Call For Papers: Globe-IoT 2018: Towards Global Interoperability among IoT Systems

[Giovanna Sannino <giovanna.sannino@icar.cnr.it>]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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3rd edition of Globe-IoT 2018: Towards Global Interoperability among IoT 
Systems
jointly held with the IEEE IoTDI and IEEE IC2E Conferences 2018
Orlando, Florida, USA, April 17-20, 2018

While still in its infancy, the IoT domain already lists a number of 
solutions implemented, ranging from devices to platforms. However, the 
heterogeneity at all levels of those solution is preventing different 
solutions to interoperate effectively, despite a large number of efforts 
in the development of a unique reference standard for IoT systems 
technology. The situation is likely to worsen in the near future, as 
lack of interoperability causes major technological and 
business-oriented issues such as impossibility to plug non-interoperable 
IoT devices into heterogeneous IoT platforms, impossibility to develop 
IoT applications exploiting multiple platforms in homogeneous and/or 
cross domains, slowness of IoT technology introduction at large-scale, 
discouragement in adopting IoT technology, increase of costs, scarce 
reusability of technical solutions, security and privacy problems, user 
dissatisfaction.

This Workshop aims at investigating such lack of interoperability in the 
IoT realm by welcoming paper submissions providing innovative research 
as well as technical contributions on providing solutions to 
interoperability, integration, and interconnection of heterogeneous IoT 
systems, at any specific level (device, networking, middleware, 
application services, data and semantics) and at global platform level.

Topics of Interest
- Interoperable and open IoT architectures
- Service Virtualization in the IoT
- Integration methods for heterogeneous IoT platforms
- Interconnection of heterogeneous IoT devices
- Enabling communication technologies (5G, SDN, Fog computing) for IoT 
interoperability
- Software engineering for IoT systems development
- Interoperable wearable devices and body area networks
- Interoperable and open Big Data models for IoT
- Matching non-interoperable IoT ontologies and semantics
- Security, privacy and trust in IoT systems integration/interconnection
- Standard interoperability mechanisms for the IoT
- Interoperability use cases in IoT application domains (m-Health, 
transportation and logistics, smart factory, smart grid, smart home and 
buildings, smart cities, etc)

Workshop Chairs
Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria and Sensyscal S.r.l. (Italy)
Carlos E. Palau, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain)
Min Chen, HUST (China)
Mengchu Zhou, New Jersey Institute of Technology (USA)
Noel Crespi, Institut Mines-Telecom (France)

Publicity Chairs
Alessandro Bassi, ABC (France)
Dr. Mayutan Arumaithurai, Univ. of Goettingen (Germany)

Steering Committee
Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria (Italy)
Carlos E. Palau, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (Spain)
Marcin Paprzycki, SRIPAS (Poland)
Thanos Vasilakos, Lulea University of Technology Sweden
Mengchu Zhou, New Jersey Institute of Technology (USA)
Manfred Hauswirth, Fraunhofer FOKUS and TUB (Germany)
Adam Wolisz, TUB and University of Berkeley (USA)
Florian Michahelles, Siemens USA (USA)
Hassan Ghasemzadeh, Washington State University (USA)

International Program Committee
Gianluca Aloi, University of Calabria (Italy)
Flavia C. Delicato, Federal U of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Pasquale De Meo, University of Messina (Italy)
George Exarchakos, Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands)
Raffaele Gravina, University of Calabria (Italy)
Antonio Guerrieri, ICAR-CNR (Italy)
Antonio Liotta, Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands)
Xiaoli Jiang, Delft University of Technology (Netherlands)
Maria Ganzha, SRIPAS (Poland)
Benjamin Molina, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain)
Pasquale Pace, University of Calabria (Italy)
Marcin Paprzicky, SRIPAS (Poland)
Frans Gevers, Neways Electronics (Netherlands)
Giuseppe M. Sarn, Univ. Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria (Italy)
Giandomenico Spezzano, ICAR-CNR (Italy)
Weiming Shen, National Research Council of Canada (Canada)
Wenfeng Li, Wuhan University of Technology (China)
Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain)
Fabrizio Messina, University of Catania (Italy)
Roberto Minerva, Institut Mines-Telecom (France)
Beniamino Di Martino, Seconda Universitˆ di Napoli (Italy)
Marco Manso, Rinicom (UK)
Yiannis Andreopoulos, University College of London (UCL)
Mohammad Mehedi Hassan, King Saudi University (AS)
Nabil Alshurafa, Northwestern University (USA)
Mi Zhang, Michigan State University (USA)
Huang Ming-Chun, Case Western University (USA)
Jack Mortazavi, Yale University (USA)
Sunghoon Ivan Lee, Harvard University (USA)
Simon Mayer, Siemens USA (USA)
Honggang Wang, University of Massachussets Dartmouth (USA)
Di Lin, McGill University (Canada)
Antonio Jara, HOP Ubiquitous (Switzerland)
Levent Gurgen, CEA LETI (France)
Harilaos G. Koumaras, NCSR Demokritos (Greece)
Arkady Zasvlasky, CSIRO (Australia)

Web Site
http://plasma.deis.unical.it/events/Globe-IoT2018/

Submission Guidelines
Original work must be submitted that is not published or under 
submission elsewhere. All final submissions should be written in English 
with a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages (10-point font) 
including figures without incurring additional page charges (maximum 2 
additional page with over length page charge of USD 100 if accepted). 
Papers exceeding 8 pages will not be accepted at Easychair. Paper should 
be formatted according to IEEE conference style: 
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. 
The submission link is: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=globeiot2018.

Review Process and Publication
All original submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed. Submissions 
will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, 
significance, presentation, quality, interest and relevance to workshop 
scope. Accepted and presented papers (regular and poster) will be 
published in the IEEE IoTDI/IC2E 2018 Conference Proceedings and 
submitted to IEEE Xplore¨ as well as other Abstracting and Indexing 
(A&I) databases.

Journal Special Issue
Selected papers presented at the conference will be invited to a special 
issue organized in a premier International Journal (with SCI Index) that 
is under selection and/or in the Springer Series on Internet of Things.

Important Dates
January 10, 2018:     Submission Deadline.
January 30, 2018:    Acceptance/Rejection Notification.
February 5, 2018:    Final camera-ready papers.
April 17-20, 2018:    Workshop Takes Place (day to be decided).