Recent Advances in Social Internet of Things

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, efficiency in the dynamic discovery of services and information.

The social interaction among the SIoT objects contribute 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 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 SIoT
• Social Content Distribution in SIoT
• Cognitive data processing in SIoT
• Data collection, organization and dissemination methods in SIoT
• Service discovery method and technology of SIoT
• Link selection method and technology of SIoT
• Trust management method and technology SIoT
• Community discovery method and technology of SIoT
• Deployment and field testing in SIoT
• Smart environments
• SIoT application in smart home system
• SIoT application in vehicular information system
• SIoT application in hospital information system

Prof. Dr. Michele Nitti
Guest Editor

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