[AISWorld] Cfp: 8th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2018)

[Federica Cena]

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Call for Papers
8th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2018)
http://iot-conference.org
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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Driven by connected low-cost sensing and actuation and the large host of 
scientifically and economically relevant application scenarios that they 
enable, the Internet of Things has become a central research area with a 
broad reach across many fields in information technology and adjacent 
domains. The vision for the Internet of Things has always been the 
creation of complex interacting systems that allow for seamless 
information exchange between physical and digital objects. Thanks to the 
wide availability of smartphones, not only companies but also consumers 
are part of this networked world. This interconnectivity together with 
large-scale data processing, machine learning, robotics, and new 
fabrication techniques leads to a transfer of innovation and business 
patterns from the digital space into the physical world — indicating 
that we are at the brink of another industrial revolution.

The International Conference on Internet of Things (IoT) has become the 
premier gathering place where visionary, ground-breaking research in the 
IoT field meets leading industry experts. Since its beginnings in the 
year 2008, IoT has been backed by strong support from leading academic 
institutions as well as industry and we are happy to announce its eight 
iteration will take place from October 15-18th 2018 in Santa Barbara, 
CA, USA.

Topics of Interest
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IoT 2018 solicits original, high impact research papers on all topics 
related to the development and social adoption of the Internet of Things 
– topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Architectures for IoT
- Internet of Things Architecture: Novel information architecture design 
on field, edge, and cloud devices; object access and networking 
technology; investigation of technologies that support the mobility of 
functions and executions across system entities.
- Web Technologies for the IoT: Web-based discovery, search, and service 
composition to facilitate interactions between devices on the IoT and 
with users.
- Integration of Physical and Virtual Artifacts and Events: Advanced 
object identification, classification, and localization
- Description and Discovery of IoT devices, including mobile and moving 
devices: Ontologies and data models for the description and discovery of 
mobile systems and applications, including autonomous systems and 
wearable, urban or sensory computing devices.

Human-Object Interactions (HOI)
- IoT Interactions: Novel methods and techniques for seamless 
human-to-object interactions, including Augmented Reality and Virtual 
Reality interactions, Tangible and Gestural Interfaces.
- Novel affordances for IoT and Smart Objects: design of novel 
affordance for IoT-based smart objects

Object-Object Interactions (OOI)
- Interoperability of IoT Systems: Service discovery and composition, 
synchronization in distributed systems, overcoming siloization of IoT 
systems, semantic data description frameworks.
- Object-objects Interactions: methods and protocols for co-operations 
and coordination among objects, social internet of things, trust among 
objects

Privacy/security in IoT
- Social Acceptance of IoT Systems: Data security, authentication and 
authorization. Privacy protection, data sharing technologies (incl. 
blockchain technology), tampering protection and detection in IoT systems.
- Privacy/Security/Real-Time Fault Correction: Ensure privacy across 
integrated and wireless IoT systems while also being resilient to attackers.

IoT applications
- Real World Applications of IoT technology: Evaluation of challenges of 
real world deployments of Smart Cities, Industry 4.0, Industrial 
Internet, and GS1 implementations, including planned deployments (e.g., 
in advanced Manufacturing and Logistics).
- Physical World Event Processing and Understanding: Novel data 
collection, deep learning, reality mining, and prediction methods based 
on physical world observations. This might include real-time decision 
making, event processing, and extracting information from large datasets.
- Internet of Things and implications for user modeling: holistic user 
model based on IoT-enabled data gathering, novel personalized 
intelligent services and applications based on user model

Submission Information
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Papers have to be submitted via the EasyChair 
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iot20180) conference system, 
must be written in English and contain original material that has not 
been published or is currently undergoing review elsewhere. Papers 
should not exceed 8 pages, including figures and references. The paper 
layout should follow the SIGCHI Conference format.. Papers are 
peer-reviewed by a committee of experts in the IoT field and selected 
based on technical novelty, integrity of the analysis, and practical 
relevance and impact. Accepted papers will be listed on DBLP and 
published via the ACM Digital Library. Cases of plagiarism or multiple 
submissions will be subject to disciplinary action as per ACM rules and 
regulations, and no-shows at the conference will result in an exclusion 
from the ACM Digital Library.

Important Dates
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- Paper Submission: June 7, 2018
- Acceptance notice: July 9, 2018
- Camera-Ready Submission: July 23, 2018
- Early Bird Registration deadline: September 7, 2018



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Federica Cena, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor - Researcher
Dipartimento di Informatica
Universita' di Torino
Corso Svizzera 185, 10149 Torino, Italy
  
Phone +39 0116706779
Fax +39 011751603
email: cena at di.unito.it
web: www.di.unito.it/~cena/