[AISWorld] FiCloud 2017 - The 5th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (Call For Workshops)

[Filipe Portela]

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*FiCloud 2017*

5th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud
21-23 August 2017, Prague, Czech Republic
http://www.ficloud.org/2017/workshops.php

CALL FOR WORKSHOPS
Deadline for submission of workshops proposals (via email): 21 January 2017

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*WORKSHOP FORMAT*

FiCloud 2017 invites workshop proposals. Research and industrial
community is invited to submit proposals of Workshops for FiCloud 2017 -
The 5th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud
to be held at Prague, Czech Republic, *21-23 August 2017*:
http://www.ficloud.org/2017/

The main objective of the workshops is to provide a forum for
researchers and professionals to discuss a specific topics related to
the theme of FiCloud 2017. Each workshop will be coordinated by an
Organizing Committee (Workshop Chair) composed of, at least, two
researchers in the field. The organizers should create an international
Program Committee for the Workshop, with recognized researchers within
the specific Workshop scientific area.

The selection of Workshops will be performed by FiCloud 2017 Workshop
Coordinator. Workshops full and short papers will be published in the
conference main proceedingsby the IEEE Computer Society Conference
Publishing Service (CPS) (approval pending). 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 an extended version
of their papers for a special issues in international journals (see
Journal Special Issues section).

Detailed and up-to-date information may be found at FiCloud website:
http://www.ficloud.org/2017


  *WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION*

The Organizing Committee of each Workshop will be responsible for:

-Producing and distributing the Workshop Call for Papers (CFP);

-Coordinating the review and selection process for the papers submitted
to the Workshop, as Workshop chairs (on the paper submission system to
be installed);

-Delivering the final versions of the papers accepted for the Workshop
in accordance with the guidelines and deadlines defined by FiCloud 2017
organizers;

-Coordinating and chairing the Workshop sessions at the conference.

Submission and reviewing of the papers will be managed by the workshops
organizers. All the workshop papers must be reviewed by at least of 2 PC
members.


*PROPOSAL CONTENT*

Workshop proposals should contain the following information:

-Title of the proposed workshop

-Brief description of the specific scientific scope of the Workshop;

-Workshop theme and call for papers;

-List of topics of interest;

-Name and contact of workshop chairs

-List of potential Workshop Program Committee (Names and affiliations)

-Important dates (You should see the conference dates)

Proposals should be submitted electronically by email to cfp at
dsi.uminho.pt, in PDF, (in English), by January 21, 2017.



*Workshop Coordinator*

Filipe Portela, University of Minho, Portugal