----------------------Call for Papers (Deadline Extended: 18 April 2017 (Firm)-------------------------------------
The IEEE 5th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2017)
21-23 August 2017, Prague, Czech Republic
http://www.ficloud.org/2017/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Internet of Things (IoT) vision is to provide a dynamic and global network infrastructure which is characterized by intelligent and self configuring capabilities. IoT is considered as an integral part of the future Internet. It is based on interoperable communication protocols in order to enable the interaction and integration of virtual as well as physical Things such as computers, smart devices, sensors, cars, refrigerators, food packages, medicines, etc. Things can be seamlessly integrated into the information network and interaction can be made through the provision of intelligent interfaces. In not so distant future, IoT will be forcing its way into every aspect of our lives and technologies including smart homes, smart cities, environment and nature, green energy, food, medicine, automotive, aerospace and aviation, telecommunication, and so on. IoT is generally characterized by real world and small Things, limited capacity, constrained devices and the consequential issues such as less reliability, security and privacy. Cloud computing on the other hand deals mainly with virtual world and has unlimited capabilities in terms of storage and processing power. Thus cloud and IoT are the main complementary aspects of the future Internet. IoT can benefit from the unlimited capabilities and resources of cloud computing. Similarly, cloud can benefit from IoT by extending its scope to deal with real world things in a more distributed and dynamic manner.
The theme of this conference is to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of the IoT and cloud computing. It provides a forum for bringing together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share research and development ideas in the area of IoT and cloud computing.
CONFERENCE TRACKS:
- Software Architecture and Middleware - Mobile Cloud Services - Data and Knowledge Management - Context-awareness and Location-awareness - Security, Privacy and Trust - Software-defined Networking - Performance Evaluation and Modelling - Networking and Communication Protocols - IoT Services and Applications - Network Design and Architecture - Smart Environment - Intelligent Systems for Cloud and Services Computing - Energy Efficiency - Virtualization - Clouds at the Edges - Industry Track - General Track-Future IoT and Cloud Computing
Paper submission and Publication:
Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and for short papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template. See instructions on the conference website ( http://www.ficloud.org/2017/).
All papers accepted for this conference will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service (CPS). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for special issues in international journals (see website).
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: 18 April 2017 (Firm) Authors Notification: 30 May 2017 Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2017
Organising Committee:
General Chair: Athman Bouguettaya, RMIT University, Australia Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Program Co-Chairs: Markus Aleksy, ABB, Germany Jamal Bentahar, University of Concordia, Canada
Local Organising Chair: Irena Holubova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Workshop Coordinator: Filipe Portela, University of Minho, Portugal
Journal Special Issues Coordinator: Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Publicity Chair: Joyce El Haddad, University of Paris Dauphine, France
Track Chairs: Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, University of Leicester, UK Shuiguang Deng, Zhejiang University, China Maude Manouvrier, Universite Paris-Dauphine, France Hai Dong, RMIT University, Australia Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Zahoor Ali Khan, Dalhousie University, Canada Kashif Saleem, King Saud University, KSA Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China Mithun Mukherjee, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China Nandini Mukherjee, Jadavpur University, India Said Tazi, LAAS-CNRS, France Khalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS, France David Chiu, University of Puget Sound, USA Antonio Celesti, University of Messina, Italy Luiz Fernando Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil Edmundo Madeira, University of Campinas, Brazil Fano Ramparany, Orange, France Ruben Casado, Accenture, Spain