The Second International Workshop on Cyber-Physical
Networking Systems (CPNS 2012)
In conjunction with ICDCS 2012
Macau, China, June 18 - 21, 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop Goals

The Second International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Networking Systems(CPNS 2012) is a forum
to bring together people from academia and industry to explore research issues and challenges
related to Cyber-Physical Networking Systems (CPNSs) and discuss innovative ideas and promising
cutting-edge solutions (methodologies, techniques and approaches) on diverse CPNS-related topics.
This forum aims to help researchers from academia and industry understand the broad, novel scope
of CPNSs and grasp new thinking, challenges, and approaches underlying the issues, technologies,
and solutions exchanged from mutual communities.

The topics of interest for CPNS 2012 include, but not limited to, the following:

* Theoretical foundations of CPNSs
* Modeling and analysis of CPNSs
* System-level designs and implementations of CPNSs
* Evaluation approaches and metrics
* Control issues in CPNS
* Real-time services and QoS support in CPNSs
* Wireless sensor networking in CPNSs
* Mobile and participatory sensing
* Internet of things in CPNSs
* High-performance computing with CPNSs
* Cloud computing with CPNSs
* Security and privacy issues in CPNSs
* Safety, fault tolerance, and robustness of CPNSs
* Intelligent sensing and processing in CPNs
* Networking issues in emerging CPNS applications including healthcare, transportation, automation,
the environment, smart grid and so on.

Submission Guidelines

CPNS 2012 will consider original papers not previously published or under review by other journals or conferences.
All submissions will be peer reviewed and evaluated according to their originality, significance, correctness,
presentation, and relevance. The URL link for CPNS 2012 paper submission will be available soon. Manuscripts will
be limited to 6 pages following IEEE ICDCS conference proceedings style and guidelines. Papers that present novel
ideas, criticize existing work, and discuss practical studies and applications are especially encouraged.
Accepted papers will appear in IEEE Xplore and be EI indexed. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper
must register as a full participant of the workshop to have the paper published in the proceedings.

Important Dates

* Paper Submission Deadline: Feb. 7, 2012
* Workshop Author Notification: April 18, 2012
* Workshop Camera-ready: May 1, 2012
* Workshop Date: June 18, 2012

Publication

We expect to accept about 15 papers. All papers will be peer reviewed and the comments will be provided to the authors.

Steering Committee

* Wei Zhao (University of Macau, Macau) - Chair
* Helen Gill (National Science Foundation, USA)
* Steve Goddard (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
* Rajesh Gupta (University of California San Diego, USA)
* John Stankovic (University of Virginia, USA)
* Lui Sha (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
* Jie Wu (Temple University, USA)
* Kai Xing (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
* Taieb Znati (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

Workshop General Co-Chairs

* Xiuzhen Cheng (The George Washington University, USA)
* Dong Xuan (The Ohio State University, USA)

Workshop Program Co-Chairs

* Habib M. Ammari (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA)
* Biao Chen (Macau University, USA)

Publicity Co-Chairs

* Jinhua Guo (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA)
* Hairong Qi (University of Tennessee, USA)

Web Chair

* Habib M. Ammari (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA)

General Inquiries
For further information on CPNS 2012, please contact the workshop general program co-chairs
at cheng@gwu.edu and xuan@cse.ohio-state.edu.