at the proper point of the production system.