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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CALL FOR PAPERS: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics for Special Section on Sustainable and Intelligent Precision Agriculture (IF: 7.377)
by Lars Wolf 31 Oct '19

31 Oct '19

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: "Ye Liu (刘野)" <liuyefancy(a)GMAIL.COM> Gesendet: 31. Oktober 2019 10:21:55 MEZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CALL FOR PAPERS: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics for Special Section on Sustainable and Intelligent Precision Agriculture (IF: 7.377) *IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics* *CALL FOR PAPERS* *for Special Section on* *Sustainable and Intelligent Precision Agriculture* *Theme:* Since the green revolution in the mid-20th century, we have entered into the era of industrial agriculture, in which farming activities are industrialized and specialization is applied to all steps during food production of livestock, poultry, fish and crops. Industrial agriculture has many advantages. For example, the use of specialized machinery lightens farmer’s labor intensity. Large-scale monoculture crops planting and intensive farming achieve higher food yields with lower price. In plant factory, the cultivation environment can be artificially controlled, so the vegetables grow faster than in outdoor conditions. However, industrial agriculture also causes some negative impacts on ecological system due to the high energy consumption and serious environmental degradation. Tractors, combines, cultivators and other agricultural machinery not only consume much fossil fuels but also degrade soil. The use of too much synthetic fertilizers and pesticides contaminate local rivers and water sources. Water is often overused in the irrigation stage. Industry 4.0, that built on leading-edge technologies, will be a transforming force to reshape the industrial agriculture. Through wireless sensor network, unmanned aerial vehicle and satellite imagery, the ubiquitous sensing can collect valuable data during food production. Precision agriculture helps to save use of fertilizer and water. Solar photovoltaic power harvesting and wireless energy transfer is a key approach to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels. Smart microclimate control in greenhouse and plant factory enables deep understanding on the interaction between gene, environment and phenotype. Artificial intelligence and big data makes the industrial agriculture more intelligent. This special section on “Sustainable and Intelligent Industrial Agriculture” is to provide a forum for researchers from diverse interdisciplinary areas to present their latest achievements in industrial agriculture. *This special section will focus on (but not limited to) the following topics:* ● Artificial intelligence and machine learning for smart industrial agricultural ● Connectivity, localization and autonomous driving of agricultural machinery network ● Precision agriculture with sensor, drones, remote sensing and Internet of Things ● Design, development and application of agricultural system with Industry 4.0 ● Blockchain, big data for digital farming: theory and application ● Energy harvesting and wireless power transfer in industrial agriculture ● Next generation 5G mobile networks for industrial agriculture ● Ontology-driven plant phenomics information system ● Robotics, guidance and automation for agriculture ● Case study of sustainable and intelligent industrial agriculture ● Security and privacy for green IoT-based agriculture *Manuscript Preparation and Submission* Follow the guidelines in “Information for Authors” in the IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics http://www.ieee-ies.org/pubs/transactions-on-industrial-informatics . Please submit your manuscript in electronic form through Manuscript Central web site: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tii. On the submitting page #1 in popup menu of manuscript type, select: SS on *Sustainable and Intelligent Industrial Agriculture* Submissions to this Special Section must represent original material that has been neither submitted to, nor published in, any other journal. Regular manuscript length is 8 pages. *Note: *The recommended papers for the section are subject to final approval by the Editor-in-Chief. Some papers may be published outside the special section, at the EIC discretion. *Timetable:* *Deadline for manuscript submissions February 25, 2020* *Expected publication date (tentative) July, 2020* *Guest Editors:* l Prof. Lei Shu, Nanjing Agricultural University, China / University of Lincoln, UK lei.shu(a)njau.edu.cn l Dr. Gerhard Petrus Hancke, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China gp.hancke(a)cityu.edu.hk l Dr. Adnan M. Abu-Mahfouz, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa a.abumahfouz(a)ieee.org ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [Percom 2020] Reminder of deadlines - Work in Progress, Workshops, Industry Track, and More
by Lars Wolf 29 Oct '19

29 Oct '19

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [Percom 2020] Reminder of deadlines - Work in Progress, Workshops, Industry Track, and More Datum: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:24:58 +0000 Von: Bobak J. Mortazavi <bobakm(a)TAMU.EDU> Antwort an: Bobak J. Mortazavi <bobakm(a)TAMU.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG IEEE PerCom (23 - 27 March 2020, Austin, US) is the premier conference for presenting scholarly research in pervasive computing and communications The main paper deadline has passed, but you can still contribute to the IEEE PerCom 2020! We wish to remind you of a few approaching deadlines. All workshops associated with the conference have a November 7, 2019 deadline. Check out our list of workshops here: http://www.percom.org/list-of-workshops. In addition, the main conference's Work-in-Progress track is a great chance to share your latest findings. These Work-in-Progress papers will be published in the conference's workshop proceedings and will be indexed by DBLP and the IEEE digital library. This year, PerCom continues the dedicated Industry Track. Accepted papers will be published in the PerCom proceedings. This track will be an opportunity for people associated with industry and academia to present their novel ideas while attracting funding and/or further expand collaborations. These papers will be presented as part of the main conference program, where the content focuses on research that has direct Industry impact and potential for industry uptake. For this track, only high quality papers with clear industrial association will be solicited. There will be a Best Industry Track Paper Award to acknowledge and encourage excellence in collaborative industry research. Organizers also wish to gently remind you about upcoming important deadlines: Deadline for Workshops: http://www.percom.org/list-of-workshops * Submission deadline: November 7, 2019 Call for Industry Track papers: http://www.percom.org/call-for-industry-paper * Submission deadline: November 7, 2019 Call for Work-in-Progress papers: http://percom.org/call-for-wip * Submission deadline: November 24, 2019 Call for Demos: http://www.percom.org/call-for-demo-papers * Submission deadline: November 25, 2019 Call for PhD forum: http://www.percom.org/call-for-phd-forum * Extended abstract submission deadline: December 20, 2019 ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: Workshop on Pervasive Systems in the IoT era (PERSIST- IoT) in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2020
by Lars Wolf 28 Oct '19

28 Oct '19

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: Workshop on Pervasive Systems in the IoT era (PERSIST- IoT) in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2020 Datum: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 11:16:15 +0100 Von: Marica Amadeo <marica.amadeo(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Marica Amadeo <marica.amadeo(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP. ************************************************************************************** * Workshop on Pervasive Systems in the IoT era (PERSIST- IoT) * in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2020 April 27, 2020, Beijing, China https://infocom2020.ieee-infocom.org/workshop-pervasive-systems-iot-era ************************************************************************************** * Call for Papers * By leveraging the global interconnection of billions of tiny smart objects, the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm is fostering the idea of pervasive Smart Environments (SEs) and Smart Urban Ecosystems, where all the data gathered by the ``Things'' can be elaborated and used to improve the livability, the safety and the security of the environment, and to make inhabitants lives easier. However, despite the research advancements in recent years, many open issues still prevent the full realization of such vision. To meet the requirements of SEs, telecommunication systems should support significantly high data rates, traffic capacity, connection density, energy efficiency, as well as small latency. Being massively distributed into the environment, smart objects may generate, collect, exchange and process big data, provide distributed services, offer computational resources, and cooperate to perform some tasks locally, as well as to delegate their execution to more powerful nodes in the cloud or at the network edge. In addition to the traditional pull-based data delivery, push-based and publish/subscribe traffic patterns must be supported. To accommodate newly emerging more demanding services the network infrastructure should be agile, cost effective and possibly softwarized. The satisfaction of security and privacy requirements will play a fundamental role in the SEs; indeed, without effective mechanisms, attacks and malfunctions in the IoT will outweigh any of their benefits. The PERSIST-IoT workshop aims to solicit a collection of innovative papers reporting the most recent advancements in the fields of smart architecture, protocols and practical implementations enabling IoT for smart environments. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to the following: · Models of network component interactions on smart environments; · Distributed sensing and control in smart environments; · Mobile-aware cloud computing models, infrastructures, and approaches for smart environments; · Mobile edge computing for smart environments; · Crowdsourcing in smart environments; · IoT architecture and middleware; · Novel communication protocols for M2M/MTC communication; · Novel networking paradigms (e.g., ICN, SDN) for IoT; · Energy efficient solutions for IoT; · Device-2-device communications (D2D); · Reliability, security, privacy and trust in smart environment ecosystems; · Business models to promote user collaboration and resource sharing in smart environments; · Testbeds demonstrating the feasibility of smart environments; · Applications, business, standards, and social issues. ******************************************************************************* * Important dates * Abstract Registration: January 7, 2020 Submission Deadline: January 15, 2020 Notification of Acceptance: February 15, 2020 Camera Ready: March 6, 2020 ******************************************************************************* * Submission instructions * Submissions will be accepted through EDAS (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=26855). All submissions must be written in English and be at most six (6) printed pages in length, including figures. Accepted papers will be published on IEEE Xplore. ******************************************************************************* * Commitee * * TPC Co-Chairs * Valeria Loscri’ - Inria Lille-Nord Europe / FUN, France Giuseppe Ruggeri -University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy Syed Hassan Ahmed-JMA Wireless, USA Ivan W. H. Ho - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University * Publicity Chair * Marica Amadeo - University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy * TPC Members * Anna Maria Mandalari- Imperial College, London, UK Antoine Gallais - Inria Lille - Nord Europe, University of Strasbourg, France Antoine O. Berthet- Ecole Supèrieure d'Electricité (SUPELEC), France Antonella Molinaro- University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Antonio Iera- University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Chaker Abdelaziz Kerrache - University of Ghardaia, Algeria Claudia Campolo- University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Juan Carlos Cano- Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Luca Bedogni- Dipartimento di Informatica - Scienza e Ingegneria, University of Bologna, Italy Marica Amadeo- University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Massimo Condoluci- Ericsson AB, Kista, Sweden Nathalie Mitton- Inria Lille-Nord Europe / FUN, France Nicola Zema- LRI (Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique), Université Paris-Sud Olga Vikhrova– University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Yun Hou -Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong (THEi), Hong Kong Lingfu XIE- Ningbo University, China Safdar Hussain Bouk- Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) Korea Muhammad Azfar Yaqub - COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan - Kyungpook National University, Korea Carlos Borrego Iglesias - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain ******************************************************************************* -- Dr. Marica Amadeo University "Mediterranea" of Reggio Calabria DIIES Department, ARTS Lab Via Graziella Feo di Vito I - 89100 Reggio Calabria (RC), Italy ------------------------------ Email: marica.amadeo(a)gmail.com, marica.amadeo(a)unirc.it ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IQ2S 2020
by Lars Wolf 28 Oct '19

28 Oct '19

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IQ2S 2020 Datum: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 10:53:38 +0100 Von: Federico Montori <federico.montori2(a)UNIBO.IT> Antwort an: Federico Montori <federico.montori2(a)UNIBO.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this e-mail Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing (IQ2S 2020)Austin, Texas USA March 23-27 2020 (co-located with IEEE PerCom 2020) Pervasive computing provides an exciting paradigm for supporting anywhere anytime services, and is built on the tremendous advances made in a broad spectrum of technologies including wireless communication, wireless and sensor networking, mobile and distributed computing, as well as signal and information processing. Pervasive computing enables computers to interact with the real world in a ubiquitous and natural manner. Quality of service (QoS), related to transmission delay, bandwidth, or packet loss, has been studied in various building blocks in pervasive computing, e.g., different QoS mechanisms are presented for wireless or wired networks; the notion of computational QoS is used for parallel processing. The emerging pervasive computing paradigm, however, is application-driven and mission-critical and the existing QoS notions to do not really match. Quality of Information (QoI) or Information Quality (IQ) of sensor-originated information relates to the fitness of the information for a sensor-enabled application. Harnessing and optimizing QoI of information derived from sensor networks will be key to bringing together information acquisition and processing systems that support the on-demand information needs of a broad spectrum of smart, sensor-enabled applications such as remote real-time habitat monitoring, utility grid monitoring, environmental control, supply-chain management, health care, machinery control, intelligent highways, military intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance (ISR), border control, and hazardous material monitoring, just to mention a few. The proliferation of smartphone has also enabled the possibility to retrieve data also by users on the move. This data collection paradigm is often called crowdsensing, or crowdsourcing, and builds upon the willingness of users to share data together, which eventually gets aggregated to provide novel services to the community. Although fascinating, and potentially disruptive, this paradigm inherently carries a set of technical challenges, at various levels and which shouldInformation Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing (IQ2S 2020)Austin, Texas USA March 23-27 2020 (co-located with IEEE PerCom 2020) Pervasive computing provides an exciting paradigm for supporting anywhere anytime services, and is built on the tremendous advances made in a broad spectrum of technologies including wireless communication, wireless and sensor networking, mobile and distributed computing, as well as signal and information processing. Pervasive computing enables computers to interact with the real world in a ubiquitous and natural manner. Quality of service (QoS), related to transmission delay, bandwidth, or packet loss, has been studied in various building blocks in pervasive computing, e.g., different QoS mechanisms are presented for wireless or wired networks; the notion of computational QoS is used for parallel processing. The emerging pervasive computing paradigm, however, is application-driven and mission-critical and the existing QoS notions to do not really match. Quality of Information (QoI) or Information Quality (IQ) of sensor-originated information relates to the fitness of the information for a sensor-enabled application. Harnessing and optimizing QoI of information derived from sensor networks will be key to bringing together information acquisition and processing systems that support the on-demand information needs of a broad spectrum of smart, sensor-enabled applications such as remote real-time habitat monitoring, utility grid monitoring, environmental control, supply-chain management, health care, machinery control, intelligent highways, military intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance (ISR), border control, and hazardous material monitoring, just to mention a few. The proliferation of smartphone has also enabled the possibility to retrieve data also by users on the move. This data collection paradigm is often called crowdsensing, or crowdsourcing, and builds upon the willingness of users to share data together, which eventually gets aggregated to provide novel services to the community. Although fascinating, and potentially disruptive, this paradigm inherently carries a set of technical challenges, at various levels and which should be studied by different research communities. At first, to make the data granularity spread enough, the crowd should be sufficiently large. This means that the application which runs on the users’ device has to be optimized, and should not interfere with the normal activity the users want to perform. This raises the challenge of having smart interfaces which communicate with the user only when necessary, along with the battery efficiency, which plays a crucial role being these devices almost always battery powered. Another technical challenge comes from the heterogeneous data aggregation, as data can be in many different shapes, formats, and labeled in different languages. Hence, automatically linking data that comes from different platforms becomes challenging, and again clustering techniques, supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms have to be developed to perform such task efficiently. Achieving the desired “pervasiveness” of mobile applications, which in turns enable to retrieve data for the community, and the assessment of the QoI itself is key. The objective of this workshop (which is unique venue in its scope for the pervasive community) is to provide a forum to exchange ideas, present results, share experience, and enhance collaborations among researchers, professionals, and application developers in various aspects of QoI, QoE, QoS for pervasive computing and crowdsensing in network contexts including wireless, mobile and sensor networks. Each accepted workshop paper requires a full PerCom registration (no registration is available for workshops only) Selected high quality papers will be considered for publication in the Elsevier's Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) journal. Important Dates Paper submission deadline - November 11, 2019 Acceptance notification - December 20, 2019 Camera ready due - January 31, 2020 http://www.cs.unibo.it/projects/iq2s-2020/ be studied by different research communities. At first, to make the data granularity spread enough, the crowd should be sufficiently large. This means that the application which runs on the users’ device has to be optimized, and should not interfere with the normal activity the users want to perform. This raises the challenge of having smart interfaces which communicate with the user only when necessary, along with the battery efficiency, which plays a crucial role being these devices almost always battery powered. Another technical challenge comes from the heterogeneous data aggregation, as data can be in many different shapes, formats, and labeled in different languages. Hence, automatically linking data that comes from different platforms becomes challenging, and again clustering techniques, supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms have to be developed to perform such task efficiently. Achieving the desired “pervasiveness” of mobile applications, which in turns enable to retrieve data for the community, and the assessment of the QoI itself is key. The objective of this workshop (which is unique venue in its scope for the pervasive community) is to provide a forum to exchange ideas, present results, share experience, and enhance collaborations among researchers, professionals, and application developers in various aspects of QoI, QoE, QoS for pervasive computing and crowdsensing in network contexts including wireless, mobile and sensor networks. Each accepted workshop paper requires a full PerCom registration (no registration is available for workshops only) Selected high quality papers will be considered for publication in the Elsevier's Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) journal. Important Dates Paper submission deadline - November 11, 2019 Acceptance notification - December 20, 2019 Camera ready due - January 31, 2020 http://www.cs.unibo.it/projects/iq2s-2020/ ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: The Third IEEE International Conference on Connected and Autonomous Driving (MetroCAD 2020)
by Lars Wolf 25 Oct '19

25 Oct '19

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: The Third IEEE International Conference on Connected and Autonomous Driving (MetroCAD 2020) Datum: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 21:29:21 +0000 Von: Yang, Qing <Qing.Yang(a)UNT.EDU> Antwort an: Yang, Qing <Qing.Yang(a)UNT.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG The Third IEEE International Conference on Connected and Autonomous Driving (MetroCAD 2020)<http://thecarlab.org/metrocad/2020/index.php> <http://thecarlab.org/metrocad/2020/index.php> Detroit USA, February 27-28, 2020 With the burgeoning of Edge Computing and 5G technologies, we envision future vehicles will serve as a computing platform for a variety of services like advanced driver assistance system (ADAS), remote real-time diagnostics, on-board entertainment, and a variety of third-party services, such as public safety. To realize the vision of connected and autonomous driving, researchers and practitioners in the community have to address several challenges, such as communication systems, data analytics platforms, novel algorithms and applications, security, to name a few. Building on the success of the two workshops (MetroCAD 2018 and MetroCAD 2019), the Third IEEE International Conference on Connected and Autonomous Driving aims to bring together the researchers and practitioners on connected cars, autonomous driving, transportation systems and ride-sharing platforms to address core challenges with vehicle connectivity and autonomous driving. The conference will include invited speakers, panels, and presentations. The goal is to discuss and exchange ideas in this area and stimulate the collaboration between academia and industry partners. The topics include, but are not limited to: -Consumer services, include Internet- and cloud-based digital services that add to the driving experience. -Connected car packages, using advanced features to improve or help manage the car’s operation and autonomous driving. -Connected car data operation of various data sources and latency requirements. -Artificial Intelligence approaches for control and coordination of traffic leveraging V2V and V2X infrastructures. -Security, privacy, ethics, human interaction related with autonomous driving Important Dates Paper Submission: November 15, 2019 Acceptance notifications: January 15, 2020 Camera-ready papers deadline: February 1, 2020 Conference: February 27-28, 2020 Program Chairs Dalong Li, FCA Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Chen Liu, Clarkson University Weisong Shi, Wayne State University Steering Committee Jean-Luc Gaudiot, University of California, Irvine Luke Harvey, Nvidia Chen Liu, Clarkson University Shaoshan Liu, PerceptIn Xiaoming Liu, Michigan State University Ryokichi Onishi, Toyota Weisong Shi, Wayne State University (chair) Matei Stroila, Here Technologies Ruigang Yang, Baidu Inc. Wende Zhang, General Motors Industry Liaison Xiaofeng Yang, General Motors R&D Local Arrangement Chair Zheng Dong, Wayne State University Registration Chair Nikki Taylor-Vargo, Wayne State University Publication Chair Kewei Sha, University of Houston Publicity Chairs Qing Yang, University of North Texas (USA) Lei Zhong, Toyota ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CfP Elsevier PMC - Special Issue on "Location Based Services and Applications in the era of Internet of Things"
by Lars Wolf 25 Oct '19

25 Oct '19

Anfang der weitergeleiteten Nachricht: > Von: Carlo Giannelli <gnncrl(a)UNIFE.IT> > Datum: 25. Oktober 2019 um 08:44:46 GMT-6 > An: "tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org" <tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org> > Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CfP Elsevier PMC - Special Issue on "Location Based Services and Applications in the era of Internet of Things" > Antwort an: Carlo Giannelli <gnncrl(a)UNIFE.IT> > > Dear Author, > > we would like to invite you to contribute a paper to the special issue "Location Based Services and Applications in the era of Internet of Things". > This special issue belongs to Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (ISSN: 1574-1192). Both article and review are welcome. > > Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/pervasive-and-mobile-computing/call-for-p… > > Submission deadline: January 31, 2020 > First notification: April 30, 2020 > Revised Manuscript: June 30, 2020 > Final notification: September 10, 2020 > > Guest Editors: Paolo Bellavista, Carlo Giannelli, Mirco Musolesi, Marco Picone > > This Special Issue addresses the innovative developments, technologies, and challenges related to IoT Location Based Service (LBS) design and implementation for ubiquitous and pervasive application scenarios. The Special Issue is seeking the latest findings from research and ongoing projects. Additionally, review articles that provide readers with current research trends and solutions are also welcome. The potential topics include, but are not limited to: > - LBS and Internet of Things > - Geospatial services and resource discovery > - Seamless interaction between people and things in pervasive environment > - Architecture for distributed geospatial applications > - Edge/Fog Computing Architectures to support LBS applications > - Vehicles as Connected Smart Objects in IoT applications > - Drone Applications & IoT > - Heterogeneity and Interoperability management > - 5G Architectures and Applications for the next generation of LBS services > - Indoor and outdoor localization technologies > - IoT Pervasive and Ubiquitous Applications > - Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for localization and LBS > - Real-world experiences, e.g., in Smart City and Industrial IoT environments > > * Keywords * > Location, Based Service, Internet of Things, Edge Computing, Fog Computing, Mobile Computing, Pervasive Computing, Ubiquitous Computing, Algorithms, Architectures > > * Submission instructions * > Detailed instructions about manuscript formatting can be found at https://www.elsevier.com/journals/pervasive-and-mobile-computing/1574-1192/… > The submission site is available at https://www.evise.com/profile/api/navigate/PMC > When submitting, specify "VSI:LBS in the era of IoT" as the Special Issue name. > > Kind regards, > Carlo Giannelli > > -- > Carlo Giannelli, Ph.D. > > Assistant Professor > Distributed Systems Research Group > Department of Mathematics and Computer Science > University of Ferrara > Via Saragat 1, Ferrara - 44122 - Italy > http://docente.unife.it/carlo.giannelli > > ______________________________________________________________ > IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications > http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ > TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. > tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org > https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: 18th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2020)
by Lars Wolf 24 Oct '19

24 Oct '19

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: 18th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2020) Datum: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 16:56:21 -0400 Von: Julien Gascon-Samson <julien.gascon-samson(a)ETSMTL.CA> Antwort an: Julien Gascon-Samson <julien.gascon-samson(a)ETSMTL.CA> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear colleagues, The 18th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2020) [https://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2020/] will be held June 15-19, 2020 in Toronto, Canada. Call for Papers MobiSys 2020 seeks to present innovative and significant research on all aspects of mobile systems, applications, and services. The conference values technical contributions with working implementations and practical evaluations. We also welcome work that explores new and compelling mobile scenarios and applications as long as the work goes well beyond providing an initial vision. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Experience with mobile applications, networks and systems * Innovative mobile, mobile sensing, and mobile crowdsourcing applications * Tools for building and measuring mobile systems * Innovative wearable or mobile devices * Novel software architectures for mobile devices * Data management for mobile applications * Infrastructure support for mobile computing * System-level energy management for mobile devices * Operating systems for mobile devices * Support for mobile social networking and mobile Web * Security and privacy in mobile systems * Resource-efficient machine learning for mobile platforms * Systems for location and context sensing and awareness * Mobile computing support for pervasive computing * Vehicular and robotic systems * Systems and networking support for virtual or augmented reality * Applications of mobile systems in health, sustainability, and other domains * Non-traditional topics that bring new perspectives to mobile computing Papers whose contributions overlap with work currently under review elsewhere must not be submitted to MobiSys. Papers whose contributions overlap with an earlier published paper will be considered only if (1) the previous paper was published (not just accepted) at a workshop at least 6 months before our submission date and (2) it adds significant new contributions over the previous paper. Authors uncertain whether their submission meets these guidelines should contact the program chairs. Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. Accepted submissions will be treated as confidential prior to publication; rejected submissions will be permanently treated as confidential. MobiSys will use a double-blind review policy during the initial paper review. Authors are instructed to not include their names, affiliations and contact information on the manuscript they submit for review. Authors should also anonymize the content of their paper to hide their identity. Reviewers will not know the identity of the authors during the initial phase of the review process, however, anonymity will expire after the majority of the reviews have been submitted and preliminary outcomes decided. The identities of the authors will be revealed to the reviewers toward the end of the review process. Submissions which are not properly anonymized will be rejected without being reviewed. Submissions must be in PDF. We will not accept papers in any other format. Submissions must use a 10pt font (or larger) and be correctly formatted for printing on Letter-sized (8.5" by 11") paper. Paper text blocks must follow ACM guidelines: double-column, with each column 9.25" by 3.33", 0.33" space between columns and single-spaced. Submissions MUST be *no more than twelve (12) pages + unlimited number of pages for bibliography references*. The 12-page limit includes everything (e.g., abstract, text, appendix, etc.) except for the bibliography references. Submissions can use this LaTex template <http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2013/misc/sig-alternate-10pt.cls> that is known to comply with the formatting requirements. Authors remain responsible for checking that their resulting PDF meets our formatting and anonymity specifications. Submissions not following these guidelines will be rejected without review. Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and technical correctness. Papers may be conditionally accepted and shepherded by a member of the program committee, with final acceptance determined by consent of the shepherd. As part of the submission process, authors of papers that describe experiments on human subjects, or that analyze nonpublic data derived from human subjects (even anonymized data), will be asked to certify that their work was vetted by an ethics review (e.g., IRB approval). We expect authors to follow the rules of their host institutions around data collection and experiments with human subjects. At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to register for the conference (at non-student rate) and present the paper in person. Selected outstanding papers may be fast-tracked as a special section of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Best Paper Award All papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award. The program committee will select a number of candidates for the award among accepted papers, and select one or more award papers prior to the conference. Important Dates Abstract Registration: December 5, 2019 -- 23:59 EST Paper Submission: December 12, 2019 -- 23:59 EST Notification of acceptance: March 9, 2020 Contact If you have any questions, please contact Elizabeth Belding (ebelding(a)cs.ucsb.edu) and Jason Nieh (nieh(a)cs.columbia.edu) -- Julien Gascon-Samson | Professor / Professeur Department of Software and IT Engineering / Département de génie logiciel et TI École de technologie supérieure | 1100, rue Notre-Dame Ouest | Montréal (Qc) Canada | H3C 1K3 | etsmtl.ca Tel.: 514 396-8881 | Office / Bureau A-4456 | juliengs.ca ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM CPSS'20 6th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (in conjunction with AsiaCCS 2020)
by Lars Wolf 24 Oct '19

24 Oct '19

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM CPSS'20 6th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (in conjunction with AsiaCCS 2020) Datum: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 16:46:45 +0000 Von: Gritzalis Stefanos <sgritz(a)AEGEAN.GR> Antwort an: Gritzalis Stefanos <sgritz(a)AEGEAN.GR> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ACM CPSS'20 CALL FOR PAPERS 6th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop Taipei, Taiwan, 2019 (in conjunction with ACM AsiaCCS'20) https://www.nics.uma.es/pub/CPSS2020/ Important Dates Submission due: February 10, 2020 Notification: February 24, 2020 Camera-ready due: March 15, 2020 Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) of interest to this workshop consist of large-scale interconnected systems of heterogeneous components interacting with their physical environments. There exist a multitude of CPS devices and applications deployed to serve critical functions in our lives thus making security an important non-functional attribute of such systems. This workshop will provide a platform for professionals from academia, government, and industry to discuss novel ways to address the ever-present security challenges facing CPS. We seek submissions describing theoretical and practical solutions to security challenges in CPS. Submissions pertinent to the security of embedded systems, IoT, SCADA, smart grid, and other critical infrastructure are welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Attack detection for CPS * Authentication and access control for CPS * Availability of and auditing for CPS * Blockchain for CPS security * Data security and privacy for CPS * Digital twins for CPS * Embedded systems security * Formal methods in CPS * Industrial control systems security * IoT security * Lightweight crypto * Recovery of CPS from cyber attacks * Security risk assessment for CPS * Security architectures for CPS * Security by design for CPS * Security of autonomous vehicles and vessels * Security of legacy CPS * Smart grid security * Threat modeling for CPS * Security of transportation systems * Vulnerability analysis for CPS Steering Committee Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) Ravishankar Iyer (UIUC, USA) Douglas Jones (UIUC, USA) Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) Jianying Zhou (SUTD, Singapore) - Chair Program Chairs Sokratis Katsikas (Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus; and Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU, Norway) Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) Publicity Chair Pankaj Pandey (Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU, Norway) Publication Chair Stefanos Gritzalis (University of Piraeus, Greece) Program Committee Alvaro Cardenas (UT Dallas, USA) Mauro Conti (University of Padua, Italy) Roberto Di Pietro (HBKU, Qatar) Afonso Ferreira (CNRS-IRIT, France) Yanick Fratantonio (EURECOM, France) Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis, France) Vasileios Gkioulos (NTNU, Norway) Stefanos Gritzalis (University of Piraeus, Greece) Huy Kang Kim (Korea University, Korea) Kandasamy Nandha Kumar (SUTD, Singapore) Qi Li (Tsinghua University, China) Hoon Wei Lim (SingTel, Singapore) Bo Luo (University of Kansas, USA) Xiapu Luo (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK) Michail Maniatakos (NYU-Abu Dhabi, UAE) Daisuke Mashima (ADSC, Singapore) Aditya Mathur (Purdue University, USA & SUTD, Singapore) Weizhi Meng (DTU, Denmark) Simin Nadjm-Tehrani (Linköping University, Sweden) Martín Ochoa (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia) Axel Poschmann (DarkMatter, UAE) Rodrigo Roman (University of Malaga, Spain) Justin Ruths (UT Dallas, USA) Georgios Spathoulas (NTNU, Norway) Martin Strohmeier (University of Oxford, UK) Jun Sun (SMU, Singapore) Qiang Tang (LIST, Luxembourg) William Temple (ADSC, Singapore) Nils Ole Tippenhauer (CISPA, Germany) Indrakshi Ray (Colorado State University, USA) Zheng Yang (SUTD, Singapore) Fan Zhang (Zhejiang University, China) Jianying Zhou (SUTD, Singapore) Sencun Zhu (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Saman Zonouz (Rutgers University, USA) Submission Instructions Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All submissions should be appropriately anonymized. Submissions must be in double-column ACM SIG Proceedings format, and should not exceed 12 pages. Position papers describing work in progress are also welcome. Only pdf files will be accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop. At least one author of each paper must be registered at the appropriate conference rate. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. A best paper award will be presented getting opportunities for a registration fee discount. Paper submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpss20 Contact Email: cpss20(a)easychair.org CPSS Home: https://nics.uma.es/pub/CPSS2020/ Professor Stefanos Gritzalis Systems Security Laboratory Department of Digital Systems University of Piraeus, Greece Postal address: 150 Od. Androutsou St., GR-18532, Piraeus, Greece Email: sgritz(a)unipi.gr<mailto:sgritz@aegean.gr>, Tel.: +30.210.414.2706, Fax: +30.210.414.2753 Skype: stefanos.gritzalis URL: https://www.ds.unipi.gr/en/sgritz/ P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers - MaDeLoRa 2020 in conjunction with EWSN -- 1 week left
by Lars Wolf 24 Oct '19

24 Oct '19

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers - MaDeLoRa 2020 in conjunction with EWSN -- 1 week left Datum: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 18:07:29 +0200 Von: Martin Heusse <Martin.Heusse(a)IMAG.FR> Antwort an: Martin Heusse <Martin.Heusse(a)IMAG.FR> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers.] ********** 1 week left ! *************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS MaDeLoRa 1st Workshop on Massive LoRa Deployments: Challenges and Solutions February 17, 2020 Lyon, France http://www-sop.inria.fr/coati/events/madelora2020/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: November 1 Acceptance notification: December 10 Camera ready: December 20 Workshop date: February 17 SCOPE LoRa supports various PHY layer parameter settings which impact reliability, coverage, scalability, energy consumption, data rate etc. On the one hand, network operators have control on the radio parameters used by the sensors associated with them and are concerned with network planning and capacity. On the other hand, application designers and end users need to know how to get their needed level of reliability and they have to take into account the specifics of the technology. The aim of this workshop is to shed light on the main challenges and solutions for Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) based on LoRa or similar technologies. We solicit contributions in this area from researchers and practitioners in both the academia and industry. MaDeLoRa aims at bringing together various researchers and research groups working with problems related to multi-rate LPWAN technologies both from the applied and the theoretical point of view. TOPICS OF INTEREST The workshop welcomes submissions describing unpublished research, position papers as well as deployment experiences on various topics related to LoRa and deployment of LoRaWAN. Topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to: Single and Multi-Gateway LoRaWAN deployment Performance evaluation PHY enhancements Range and coverage Error control and correction MAC layer protocols for LoRa technology Traffic models for massive network deployment Capacity evaluation Scalability Reliability Analyzing LoRa: a Use Case Perspective IoT Applications in LoRaWAN Simulation of LoRaWAN Cross-layer design and optimization Accepted and presented papers will be included in the EWSN 2020 proceedings and will appear in the ACM Digital Library. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and selected papers will be organized for presentation at the workshop. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS All submissions will be exclusively electronic with a maximum length of six (6) printed pages including title, authors, abstract, figures, diagrams, references and attachments. Pages must use 8.5" x 11" (letter) two-column format, using 10-point type on 11-point leading, with a maximum text block of 7" wide x 9" deep with an inter-column spacing of .25". More information here : http://www-sop.inria.fr/coati/events/madelora2020/registration.shtml Submission link : https://hotcrp-madelora-ewsn2020.citi-lab.fr/ Organizers Christelle Caillouet, Univ. Côte d'Azur, France (christelle.caillouet(a)unice.fr) Martin Heusse, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France (martin.heusse(a)imag.fr) Program Committee Members Dominique Barthel, Orange Labs, France Glauber Brante, Federal University of Technology UTFBR, Brazil Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Greece Diego Dujovne, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile Alexandre Guitton, University Clermont Auvergne, France Aamir Mahmood, Mid Sweden University, Sweden Nicolas Montavont, IMT Atlantique, France Baozhu Ning, Semtech, France Gowri Sankar Ramachandran, University of Southern California, USA Lorenzo Vangelista, University of Padova, Italy Dimitrios Zorbas, Tyndall Institute, Ireland ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] SmartEdge 2020 - Call for Papers - Deadline November 30th, 201
by Lars Wolf 24 Oct '19

24 Oct '19

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] SmartEdge 2020 - Call for Papers - Deadline November 30th, 201 Datum: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 10:37:24 -0400 Von: Tamer Nadeem <tnadeem(a)VCU.EDU> Antwort an: Tamer Nadeem <tnadeem(a)VCU.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org ****** We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ***** ************** Submission Deadline: November 30, 2019 *************** Call For Papers ===================================================================================== SmartEdge 2020 The Fourth International Workshop on Smart Edge Computing and Networking http://www.people.vcu.edu/~tnadeem/SmartEdge20/ In Conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2020 (http://www.percom.org/) March 23-27, Austin, TX, USA ===================================================================================== We are approaching a fundamental shift in the computational era as the number of connected smart devices and Internet of Things (IoT) devices (e.g., smartphones, tablets, smart watches, smart glasses, smart meters, connected vehicles, etc.) are expected to exceed several billions in the next few years. Recent studies show that it is expected that the amount of data generated at the edge of the Internet by smart and IoT devices will be vast, incredibly rich, extremely valuable, and becoming the key enabler for data-rich edge systems and applications in several smart computing domains like smart homes, connected health, and smart cities. Therefore, it becomes very obvious that it’s far more efficient and practical to manage and process data as close to its source as possible (the edge of the Internet) instead of a massive and centralized traditional storage (the cloud). Moreover, in recent years, the world has seen many major breakthroughs in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) research. By integrating the advances in smart devices and edge systems with the advances in machine learning, the future role of smart edge systems, networks, and applications is becoming limitless and it's expected to revolutionize the future of the world within the next few years. This is especially important as edge systems generate ever-growing and evolving collections of data, calling for dedicated ML/AI techniques capable of handling streaming and lifelong learning problems. SmartEdge'20 aims at bringing together experts from several research communities spanning pervasive & mobile computing, wireless networks, embedded systems, Internet of Things, machine learning, big data, and data analytics to discuss data needs and interests, challenges to be addressed, tools to be developed, and new research problems on edge wireless infrastructure, edge mobile systems, rich data sets accessed or generated by edge and Internet of Things devices. Papers describing prototype implementations of edge applications and systems are particularly welcome. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: * Architecture of edge systems. * Buffering, queuing, and caching at the edge. * Blockchain and other consensus approaches for edge systems * Co-existence of wireless technologies at the edge. * Device-to-Device communication and cooperation. * Data collection and analytic techniques for mobile systems and applications. * Edge systems, applications and services * Edge-based data management and data analytics * Edge-based quality of service and experience. * Edge authentication, authorization, and billing. * Edge-based cyber-physical solutions. * Energy efficiency and spectral efficiency enhancements for the edge. * Fault-tolerance, availability and replication for the edge. * Human factors for edge computing. * Interactions between the edge and the cloud. * Internet-of-Things, fog computing, cloud-let computing and related ideas. * Load balancing and resource management for the edge. * Machine learning techniques for cloud and edge systems, mobile sensing, applications and services. * Machine learning for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, smart cities and cyber-physical systems. * Mobile augmented reality and virtual reality systems on the edge. * Programming models and toolkits for edge systems. * Personalized/transfer learning for edge mobile systems. * Resource indexing, monitoring, and metering. * Security and privacy for edge systems. * Software defined networking (SDN) for the edge. * Smart devices and wearable technologies. * Self-driving and connected vehicles, V2V/V2X. * Theoretical foundations of machine learning for edge systems and applications. * Wireless communications and networking architecture for edge systems. -------------------------------- Submission Guidelines ------------------------------ Authors are invited to submit original unpublished work, not currently under review by other conferences, workshops or journals. Full papers are limited to a maximum length of 6 pages and must adhere to IEEE format (in 10pt font, double column, US Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches), including text, figures, and references. Authors can purchase one additional page for the camera-ready version. Authors must follow the IEEE Computer Society author guidelines. The IEEE conference Latex and Word templates can be found at https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…. Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF files through the EDAS link https://edas.info/N26597. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore). Each accepted workshop paper requires a full PerCom registration (no registration is available for workshops only). Key Dates ------------- Submission Deadline: November 30th, 2019 (11:59 PM Anywhere on Earth) Acceptance Notification: December 31st, 2019 Camera-Ready Deadline: January 31st, 2020 Best Regards, SmartEdge 2020 Chairs Tamer Nadeem, Glenn Ricart, Theodoros Salonidis MORE INFORMATION - Please visit Workshop webpage: http://www.people.vcu.edu/~tnadeem/SmartEdge20/ PERCOM webpage: http://www.percom.org/ ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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