[AISWorld] Call for papers CPSS4Sus (RCIS 2022 Workshop): Cyber-Physical Social Systems for Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities

[Isabel Sofia Sousa Brito]

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CPSS4Sus (RCIS 2022 Workshop): Cyber-Physical Social Systems for Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities 

1st International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Social Systems for Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities (CPSS4Sus) 
The workshop is held in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS) in Barcelona, Spain, 17-20 May 2022.
https://sites.google.com/view/cpss4sus2022/home 

1. Motivation
A Cyber-Physical System (CPS) is a system composed of the physical, networking and computational elements that are controlled or monitored by 
algorithms. CPS must include requirements for security, safety, privacy, reliability, resilience and the processing of massive amounts of information.
According to NIST, "CPS will bring advances in personalized health care, emergency response, traffic flow management, and electric power generation and delivery, as well as in many other areas now just being envisioned."  
Therefore, the economic and social potential of such systems is huge, and large investments are being made around the world to develop these systems.  
The world is confronting numerous challenges that should be dealt with in the near future, such as tackling climate change and environmental 
degradation, producing affordable and clean energy, eliminating poverty, and ensuring education, health and social protection to all. CPS can play a relevant role to address social, environmental, economic and governance sustainability. 

Regarding social sustainability, it is impera-tive to identify early development approaches for CPS systems that promote strong and fair communities, such as social and health equity, community development, human rights and social justice. 
These human and social characteristics and interac-tion that are brought into the CPS due to the human-centric computation shift to the Cyber-Physical Social System (CPSS), which is the target of our workshop. 

The workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners i) to discuss their current work focusing on requirements, design, frameworks, 
and empirical studies with regard to emerging opportunities and challenges of CPSS for sustainability,  ii) to identify the main challenges and define a research agenda on the topic of CPSS for sustainability.

2. Potential topics (not limited to topics listed below):
- CPSS requirements for sustainability;
- CPSS (e.g. IoT, Big Data) quality requirements for sustainability;
- CPSS requirements elicitation, specification and validation for sustaina-bility;
- Smart cities quality requirements for social sustainability;
- Smart cities requirements elicitation, specification and validation for so-cial sustainability;
- CPSS to specific domain (health, tourism, mobility...) regarding sustaina-bility;
- Interaction design in CPSS for sustainability;
- (Multi) user experience design and assessment in CPSS for sustainability;
- Privacy requirements for CPSS regarding sustainability;
- Ethics in CPSS regarding sustainability.

3. Important dates
Workshop paper submission:	March 18, 2022
Workshop paper notification:	April 15, 2022
Workshop paper camera-ready copy:	April 22, 2022
Workshop paper author registration:	April 22, 2022

4. Submission process 
Authors are invited to submit unpublished and innovative work in the topics of inter-est of the workshop, in the following categories: 
full papers (7-10 pages); short papers (4-6 pages) and position papers (4-5 pages). Full papers are intended to describe: a technical contribution; 
an empirical evaluation on existing solutions; present problems and challenges; experience reports, regarding the topics of the workshop. 
Short papers are intended to describe work in progress and research ideas that are at an early stage research. For example, a short paper could 
describe a pilot study on evaluating a CPSS to specific domain.  Finally, position papers are intended for stating the position of author (s) on 
any of the workshop topics.
Each submitted paper will undergo a review process by two or three program committee members. Reviewers will evaluate the submissions based on: 
(i) their ability to generate discussion, and (ii) relevance to the workshop.

Submitted articles should be in English and PDF format according to the LNCS style (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). The papers should be in English and submitted through EasyChair. Accepted papers will be published in CEUR proceedings using the 1-column CEUR-ART style (http://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html).
The submission site is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpss4sus  

4. Organizing Committee
Isabel Sofia Brito, isabel.sofia at ipbeja.pt, Polytechnic Institute of Beja Beja, Portugal.
Nelly Condori-Fernandez, n.condori.fernandez at udc.es, Universidad de Coruña, A Coruña, Spain.
Leticia Duboc, l.duboc at salle.url.edu, La Salle – Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain 

For more information visit our website at https://sites.google.com/view/cpss4sus2022/home 

5. Program Committee

Ana Moreira - New University of Lisbon (Portugal)
Birgit Penzenstadler - University of California  (USA)
Claudia Ayala - Universidad Politecnica de Cataluna (Spain)
Colin Venters - University of Huddersfield (United Kingdom)
Coral Calero - Universidad Castilla La Mancha (Spain)
Elisabetta di Nitto - Politecnico di Milano  (Italy)
Grace Lewis - SEI  Carnegie Mellon (USA)
Ivan Machado - Institute of Computing at the Federal University of Bahia (Brazil)
Jari Porras - Lappeenranta-Lahti University (Finland)
João Araújo - Universidade Nova de Lisboa
João Paulo Barros - Polytechnique Institute of Beja (Portugal)
João Paulo Fernandes - University of Porto (Portugal)
Jose Maria Conejero - Universidad de Extremadura (Spain)
Luís Gomes - Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Norbert Seyff - FHNW (Switzerland)
Nour Ali - Brunel University
Rami Bahsoon - University of Birmingham  (UK)
Ruzanna Chitchyan - University of Bristol (UK)