CALL FOR PAPERS

                                SMARTOBJECTS 2018
4th Workshop on Experiences with the Design and Implementation of Smart 
Objects
                   June 26-29, 2018 · Los Angeles, California, USA

part of ACM MobiHoc 2018, the Nineteenth International Symposium on 
Mobile Ad Hoc
Networking and Computing

http://www.grc.upv.es/smartobjects2018/

The SMARTOBJECTS workshop focuses on experiences with the design, 
implementation, deployment, operation and evaluation of novel 
communication approaches and systems for smart objects in the emerging 
cooperative environments. We are therefore seeking original, previously 
unpublished papers empirically addressing key issues and challenges in 
the smart objects arena.

TOPICS
- App concepts and technologies for different mobile platforms
- Applications of Fog/Edge Computing
- Communication between mobile devices and cars
- Communication for drone coordination
- Content Distribution
- Data collection, organization and dissemination methods
- Data replication protocols in network partitions
- Delay-tolerant networks and ferrying approaches
- Deployment and field testing
- Experimental results of aerial communication testbeds
- Game, entertainment, and multimedia applications
- Human-object interaction
- Innovative services and applications for mobile devices in vehicles
- Location- and track-based services
- Middleware for Fog/Edge infrastructures
- Fog/Edge Computing applications
- Mobile service architectures and frameworks
- Mobility and handover management
- New application scenarios for vehicular communications
- Pervasive and ubiquitous services in cloud and IoT
- Platforms and frameworks for mobile devices
- Privacy issues and solutions
- Protocol design, testing and verification
- Security issues, architectures and solutions
- Sensors & Data Collection
- Smart cities and urban applications
- Solutions for sparse and dense fleets of drones/UAVs
- Swarm movement, coordination, and behaviour
- Wireless in-vehicle networks

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submissions due:      March 15, 2018
Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2018
Camera-ready due:           To Be Defined

PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
SMARTOBJECTS invites submission of original work not previously 
published or under review at another conference or journal. The workshop 
will accept only full papers. All submissions must be provided in PDF 
format, and follow the formatting guidelines of MobiHoc 2018. Papers 
should not exceed 10 pages (US letter size) double column including 
figures, tables, and references in standard ACM format. SMARTOBJECTS 
follows a single-blinded review process.

Submissions should be handed in electronically through EasyChair platform:
     https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smartobjects2018

More information here:http://www.grc.upv.es/smartobjects2017/authors.html

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

General Co-Chairs
* Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
* Claudio E. Palazzi, Universita degli Studi di Padova, Italy
TPC Co-Chair
* Valeria Loscri­, Inria Lille-Nord Europe / FUN, France
* Anna Maria Vegni, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy
Web & Publicity Chair
* Carlos T. Calafate, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

STEERING COMMITTEE
* Luiz DaSilva, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
* Mario Gerla, UCLA, USAÂ
* Ying-Dar Lin, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
* Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
* Claudio E. Palazzi, Universita degli Studi di Padova, Italy


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