The 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing
in Sensor Networks

April 11-13, 2018 Porto, Portugal

IPSN'18 is part of CPS Week 2018, co-locating with conferences HSCC,
ICCPS and RTAS.

http://ipsn.acm.org/2018
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The International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor
Networks (IPSN) is a leading annual forum on research in networked
sensing and control, broadly defined. IPSN brings together researchers
from academia, industry, and government to present and discuss recent
advances in both theoretical and experimental research. Its scope
includes signal and image processing, information and coding theory,
databases and information management, distributed algorithms, networks
and protocols, wireless communications, collaborative objects and the
Internet of Things, machine learning, mobile and social sensing, and
embedded systems design. Of special interest are contributions at the
confluence of multiple of these areas.

Like prior years, IPSN'18 will continue its strong focus on
algorithms, theory, and systems for information processing using
networks of embedded, human-in-the-loop, or social sensors, as well as
new hardware and software platforms, design methods, architectures,
modelling, implementation, evaluation, deployment experiences, and
tools for networked embedded sensor systems and the Internet of
Things. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Sensor data storage, retrieval, processing
- Streaming sensor system tasking and operation
- Coding, compression, and information theory
- Machine learning and deep learning on sensor data
- Sensor tasking, control, and actuation
- Theoretical foundation and fundamental bounds
- Network and system architectures and protocols
- IoT gateway platform architecture and services
- Outdoor, wide-area sensing systems
- Location, time, and other network services
- Programming models, languages, and systems
- Programming models for IoT ensembles
- Embedded systems software frameworks
- Modeling, simulation, and measurement tools
- Operating systems and runtime environments
- User interfaces for sensing apps and systems
- Cloud, mobile, participatory, and social sensing
- Applications in health, wellness & sustainability
- Applications in smart cities and urban health
- Experiences, challenges, comparisons of platforms
- Discovery, coordination, and use of IoT services
- Security and privacy in heterogeneous systems
- IoT reliability, adaptability, and dependability
- Technical assessment of emerging IoT standards
- Wearable systems and data processing algorithms
- Evaluation/deployment of industrial sensor systems
- Sensor-enabled drone platforms and algorithms

In addition to IPSN's traditional focus, IPSN 2018 will also include
two new special tracks: Internet of Things (IoT), and Data and Machine
Learning (DML).

The IoT track will concentrate on issues related to the Internet of
Things. Submission should refer to specific IoT-related issues
including, but not limited to:

- Programming models for IoT ensembles
- Hardware, software, and system design for IoT
- Discovery, coordination, and use of IoT services
- IoT reliability, adaptability, and dependability
- Technical assessment of emerging IoT standards

The DML track will concentrate on data and machine learning related
issues in the traditional IPSN topic areas above. Topics can include,
but are not limited to:

- Machine learning and deep learning on sensor data
- New hardware and system design to enable machine learning on sensor data
- Novel machine learning algorithms (e.g., new techniques for
modeling, optimization, signal processing, interpretation, evaluation,
etc.)
- Data related issues (e.g. structure, management, database, methods,
tools, analysis, etc.)
- Technical assessment of emerging IoT standards

The entire program committee is eligible to review any submitted
paper, but to aid in reviewer selection, authors are encouraged to
indicate in the submission site if their papers are related to any of
the special tracks IoT or DML. All accepted papers will be presented
in the main conference.

Response Process:

New this year, IPSN will elicit a review and response process. After
the initial review, the technical program committee may request a
short (1-page) response from selected papers for additional
clarifications. The authors will get a short time window of roughly 24
hours to respond. Participation in the response process is not
mandatory.


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Key Dates

Paper Abstract Registration: September 29th, 2017
Paper Submission Deadline (firm): October, 6th 2017
Response Period: January 8-10, 2018
Acceptance Notification: January 15, 2018
Camera-Ready Deadline: February 16, 2018

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Organization Committee

- General Chair: Luca Mottola (Politecnico di Milano and SICS)
- Technical Committee Co-Chairs: Jie Gao (Stony Brook University) and
Pei Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Publicity Chair: Yuan He (Tsinghua University), Hamad Alizai (LUMS)