[AISWorld] Call for Book Chapters: “Integration of Cloud Computing, Cyber Physical Systems and Internet of Things”, Springer-Verlag Handbook

[Chang Liu]

Editors

Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University
Karan Mitra, Luleå University of Technology
Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Lizhe Wang, Chineese Academy of Sciences
Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney


We are witnessing a tremendous growth in the areas of Big Data and Cloud
Computing. This growth can be attributed to the integration of broad range
of traditional applications and devices to the Internet and Clouds. For
example, traditional applications related to astronomy and geoscience
generates Big Data that needs to be collected, processed, analyzed, and
visualized. In terms of new classes of applications and systems, the
Internet of Things paradigm enables sensors, devices and applications, or
simply ‘objects’ to be connected to the Internet. It is expected that
within the next decade, billions of these objects will be connected to the
Internet. These objects will interact with each other, with humans,
animals, and other entities to enrich our lives through (but not limited
to) home automation, smart healthcare and smart transportation. At the same
time, we are also witnessing the emergence of Cyber Physical Systems where
the physical systems and/or ‘objects’ are networked together in a highly
distributed manner and connected virtually using computation and
communication infrastructure provided by the Clouds and the Internet.

These systems are expected to be the new frontier in computing and
communications and can potentially benefit society as a whole. These
systems can lead to new innovations and scientific breakthroughs that
cannot yet be estimated. For example, sensory data generated from
healthcare sensors from thousands of patients worldwide can be used to
determine the cause of illness and diseases efficiently. Further, a Cyber
Physical System for emergency management can assist in safe and timely
evacuation of evacuees based on weather, ground, and location sensors.
Cyber Physical Systems that are the basis for Internet of Things are
expected to generate Big Data from smart girds, homes, industries,
telecommunication infrastructure, etc. This data can exhibit a range of
characteristics, complexity, veracity, and volume. Therefore, for making
efficient use of ‘objects’ and Big Data for real application use cases,
there is a need to leverage tremendous possibilities offered by Cloud
Computing.

 Cloud Computing offers significant advantages in the form of
high-performance computation, data storage, replication, redundancy, and
fault-tolerance, in a cost effective manner. Cloud Computing supports
pay-as-you-go-model where Cloud resources can be utilized and released as
and when required. However, there is a need to build novel interfaces
between Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems with Cloud Computing
infrastructure. This can be in the form of new APIs, Cloud monitoring
systems, middleware architectures, software defined systems,
content-centric networks, mobility, resource optimization and scheduling
techniques, big data management platforms, new cloud computing models
(sensing-as-a-service, analytics-as-a-service) and algorithms.  Here,
specific attention must be paid to address the issues such as data
collection, annotation, discovery of data sources, storage, processing,
analytics on demand, utility management (pay-as-you-go model for things)
and automatic provisioning and management of cloud resources to support the
growing population of ‘objects’.

This book is expected to serve as an authoritative reference for research
on Cloud Computing, Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT), and Cyber Physical
Systems (CPS). The topics covered by this book are given in above-mentioned
Table of Contents.

Topics of Interests (but not limited to):

• Cloud computing concepts, methodologies, and paradigms.
• Big Data collection, processing and storage
• Energy efficient Cloud systems for Big Data
• Software defined systems for Cloud Computing
• Cloud Datacenter networking for Big Data
• Algorithms for Big Data
• Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems using Clouds
• Software architectures for cross-Cloud integration and inter-operability
• Data center architecture, middleware and services
• Resource management and scheduling algorithms and service for Cloud
computing
• Networking for Cloud computing
• Programming models for cloud computing
• Data Management and database in clouds
• Application and Use Cases
Sections of the above mentioned topics would be hosted under the following
sections:

Section I: Cloud Computing
Section II: Big Data Processing Technologies
Section III: Internet of Things, and Sensing
Section IV: Cyber Physical Systems and Applications

Schedule & Deadlines

Extended to 30th June 2016: Intention to submit a book chapter
30th August 2016: Full chapter submission
31st October 2016: Review comments
31st December 2016: Submission of the revised chapter
31st January 2017: Final acceptance notification
28th February 2017: Final chapter due


Manuscript Preparation

All chapters (and chapter proposal) must be submitted electronically via
EasyChair using this link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cloudcpsiot2017. The submissions
must be in pdf format. For further information, please contact the editors
on:  karan.mitra at ltu.se. Please use the subject: "Cloud, CPS and IoT book"