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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers: IEEE PerCrowd 2018 (co-located with IEEE PerCom)
by Lars Wolf 07 Sep '17

07 Sep '17

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Huber Flores <000000b88e64d002-dmarc-request(a)comsoc.org> Gesendet: 7. September 2017 10:38:11 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers: IEEE PerCrowd 2018 (co-located with IEEE PerCom) ************************************* [Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ************************************* ______________________________________________________________________ IEEE PerCrowd 2018 – 1st International Workshop on Context-Awareness for Multi-Device Pervasive and Mobile Computing Co-located with IEEE PerCom 2018, March 19-23 March 19, 2018 Athens, Greece - http://percrowd.blogspot.com ______________________________________________________________________ - - SCOPE AND OVERVIEW __________________ - Pervasive and mobile systems are constrained by energy and performance issues when they operate in isolation. Yet, several studies have shown that smart devices are frequently co-located in proximity to at least one other device throughout the day, suggesting that devices can potentially collaborate to reduce the effort of resource intensive tasks, e.g., sensing, offloading, networking, storage, etc. However, merging the resources of multiple devices to work together is a tough challenge as it requires a common understanding of the context of each device. In addition, since smart devices function in multiple roles, understanding what really constitutes context becomes difficult as different types of contexts need to be modeled depending on the type of task. - Context information is critical in multi device setups, e.g., for the formation of collaboration groups, and for negotiating responsibilities between the devices. Any misunderstandings in context can thus be extremely counterproductive for the collaboration between devices. Consider, for example, a computational task, e.g., game puzzle, whose execution can be accelerated by dividing computations between two or more devices. To distribute the task, we first need to understand the processing capacity of each device to ensure devices with insufficient resources are not harnessed for this task as they would turn into bottleneck for execution. By detecting the context for harnessing collaborative and opportunistic resources in proximity, it is possible to reduce the cost of executing tasks in the constrained resources of smart devices, and to diffuse the presence of smart devices beyond their existing computing isolated behavior. - The goal of PerCrowd 2018 is to explore the impact of context in collaborative and opportunistic computing. More in detail, the goal of this workshop is to explore the use and effect of contexts on multi-device settings, whose computational behavior can be propagated within a community of devices for optimizing their energy and performance. - Original papers addressing theoretical, practical, and technical aspects of opportunistic and collaborative self-organization of devices are solicited. Papers describing prototype implementations and deployment of such applications and systems are particularly welcome. The submission of informative surveys of the state of the art as well as position papers on controversial issues is also encouraged. - Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Context-aware collaborative systems and applications - Resource extension of pervasive and mobile applications - Opportunistic context modeling - Pervasive computing applications harnessing multiple devices - Data-driven techniques for community formation - Self-organizing community construction and evolution - Crowdsensing and crowdsourcing models for data acquisition and fusion - Applications of crowdsensed models, e.g., incentive models, decision making models, and privacy models. - Infrastructure, architectures, and platforms for collaborative systems - Lessons and experiences of evaluating multi device context-aware systems and applications - Emerging applications for multi device environments. - - PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ________________________________________ - Papers should contain original material and not be previously published or currently under consideration elsewhere. Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11 conference format, and formatted in accordance with the IEEE Computer Society author guidelines. - Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press in the combined PerCom 2018 Workshop Proceedings and will appear on IEEE Xplore. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the workshop to present the paper. There is no workshop-only registration. An oral presentation at the workshop is strictly required. Failure to present the paper at the workshop will result in the withdrawal of the paper from the Proceedings as well as from the IEEE Xplore. - - IMPORTANT DATES _______________ - Abstract Registration: October 21, 2017 Submission Deadline: October 29, 2017 Acceptance Notification: December 23, 2017 Camera Ready due: January 12, 2018 Workshop: March 19 - - ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ____________________ - Program Committee Chairs - Huber Flores (University of Helsinki, Finland) - Pan Hui (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) - Vassilis Kostakos (The University of Melbourne, Australia) - Workshop Web Chair - Rajesh Sharma (Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Estonia) - Publicity Chairs - Aaron Yi Ding (Technical University of Munich, Germany) - Chu Luo (The University of Melbourne, Australia) - - For more information, please check out percrowd.blogspot.com ______________________________________________________________ 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] IEEE Access Special Section on Cyber-Physical-Social Computing and Networking
by Lars Wolf 07 Sep '17

07 Sep '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] IEEE Access Special Section on Cyber-Physical-Social Computing and Networking Datum: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 17:46:48 -0700 Von: Huan Zhou <zhouhuan117(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Huan Zhou <zhouhuan117(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------- IEEE Access Special Section on Cyber-Physical-Social Computing and Networking. *http://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/special-sections/cyber-physical-social-computing-networking/ <http://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/special-sections/cyber-physical-social-computing…>* Submission Deadline: 31 December 2017 TOPIC SUMMARY: ------------------------- Recently, due to the rapid proliferation of sensors and intelligent devices, a new revolution in computing and communication has been witnessed. The next generation of computing and networking will utilize a wide variety of resources with significant sensing capabilities. Such computing and networking will extend beyond physically linked computers to include multimodal information from biological, cognitive, semantic, and social networks. This paradigm shift will involve symbiotic networks of human (social networks), intelligent devices, and mobile portable devices (e.g., smart phones, PDAs, iPads), that will form Cyber-Physical-Social Computing and Networking (CPSCN). These devices and the network will be constantly sensing, monitoring, and interpreting the environment, which is referred to as the Internet of Things (IoT). The symbiosis of IoT and social networks will have significant implications for both the market for advanced computing and communication infrastructure and future markets – for approximately 5 billion people — that CPSCN will create. Many researchers have paid much attention to CPSCN since it still faces many challenges (e.g., architecture, security, privacy, incentive mechanism, etc.). This Special Section in IEEE Access is inviting researchers who are working on related research areas to contribute high quality articles to present the most recent advances on emerging technologies in CPSCN, applications, architectures, and big data challenges. Both original practical work and review articles are welcome. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Architectural, modeling and simulation of CPSCN - Incentives mechanism design for CPSCN - Routing protocol, data dissemination and offloading algorithms design for CPSCN - Security, privacy and trust for CPSCN - Community detection and network evolution analysis for CPSCN - Mobile social sensing for CPSCN - Social network analysis and social influence analysis for CPSCN - Big Data mining and analytics for CPSCN - Cloud computing and fog computing for CPSCN - Machine learning models and methods for CPSCN - Smart worlds, smart cities and smart medicines for CPSCN - Green computing and sustainable computing for CPSCN - Resource and service management, scheduling, and migration for CPSCN - New applications on CPSCN *Associate Editor:* Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada *Guest Editors:* Huan Zhou, China Three Gorges University, China Qingchen Zhang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Chunsheng Zhu, University of British Columbia, Canada Houcine Hassan, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Vincenzo Piuri, Universita’ degli Studi di Milano, Italy Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: ------------------------------------- Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ieee-access For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact: ltyang(a)gmail.com *===============* 周欢湖北省“楚天学者”/校聘教授/硕士生导师三峡大学计算机与信息学院湖北省宜昌市大学路8号，443002 *===============* Huan Zhou, PH.D, Chutian Scholar, School Hired Professor College of Computer and Information Technology China Three Gorges University Daxue Road 8#, Yichang, P.R.China, 443002 Tel:+86 13972554059 Email: zhouhuan117(a)gmail.com; hzhou(a)ece.ubc.com ______________________________________________________________ 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: ACM SenSys 2017: Doctoral Colloquium
by Lars Wolf 06 Sep '17

06 Sep '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: ACM SenSys 2017: Doctoral Colloquium Datum: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 18:30:03 +0200 Von: Carlo Alberto Boano <cboano(a)tugraz.at> Antwort an: iti.announcement(a)mlist.tugraz.at An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2017) November 5-8, 2017 Delft, The Netherlands http://sensys.acm.org/2017/ *CALL FOR DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM ABSTRACTS* The Doctoral Colloquium of SenSys 2017 seeks to provide a friendly, supportive, and constructive environment where PhD students can present their research in progress for an open discussion guided by a panel of experienced researchers. The Doctoral Colloquium will be structured as a series of short presentations by the students followed by individual discussions, feedback, and advice. Students with the most inspiring topics will also be invited to present a poster during the main conference to leverage further interaction with SenSys attendees. Current PhD students in the early stages of their career are encouraged to submit a 2-pages research summary describing the work in progress and including a 100-word abstract. Things to consider for inclusion in the research summary might be: the expected contribution to the field; the original idea or thesis statement; the problem domain and the specific problem addressed; a brief overview of related work; the methodological approach; research carried out and results so far. The abstract shall also include a one-paragraph biography of the student, including the names and affiliations of the research advisor(s), and expected date of dissertation submission.The student should be the sole author, although contributions of the advisor and others should be acknowledged. The Doctoral Colloquium committee will review submissions to ensure quality, relevance, and potential benefit from attendance. Authors of accepted submissions are expected to participate in person to the Doctoral Colloquium. There will be no separate registration fee for the Doctoral Colloquium. Submissions Research summaries will be reviewed by the chairs and panel members. If the work is accepted, a student may be expected to make clarifications and improvements to the research summary by the camera-ready deadline. Submissions must be received no later than September 29th via web submission form <https://sensys2017.es.ewi.tudelft.nl/sensys/doctoral/>. Submissions must be in PDF format, be written in English, of no more than two pages in length (all inclusive), and adhere to the Sensys formatting styles found here <http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template>.The abstract should include the author’s name, affiliation, and email address. Important Dates Submission Deadline: September 29th, 2017 Notification of Acceptance: October 6th, 2017 Camera-Ready: October 13th, 2017 Colloquium: November 5th, 2017 Doctoral Colloquium Panelists Hae Young Noh (Carnegie Mellon University, US) Kamin Whitehouse (University of Virginia, US) Koen Langendoen (Delft University of Technology, NL) Rasit Eskicioglu (University of Manitoba, CA) Doctoral Colloquium Chairs Marco Cattani (Graz University of Technology, AT) Xiaofan (Fred) Jiang (Columbia University, USA) -- ................................................. Ass.Prof. Boano Carlo Alberto Graz University of Technology Institute for Technical Informatics Inffeldgasse 16, Room: IE01144 / E.2.12 A-8010 Graz, Austria Tel: +43 (0) 316 873-6413 Fax: +43 (0) 316 / 873 - 6903 E-Mail: cboano(a)tugraz.at http://www.carloalbertoboano.com .................................................

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI 2018) Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 05 Sep '17

05 Sep '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI 2018) Call for Papers Datum: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 14:24:02 +0000 Von: Tan Rui (Asst Prof) <tanrui(a)NTU.EDU.SG> Antwort an: Tan Rui (Asst Prof) <tanrui(a)NTU.EDU.SG> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ================================================================================ Call for Papers ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2018 http://conferences.computer.org/IoTDI/ Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. ================================================================================ Important (Preliminary) Dates Abstracts due: September 29th, 2017 Full papers due: October 6th, 2017 Author notification: January 15th, 2018 The ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI) is a premier venue on IoT. In 2018, IoTDI will be held for the third time and topics span the entire ecosystem revolving around IoT, such as cloud and edge computing, data analytics, sensor networks, mobile devices, Internet architecture, middleware and numerous IoT applications. To reflect the interconnection of IoT with both cloud computing and cyber-physical systems, IoTDI is co-located in even years with IEEE IC2E and in odd years with CPS Week. Plan to submit your best papers to ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2018 (deadline 2017/10/6) and see you in Orlando, Florida, in April 2018, where IoTDI will be co-located with IEEE IC2E. A confluence of technological advances marks the advent of a new era. World data volume is growing at an unprecedented pace, much of it from embedded devices. Smart cities are expected to grow, fed by millions of data points from multitudes of human and physical sources. Cyber-attacks grow more nefarious, bringing down physical systems. Social networks are becoming ubiquitous, offering information on physical things. The separation between cyber, physical, and social systems is blurring. Collectively, these developments lead to the emergence of a new field, where the networking and physical realms meet. It is the field of the Internet of Things (IoT). This conference is an interdisciplinary forum to discuss challenges, technologies, and emerging directions in system design and implementation that pertain to this Internet of Things. This conference invites researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government, and accepts original, previously unpublished work on a range of topics related to the Internet of Things. * Analytic foundations and theory of the Internet of Things * Reliability, security, timeliness, and robustness in IoT systems * Novel protocols and network abstractions * Data streaming architectures * IoT-motivated cyber-physical and Industrial Internet systems * Novel quality requirements and their enforcement mechanisms * Cloud back-ends and resource management for IoT applications * Personal, wearable, and other embedded networked front-ends * Social computing and human-in-the-loop issues * Applications and drivers for the Internet of Things * Industrial deployment experiences, case studies, and lessons learned * Evaluation and testbeds General Chair * Chenyang Lu (Washington University in St. Louis) Program Co-Chairs * Olaf Landsiedel (Chalmers University of Technology) * Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Steering Committee Co-Chairs * Tarek Abdelzaher (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) * Hui Lei (IBM Watson Health Cloud) Finance Chair * Tarek Abdelzaher (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Publicity Co-Chairs * Simon Duquennoy (Swedish Inst. of Computer Science) * Mo Sha (Binghamton University) * Rui Tan (Nanyang Technological University) Poster Chair * Abusayeed Saifullah (Wayne State University) Demo Chair * Carlo Alberto Boano (Graz University of Technology) Web Chair * Chao Wang (Washington University in St. Louis) -- Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of the call -- ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY: This email is intended solely for the person(s) named and may be confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it, notify us and do not copy, use, or disclose its contents. Towards a sustainable earth: Print only when necessary. Thank you. ______________________________________________________________ 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] [EWSN 2018] CALL FOR COMPETITORS
by Lars Wolf 29 Aug '17

29 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [EWSN 2018] CALL FOR COMPETITORS Datum: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 00:38:36 -0400 Von: Zhi Sun <zhisun(a)BUFFALO.EDU> Antwort an: Zhi Sun <zhisun(a)BUFFALO.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Competitors 3rd Dependability Competition at the Intl. Conf. on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) February 14-16, 2018 - Madrid, Spain https://ewsn2018.networks.imdea.org/call-for-competitors.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the success of the 2016 and 2017 editions, the Intl. Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) will host also this year a competition to compare the performance of WSN and IoT communication protocols in harsh RF environments. FORMAT: This year's dependability competition will have a new format compared to the past two editions, the most prominent changes being that it will take place remotely over a longer time window, and that it will involve the reporting of multiple events from several nodes. Interested participants should first submit an abstract describing their approach by the competition entry deadline. Accepted contestants will obtain the credentials to remotely access the competition infrastructure and enter the preparation phase, after which each team needs to provide one binary that will be used for the final evaluation. A poster session entirely dedicated to the dependability competition will take place during the evening of the first conference day. All competing teams must present their solution in the poster session and will have the possibility to engage in lively discussions with the other conference attendees. The winners of the competition will be awarded during a dedicated plenary session on the second conference day and will hold a 10-minutes talk preseting their solution, followed by a short discussion. COMPETITION SCENARIO AND EVALUATION PROCEDURE: The competition scenario emulates the operation of a sensor and actuator network monitoring discrete events in an industrial setting where several co-existing wireless devices are crowding the RF spectrum. A complete description of the competition scenario and evaluation procedure can be found at: https://ewsn2018.networks.imdea.org/call-for-competitors.html ELIGIBILITY Both academia and industry submissions are encouraged. All wireless communication protocols used in low-power wireless sensor networks are welcome, and there is no restriction on the operating system used to program the sensor nodes. The competition will take place if at least 5 teams respond to this preliminary call for competitors. Depending on the nature and number of submissions, multiple categories may be defined. The winning teams in each category will receive cash awards and present their approach at EWSN in a 10-minutes plenary talk. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Interested participants should first submit a two-page abstract describing their approach by the competition entry deadline, following the formatting requirements described on the competition Webpage. The abstracts will be used to pre-select the participants to the competition. Accepted contestants will have the chance to edit their abstract and submit a camera-ready version by the end of the competition's preparation phase. Accepted abstracts will appear in the ACM Digital Library, unless authors explicitly mark their submission as confidential. IMPORTANT DATES: Competition entry deadline (Abtract submission): Oct. 11, 2017 Notification of acceptance: Oct. 18, 2017 Camera-ready abstract submission: Jan. 7, 2018 Competition's preparation phase: From mid-Nov. 2017 until Jan. 7, 2018 Submission of final software: Jan. 7, 2018 Competition's evaluation phase: From mid-Jan. until Feb. 7, 2018 Competition panel and poster session: Feb. 14, 2018 Competition awards and winners' presentations: Feb. 15, 2018 ORGANIZERS: Carlo Alberto Boano, TU Graz Markus Schuss, TU Graz --------------------------------------------------------------------- Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of the call --------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________ 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] [RED-IoT 2018] CALL FOR PAPERS
by Lars Wolf 29 Aug '17

29 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [RED-IoT 2018] CALL FOR PAPERS Datum: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 00:18:57 -0400 Von: Zhi Sun <zhisun(a)BUFFALO.EDU> Antwort an: Zhi Sun <zhisun(a)BUFFALO.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Call for Papers – RED-IoT 2018 “2nd Workshop on Recent advances in secure management of data and resources in the IoT” In-conjunction with EWSN 2018 Proceedings appear in ACM Digital Library February 14-16, 2018 in Madrid, Spain https://ewsn2018.networks.imdea.org/red-iot.html <https://ewsn2018.networks.imdea.org/red-iot.html> Keynote speech: Dr. Shahid Raza, director of the security lab at SICS, Sweden. Recent advances in the area of Internet-Connected Objects have revolutionized the everyday lives of people and the industrial world. The Internet of Things (IoT) has infused immense doses of "intelligence" in the physical world making the transition towards digitising everything. Nowadays, most devices around us are either connected to the IoT or are about to be. Physical objects are becoming intelligent through connected devices that are either attached to them or monitoring/controlling them. At a larger scale, cities are becoming smarter, embracing a plethora of technologies to enhance and improve the quality of everyday living. The evolution of traditional wireless sensor networks towards the IoT has introduced numerous opportunities for advanced and promising applications for citizens and industries. Many companies have recently launched "smart products" into the market, in every domain: home, automotive, agriculture, water, air, environment, etc. Most of these products are quite innovative and can be useful for improving and simplifying the lives of citizens, assisting them to their daily activities or contributing also to improving the municipal services and improving the quality of the environment we live. However, most of these products fail to address even simple challenges for security and privacy: they do not protect the data they gather and transmit, they do not use encrypted connections, they use simplistic credentials, etc. The IoT, though, raises significant challenges regarding security, and privacy. Having large numbers of connected devices deployed everywhere around us, e.g. in homes, offices, buses, on the street, monitoring the everyday activities of citizens raises issues regarding user privacy. Privacy issues exist not only when users are actively involved in IoT applications e.g. when sending data from their mobile phones, but also when they are subjects of monitoring by other devices, e.g. when they are being monitored by cameras on the streets. Devices that offer actuation capabilities, e.g. traffic lights, doors, windows, alarms and vehicles allow cyber-attacks to extend effects to the real world. Current centralized IoT solutions raise also security and privacy issues due to the single central point of gathering all data and mechanisms. To address this, lately, there is a shift of interest towards distributed or decentralized security solutions. This workshop builds on the success of the first RED-IoT workshop collocated with the IEEE CAMAD 2014 conference in Athens, Greece, December 2014. It aims to bring together experts from academia and industry that are working in cross-layer issues in the areas of security, and privacy in the IoT. The goal is to present recent results of the research community, the industry and standardisation bodies and exchange ideas for joint research activities in the future. The workshop welcomes original submissions in the following topic areas: • Security and privacy by design architectures for IoT • Decentralized and distributed security architectures • Blockchain in the IoT • GDPR in the IoT • Intelligent, secure data processing, mining, fusion, storage, and management, context awareness, ambient intelligence • Secure wireless channel and traffic models • Physical layer security in the IoT • Secure spectrum management solutions for wireless IoT communications • Security of sensors and actuators • Security and privacy in IoT applications • Embedded security and privacy in IoT devices • Forensics for IoT • Privacy and anonymization techniques in IoT • Trust management IoT architectures • Lightweight security solutions • On-device authentication, authorization and access control in IoT • Big data security for IoT • Detection and prevention of IoT-based security attacks • Ethics and legal considerations in IoT. Submission Instructions and Formatting Requirements The papers will be published as part of the conference proceedings and will appear in the ACM Digital Library. We encourage submissions from academia and industry alike. Full papers can have a maximum length of 6 pages (two column format). The workshop also accepts short position papers of a maximum length of two pages in the same format. Pages must have 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 intercolumn spacing of .25". The page limits include figures, tables, and references. Authors may use the LaTex template ewsn-workshops.tex provided here. All submitted papers will be judged through single-blind reviewing. Please include author names and affiliations along with the title. Submission system. Submissions will be handled through EasyChair here. Important Dates Paper registration: September 23, 2017 Paper submissions: September 30, 2017 Notification: December 1, 2017 Camera-ready: December 20, 2017 Workshop date: February 14, 2018 Organisation Elias Tragos, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUI Galway, Ireland George Oikonomou, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol, UK TPC Vangelis Angelakis, Linköping University, Sweden Budi Arief, University of Kent, UK Simon Duquennoy, RISE SICS, Sweden Xenofon Fafoutis, University of Bristol, UK Alexandros Fragkiadakis, FORTH-ICS, Greece Julio Hernandez-Castro, University of Kent, UK Aqeel Kazmi, NUI Galway, Ireland Rémy Leone, INRIA, France George Moldovan, Siemens, Romania Henrich Pöhls, University of Passau, Germany James Pope, University of Bristol, UK Dr Martin Serrano, NUI Galway, Ireland Shahid Raza, RISE SICS, Sweden Nicolas Tsiftes, RISE SICS, Sweden Pete Woznowski, University of Bristol, UK ______________________________________________________________ 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: IEEE PerCrowd 2018 (co-located with IEEE PerCom)
by Lars Wolf 26 Aug '17

26 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers: IEEE PerCrowd 2018 (co-located with IEEE PerCom) Datum: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 07:20:57 +0000 Von: Huber Flores <000000b88e64d002-dmarc-request(a)comsoc.org> Antwort an: Huber Flores <huberflo(a)CS.HELSINKI.FI> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ************************************* [Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ************************************* ______________________________________________________________________ IEEE PerCrowd 2018 – 1st International Workshop on Context-Awareness for Multi-Device Pervasive and Mobile Computing Co-located with IEEE PerCom 2018, March 19-23 March 19, 2018 Athens, Greece - http://percrowd.blogspot.com ______________________________________________________________________ - - SCOPE AND OVERVIEW __________________ - Pervasive and mobile systems are constrained by energy and performance issues when they operate in isolation. Yet, several studies have shown that smart devices are frequently co-located in proximity to at least one other device throughout the day, suggesting that devices can potentially collaborate to reduce the effort of resource intensive tasks, e.g., sensing, offloading, networking, storage, etc. However, merging the resources of multiple devices to work together is a tough challenge as it requires a common understanding of the context of each device. In addition, since smart devices function in multiple roles, understanding what really constitutes context becomes difficult as different types of contexts need to be modeled depending on the type of task. - Context information is critical in multi device setups, e.g., for the formation of collaboration groups, and for negotiating responsibilities between the devices. Any misunderstandings in context can thus be extremely counterproductive for the collaboration between devices. Consider, for example, a computational task, e.g., game puzzle, whose execution can be accelerated by dividing computations between two or more devices. To distribute the task, we first need to understand the processing capacity of each device to ensure devices with insufficient resources are not harnessed for this task as they would turn into bottleneck for execution. By detecting the context for harnessing collaborative and opportunistic resources in proximity, it is possible to reduce the cost of executing tasks in the constrained resources of smart devices, and to diffuse the presence of smart devices beyond their existing computing isolated behavior. - The goal of PerCrowd 2018 is to explore the impact of context in collaborative and opportunistic computing. More in detail, the goal of this workshop is to explore the use and effect of contexts on multi-device settings, whose computational behavior can be propagated within a community of devices for optimizing their energy and performance. - Original papers addressing theoretical, practical, and technical aspects of opportunistic and collaborative self-organization of devices are solicited. Papers describing prototype implementations and deployment of such applications and systems are particularly welcome. The submission of informative surveys of the state of the art as well as position papers on controversial issues is also encouraged. - Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Context-aware collaborative systems and applications - Resource extension of pervasive and mobile applications - Opportunistic context modeling - Pervasive computing applications harnessing multiple devices - Data-driven techniques for community formation - Self-organizing community construction and evolution - Crowdsensing and crowdsourcing models for data acquisition and fusion - Applications of crowdsensed models, e.g., incentive models, decision making models, and privacy models. - Infrastructure, architectures, and platforms for collaborative systems - Lessons and experiences of evaluating multi device context-aware systems and applications - Emerging applications for multi device environments. - - PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ________________________________________ - Papers should contain original material and not be previously published or currently under consideration elsewhere. Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11 conference format, and formatted in accordance with the IEEE Computer Society author guidelines. - Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press in the combined PerCom 2018 Workshop Proceedings and will appear on IEEE Xplore. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the workshop to present the paper. There is no workshop-only registration. An oral presentation at the workshop is strictly required. Failure to present the paper at the workshop will result in the withdrawal of the paper from the Proceedings as well as from the IEEE Xplore. - - IMPORTANT DATES _______________ - Abstract Registration: October 21, 2017 Submission Deadline: October 29, 2017 Acceptance Notification: December 23, 2017 Camera Ready due: January 12, 2018 Workshop: March 19 - - ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ____________________ - Program Committee Chairs - Huber Flores (University of Helsinki, Finland) - Pan Hui (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) - Vassilis Kostakos (The University of Melbourne, Australia) - Workshop Web Chair - Rajesh Sharma (Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Estonia) - Publicity Chairs - Aaron Yi Ding (Technical University of Munich, Germany) - Chu Luo (The University of Melbourne, Australia) - - For more information, please check out percrowd.blogspot.com ______________________________________________________________ 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: IEEE PerCom
by Lars Wolf 25 Aug '17

25 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CfP: IEEE PerCom Datum: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 08:51:41 +0000 Von: Sarah Clinch <sarah.clinch(a)MANCHESTER.AC.UK> Antwort an: Sarah Clinch <sarah.clinch(a)MANCHESTER.AC.UK> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG =============================================================================== The Sixteenth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications PerCom 2018 (http://www.percom.org/) =============================================================================== Athens, Greece, March 19-23, 2018<http://airmail.calendar/2018-03-19%2012:00:00%20GMT> =============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE PerCom, now in its sixteenth year, is established as the premier annual scholarly venue in the areas of pervasive computing and communications. Pervasive computing and communications have evolved into highly active areas of research; they have found their way into many current commercial systems due to the tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, ambient intelligence, and smart devices. PerCom 2018 will be held in Athens, the capital city of Greece and one of the most historic cities in Europe. PerCom 2018 will provide a leading edge scholarly forum for researchers, engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the art research and developmental work in the broad areas of pervasive computing and communications. The conference will feature a diverse mixture of interactive forums: core technical sessions of high-quality cutting-edge research articles; targeted workshops on exciting topics; live demonstrations of pervasive computing in action; insightful keynote speeches; panel discussions from domain experts; and posters of emerging ideas. Research contributions are solicited in all areas pertinent to pervasive computing and communications, including: * Advances in pervasive systems and infrastructures: middleware systems and services; large-scale data management for pervasive computing; clouds, cloudlets, and fog computing; integrations of smartphones in pervasive experiences; applications of device-to-device coordination. * Theories, models, and algorithms: context modeling and reasoning; adaptive and context-aware computing; activity recognition; programing paradigms; applied machine learning; cognitive computing techniques. * Domain-specific challenges and novel applications: urban/mobile crowdsensing & intelligence; pervasive technologies for healthcare; cyber-physical pervasive computing; innovative pervasive computing applications. * Intersections of pervasive computing with: social networks; opportunistic networks; Internet of things; sensor networks; RFID systems; big data. * New techniques for user-level concerns : participatory and social sensing; trust, security, and privacy; user interface, interaction, and persuasion; social networking and pervasive computing. * Technological innovations: architectures, protocols, and technologies for pervasive communications; mobile and wearable computing systems and services; smart devices and intelligent environments; positioning and tracking technologies. Contributions can be analytical, empirical, technological, methodological, or a combination of these. Papers reporting strong systems engineering contributions backed by solid and appropriate evaluations are strongly encouraged. The impact of the contributions should be demonstrated in the context of pervasive computing and communications. Papers applying known techniques from other fields must clearly demonstrate substantial novelty or pervasive computing impact. ================================= Workshops and Affiliated Events ================================= A number of workshops will be held in conjunction with the main conference. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore) along with papers from the main conference. As in the past, PerCom 2018 will also feature a PhD Forum, Work-in-Progress Posters, and Live Demonstrations. Please visit the conference website for details. ================================= Best paper award ================================= The best paper will receive the prestigious Mark Weiser Best Paper Award. Papers of particular merit will be considered for a special issue of the Elsevier journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC). ================================= Important Dates ================================= Paper Registration: September 15, 2017<http://airmail.calendar/2017-09-15%2012:00:00%20BST> Paper submission: September 22, 2017<http://airmail.calendar/2017-09-22%2012:00:00%20BST> Notification: December 12, 2017<http://airmail.calendar/2017-12-12%2012:00:00%20GMT> Camera Ready: January 12, 2018<http://airmail.calendar/2018-01-12%2012:00:00%20GMT> ================================= Submission Guidelines ================================= Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. Also, they must show a significant relevance to pervasive computing and communications. Guidelines for preparing and submitting the manuscript will be made available on the conference website. Submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process handled by the Technical Program Committee. ================================= Organizing Committee ================================= General Co-Chairs George Roussos, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Achilles Kameas, Hellenic Open University, Greece Program Chair Gergely Záruba, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Vice Program Co-Chairs Brent Lagesse, University of Washington, Bothell, USA Flora Salim, RMIT University, Australia Gregor Schiele, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany Workshops Co-Chairs Petteri Nurmi, University of Helsinki, Finland Daniele Riboni, University of Cagliari, Italy ================================= Additional Information ================================= Web: www.percom.org<http://www.percom.org/>(http://www.percom.org/) Email (TPC Chair): percom2018(a)gmail.com<mailto:percom2018@gmail.com>(mailto:percom2018@gmail.com) Social Media: www.facebook.com/percom<http://www.facebook.com/percom>(http://www.facebook.com/percom) twitter.com/ieeepercom<http://twitter.com/ieeepercom>(http://twitter.com/ieeepercom) ______________________________________________________________ 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: [ACM BuildSys 2017] Call for Poster/Demo (Due: Sep 7)
by Lars Wolf 24 Aug '17

24 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [ACM BuildSys 2017] Call for Poster/Demo (Due: Sep 7) Datum: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 01:24:03 +0000 Von: Polly Huang <pollyhuang(a)ntu.edu.tw> An: Polly Huang <pollyhuang(a)ntu.edu.tw> -- Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of the call -- BuildSys 2017 welcomes exciting demonstrations of novel technologies, applications, and hardware for the built environment as well as posters showing promising early work. We seek participation from both industry and academia for demonstrations and posters. Selection of demonstration and posters will be based on a short abstract, evaluated based on technical merit and innovation as well as the potential to stimulate interesting discussions and exchange of ideas at the conference. The demo and poster session is a great forum to share your early stage work to the broader audience. Accepted abstracts will appear in the regular conference proceedings. At least one author of every accepted demonstration or poster abstract is required to register and attend the conference. November 8-9, 2017 Delft, The Netherlands | co-located with ACM SenSys 2017 http://buildsys.acm.org/2017/demos/ <http://buildsys.acm.org/2017/demos/> Important dates _Poster and Demo abstract submission deadline: September 7, 2017, AOE_ Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2017 Camera ready: September 21, 2017 Submission site: https://buildsys17.hotcrp.com/ <https://buildsys17.hotcrp.com/> Poster abstract Poster abstracts should report on research work where at least some preliminary results are available, but they need not necessarily describe completed work. An easel will be provided for all posters. All poster abstract submissions must strictly adhere to the formatting guidelines specified below. Demo abstract Demo abstracts should describe both the technology being showcased as well as the user experience of the demo. Tables, power, and wireless connectivity will be provided. If a demo requires additional special arrangements, please describe them clearly in your submission using a separate third page (not part of the technical content of the abstract). All demo abstract submissions must strictly adhere to the formatting guidelines specified below. The authors of the accepted demos will be invited to submit an optional short video together with the camera-ready version of the abstract. Submission guidelines and template: Abstract submissions should be no more than 2 pages and must follow a double column format. All figures, appendices, and references must fit within this limit. Paper reviewing is single-blind and submissions should list author names on the front page. If a demonstration requires special arrangements, please describe them clearly in your submission using a separate third page. (This third page is not part of the technical content of the abstract and can be formatted at discretion of the authors). Follow formatting guidelines and templates provided on the BuildSys ’17 Posters and Demo page. Submission link: Poster and demo abstracts must be submitted through HotCRP here. <https://buildsys17.hotcrp.com/> Topics of Interest We are particularly interested in, but not limited to, contributions related to the following topics: * Sensing, actuation and management of electrical loads in residential, commercial and industrial settings; * Novel sensor methodologies, sensor networks and applications that enhance energy efficiency, energy reliability, durability and occupant comfort; * Systems that integrate infrastructure with the emerging smart grid to provide demand response and ancillary services and/or manage utility costs; * Modeling, simulation, optimization, and control of heating, cooling, lighting, ventilation, water usage and other energy flows in built environments; * Distributed generation, alternative energy, renewable sources, and energy storage in buildings; * Emerging communication standards for data collection, energy control, or interoperation of disparate devices or systems; * Systems that can influence occupant behavior towards a more parsimonious usage of electricity, gas, heating, water, etc.; * Localization and contextual computing for increased human-infrastructure interactions; * Software architectures and middleware to aid in programming smart built environments and smart cities; * Safety, security and privacy issues and mechanisms to address them in the context of a sensed and actuated built environments; * Intercoupling and interdependencies of systems-of-systems for smart infrastructure.

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) 2018
by Lars Wolf 22 Aug '17

22 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) 2018 Datum: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 13:25:13 +0500 Von: Muhammad Hamad Alizai <hamad.alizai(a)LUMS.EDU.PK> Antwort an: Muhammad Hamad Alizai <hamad.alizai(a)LUMS.EDU.PK> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG The 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks April 11-13, 2018 Porto, Portugal IPSN'18 is part of CPS Week 2018, co-locating with conferences HSCC, ICCPS and RTAS. http://ipsn.acm.org/2018 ==================================================================================== The International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) is a leading annual forum on research in networked sensing and control, broadly defined. IPSN brings together researchers from academia, industry, and government to present and discuss recent advances in both theoretical and experimental research. Its scope includes signal and image processing, information and coding theory, databases and information management, distributed algorithms, networks and protocols, wireless communications, collaborative objects and the Internet of Things, machine learning, mobile and social sensing, and embedded systems design. Of special interest are contributions at the confluence of multiple of these areas. Like prior years, IPSN'18 will continue its strong focus on algorithms, theory, and systems for information processing using networks of embedded, human-in-the-loop, or social sensors, as well as new hardware and software platforms, design methods, architectures, modelling, implementation, evaluation, deployment experiences, and tools for networked embedded sensor systems and the Internet of Things. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Sensor data storage, retrieval, processing - Streaming sensor system tasking and operation - Coding, compression, and information theory - Machine learning and deep learning on sensor data - Sensor tasking, control, and actuation - Theoretical foundation and fundamental bounds - Network and system architectures and protocols - IoT gateway platform architecture and services - Outdoor, wide-area sensing systems - Location, time, and other network services - Programming models, languages, and systems - Programming models for IoT ensembles - Embedded systems software frameworks - Modeling, simulation, and measurement tools - Operating systems and runtime environments - User interfaces for sensing apps and systems - Cloud, mobile, participatory, and social sensing - Applications in health, wellness & sustainability - Applications in smart cities and urban health - Experiences, challenges, comparisons of platforms - Discovery, coordination, and use of IoT services - Security and privacy in heterogeneous systems - IoT reliability, adaptability, and dependability - Technical assessment of emerging IoT standards - Wearable systems and data processing algorithms - Evaluation/deployment of industrial sensor systems - Sensor-enabled drone platforms and algorithms In addition to IPSN's traditional focus, IPSN 2018 will also include two new special tracks: Internet of Things (IoT), and Data and Machine Learning (DML). The IoT track will concentrate on issues related to the Internet of Things. Submission should refer to specific IoT-related issues including, but not limited to: - Programming models for IoT ensembles - Hardware, software, and system design for IoT - Discovery, coordination, and use of IoT services - IoT reliability, adaptability, and dependability - Technical assessment of emerging IoT standards The DML track will concentrate on data and machine learning related issues in the traditional IPSN topic areas above. Topics can include, but are not limited to: - Machine learning and deep learning on sensor data - New hardware and system design to enable machine learning on sensor data - Novel machine learning algorithms (e.g., new techniques for modeling, optimization, signal processing, interpretation, evaluation, etc.) - Data related issues (e.g. structure, management, database, methods, tools, analysis, etc.) - Technical assessment of emerging IoT standards The entire program committee is eligible to review any submitted paper, but to aid in reviewer selection, authors are encouraged to indicate in the submission site if their papers are related to any of the special tracks IoT or DML. All accepted papers will be presented in the main conference. Response Process: New this year, IPSN will elicit a review and response process. After the initial review, the technical program committee may request a short (1-page) response from selected papers for additional clarifications. The authors will get a short time window of roughly 24 hours to respond. Participation in the response process is not mandatory. ==================================================================================== Key Dates Paper Abstract Registration: September 29th, 2017 Paper Submission Deadline (firm): October, 6th 2017 Response Period: January 8-10, 2018 Acceptance Notification: January 15, 2018 Camera-Ready Deadline: February 16, 2018 ==================================================================================== Organization Committee - General Chair: Luca Mottola (Politecnico di Milano and SICS) - Technical Committee Co-Chairs: Jie Gao (Stony Brook University) and Pei Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University) - Publicity Chair: Yuan He (Tsinghua University), Hamad Alizai (LUMS) -- Muhammad Hamad Alizai (PhD) hamad.alizai(a)lums.edu.pk Assistant Professor of Computer Science, LUMS http://web.lums.edu.pk/~alizai/ ______________________________________________________________ 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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