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IoT-ASAP 2018 - Call for Papers
https://iotasap.github.io/IoTASAP2018/
April 30, Seattle, USA
Co-located with ICSA 2018
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International Workshop on Engineering IoT Systems: Architectures, Services, Applications, and Platforms (IoT-ASAP 2018)

The Internet of Things (IoT) is characterized by billions of heterogeneous, distributed, and intelligent things –both from the digital and the physical worlds– running applications and services from the Internet of Services (IoS). Things span, for instance, simple RFID tags, sensors, actuators, as well as computers, autonomous robots, and self-driving vehicles. Often, things are connected through heterogeneous platforms also providing support for, e.g., data collection and management and applications deployment. Additionally, things can offer their functionalities as (web) services facilitating them to interact with each other dynamically.

Since IoT systems are composed by a variety of things and services, a key aspect of engineering IoT systems is their architecture. A wide range of challenges needs to be addressed both at design and run-time when designing IoT systems’ architecture. For instance, while designing and managing IoT systems, services, and platforms, some examples of challenges to tackle are heterogeneity, adaptability, reusability, interoperability, uncertainty, security, and privacy while also taking into account the human in the loop bringing needs on the systems’ functionalities and qualities. Novel software architecture principles are needed to overcome these challenges for IoT systems.

The objective of IoT-ASAP 2018, International Workshop on Engineering IoT systems: Architectures, Services, Applications, and Platforms, is again to bring together researchers and practitioners from several areas (e.g., Architecture, Internet of Things (IoT), Service-Oriented Computing, Self-Adaptive Systems, Multi-Agent Systems, User Interaction and Experience) to investigate and discuss state of the art, principles, challenges of, and (interdisciplinary) approaches for, engineering IoT systems. The workshop takes place in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Software Architectures (ICSA 2018) and IoT-ASAP 2018 proficiently complements other ICSA events like the technical track, the industry track, and the new ideas track.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics related to IoT Architectures, Services, Applications, and Platforms include but are not limited to:
- Design approaches for IoT systems
- Architectural interoperability in IoT systems
- Quality aspects in the IoT (e.g., runtime dependability, assurances, validation, verification, privacy, security)
- Self-adaptation and context-awareness in the IoT
- User requirements specification and engineering for smart user-interactions in the IoT
- Discovery, composition and analysis of (intelligent) services and applications
- Engineering for emergent behavior/properties in the IoT
- (Continuous) deployment, composition, and monitoring in the IoT
- Autonomous agents and multi-agent IoT architectures, e.g., collaboration, coordination, reasoning, collective intelligence
- Model-driven engineering for IoT systems
- Frameworks and middleware for the IoT
- Cloud computing for the IoT
- State-of-practice, experience reports, industrial experiments, and case studies in the IoT
- Simulation techniques and tools for the IoT
- Inter-disciplinary approaches for building and adapting IoT systems
- Formal methods for IoT systems

Application areas include - but are not limited to:

- Smart Home, Smart Living
- Smart Cities, Smart Transportation, Smart Energy
- Smart Health, Smart Learning
- Industry 4.0 / Industrial Internet
- System of IoT Systems


SUBMISSION AND IMPORTANT DATES

We welcome 8-pages long papers and 4-pages short papers. The papers must follow ICSA 2018 technical papers formatting guidelines and be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iotasap2018). All accepted contributions will be published in the ICSA 2018 Companion Proceedings and appear in IEEE Xplore Digital Library. More information will be announced on https://iotasap.github.io/IoTASAP2018/

- Paper submission deadline: March 14, 2018 (Extended deadline)
- Paper acceptance notification: March 29, 2018
- Camera-ready accepted paper deadline: April 12, 2018
- Workshop: April 30, 2018


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Romina Spalazzese, Malmö University, Sweden
Marie C. Platenius, Paderborn University, Germany
Steffen Becker, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
Gregor Engels, Paderborn University, Germany

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Luigi Atzori, University of Cagliari, Italy
Marco Autili, University of L’Aquila, Italy
Matthias Becker, Fraunhofer IEM, Germany
Antonio Bucchiarone, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria, Italy
Federico Ciccozzi, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Paul Davidsson, Malmö University, Sweden
Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria
David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA, France
Sebastian Götz, University of Technology Dresden, Germany
Jan Kofron, Charles University, Czech Republic
Heiko Koziolek, ABB, Germany
Hausi Mūller, University of Victoria, Canada
Per Persson, Ericsson (Sweden)
Virginia Pilloni, University of Cagliari, Italy
Ralf Reussner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy
Magnus Standar, Ericsson, Sweden
Kenji Tei, NII University, Japan
Danny Weyns, KU Leuven, Belgium
Uwe Zdun, University of Vienna, Austria

More information can be found on http://iot-asap.cs.upb.de