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Call for Papers: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Special issue on
   "Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems: new trends in computing
    and communications"

Submission deadline: January 30, 2020
Scope and topics
Stimulated by the rise of Industry 4.0, as well as by the
pervasiveness of Information Communication Technologies (ICT), intense
research in Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS) is emerging for
several applications. The further integration of the Internet of
Things within the ICPS scenario triggered considerable research
efforts within the new Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) paradigm,
with application scenarios like smart factories, smart energy grids,
smart transportation systems, etc. One of the defining features of
ICPS is the involvement of a large amount of cooperative computational
elements tasked with the control of time-critical and mission-critical
physical entities. These strict requirements are also shared by the
IIoT scenario to provide unprecedented vertical integration,
specialized high-level services, enhanced interoperability and
availability. Furthermore, an ever more rising and ubiquitous trend in
this IIoT context is represented by Digital Twins, where a real-time
update of a large amount of data from the physical system is required
to update the corresponding digital replica. As a consequence, both
the computing architecture and the communication networks and
protocols call for novel paradigms, albeit satisfying stringent low
latency, high reliability and availability, safety, and security
requirements. Traditional computing and communication and paradigms
are not properly equipped to fulfill all these requirements, as they
are typically designed to optimize different performance metrics and
application scenarios. Hence, new paradigms are emerging,
significantly changing the landscape of industrial automation systems
and networks. In the computational realm, edge/fog computing is
gaining popularity to leverage the enhanced capabilities of end
devices, and at the same time, the interest in virtualization
techniques is steadily increasing, with the aim of increasing the
quality, timeliness and reliability of time-critical tasks. The new
generations of communication systems, both wired and wireless, are
also focused on ultra-reliable and ultra-low latency information
delivery, as well as on enhanced features to enable time- sensitive
operations, highlighted by the developing 5G and TSN standards. A
common trend in both areas is the increasing adoption of approaches
based on machine/deep learning to improve the adaptiveness of such
system to different applications and environments.



This special section will focus on (but not limited to) the following
topics:
- Concepts, modeling, simulation and validation of ICPS and IIoT
- Emerging applications of industrial and smart CPS in healthcare,
  mining, logistics, transportation, energy, manufacturing, etc. -
  Security and safety solutions for ICPS
- Interoperability and standardization for computing, intelligence and
  communication in the ICPS and IIoT scenarios
- Cloud, edge and fog computing for ICPS and IIoT: resource allocation
  and management, network slicing, etc.
- Big data analysis for ICPS real-time control
- Fog-based deployment and management of AI applications in ICPS
- Machine learning techniques in real-time closed loop control
- Partitioning of machine learning frameworks over fog/edge
  infrastructure
- Real-time data storage, distribution, and analytics
- Virtualization of computing resources
- Digital Twins in the IIoT scenario
- Blockchain technologies for the Industry 4.0
- High performance industrial wireless and wired communications
- Emerging cellular networks for critical control systems
- Convergence of industrial wired and wireless networks
- Cross layer design of computing and communications with enhanced
  performance



Manuscript Preparation and Submission
Follow the guidelines in “Information for Authors” in the IEEE
Transaction on Industrial Informatics, see
  http://www.ieee-ies.org/pubs/transactions-on-industrial-informatics

Please submit your manuscript in electronic form through Manuscript
Central web site:
   https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tii
On the submitting page #1 in popup menu of manuscript type, select:
  SS on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems: New Trends in Computing and
  Communications
Submissions to this Special Section must represent original material
that has been neither submitted to, nor published in, any other
journal. Regular manuscript length is 8 pages.

Note: The recommended papers for the section are subject to final
approval by the Editor-in-Chief. Some papers may be published outside
the special section, at the EIC discretion.


Timetable
Deadline for manuscript submissions:           January 30, 2020
Expected publication date (tentative):         April 2020


Guest Editors
• Dr. Federico Tramarin, University of Padova, Italy
• Dr. Michele Luvisotto, ABB Corporate Research, Sweden michele.luvisotto@se.abb.com
• Dr. Kan Yu, La Trobe University, Australia k.yu@latrobe.edu.au
• Prof. Andreas Willig, University of Canterbury, New Zealand andreas.willig@canterbury.ac.nz
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