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The First International Workshop on Advances in Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems (AINIS 2015)
http://www.iswsnlab.cn/AINIS2015/

**Paper submission due: August 15 (Final Deadline August 31)**

Organized In Conjunction with
The fourth IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC 2015)
Shenzhen, China, 2-4 November 2015
http://www.ieee-iccc.org/

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SCOPE

With the development of wireless communication technologies, e.g., wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks, large scale industrial plants slowly get the opportunities to adapt their advantages. Traditional industrial fieldbus can be replaced by wireless networks, which give more flexibility with lower cost and risk of single point of failure. Thousands of industrial equipment can also be monitored by using wireless sensors to detect their health status and even diagnose the type/location of fault based on extracted features.

We see a huge potential of applying wireless technologies and artificial intelligence to make the existing large scale industrial plants smarter. We also see a huge amount of effort should be made to realize this beautiful computing vision. Thus, in this workshop, we are interested in exploring recent emerging technologies and research developments on industrial networks and intelligent systems to advance the step towards the smarter plants. We welcome paper submissions from both academic and industrial societies. The workshop will be a half-day workshop in conjunction with the fourth IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC 2015), which will be held in the magnificent city of Shenzhen, China, 2-4 November, 2015.

Topics of interest include (but not limited to) the following:
* State-of-the-art technologies in industrial networks and intelligent systems
* Wireless industrial networks development
* Industrial wireless sensor networks and its applications
* Large scale industrial plants monitoring and security
* Design of intelligent industrial systems
* Security of wireless industrial networks
* Fault diagnosis on large scale industrial equipment
* Intelligent energy harvesting technologies for industrial networks
* Cloud computing for intelligent industrial processing management
* Intelligent middleware for industrial networks and systems integration
* Low emission energy and efficient resources use for a sustainable city
* Applications for smart city

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

AINIS workshop accepts only novel, previously unpublished papers in the area of industrial networks and intelligent systems. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages (10-point font) including all text, figures, and references. Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process. Standard IEEE conference templates for LaTeX/MS Word formats are found at here: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html.

All submissions are to be made through EDAS submission system (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=20975). Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE ICCC 2015 Conference Proceedings and in IEEE Xplore, and indexed by Engineering Index (EI).

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission: 15 August, 2015 (deadline extended 31 August, 2015)
Acceptance Notification: 15 September, 2015
Camera-ready Paper Due: 01 October, 2015

Honorary Chair
Victor C. M. Leung, The University of British Columbia, Canada

General Chair
Gerhard Hancke, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Steering Committee Chair
Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China

Program Committee Chairs
XiaolingWu, Guangzhou Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mithun Mukherjee, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China
Edith C.-H. Ngai, Uppsala University, Sweden

Publicity Chairs
Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, IIUM, Malaysia and Islamic University in Madinah, KSA
Chunsheng Zhu, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Wenxiang Li, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China
Xun Chen, Hefei University of Technology, China

Web Chair
Zhiqiang Huo, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China