Smart world (SW) represents a future communication environment featuring daily-life objects that continuously involve nonexpert users. The SW has rapidly emerged as an exciting new paradigm which integrates different active research areas such as Internet of Things (IoT), ubiquitous and pervasive computing, and peer-to-peer communications providing new exciting seamless services for the future IT environments. The systems for SW manage lots of sensors and mobile devices which continuously update information from the real-world objects, and most data are generated automatically through intelligent communication environments. This special issue aims to address advanced communication models and services for SW. It will solicit original research papers on topics including effective IoT, ubiquitous and pervasive computing, context-based services, machine-to-machine service model integration of legacy systems and services, security, business models, and novel applications of SW utilization.

This special issue aims to provide an advanced theory and application for researchers and practitioners to contribute to original research and review articles that present the state-of-the-art research outcomes, practical results, and latest findings in advanced communication models and services for SW.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Context awareness service model
• Intelligent service framework and key elements
• Service model for smart home and smart office
• UI/UX modelling
• Wireless sensor and radio-frequency identification (RFID)
• Intelligent multimedia service
• Advanced modeling in IoT
• Cyber physical system
• Network middleware and protocols
• Smartphone and personal devices
• Security modeling
• M2M applications
• Vehicle service model
• Adaptive and dynamic algorithms
• Smart appliances and wearable devices
• Haptic interfaces and interactions