CFP 2016 IEEE 3rd World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), 12-14 December 2016, Reston, VA, USA

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS
2016 IEEE 3rd World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT)
12-14 December 2016 – Reston, VA, USA
http://www.ieee-wf-iot.org

IoT: Smart Innovation for Vibrant Ecosystems

The 2016 IEEE 3rd World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT) seeks contributions on how to nurture and cultivate IoT technologies and applications for the benefit of society. Original papers are solicited in, but are not limited to, the following topics:

IoT Enabling Technologies

* 5G Networks and IoT
* Software Defined Network (SDN) and IoT
* Sensor and Actuator Networks
* Ultra-low power IoT Technologies and Embedded Systems Architectures
* Wearables, Body Sensor Networks, Smart Portable Devices
* Design Space Exploration Techniques for IoT Devices and Systems
* Heterogeneous Networks, Web of Things, Web of Everything
* IoT Protocols (IPv6, 6LoWPAN, RPL, 6TiSCH, W3C)
* Named Data Networking for IoT
* Internet of Nano Things
* Sensors Data Management, IoT Mining and Analytics
* Adaptive Systems and Models at Runtime
* Distributed Storage, Data Fusion
* Routing and Control Protocols
* Resource Management, Access Control
* Mobility, Localization and Management Aspects
* Identity Management and Object Recognition
* Localization Technologies
* Edge Computing, Fog Computing and IoT
* Machine to Machine (M2M)/Devices-to-Devices communications and IoT
* Industrial IoT and Factory of Things and Internet of Things

IoT Application and Services

* Cyber-physical systems, Context Awareness, Situation Awareness, Ambient Intelligence
* Collaborative Applications and Systems
* Service Experiences and Analysis
* Smart Cities, Smart Public Places, Smart Home/Building Automation
* e-Health, e-Wellness, Automotive, Intelligent Transport
* Smart Grid, Energy Management
* Consumer Electronics, Assisted Living, Rural Services and Production
* Industrial IoT Service Creation and Management Aspects
* Crowd-sensing, human centric sensing
* Big data and IoT Data Analytics
* Internet Applications Naming and Identifiers
* Semantic Technologies, Collective Intelligence
* Cognitive and Reasoning about Things and Smart Objects
* Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) and IoT
* Horizontal application development for IoT
* Design principals and best practices for IoT application development
* IoT Multimedia

IoT Societal Impacts

* Human Role in the IoT, Social Aspects and Services
* Value Chain Analysis and Evolution Aspects
* New Human-Device Interactions for IoT, Do-It-Yourself
* Social Models and Networks
* Green IoT: Sustainable Design and Technologies
* Urban Dynamics and crowdsourcing services
* Metrics, Measurements, and Evaluation of IoT Sustainability and ROI

Security and Privacy for Internet of Things

* IoT Privacy and Security Concerns
* Identification and authentication issues
* Wireless sensor network for IoT security
* Intrusion detection in IoT
* Cryptography, key management and authorization for IoT
* Physical/MAC/Network Attacks in Internet of Things
* Cross-layer attacks in IoT
* Security with QoS optimization in IoT
* Privacy based channel access in IoT
* IoT forensic science
* Big data and information integrity in IoT
* Communication security in IoT
* Security standards in IoT

IoT Experimental Results and Deployment Scenarios

* Closing the Gap between Research and Implementation
* Experimental prototypes, Test-Bed and Field Trial Experiences
* Multi-Objective IoT System Modeling and Analysis-Performance, Energy, Reliability, Robustness
* IoT Interconnections Analysis-QoS, Scalability, Performance, Interference
* Real case deployment scenarios and results
* IoT deployment at Government and ISPs
* IoT deployment on agriculture, retails, smart cities, etc.
* IoT Interconnections among ISPs Analysis-QoS, Scalability, Performance, Interference
* Gaps Analysis for real deployment
* IoT and Future Internet architectures
* Standardization and Regulation

Paper Submissions and Publications
The 3rd IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT 2016) solicits two types of submissions.
Full papers describing original research. Suggested size is four pages; papers up to six pages will be accepted. Papers will be fully peer reviewed and, if accepted, included in conference proceedings and will be submitted to the Xplore Digital Library. Extended versions of selected papers may be considered for publication in IEEE IoT Journal.

Extended abstracts describing emerging results of new research areas or relevant topics from an industrial point of view, not to exceed two pages.

Important Dates for Paper Submissions
Manuscripts Due: June 15, 2016
Acceptance Notification: September 30, 2016
Camera-Ready Submission: October 31, 2016
Papers must be submitted electronically: https://edas.info/22145

Contacts for Papers:
TPC General Chair: Prof. Antonio Skarmeta, University of Murcia, Spain skarmeta@um.es
TPC Co-Chairs: Prof. Philip Hall, The University of Melbourne, Australia philip.hall@ieee.org and Dr. Yu Rongshan, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore rongshanyu@ieee.org

Website: http://www.ieee-wf-iot.org/

Tutorial, Workshops and Special Session Submissions
Tutorial proposals should contain an abstract, scope, intended audience, objectives, prior history, an outline, the biographical sketch of presenters and any other information that may assist in making decisions. Special Sessions should complement the regular program with new and emerging topics of interest. Proposals must be in the form of a single PDF file not to exceed four pages.

Important Dates for Tutorial, Doctoral Symposia and Special Session Submissions
Proposals due Tutorials: July 25, 2016
Proposals due Special Session and Workshops: April 30, 2016

Proposals must be submitted electronically: https://edas.info/22145

Contacts for Tutorials and Doctoral Symposium:
Prof. Hausi Muller, University of Victoria, Canada hausi@cs.uvic.ca
Dr. Dave Cavalcanti, Intel, USA dave.cavalcanti@intel.com
Prof. Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy vincenzo.piuri@unimi.it

Contacts for Special Sessions and Workshops:
Dr. Mirko Presser, Alexandra Instituttet A/S, Denmark mirko.presser@alexandra.dk
Soumya Kanti Datta, Eurecom, France soumya-kanti.datta@eurecom.fr

Industry Forum Panel Sessions Submissions
The 2016 IEEE 3rd World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT) will be hosting Industry Forum Panel Sessions. Presentation in Industrial Forum will be panelist based and panel presentation material will not be published in conference proceedings but will be available in the conference web site. Industrial Forum Panel proposal should contain an abstract, scope, intended audience, objectives, prior history, an outline, the biographical sketch of presenters and any other information that may assist in making decisions.

Important Dates for Industry Panel Proposal
Proposal deadline: July 25 2016
Proposals must be submitted electronically: https://edas.info/22145
Contact for Industry panels:
Kazunori Iwasa, Fujitsu, kiwasa@jp.fujitsu.com
Yoshihiro Ohba, Toshiba, yoshihiro.ohba@toshiba.co.jp

Conference Organization
General Chair: Geoff Mulligan, Founder & President, IPSO Alliance, USA
Co-Chair: Latif Ladid, Research Fellow, SnT, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Former Chair: Dr. Roberto Minerva, IEEE IoT Initiative Chair, Telecom Italia, Italy
Co-Chair: Prof. Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy
Co-Chair: Dr. Katrin Reitsma, Motorola Solutions, USA,
Industrial Co-Chair: Kazunori Iwasa, Fujitsu, Japan

Financially Co-Sponsored by
IEEE Communications Society
IEEE Computer Society
IEEE Consumer Electronics Society
IEEE Reliability Society
IEEE Sensors Council
IEEE Signal Processing Society
IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology
IEEE Council on Electric Design Automation
IEEE Vehicular Technology Society

For full details, visit our website: http://www.ieee-wf-iot.org

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Open International Journal of Informatics

ISSN: 2289-2370

Open International Journal of Informatics (OIJI) is an international peer-reviewed journal (Open Access) dedicated to the latest advancement of Informatics sponsored by Advanced Informatics School (AIS) UTM, Kuala Lumpur Campus. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists, researchers and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in broad areas of Informatics.

We welcome submission of papers that present theoretical and application of Informatics but not limited to:

  • Big Data Analytics
  • Software Engineering
  • Visual Engineering
  • Systems Engineering
  • Information Systems
  • Information Security
  • Forensic and Social Engineering
  • Computer Ethics and Privacy
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Intelligent Systems and Computing Technologies
  • Machine Learning, Evolutionary Programs and Neural Networks
  • Image, Speech and Signal Computing
  • Informatics related discipline (e.g. Agro-based, Business, Health, Sports, Social, etc)

Types of Manuscript

  • Regular articles: These should describe new and carefully confirmed findings, and experimental procedures should be given in sufficient detail for others to verify the work. The length of a full papershould be the minimum required to describe and interpret the work clearly. Regular articles are about 8 to 20 manuscript pages in length.
  • Short Communications: A Short Communication is suitable for recording the results of complete small investigations or giving details of new models or hypotheses, innovative methods, techniques or apparatus. The style of main sections need not conform to that of full-length papers. Short communications are about 4 to 8 manuscript pages in length.
  • Reviews: Submissions of reviews and perspectives covering topics of current interest are welcome and encouraged. Reviews should be concise and about 8 to 15 manuscript pages. Reviews manuscripts are also peer-reviewed.

Important Dates

  • Submission of Full paper: 30 May 2016
  • Notification of Acceptance: 7 June 2016
  • Camera ready: 30 June 2016

An Electric Car Battery That Will Get You From Paris to Brussels and Back

This article is taken from here.

The metal-air battery carries more energy per kilogram than today’s lithium-ion batteries

By Winfried W. Wilcke & Ho-Cheol Kim

Posted

Proposition: Electric cars will remain mostly niche products until they have a range of 800 kilometers, or roughly 500 miles, with an affordable battery.

That’s as far as most people would want to drive in a day, and then they have all night to recharge.

That’s how we came up with a figure of 800 km—or a nice round 500 miles—as the goal for our R&D project, Battery 500. It began in 2009 at the IBM Almaden Research Center, in San Jose, Calif., and has grown since then into a multinational partnership with commercial and academic participants in Europe, Asia, and the United States. It is based on metal-air technology, which packs far more energy into a battery of a given mass than today’s state-of-the-art technology, the lithium-ion battery. We are still years away from commercialization, but we have made enough progress to predict that these batteries could be used in cars in the foreseeable future. Why are we so confident? Read on.

Electric motors are ideally suited for powering cars. They’re lightweight and extremely powerful, they achieve efficiencies in excess of 90 percent, they don’t need complex transmissions, and they churn out torque in just the right way, providing full rotational force starting with zero rpms. Internal-combustion engines, by contrast, don’t produce high torque until they’re spinning at thousands of rpms.

But even though they’re propelled by a near-ideal mechanism, electric cars have a huge drawback, which is the low energy content of the batteries. Gasoline packs about 13,000 watt-hours per kilogram; the best production lithium-ion cells store only about 250 Wh/kg. Add the mass of the ancillary battery equipment—including the bus bars, cooling system, and battery management system—and the energy density of the entire system drops by half, giving the batteries a pitiful 1 percent of the raw energy density of gasoline.

This huge gap between the energy densities of gasoline and batteries seemed to make it impossible to build competitive electric cars, but the success of theTesla Model S has shown that it can be done. One major factor in favor of the electric car is the high efficiency with which it converts battery power to motive power at the wheels—about six times as efficiently as the average for gasoline-fueled cars in the United States. Also, electric car makers put the biggest, heaviest battery they can reasonably fit into their designs. Even so, the ranges fall far short of the 500-mile target. The upshot is that electric-car batteries need to attain at least twice the energy density of Li-ion cells to achieve a range of 800 km.