[2nd Call for Papers]

- Due to unavoidable reasons, the IOTS 2010 conference dates have been revised. The submission deadline has been changed accordingly.
- New conference dates: December 18-20, 2010
- New submission deadline: Sep 22, 2010
- Selected best papers (extended version) will be considered for publication in special issues of SCI-index international journals.

[Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this call]

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IOTS 2010
The 1st IEEE/ACM Internet of Things Symposium
http://www.cpschina.org/IOTS/

In conjunction with GreenCom 2010
Hangzhou, China, December 18-20, 2010
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1.Overview

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of Internet-enabled objects, together
with web services that interact with these objects. IoT is growing momentum in
terms of the underlying technology as well as the adoption by corporations,
universities and across many industries. IoT aims at increasing the ubiquity
of the Internet by integrating every object for interaction via embedded systems,
which leads to the highly distributed network of devices communicating with
human beings as well as other devices.

The widespread adoption of the Internet of Things will take time, but the
process is accelerating thanks to improvements in underlying technologies.
Advances in wireless networking technologies and the standardization of
communication protocols make it possible to collect data from sensors
almost anywhere at any time. Smaller silicon chips for this purpose are gaining
new capabilities. Significant increase in storage and computing power can also be
available via cloud computing. However, a large number of challenges remain.
With the increase in heterogeneity, it has become very difficult
to ensure interactions with devices on a unified protocol. The requirements of
Internet for intelligent interaction with the environment led to the
emergence of wireless sensor networks connected to the Internet. There exists a
need for those networks to produce their information in an interpretable form
and to reduce the complexity of accessing sensor services.

2.Symposium Outline

The focus of this symposium is on bringing together relevant researchers to
explore internet of things technologies and applications. The scope of this
symposium includes, but not limited to, the following areas:

- IoT connecting objects technologies: sensors, RFID, smartphone
- IoT network architectures
- IoT emerging applications
- IoT security and privacy
- IoT routing
- IoT naming and addressing
- IoT energy-efficient computing and communications
- IoT data fusion
- IoT cross-layer optimization
- IoT communication protocols
- IoT heterogeneous network integration: WiFi, WiMax, 3G, 4G, ZigBee

3.Important Dates (NEW!)

Submission Deadline: Sep 22, 2010
Authors Notification: Oct 22, 2010
Final Manuscript Due: Nov 07, 2010

4.Submission Instructions

We solicit original and unpublished work not currently under review by any other
journal/magazine/conference. All papers will be reviewed by the IOTS Program
Committee for significance, originality, accuracy, and clarity. For detailed
submission instructions, please visit the symposium website:
http://cpschina.org/IOTS/. Papers should be a maximum of
15 pages in PDF file. Paper formatting instructions and templates
(IEEE "8.5x11" two-column format) can be found at:
http://cpschina.org/IOTS/IEEECS_IOTS_8.5x11x2.rar and
http://cpschina.org/IOTS/IEEECS_IOTS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.rar. Each submission
should be regarded as an undertaking that, if the paper is accepted, at least
one of the authors must attend the workshop to present the work.

Please submit your paper here:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iots2010

5.Publications

Accepted and presented papers will be included in the GreenCom 2010 workshop
proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (placed in IEEE Xplore) and
indexed by EI Compendex. Extended versions of selected best papers will be
considered for publication in special issues of SCI-index international journals
(TBA).

6.Organizing Committee

General Chair
Zhikui Chen, Dalian University of Technology, China

General Co-Chairs
Feng Xia, Dalian University of Technology, China
Alexey Vinel, SPIIRAS, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

7.Contact

See IOTS 2010 website:
http://www.cpschina.org/IOTS/
http://incodat.dlut.edu.cn/IOTS/
Contact us through email: IOTsymposium@gmail.com

For further questions, please contact:
Prof. Dr. Zhikui Chen
Dalian University of Technology, China
Email: zkchen@dlut.edu.cn; zhikui_chen@hotmail.com