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The 13th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things
Rhodes Island, Greece
November 02-06, 2020
http://cse.stfx.ca/~cybermatics/2020/ithings/
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Dear Colleagues,
Hope you are well and healthy. The IEEE iThings-2020 Conference was planned to be held in Rhodes Island, Greece, November 02-06, 2020. Given the COVID-19 pandemic and associated travel restrictions, as the safety of people is of the highest priority, the conference will be held virtually on November 02-06, 2020.

The submission deadline of IEEE iThings 2020 has been extended till 8 August 2020 as we understand many are facing unexpected challenges at this time.

Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore Digital Library after they are presented at the virtual conference. Information and instructions on how to prepare for a virtual presentation will be sent separately. Registration fees for the conference will be adjusted.
INTRODUCTION
As an emerged promising networking model, the Internet-of-Things (IoT) is a novel paradigm to interconnect a multitude of heterogeneous physical objects and devices. The IoT significantly provides an umbrella for a series of critical building technologies including wireless sensor networks (WSNs), fifth generation (5G) networks, and RFID. The philosophy of the IoT is to develop an intelligent, dynamic, large-scale, and coherent network framework for a wide range of applications and industries. Due to its potential advantages and merits such as high reliability, good scalability and intelligent capacity, the IoT has attracted great attentions and interests from both academia and industry.

As the earliest IEEE international conference on Internet of Things, the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings-2020) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners from both academic and industrial communities to present state-of-the-art advances and innovations in theories, systems, infrastructure, tools, testbeds, technologies and applications for the IoT, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future of everything interconnect via cyberspace.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission Deadline:  August 8, 2020
Authors Notification:  September 5, 2020
Camera-Ready Paper Due:  September 27, 2020
Virtual Conference Date:  November 02 - 06, 2020
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chairs
•   Jelena Misic, Ryerson University, Canada
•   Shiwen Mao, Auburn University, USA
•   Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Program Chairs
•   Abderrahim Benslimane, Avignon University, France
•   Lucia Lo Bello, University of Catania, Italy
•  Xianjun Deng, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada & University of South China, China

Workshop Chairs
•   Salimur Choudhury, Lakehead University, Canada
•   Haipeng Dai, Nanjing University, China
•   Gaojie Chen, University of Leicester, UK

Steering Chairs
•   Jianhua Ma (Chair), Hosei University, Japan
•   Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
•   Schahram Dustdar, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
•   Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy
•   Huadong Ma, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Publicity Chairs
•   Lingzhi Yi, University of South China, China
•   Zhenchao Ma, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
•  Yinxue Yi, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Web Publication Chairs
•   Zihao Jiang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Conference papers are limited to 8 pages (regular), 6 pages (short), 2-4 pages (poster), following the IEEE proceedings format. Papers are to be submitted as PDF via the site: https://edas.info/N27352
PROCEEDINGS & SPECIAL ISSUES
All accepted papers in the main tracks, workshops, special sessions and
poster sessions will be published in an IEEE Computer Society proceedings (EI indexed).

Extended versions of selected excellent papers will be considered
for publication in several special issues of a number of excellent journals.

List of Special Issues:

1.     IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Special Issue: Digital Twinning: Integration AI-ML and Big Data Analytics for Virtual Representation

Publisher: IEEE, SCI indexed, IF=9.112

2.     IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering

Special Issue: Computing and Networking for Cyber-Physical-Social Systems

Publisher: IEEE, SCI indexed, IF=5.213

3.     Information Fusion

Special Issue: Data Fusion for Trust Evaluation

Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed, IF=13.669

4.     Information Fusion

Special Issue: Fusion from Big Data to Smart Data

Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed, IF=13.669

5.     Future Generation Computer Systems

Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Defence and Smart Policing

Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed, IF=6.125

6.     Computer Networks

Special Issue: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Next-Generation IoT Networks

Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed, IF=3.111

7.     IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica

Special Issue: Blockchain for Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical Systems: Emerging Trends, Issues and Challenges

Publisher: IEEE, SCI indexed, IF=5.129

8.     Journal of Cloud Computing

Special Issue:  Security and Privacy Issues for AI in edge-Cloud Computing
Publisher: Springer, SCI indexed, IF=2.788

9.     Electronics
Special Issue: Blockchain-based Technology for Mobile Application
Publisher: MDPI, SCI indexed, IF=2.412

10. Sensors
Special Issue: Smart Cities of the Future: A Cyber Physical System Perspective
Publisher: MDPI, SCI indexed, IF=3.275

11. Software: Practice and Experience

Special Issue:  Software and Hardware Co-Design for Sustainable Cyber-Physical Systems

12. Future Internet
Special Issue: Network Economics and Utility Maximization
Publisher: MDPI
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