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Fwd: WF-IoT 2021 Call for Papers(CFP) , Tutorials, and Industry Forum Proposals
by Lars Wolf 05 Jan '21

05 Jan '21

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: WF-IoT 2021 Call for Papers(CFP) , Tutorials, and Industry Forum Proposals Datum: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 06:30:15 -0600 (CST) Von: IEEE Communications Society <ieee-comsoc(a)deliver.ieee.org> Antwort an: no-reply(a)deliver.ieee.org An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de IEEE Master email The 7th IEEE World Forum on the Internet of Things will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana USA June 20th – 24th, 2021. The 7th IEEE World Forum on the Internet of Things - WFIoT2021 <https://connect.ieee.org/JP33G90XPH0U80r0aq00000> Hi Lars, We are seeking technical paper submissions and proposals for tutorials, and Industry Forums for the 7th IEEE World Forum on the Internet of Things being held in New Orleans, Louisiana USA June 20th – 24th, 2021. The Forum is the premier event of the Multi-Society IEEE IoT Initiative <https://connect.ieee.org/l0P990003Prq0H3a00U0Y0G> and is held jointly with the IoT Community <https://connect.ieee.org/L903HP00P0Z00Garq030a0U>. The Theme for WFIoT2021 is “The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on IoT”. You will find a comprehensive and exciting program, that brings the latest developments from industry and the business world, the most important people from across the breadth of the IoT ecosystem, news of significant innovations and advances from the research and academic community, and shared experiences from practitioners and end-users about the successes and challenges of IoT deployments. The World Forum is all about the nurture and promotion of IoT for the benefit of society and humanity. *CALL FOR PAPERS* ** Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality original technical papers for presentation at the conference and publication in the WFIoT2021 2021 Proceedings. Papers should address, but are not limited to, the high-level topics below: * Applications, Processes, and Services * Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Analytics * Basic and Enabling Technologies * Communication, Connectivity, and Networking * Computing – from Edge to Cloud * Cybersecurity, Security, and Privacy * Infrastructure, Devices, and Components * Information Processing from Multimedia and Heterogeneous Sources * Results from Experiments, Demonstrations, and Trials, and Deployment Experiences * Social and Societal Impacts * Systems Engineering, Integration Methods, and Operation Technologies * Theoretical foundations, design methods, and architectural considerations Paper Submissions Deadline 15 January 2021 Submit Now <https://connect.ieee.org/JP33G90XPH0U80r0aq00000> *CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS* ** The IEEE World Forum on the Internet of Things (WF‐IoT 2021) seeks tutorials proposal submissions that address but are not limited to the following topics: * Artificial Intelligence (ML, ANN) and Computational Intelligence in IoT * Data Acquisition, Data Analytics, Big Data, Storage Management for IoT * IoT Applications and Services (Agriculture, Smart City, Blockchain, Healthcare, etc.) * IoT Design, System Interfaces, Integration and Testing Methods * IoT Enabling Technologies, RFID, Sensor, and Actuators * IoT Programming Models, Middleware and System Architectures * IoT Experimental Results and Deployment Scenarios * Multimedia, Societal Impacts and Energy Harvesting for IoT * Security, Privacy and Trust for IoT * Signalling Processing, Connectivity and Computing Platforms for IoT * Vehicular Technology, Connected Vehicles and Intelligent Vehicles for IoT * 5G Communications, Connectivity and Networking for IoT Tutorial Proposal Submissions Deadline 10 January 2021 Submit Now <https://connect.ieee.org/j9cP0P33G000r0qUHa00100> *CALL FOR INDUSTRY FORUM PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS* ** The Forum is planned as a series of panels, each devoted to a specific aspect of IoT, conducted as an open and collegiate exchange of information with the objectives to: * Understand the limitations of current IoT knowledge to guide future research topics * Share best practice for commercial IoT development, deployment, and maintenance so early mistakes are not repeated many times over * Highlight the risks that the IoT can expose so that these can be mitigated and avoided * Create networks of excellence across the academic, maker, and commercial communities to jointly push forward the boundaries of IoT science * Reduce the knowledge transfer barriers between the academic, maker, and industrial communities Industry Forum Proposal Submissions Deadline 15 January 2021 Submit Now <https://connect.ieee.org/z09r3a30000PU11PGqd0H00> <https://connect.ieee.org/l0P990003Prq0H3a00U0Y0G> IEEE is closely monitoring developments related to the COVID-19 pandemic. 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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: The 17th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Harbin, China. Deadline: Jan. 10
by Lars Wolf 05 Jan '21

05 Jan '21

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: The 17th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Harbin, China. Deadline: Jan. 10 Datum: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 22:41:27 +0400 Von: Moayad Aloqaily <mzaloqaily(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Moayad Aloqaily <mzaloqaily(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG *Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFPs.* *CALL FOR PAPERS* *The 17th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, June 28 - July 2, 2021* Harbin, China—IWCMC 2021: http://iwcmc.org/2021/ <https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fiwcmc.org%…> *SUBMISSION DEADLINE:* *Jan. 10, 2021* *SUBMISSION LINK:* https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27588 The International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2021) will be held on June 28 - July 2, 2021 in Harbin, China. Under the theme of "*Communications with Intelligence*", IWCMC 2021 will target a wide spectrum of the state-of-the-art as well as emerging topics pertaining to wireless networks, wireless communications, and mobile computing. Continuing the great success of previous IWCMC events, IWCMC 2021 is anticipated to attract a large number of high-quality submissions and stimulate the cutting-edge research discussions among many academic pioneering researchers/scientists and industrial engineers/leaders from all around the world. The IWCMC 2021 program will feature a number of symposia, workshops, invited presentations, special sessions, and pioneering keynote speakers. More information can be found at the conference website: http://iwcmc.org/2021/ <https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fiwcmc.org%…> *.* Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers - up to 6 pages of length, using the EDAS link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27588 to various IWCMC 2021 Symposia and Workshops as listed in the conference website for possible publication in the IWCMC 2021 Conference Proceedings, which will be submitted to IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Selected papers will be further considered for possible publication in special issues of the following journals: 1. International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet): http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijsnet <https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.inders…> 2. The International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS): www.inderscience.com/ijaacs <https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.inders…> 3. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems: www.itiis.org <https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.itiis.…> 4. Peer-to-Peer Networking & Applications: http://www.springer.com/engineering <https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spring…> 5. Cyber-Physical Systems journal: www.tandfonline.com/loi/tcyb20 <https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tandfo…> There will also be the best paper awards, one best symposium award, and one best workshop award. *IMPORTANT DATES* Paper Submission Deadline: *Jan. 10, 2021* Paper Acceptance Notification: 30 March 2021 Registration Camera-ready: 30 April 2021 *SYMPOSIA* 1) 5G IoT Symposium 2) Big Data Networking Symposium 3) Communication & Signal Processing 4) e-Health 5) Internet of Things (IoT) 6) Mobile Computing 7) Multimedia over Wireless 8) Next-Generation Systems & Networks 9) Recent Advances in 5G IoT and Smart City Solutions 10) Satellite Communications & Networking 11) Trust, Privacy & Security 12) Vehicular Communications 13) Wireless Networking 14) Wireless Sensor Networks . . . and many more Workshops. ====================================== *Best Regards* *Moayad Aloqaily, Ph.D., P.Eng.* *http://icnetlab.org/MA/ <http://icnetlab.org/MA/>* ______________________________________________________________ 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-SwarmNet 2021 - 3rd IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Wireless Networking, Planning, and Computing for UAV Swarms
by Lars Wolf 04 Jan '21

04 Jan '21

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP-SwarmNet 2021 - 3rd IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Wireless Networking, Planning, and Computing for UAV Swarms Datum: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 08:19:34 -0700 Von: Fatemeh Afghah <fatemeh.afghah(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Fatemeh Afghah <fatemeh.afghah(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG *SwarmNet 2021* 3rd IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Wireless Networking, Planning, and Computing for UAV Swarms June 7-11,2021, Pisa, Italy ( http://wowmom2021.iit.cnr.it/workshops/swarmnet-2021/) Recent advances in embedded computing, wireless communication, flight controllers, and miniaturized sensing have enabled the growth of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Networked swarms of such UAVs promise breakthroughs in public safety, commercial, and military applications including search-and-rescue, disaster response, infrastructure inspection, environmental monitoring, virtual/augmented reality, and ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance). The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers working at the intersection of wireless networking, mobile computing, sensing, robotics, and/or planning to address a myriad of fundamental technical challenges that must be solved before UAV swarms (and, more broadly, multi-UAV systems) can be safely, effectively, and widely deployed. Since many of these challenges will not be able to be addressed without the help of UAV swarm simulation platforms, experimental testbeds/prototypes, and experimental evaluations, papers on these topics are especially encouraged. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Communication and networking protocols for UAV swarms - Resilient communication protocols for multi-agent planning and control - Delay-tolerant networking for UAVs - Network topology control for performance optimization (connectivity, throughput, etc.) - Wireless localization for UAVs - Communication architectures and technologies for UAV air-traffic control - UAVs in 4G/5G cellular networks - UAV integration in the urban IoT - Aerial video streaming for virtual/augmented reality - Data offloading and mobile edge computing with UAVs - Spectrum management and interference management techniques for UAV networks - Air-to-air, air-to-ground, and ground-to-air channel modeling for UAVs - Cyber-security for UAVs - UAV swarm network simulation platforms - Onboard AI for UAV-enabled aerial intelligence - UAV swarm network testbeds, experimental evaluation, and prototyping Submissions may be up to 6 pages in length (including figures and references), formatted in two-column IEEE conference style with font size 10 point or greater. For the camera-ready (accepted) papers, authors can buy one additional page, for a total length of up to 7 pages. Papers must be submitted electronically to EDAS (TBA – Please visit the workshop’s website for updates) by March 1, 2021. *Important Dates:* *Paper submission deadline:* *March 1, 2021* *Author Notification:* April 1, 2021 *Camera-ready submission:* April 19, 2021 *Workshop date:* June 7, 2021 *Organizing committee:* Nick Mastronarde, University at Buffalo, USA Jacob Chakareski, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Fatemeh Afghah, Northern Arizona University, USA ______________________________________________________________ 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 Vehicular Communications (IF:4.7) Special Issue on Revolutionary Paradigms for Smart Connected Vehicles in the 6G Era
by Lars Wolf 04 Jan '21

04 Jan '21

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - Elsevier Vehicular Communications (IF:4.7) Special Issue on Revolutionary Paradigms for Smart Connected Vehicles in the 6G Era Datum: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 08:57:27 +0100 Von: Marica Amadeo <marica.amadeo(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Marica Amadeo <marica.amadeo(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Our apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP. ================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Elsevier Vehicular Communications (2019 IF: 4.706) Special Issue on “Revolutionary Paradigms for Smart Connected Vehicles in the 6G Era” https://www.journals.elsevier.com/vehicular-communications/call-for-papers/… ================================================================== By jointly involving multiple challenging requirements, such as ultra-high reliable and ultra-low latency communications, high efficiency and capacity, intelligent driving is one of the most ambitious and attractive applications of the 6G initiatives. Although the convergence of communication, caching, control and computing (4C) resources can be leveraged to effectively enable 6G services and applications over vehicle-to-everything (V2X) channels, multiple challenges must be addressed to allow connected vehicles to meet the 6G requirements, to securely and efficiently orchestrate their resources and to develop self-organizing and self-sustaining capabilities. Emerging communication paradigms that make effective data transmission in very high dynamic contexts include the reprogrammability of the environment by the means of Reprogrammable Intelligent Metasurfaces (RIMs). Moreover, Visible Light Communication (VLC) can improve the reliability of V2X interactions and be effective in terms of security and enhanced data rate. With focus on networking aspects, Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) can bring programmability, flexibility and scalability in connected vehicles, simplify network management and promote an efficient and fair use of the distributed 4C resources and programmable metasurfaces. They can be complemented by revolutionary networking models, such as Information Centric Networking (ICN), to provide distributed caching and computing services. This special issue aims to collect proposals that deal with revolutionary communication and networking technologies for connected vehicles, in a holistic fashion or at different layers, to meet the expectations of the 6G era. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Software-defined vehicular networks Vehicular cloud computing in the 6G era Fog/edge computing architectures for connected vehicles Integration of SDN/NFV and vehicular cloud computing Information Centric Networking for Connected Vehicles Impact of connected vehicles on transportation safety, management, characterization, and prediction Mobile sensing networking, sensor data collection and multi-modal fusion Caching strategies for connected vehicles Joint management of communication, control, computing and caching for 6G vehicular applications and services Optical wireless technologies for 6G vehicular applications and services Reprogrammable and Intelligent Metasurfaces for smart connected vehicles Secure and privacy-preserving communications in 6G vehicular networks ================================================================== TIMELINE Paper submission: 31 March 2021 Acceptance notification: 30 June 2021 Final papers: 30 July 2021 ================================================================== SUBMISSION FORMAT AND GUIDELINE All submitted papers must be clearly written in excellent English and contain only original work, which has not been published by or is currently under review for any other journal or conference. A detailed submission guideline is available as “Guide to Authors” at https://www.elsevier.com/journals/vehicular-communications/2214-2096/guide-…. All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through the paper submission system at https://www.editorialmanager.com/VEHCOM/default.aspx . The authors must select as “VSI: Smart Vehicle - Amadeo” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. The system is open for submissions. Requests for additional information should be addressed to the guest editors. ================================================================== Guest Editors: Dr. Marica Amadeo, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy marica.amadeo(a)unirc.it Prof. Abderrahim Benslimane, University of Avignon, France abderrahim.benslimane(a)univ-avignon.fr Prof. Kwang-Cheng Chen, University of South Florida, USA kwangcheng(a)usf.edu Dr. Valeria Loscrì, INRIA Lille-Nord Europe, France valeria.loscri(a)inria.fr Dr. Seyhan Ucar, Toyota Motor North America, USA seyhan.ucar(a)toyota.com Dr. Anna Maria Vegni, Roma Tre University, Italy annamaria.vegni(a)uniroma3.it -- Dr. Marica Amadeo Assistant Professor 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 Scholar Google Profile: https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=52c4cz0AAAAJ&hl=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] ACM HotMobile 2021 : Call for Posters/Demos, February 24-26, 2021, Cyberspace
by Lars Wolf 04 Jan '21

04 Jan '21

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM HotMobile 2021 : Call for Posters/Demos, February 24-26,2021, Cyberspace Datum: Sun, 3 Jan 2021 22:34:55 -0500 Von: Yufei Sun <yufeisun369(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Yufei Sun <yufeisun369(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 22nd Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (ACM HotMobile 2021) *https://hotmobile.org/2021/ <https://hotmobile.org/2021/>* Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE February 24-26, 2021 Cyberspace *Call for Posters/Demos* ACM HotMobile 2021, the Twenty-second International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications continues the series of highly selective, interactive workshops focused on mobile applications, systems, and environments, as well as their underlying state-of-the-art technologies. HotMobile's small workshop format makes it ideal for presenting and discussing new directions or controversial approaches. HotMobile seeks proposals for posters and demonstrations describing novel work on mobile systems, applications, and services. Given the current circumstances, live poster presentations and demos will run in parallel over video link during a dedicated session, with participants being able to drop in and out, as they would in an in-situ setting. As backup, authors of posters and demonstrations will be required to have pre-recorded versions of their poster presentations/demos. The poster/demo session is meant to introduce new or ongoing work and provide opportunities for authors to interact directly with workshop attendees. Posters are well suited to controversial work that can generate discussion or promising new ideas which have not been thoroughly evaluated. Demos provide an opportunity to demonstrate the feasibility and usefulness of your research. We are looking for new ways of presenting demos and posters, exploiting the possibility of a video link in original and novel ways. For example, demos can be video streamed from labs (where local provisions permit), outdoors, using web portals/Jupyter notebooks/Colab, or involve app downloads via links provided and user testing. The poster/demo session will feature a Best Poster/Demo award. *Submission* Submissions must include an extended abstract no longer than one 8.5x11-inch page, including all figures and references. Submissions must be made electronically in an email message to the Poster/Demo Chair ( paul.patras(a)ed.ac.uk). * subject line for posters: HOTMOBILE POSTER SUBMISSION * subject line for demos: HOTMOBILE DEMO SUBMISSION **Abstract deadline: Jan 25th, 2021* *More details on the submission process:* * Please set up your page to be letter size, 8.5x11 inches, two columns, using 10-pt font size for the text body, at least one-inch margin on all sides; * Please include the title of the poster/demo and the author list, including affiliations in both the PDF file and in the body of the email; * Please prefix your title with “Poster:” for a poster submission and “Demo:” for a demo submission; * The abstract should be attached in PDF format. ______________________________________________________________ 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: DCOSS 2021 - 17th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems - deadline January 25, 2021 - Coral Bay, Pafos, Cyprus
by Lars Wolf 30 Dec '20

30 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: DCOSS 2021 - 17th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems - deadline January 25, 2021 - Coral Bay, Pafos, Cyprus Datum: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 19:30:02 +0000 Von: Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou <eirini(a)UNM.EDU> Antwort an: Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou <eirini(a)UNM.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ============================================================ The 17th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2021)* Coral Bay, Pafos, Cyprus June 7 - 9, 2021 www.dcoss.org<http://www.dcoss.org/> * DCOSS has always been technically co-sponsored by IEEE; approval for this year pending. ============================================================= Workshops are already available! We are optimistic that by summer next year the COVID-19 pandemic situation will improve and the event will be held physically in Cyprus. However, we monitor the situation and will adapt accordingly, possibly allowing remote presentations if needed. Submissions are now open! https://dcoss.org/paper-submission/ DCOSS 2021 is the 17th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems to be hosted in Coral Bay, Pafos, Cyprus in June 7-9, 2021. In the last few years, we have witnessed a significant growth in the use of IoT and distributed sensor systems in a number of application areas, ranging from smart transport, energy and buildings, to factory automation, smart healthcare and environmental monitoring. In order for smart sensor systems to truly become useful and pervasive, we need to address a number of research challenges, including the tight integration of sensing and machine intelligence, reliable and efficient networking, interoperability and scalability, the need for dependable autonomy, interaction with humans, and important aspects of security, privacy and trust. DCOSS focuses on issues arising in the entire IoT and networked sensor systems stack: covering aspects of high-level abstractions, models and languages, novel algorithms and applications, system design approaches and architectures, as well as tools for simulated and real deployments. Potential authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate recent advances in both theoretical and experimental research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Artificial Intelligence for IoT - Smart healthcare to combat epidemics (including COVID-19) - Edge and fog computing: distributed computing models from sensor to cloud - Energy harvesting models and optimization - Machine intelligence in distributed sensor systems and real time analytics - Communication and networking primitives and protocols - Autonomy: closing the loop between sensing and actuation - Task allocation, reprogramming, and reconfiguration - Robustness, resilience and dependability - Security and privacy issues - Approaches, tools, and experience of deployment and operation - Performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability - Mobile and human-centered sensing - Interoperability, heterogeneity and scalability - Crowd sensing and social sensing techniques, applications, and systems - Complex systems comprising wearable, robotic and/or fixed sensor systems - Novel and compelling applications - IoT systems for emerging and developing economies - Green and environmentally-friendly IoT Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on distributed sensor systems related to DCOSS topics of interest. Please use the US letter size (8.5 X 11 in) standard IEEE conference LaTeX format or Microsoft Word template available on the link below: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Note that DCOSS does not follow the double-blind review policy. The names and affiliations of all the authors must be present in the submitted manuscript. A Special Issue of the Computer Networks (COMNET) Elsevier Journal will include selected best papers of DCOSS 2021. Please visit DCOSS website at www.dcoss.org<http://www.dcoss.org/> for more information. ******** Main Organizers ******** - Technical Program Committee Chairs: Enzo Mingozzi (University of Pisa, Italy) Stefano Basagni (Northeastern University, USA) Jiannong Cao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) TPC Members Carlo Alberto Boano, Graz University of Technology Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa Kevin Chan, US CCDC Army Research Laboratory Thomas Erlebach, University of Leicester Raja Jurdak, Queensland University of Technology Tomasz Jurdzinski, University of Wroclaw Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University Olaf Landsiedel, Kiel University Jun Luo, Nanyang Technological Univeristy Prasant Misra, TATA Consultancy Services Nathalie Mitton, Inria Lille-Nord Europe Miguel Mosteiro, Pace University Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento Cristina Pinotti, University of Perugia Utz Roedig, University College Cork Vasos Vassiliou, University of Cyprus Dong Wang, University of Notre Dame Hongkai Wen, University of Warwick Jie Yang, Florida State University Desheng Zhang, Rutgers University Ambuj Varshney, University of California, Berkeley Nicolas Tsiftes, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden Xiaolong Zheng, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Shijia Pan, University of California Merced Jiaxin Ding, Shanghai Jiaotong university Chenren Xu, Peking University Sirajum Munir, Bosch Research Jean-Francois Chamberland, Texas A&M University Behnam Dezfouli, Santa Clara University Jie Gao, Rutgers University Gaia Maselli, University of Rome Enrico Natalizio, University of Lorraine/Loria Theofanis Raptis, IIT-CNR Francesco Restuccia, Northeastern University Simone Silvestri, University of Kentucky Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida Antonio Virdis, University of Pisa Thiemo Voigt, Swedish Institute of Computer Science - Local Chairs Vasos Vassiliou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Zinon Zinonos (Neapolis University Pafos, Cyprus) - Workshops Chairs Enrico Natalizio (University of Lorraine, France) Zhangyu Guan (University at Buffalo, USA) - Poster & Demo Chairs Thomas Lagkas (International Hellenic University, Greece) Roger Chamberlain (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) - Proceedings Chair Marios Angelopoulos (Bournemouth University, UK) - Publicity Chairs Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA) Lei Shu (Nanjing Agricultural University & University of Lincoln, China/UK) Tamoghna Ojha (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India) - Steering Committee Chair: Sotiris Nikoletseas (University of Patras and CTI, Greece) ******** Collocated Events ******** DCOSS 2021 will collocate with several thematic Workshops and Special Sessions on emerging topics and technologies. The event will also feature a poster and demo session. Important Dates: Abstract Registration Deadline: January 18, 2021 Paper Submission Deadline: January 25, 2021 Acceptance Notification: March 15, 2021 Camera Ready Deadline: March 29, 2021 Early Registration Deadline: April 22, 2021 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab's News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. 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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - ICDCS 2021 [Deadline Approaching, January 6/13] - IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
by Lars Wolf 29 Dec '20

29 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - ICDCS 2021 [Deadline Approaching, January 6/13] - IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Datum: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 17:20:24 +0000 Von: Rhongho Jang <r.jang(a)WAYNE.EDU> Antwort an: Rhongho Jang <r.jang(a)WAYNE.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers] Call for Papers: 2021 IEEE 41th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) Important Dates Abstract Submission: January 6, 2021 (23:59, UTC-5, EDT) Full Paper Submission: January 13, 2021 (23:59, UTC-5, EDT) Notification of Acceptance: March 17, 2021 Camera-ready Paper Submission: April 20, 2021 https://icdcs2021.us/ July 7-10, 2021 (tentative) Washington DC, USA Scope The annual IEEE ICDCS conference is a premier international forum for researchers, developers, and users to present, discuss, and exchange cutting edge ideas and latest findings on topics related to any aspect of distributed computing systems. We invite you to submit your original contributions to ICDCS 2021. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Cloud Computing and Data Centers - Distributed Algorithms and Theory - Distributed Big Data Systems and Analytics - Distributed Fault Tolerance and Dependability - Distributed Operating Systems and Middleware - Edge Computing - Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems - Mobile and Wireless Computing - Security, Privacy, and Trust in Distributed Systems - Blockchain - Machine Learning on or for Distributed Systems - Insights from Industrial Experience Paper Submission Papers must be original and unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere concurrently. All paper submissions should follow the IEEE 8.5″ x 11″ Two-Column Format. Each submission can have up to 11 pages (including references). Papers exceeding this page limit or with smaller fonts will be rejected without review. The submitted manuscripts should include author names and affiliations. Electronic submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdcs2021 If the submission is accepted for publication, up to 2 over length pages may be purchased for the final camera-ready version. Each accepted paper must have at least one author registered and be presented during the conference. No-show paper will be reported to the publisher and deleted from the conference publication. For authors with multiple papers accepted by the conference, a separate author registration is required for each paper. Please refer to the conference web site (https://icdcs2021.us/) for more information about: Call for Research Papers Call for Demo and Posters Ph.D. Student Symposium Call for Workshop Proposals Rhongho Jang, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Wayne State University ______________________________________________________________ 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] CPS-IoTBench'21: Call for Papers and for Reproducibility Studies
by Lars Wolf 28 Dec '20

28 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CPS-IoTBench'21: Call for Papers and for Reproducibility Studies Datum: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 08:20:23 -0500 Von: Carlo Alberto Boano <000001f9fb5aae12-dmarc-request(a)COMSOC-LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG> Antwort an: Carlo Alberto Boano <cboano(a)TUGRAZ.AT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 4th Workshop on Benchmarking Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things (CPS-IoTBench 2021) -- https://www.iotbench.ethz.ch/cps-iotbench-2021 Virtual event co-located with CPS-IoT Week -- May 18, 2021 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Research on Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and the Internet of Things (IoT) has bloomed over the last decade. This research has led to the development of smart systems at different scales and environments, from smart homes and cities to smart grids and factories. Significant progress has been made through contributions in areas as diverse as control, embedded and real-time systems, wireless communication, and networking. Despite these advances, a lack of standard evaluation criteria and methodologies makes it difficult to measure and compare the utility of this progress. This problem concerns the evaluation against the state of the art in an individual area, the comparability of different integrated designs that span multiple areas (e.g., control and networking), and the applicability of tested scenarios to present and future real-world CPS/IoT applications and deployments. This state of affairs is alarming, as it significantly hinders further progress in CPS and IoT research. The Workshop on Benchmarking Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things (CPS-IoTBench) has been a forum to bring together researchers from different communities since 2018, to engage in a lively debate on all facets of rigorously evaluating and comparing CPS and IoT solutions. CPS-IoTBench provides a venue for learning about each other’s challenges and evaluation methodologies and for debating future research agendas to jointly define the performance metrics and benchmarking scenarios that matter from an overall system perspective. *** Call for Papers and for Reproducibility Studies *** For the workshop's 4th edition, which will take place in a virtual form within CPS-IoT Week, we invite researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to submit papers that focus on one of the following: - Presenting exemplary benchmarking systems and approaches from any of the relevant communities (e.g., embedded systems, real-time systems, networking, wireless communication and control, robotics, machine learning). - Identifying fundamental challenges and open questions in rigorous benchmarking and evaluation of CPS and IoT solutions. - Offering a constructive critique of the current practices and state of experimental comparisons. - Designing and evaluating benchmarking methodologies, infrastructures, or tools for cyber-physical and IoT systems. - Benchmarking industrial standardized solutions against each other and against academic solutions. - Presenting novel performance comparisons in the context of cyber-physical and IoT systems. - Reporting on success stories or failures when using standard evaluation criteria. - Describing techniques for improving the reproducibility of real-world testing of wireless systems. - Proposing new research directions, methodologies, or tools to increase the level of reproducibility and comparability of evaluation results. Well-reasoned arguments or preliminary evaluations are sufficient to support a paper’s claims. Unique to this year's workshop edition, we also seek contributions describing the reproduction of experimental results from published work within any of the relevant communities. Examples of this include: - Papers that repeat prior experiments (ideally using the original source code) to show how, why, and when the methods work (or not). - Papers that repeat prior experiments in new contexts (e.g., different application domains or using different evaluation methodologies and metrics) to further generalize and validate (or not) previous work. - Reproducibility studies of a given scientific work for which some key aspect(s) in the experimental setup was unspecified, showing the different spectrum of solutions as a function of such aspect(s). - Evaluations carried out by undergraduate and graduate students, experienced researchers, or industry practitioners looking to validate another piece of work before comparing their own to it. Reports should carefully describe the experimental setup as well as how the authors made sure to carefully reproduce conditions similar to those of the original study. If there are ambiguous conditions not specified in the original study which may affect the outcome (e.g. it is not specified whether the environment is an empty room or full of people), authors are encouraged to highlight, discuss, and empirically explore the impact of changing such a condition. Regardless of the study results, the tone of the report must be constructive and not offensive to the original authors. Prospective authors are invited to contact the original authors of the examined study and let them provide a short discussion paragraph that can be included in the final section of the report. Submissions from the same authors of the reproduced experiments will not be accepted. *** Submission Instructions *** Submitted papers must contain at most 6 pages (US letter, 9pt font size, double-column format, following the ACM master article template), including all figures, tables, and references. All submissions must be written in English and should contain the authors' names, affiliations, and contact information. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library as part of the CPS-IoT Week 2021 proceedings. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work in a plenary session as part of the main workshop program. *** Important Dates *** Paper submission: February 15, 2021 (AoE) Notification of acceptance: March 17, 2021 Camera-ready: March 26, 2021 Workshop date: May 18, 2021 *** Workshop Organizers *** - Michael Baddeley (Technology Innovation Institute, UAE) - Carlo Alberto Boano (Graz University of Technology, Austria) - Michael Breza (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) - Romain Jacob (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) - Ramona Marfievici (Digital Catapult, United Kingdom) - Pat Pannuto (University of California, San Diego, USA) - Marco Zimmerling (TU Dresden, Germany) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of the call ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. 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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] PMC Special Issue: IoT for Fighting COVID-19 [few days left]
by Lars Wolf 21 Dec '20

21 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] PMC Special Issue: IoT for Fighting COVID-19 [few days left] Datum: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 12:45:01 +0100 Von: Chiara Boldrini <chiara.boldrini(a)IIT.CNR.IT> Antwort an: Chiara Boldrini <chiara.boldrini(a)IIT.CNR.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) Journal - (2019 IF: 2.725) Special Issue on IoT for Fighting COVID-19 ***** Submission Deadline: December 21st, 2020 [EXTENDED] ***** https://www.journals.elsevier.com/pervasive-and-mobile-computing/call-for-p… ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout history, pandemics have ravaged humanity with plagues and infections that created humanitarian crises, severed social interactions, hindered economic growth, and caused human lives loss. With the most recent COVID-19 outbreak, researchers and practitioners across various domains such as medical and life sciences, economics, and engineering are coming together to put forward solutions to counter such a threat and aid the society in coping with the fallbacks. In the same context, the computing community in general and IoT researchers and practitioners in particular face a challenge about how IoT-based systems can be exploited to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. This special issue aims to find answers to some fundamental questions such as what IoT systems, technologies, and infrastructures can be exploited for data and knowledge-driven management of the pandemics, how IoT can enable innovative and unconventional solutions for mitigating outbreaks (through mechanisms such as context-sensitive contact tracing and symptomatic detection, smart lockdowns, crowd-sensed discovery of the emerging clusters), and how IoT can contribute to increased public awareness and safety, and counter the negative emotional and social impact. This special issue invites technical papers that focus on theoretical and applied research contributions that present original ideas, modeling and simulation results, prototypes, and real-world experiences in the context of IoT for countering pandemics. Interdisciplinary works are most welcome. This special issue will focus on (but will not be limited to) the following topics: * Engineering of IoT Systems to Counter the COVID-19 Pandemic: IoT-driven smart lockdown; context-sensitive contact tracing and symptomatic detection; crowd-sensed identification of the pandemic hotspots; IoT-driven smart health in the time of pandemics; IoT-driven detection of transmission pathways and dose-response effect; data engineering for pandemic IoT systems. * Algorithms for IoT Systems to Counter the COVID-19 Pandemic: Context modeling and reasoning applied to pandemics; activity and well-being recognition for early detection of symptoms and monitoring of disease progression; data mining, machine learning and causal reasoning applied to IoT systems to fight pandemics; social and complex networks of IoT devices during pandemics. * Empirical Research on IoTs to Counter the COVID-19 Pandemic: Industrial findings and experience reports; validation and evaluation research; measurement studies; systematic mapping studies, or systematic literature reviews. * Reference Architectures, Infrastructures, and Tools for IoT Systems to Counter the COVID-19 Pandemic: IoT-driven pandemic management; architectural patterns and styles for pandemic tracing; prototypes and tool support; mobile cloud computing, fog and edge computing; development environments, frameworks, and tools; technological IoT innovations; trust, security, and privacy. * Analytical models of IoT Systems to Counter the COVID-19 Pandemic: performance models of IoT-driven containment and mitigation strategies; analytical studies of required IoT penetration to achieve control of the epidemic; data-driven IoT models and estimation of key parameters to feed into theoretical models. * Application of IoT Systems to Counter the COVID-19 Pandemic: smart healthcare; smart emergency response systems; smart community and crowd management; food security; smart lockers and innovative choice, pack and delivery methods; unconnected infrastructure and IoT systems. * IoT Systems beyond COVID-19: experience reports, applied solutions, frameworks, prototypes, simulations, and validation research to detect, manage, and counter epidemics like Dengue, Ebola, SARS, Zika, etc. Timeline -------- Submission deadline: 21 December 2020 (EXTENDED) First notification: February 2021 Guest Editors ------------- Chiara Boldrini, Lead Guest Editor IIT-CNR, Italy Aakash Ahmad University of Ha’il, Saudi Arabia & TeraBlu IoT Systems, Pakistan Mahdi Fahmideh University of Wollongong, Australia Rabie Ramadan Cairo University, Egypt & University of Ha’il, Saudi Arabia Mohamed Younis University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Submission Guidelines --------------------- All submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide for Authors as published in the Journal website at https://www.journals.elsevier.com/pervasive-and-mobile-computing. Authors should select “VSI: IoT-COVID19”, from the “Choose Article Type” pull-down menu during the submission process. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified, for consideration by the special issue, the authors should indicate in the cover letter that the manuscript has been submitted for the special issue “IoT for Fighting COVID-19”. All contributions must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. A submission based on one or more papers that appeared elsewhere has to comprise major value-added extensions over what appeared previously (at least 40% new material). Authors are requested to attach to the submitted paper their relevant, previously published articles and a summary in the cover letter explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. For further information, please contact the guest editors. ______________________________________________________________ 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] ICIN 2021 - Call for Fast Track and Demo Papers
by Lars Wolf 21 Dec '20

21 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ICIN 2021 - Call for Fast Track and Demo Papers Datum: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 03:31:16 -0800 Von: ICIN Conference <icinconf(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: icinconf(a)GMAIL.COM An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG (Apologies if you received duplicate copies of this CFP) ********************************************************************************** CALL FOR "FAST TRACK" AND DEMO PAPERS - ICIN 2021 24th Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks "Services everywhere: melding networking and computing in an intelligent cloud-edge continuum" March 1-4th, 2021 - Virtual Conference https://www.icin-conference.org Technically sponsored by IEEE Communications Society All papers accepted and presented by one of the authors will be published in IEEE Xplore Digital Library ********************************************************************************** Call for “Fast Track” papers In order to accommodate research in progress in a dynamic field ICIN is adding a Fast Track to its 2021 conference. The conference particularly seeks papers on joint industry-university collaborations on the main topic of the conference: the melding of networking and computing and the overall softwarization and computerization of networks. Like standard papers, Fast Track submissions need to be original, unpublished work not currently under review by other conferences or journals. The submission will be assessed based on timeliness, originality, technical soundness, clarity and interest to a wide audience. Fast track papers will be limited to a maximum of 5 pages including tables, figures and references. Prospective authors are referred to the CFP page for submissions details and a longer list of topics of interest. https://www.icin-conference.org/call-for-fast-track-papers/ Submissions by: January 2nd, 2021 Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27469&track=104792 ICIN 2021 TPC Co-Chairs Barbara Martini (CNIT, Italy) Marie-Jose Montpetit (Concordia University, Montreal) ********************************************************************************** Call for Demo papers ICIN 2021 also invites proposals for research prototype demonstrations. As a high-profile, leading edge forum for researchers and engineers in the field of Softwarized networks, orchestration technologies, Open Source platforms, Hardware acceleration and abstraction, etc., ICIN 2021 offers a unique opportunity to showcase applications, engage with a highly skilled and innovating audience and discuss emerging technologies and recent research prototypes with key thought leaders. We are seeking for original demos from industrial and academia researchers related to ICIN 2021 Key Topics. Prospective contributors are expected to turn in a demo proposal in the form of a 3-page paper in IEEE conference double-column format, preferably incorporating a demo system architecture illustration. The proposal should also describe in detail what ICIN 2021 attendees who will be present at the demonstration session will experience. Especially, we encourage software demos that the audience can interact with. Demo papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted based on the following criteria: - Extent and significance of the research contribution - Potential impact on the audience - Quality of the proposed implementation - Presentation quality We encourage authors to include a short video (less than 5 minutes) of their demonstration to clearly illustrate the user experience and demo scenario. Also, please note that video material is considered to be the main presentation format due to the fact that ICIN 2021 will be held online. https://www.icin-conference.org/call-for-demos/ Submissions by: December 30th, 2020 Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27469&track=102620 ICIN 2021 Demo Co-Chairs Piotr Borylo (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland) Molka Gharbaoui (CNIT, Italy) ******************************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES "Fast Track" Paper Submission (up to 5 pages): January 2nd, 2021 Demo Paper Submission (up to 3 pages): December 30th, 2020 Acceptance Notification: January 20th, 2021 Camera-Ready Papers: January 31st, 2021 LINK TO SUBMISSION PAGE http://edas.info/N27469 ******************************************************************************** CONFIRMED KEYNOTES: Keynote 1: Vertical Edge Computing and Networking by Zhe Liu (David), Chief Researcher, Huawei, Germany Keynote 2: Towards 6G – an operator’s view point by Luis Miguel Contreras Murillo, Telefonica, Spain Keynote 3: New Frontiers for Tactile Internet by Mohamed Faten Zhani, ETS Montreal, Canada ******************************************************************************** COVID-19 Statement Due to the persistent COVID-19 emergency, ICIN 2021 will be held fully online as a virtual conference on March 1-4th 2021. Accordingly, registration fees will be fixed at affordable prices. Further information will be posted soon on the conference website: https://www.icin-conference.org About ICIN Since 1989, the ICIN conferences have been bringing together leading Internet and telecom experts from industry, academia and government from across the globe. ICIN is a single track conference that is both intimate and global, attracting 100+ delegates, from more than 20 countries. It focuses on leading edge investigations into Internet technologies, from basic networking and cloud services to novel architectures. ICIN uses a rigorous peer-review process and has become an established industry forum to discuss emerging trends in Information and Communications Technology (ICT). It offers an agora for one-on-one discussions and cross-fertilization between participants and leading network visionaries, with the goal of promoting dialogue and ideation about the current and future trends in networking research and development. ICIN conferences are well known for their identification of research challenges and industry trends and their discussion on the impact of cutting-edge technologies on future intelligent and distributed networking, and related computing services. ICIN has an enviable track record of identifying key technologies and services – and analysing their impact on business models – before they become widely recognized in the industry and government communication sectors. The interdisciplinary approach and the cross-fertilization of ideas are the main ingredients that made ICIN a recognized event in the telecommunications, cloud networking and Internet communities. ICIN 2021 For 2021 ICIN is focussing on the melding of network and computing services that is clearly demonstrated by the increasing softwarization of the network services in the core and the access networks, the rise of computing in the network and the growth of cognition in networking for management and control, as well as for value added services at the edge and in the data center. Several innovations are impacting the ongoing transformations toward the network of the future and the evolution of cloud services. More and more the network fabric itself emcompasses functionality usually associated with computing as increased intelligence and cognition are necessary to address emerging requirements of distributed services, automation and network reliability. At the same time, more and more, the cloud is extending to the edge adding a number of heterogeneous networked subsystems to the Internet with a variety of requirements that further highlight the need for novel architectures, e.g., IoT systems, augmented and virtual reality and service delivery platforms. The result is the networking and computing systems becoming one, melding, as a distributed cloud/edge continuum with cognition and intelligence for emerging services. This “Computing and Networking as a Service” is the paradigm that will be central to the deployment of immersive services in many different sectors, such as e-health, self-driving cars, industrial networks, agriculture and cloud robotics. In this regard, there is a need for a variety of mechanisms enabling the new generation of service offerings at different levels (consumer, business, government, social, service provider ecosystem platforms). In this scenario and considering the many challenges that the aforementioned paradigms and technologies will bring, the theme for ICIN 2021 is: "Services everywhere: melding networking and computing in an intelligent cloud-edge continuum" The conference will foster discussion about new ideas and novel approaches for future service concepts, service delivery and their enabling technologies and mechanisms in the emerging scenario of immersive intelligence and service level awareness. With this vision, the conference will look beyond the current state of the art and promote the advances of Computing as a Service technologies for different application service delivery platforms. Interested authors are invited to submit papers presenting novel technical research, research related to business impact or mechanisms of new technologies, as well as broader position and visionary papers. Contributions that discuss lessons learnt and best practices, describe practical deployment and implementation experiences as well as demonstrating innovative use-cases are also and especially encouraged. ********************************************************************************* ICIN 2021 solicits original, unpublished work not currently under review by other conferences or journals. Papers submitted to ICIN 2021 will be assessed based on originality, technical soundness, clarity and interest to a wide audience. All submissions must be written in English and must use standard IEEE two-column conference template, available for download from the IEEE website: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all submissions must be done electronically through EDAS using the following link: http://edas.info/N27469 Areas of interest and topics include, but are not limited to: - Edge-Cloud continuum and softwarized networks evolution for verticals: * Vertical industries and digital twins * Automotive and vehicular networking, including vehicular cloud services * Tactile Internet and precision networking * Functional decomposition and orchestration, service chaining * Protocols for ultra-low latency and ultra-high reliability * Fog, edge and multi-access computing and networking * Security, trust and privacy - Enablers and services for wireless and mobile networks: real deployments and best practices * Network and service architecture, protocols, application-network layer interworking, and use cases for 5G and emerging networks * Service-Based Architecture (SBA) design applied to the control plane, data plane and management plane, considering as well network function exposure * Scalability and multi-tenancy in 5G and emerging networks * Green networking and efficient resource usage and service delivery * Security, trust and privacy management in large systems and smart environments - Network automation and orchestration architectures and protocols * Intent-based network management and cloud resource orchestration * Network programmability architectures and systems * Orchestration of distributed cloud and network resources in vertical markets * Network artificial intelligence, machine learning and reasoning * Network data analytics, anomaly detection, and feature extraction * Autonomic and cognitive networking * Security, societal and legal aspects of network automation - Technologies for innovation in clouds, Internet and networks * SDN, NFV, service function chaining, function placement and network embedding * Use of Distributed Ledger Technologies in networking and network services * Advanced multimedia and real-time communications, QoE/QoS Assurance * Lightweight virtualization technologies, software and hardware acceleration * Energy-efficient software-defined infrastructures * Measurement, monitoring and telemetry * Open-source projects and open standards ********************************************************************************* General Co-Chairs --------------------------- Walter Cerroni (University of Bologna, Italy) Håkon Lønsethagen (Telenor, Norway) Jie Tang (Tsinghua University, China) Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs --------------------------- Barbara Martini (CNIT, Italy) Marie-Jose Montpetit (Concordia University, Montreal) Workshops Co-Chairs --------------------------- Eduardo Jacob (University of the Basque Country, Spain) Muge Sayit (Ege University, Turkey) Keynote and Panel Chair --------------------------- Alex Galis (University College London, UK) Demo Co-Chairs --------------------------- Piotr Borylo (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland) Molka Gharbaoui (CNIT, Italy) Publication Chair --------------------------- Elisa Rojas (University of Alcala, Spain) Publicity Co-Chairs --------------------------- Emmanuel Bertin (Orange, France) Monique Calisti (Martel Innovate, Switzerland) Huaiyu Wan (Beijing Jiaotong University, China) Patron Chair --------------------------- Amina Boubendir (Orange, France) Finance Chair --------------------------- Guy Pujolle (DNAC, France) International Steering Committee Chair --------------------------- Noel Crespi (Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France) Overall Arrangements --------------------------- Aziza Lounis (DNAC, France) Web Chair --------------------------- Elia Kallas (DNAC, France) We are looking forward to your submission to ICIN 2021 ------------------------------------------------------------ For further information, see https://www.icin-conference.org ------------------------------------------------------------ ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. 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