-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CfP IoT - IF: 6.395 JCLEPRO (Elsevier) Datum: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 15:02:15 -0400 Von: Petar Solic psolic@FESB.HR Antwort an: Petar Solic psolic@FESB.HR An: tccc-announce@COMSOC.ORG

Dear All,

please refer to the CfP for special issue on: Internet of Things (IoT): Opportunities, issues and challenges towards the smart and sustainable future

in Journal of Cleaner Production (IF: 6.395)

Submission Deadline: November 1, 2019

Journal webpage: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-cleaner-production

Scope and CfP direct link: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-cleaner-production/call-for-pap...

If you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact: psolic@fesb.hr

Best regards, Petar Solic SpliTech secretary 2020.splitech.org

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Topics:

(1) IoT technologies in Sustainable Energy and Environment

IoT is expected to be a major producer of big data. Sharing and collaboration of data and other resources would be the key for enabling sustainable ubiquitous environments, such as smart cities and societies. A timely fusion and analysis of big data, acquired from IoT and other sources, to enable highly efficient, reliable, and accurate decision-making and management of ubiquitous environments would be a grand future challenge. Computational intelligence would play a key role in this challenge (Furqan Alam, et al. 2017). The new era of Web and IoT paradigm is being enabled by the proliferation of various devices like RFIDs, sensors, and actuators. Smart devices are embedded in the environment to monitor and collect ambient information. In smart cities, intelligent services could be offered on top of such information related to any aspect of humans' activities. Some examples of services able to guarantee sustainable environments are IoT-enabled waste management, the use of IoT hardware and software technologies for the buildings energy efficiency in terms of reducing energy consumption and improving the internal comfort, smart grids, smart homes, physical security, enhanced street lighting controls, infrastructure monitoring, public safety and surveillance in indoor and outdoor environments.

(2) E-health

Emerging ICT technologies are playing more and more a very important role in the Healthcare sector. The efficiency of healthcare infrastructures and biomedical systems is one of the most challenging goals of modern-day society (Nguyen et al. 2019). In fact, the need of delivering quality care to patients while reducing the healthcare costs and, at the same time, tackling the nursing staff shortage problem is a primary issue. Furthermore, innovative solutions able to support and improve the elderly people quality of life exploiting emerging technologies enabling the IoT are fundamentals to create the new smart cities, thought also for people no so young. Furthermore, the behavioral analysis of elderly people is an important science aiming to prevent Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and frailty problems. A fundamental aspect in this context is to explore the use of innovative technologies enabling the Internet of Things (IoT), above all sensors, to unobtrusively capture personal data for automatically recognizing behavioral changes in elderly people. Artificial Intelligence, based on Machine Learning or Deep Learning techniques, represents a valid candidate to face these challenges.

(3) IoT technologies in Transportation and Low Carbon Products

Smart transportation, also known as intelligent transportation systems, is another important IoT-based application, in which intelligent transportation management, control system, communication networks, and computing techniques are integrated to make transportation systems reliable, efficient, and secure (Lin et al., 2015). In the smart transportation system, a large number of smart vehicles are included and connected with each other through wireless networks. Smart vehicles can efficiently perceive and share traffic data and schedule drivers’ travels with great efficiency, reliability, and safety. Recently, smart vehicles with Self-Driving have been designed and tested. Those smart vehicles can detect objects around them and safely manage speed during traveling without the operation of drivers. IoT-aware technologies such as software architecture based on Cloud-, Edge-or Fog-Computing play a very important role to face these challenges. Another important topic, in the smart transportation field is related to security issue, in particular managed with the block chain approach.

(4) Smart Cities Smart cities can be considered a complex IoT paradigm, which aims to manage public affairs via introducing information and communication technology (ICT) solutions (Zanella et al., 2014). Smart cities can use public resources in more efficient ways, resulting in the improvement of the QoSs provided to users and the reduction of operational costs to public administrators. Smart cities may consist of several sub applications or services, including the smart gird, smart transportation, smart hospital, smart building, smart waste management, environmental monitoring, smart health, smart lighting, etc. All these sub applications, or services, should be supported by a unified communication network infrastructure, or communication networks designed for these sub applications or services should be interconnected to establish a large-scale interconnected heterogeneous network for IoT applications, with the aim of achieving the best use of public resources in cities (Lin et al. 2017).

Guest Editors

Sandro Nizetic, University of Split, FESB, Croatia; snizetic@fesb.hr Luigi Patrono, Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy; luigi.patrono@unisalento.it Petar Solic, University of Split, FESB, Croatia; psolic@fesb.hr

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