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The IEEE 6th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2018)
6-8 August 2018, Barcelona, Spain http://www.ficloud.org/2018/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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:
- Cloud Models - SaaS, IaaS, PaaS - Security, Privacy and Trust - Software Systems, Models and Architectures - Mobile Cloud Services - Data and Knowledge Management - Context-awareness and Location-awareness - Software-defined Networking - Performance Evaluation and Modelling - Networking and Communication Protocols - IoT Services and Applications - Smart Environment - Enterprise and Business Models - Energy Efficiency - Federation and Virtualization - Fog and Edge Computing - Industry Track - General Track
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/2018/).
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 conference website).
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline (Extended): 27 March 2018 Authors Notification: 16 May 2018 Final Manuscript Due: 12 June 2018
Organising Committee:
General Chairs Bhavani Thuraisingham, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Program Chair Jules Pagna Disso, Nettitude Group, UK
Local Organising Chair Marisa Catalán Cid, i2Cat Foundation, Spain
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
Publication Chair Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK
Track Chairs David Chiu, University of Puget Sound, USA Martine Bellache, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Fang-Fang Chua, Multimedia University, Malaysia Stefan Bosse, Universität Bremen, Germany Marwan Hassani, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands Xiaoying Bai, Tsinghua University, China Daniel Camps, i2Cat Foundation, Spain Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Anjali Agrawal, Concordia University, Canada Chunsheng Zhu, The University of British Columbia, Canada Madihah Mohd Saudi, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Malaysia Joyce El Haddad, University of Paris Dauphine, France Nadeem Javaid, COMSATS IIT, Pakistan Antonio Celesti, University of Messina, Italy Luiz Fernando Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil Edmundo Madeira, University of Campinas, Brazil Marcin Bajer, ABB Corporate Research, Kraków, Poland Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria