[AISWorld] CFP: 8th Int. Conf. on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2021)

[FiCloud Conference]

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The 8th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud
(FiCloud 2021)
IEEE-CS TCI

23-25 August 2021, Rome, Italy

http://www.ficloud.org/2021/

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Cloud is a modern computing platform for delivering on-demand computing
services to service consumers over the Internet. Computing services
include, for example, storage, memory, compute power, databases, and
networking among others. Cloud services are generally provided using SaaS
(Software-as-a-Service), PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) and IaaS
(Infrastructure-as-a-Service). Unlike conventional distributed computing,
cloud offers flexibility, scalability, efficiency and elasticity in service
provisioning.

The Internet of Things (IoT) provides 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:

1. Cloud Services Models
2. Security, Privacy and Trust
3. Software Systems, Models and Architectures
4. Blockchain in Cloud and IoT
5. Data and Knowledge Management
6. Context-aware Systems
7. Software-defined Networking
8. Performance Evaluation and Modelling
9. Networking and Communication Protocols
10. IoT Services and Applications
11. Smart Environment
12. Machine learning in Cloud and IoT
13. Energy Efficiency
14. Federation and Virtualization
15. Fog and Edge Computing
16. Industry Track
17. General Track – Future IoT and Cloud Computing


Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: 10 March 2021
Authors Notification: 20 May 2021
Final Manuscript Due: 15 June 2021

Conference Venue:

The organizing committee is carefully monitoring the Covid-19 situation.
The safety and well-being of the conference participants is the main
priority. The committee will confirm by Spring 2021 of whether to hold the
conference onsite in Rome or as an online event.

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/2020/).

All papers accepted for this conference are planned to 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).