Call for Papers
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International Conference on Cognitive Internet of Things Technologies(COIOTE 2014)
October 27-28, Rome, Italy.
http://coiot.org


Scope
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Recent studies and reports have evinced that the Internet of Things will have a huge impact on our society. Conservative estimates predict there will be 50 billion of connected devices by 2020. Besides connecting real-time such numbers of objects, managing them and the data they generate will also pose challenges whether each of these produce no more than few bytes per minute in a very remote location or heavy data-streams within the heart of "resource rich" smart cities. Simply looking at the sheer size of these numbers, it is clear that competing for end-user attention will be the main hurdle to overcome.

To put it in Mark Weiser's words, these objects will have to "weave themselves into the fabric of our everyday life" leveraging on the features of a more Cognitive IoT where connected "things" become more intelligent and more autonomous. All this abundance of information sources generated by the ubiquitous computing phenomena opens new perspectives for many Artificial Intelligence branches, such as decision making strategies, reasoning, learning, etc.

Cognitive IoT aims at gathering enthusiastic researchers and practitioners from AI and IoT-related areas sharing the common goal of addressing the new challenges posed by the Cognitive aspect of IoT, by using new or leveraging existing Artificial Intelligence techniques.


Topics
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The list of covered topics is, without being limited to, as follows:

Knowledge representation in IoT
Decision making strategies in IoT, data fusion
Learning under IoT constraints
Pattern recognition in IoT
Biometrics for the IoT
Individual and social behavior analysis through IoT sensing mechanisms
Context aware data management
Environmental monitoring, network surveillance
Multi agent strategies
Transfer learning, information-theoretic learning
Bio-inspired intelligence, neural networks for IoT
Deep learning for IoT


Highlights
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- *Paper Submission Deadline EXTENDED!! to July 30th, 2014*

- Dr. Artur Arsénio, YDreams Robotics CEO (http://www.ydreamsrobotics.com/company/team/), is the 1st confirmed Keynote Speaker;

- The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organization devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT and will be co-located with the IOT360 Summit (http://iot-360.eu/);

- Participation in this event will give attendees the unique opportunity to be exposed to all technical scientific aspects of IoT related topic areas at co-located conferences, as well as be able to have full access to the IoT market place and business aspects in practice at the IOT 360 Summit.

- All accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world's largest scientific libraries. Best papers will be invited to publish also in the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Cognitive Communications.


Paper submission
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Papers should be no more than 6 pages in length. Complete formatting and submission instructions can be found on the conference website.
Submissions will be reviewed anonymously by at least three expert reviewers.
Papers will be judged on originality, correctness, clarity and relevance. Submitted papers must be original work, and may not be under consideration for another conference or journal.
Submission of the paper implies agreement of the author(s) to attend the conference and present the paper if accepted.


Publication
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Accepted papers will be published in the Cognitive IoT Conference Proceedings and by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST). The proceedings will be available both in book form and via the SpringerLink digital library, which is one of the largest digital libraries online and covers a variety of scientific disciplines. LNICST volumes are submitted for inclusion to leading indexing services, including DBLP, Google Scholar, ACM Digital Library, ISI Proceedings, EI Engineering Index, CrossRef, Scopus and Zentralblatt Math, as well as ICST's own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

Best papers will be invited to publish also in the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Cognitive Communications (http://eai.eu/transaction/cognitive-communications).

Organizing Committees
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STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR:

IMRICH CHLAMTAC
Create-Net
Trento, Italy


STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS:

FREDERIK SANTENS
Imtech ICT Belgium,
Belgium

LIVIU GORAS
Gheorghe Asachi University
Iasi, Romania

RAMANATHAN SUBRAMANIAN
Advanced Digital Sciences Center,
Singapore

ATHANASIOS V. VASILAKOS
University of Western Macedonia,
Greece


GENERAL CO-CHAIRS:

FREDERIK SANTENS
Imtech ICT Belgium
Belgium

RADU-LAURENTIU VIERIU
University of Trento
Italy

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIR:

ARTUR ARSENIO
YDreams Robotics CEO/ Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon University,
Portugal

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIR:

ERIK MANNENS
Professor, Research Manager @MMLab/iMinds-UGent
Belgium


TECHNICAL PROGRAM MEMBERS:

FREDERIK SANTENS
Imtech ICT Belgium, Belgium

LIVIU GORAS
Gheorghe Asachi University, Iasi, Romania

RAMANATHAN SUBRAMANIAN
Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore

RADU-LAURENTIU VIERIU
University of Trento, Trento, Italy

ABDUR RAHIM BISWAS
Create-Net, Italy

NENAD STOJANOVIC
Team Leader of the iCEP team at IPE, Germany

MOHAN KANKANHALLI
National University of Singapore, Singapore

VASSILIOS VONIKAKIS
Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore

NUNO GARCIA
Professor @Beira Interior University, Chair of ICT COST Action IC1303 - Algorithms, Architectures and Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments, Portugal

NEELI R. PRASAD
Associate Professor @CTIF - Section, Department of Electronic Systems, Faculty of Engineering and Science/ Aalborg University, Denmark

NIK BESSIS
Professor, Head of Distributed and Intelligent Systems (DISYS) research group/ University of Derby, UK

WESLEY De NEVE
Dr., Research Associate @MMLab/iMinds-UGent, Belgium


WEB CHAIR:

STAS SEMENIUTA
University of Trento
Italy