The Internet of Things (IoT) vision is to provide a dynamic and global network infrastructure which is characterized by intelligent and self configuring capabilities. IoT is considered as an integral part of the future Internet. It is based on interoperable communication protocols in order to enable the interaction and integration of virtual as well as physical Things such as computers, smart devices, sensors, cars, refrigerators, food packages, medicines, etc. Things can be seamlessly integrated into the information network and interaction can be made through the provision of intelligent interfaces. In not so distant future, IoT will be forcing its way into every aspect of our lives and technologies including smart homes, smart cities, environment and nature, green energy, food, medicine, automotive, aerospace and aviation, telecommunication, and so on.
IoT is generally characterized by real world and small Things, limited capacity, constrained devices and the consequential issues such as less reliability, security and privacy. Cloud computing on the other hand deals mainly with virtual world and has unlimited capabilities in terms of storage and processing power. Thus cloud and IoT are the main complementary aspects of the future Internet. IoT can benefit from the unlimited capabilities and resources of cloud computing. Similarly, cloud can benefit from IoT by extending its scope to deal with real world things in a more distributed and dynamic manner.

The theme of this conference is to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of the IoT and cloud computing. It provides a forum for bringing together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share research and development ideas in the area of IoT and cloud computing.

CONFERENCE TRACKS:

- Software Architecture and Middleware
- Mobile Cloud Services
- Data and Knowledge Management
- Context-awareness and Location-awareness
- Security, Privacy and Trust
- Software-defined Networking
- Performance Evaluation and Modelling
- Networking and Communication Protocols
- IoT Services and Applications
- Network Design and Architecture
- Smart Environment
- Intelligent Systems for Cloud and Services Computing
- Energy Efficiency
- Virtualization
- Clouds at the Edges
- Industry Track
- General Track-Future IoT and Cloud Computing

Paper submission and Publication:

Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and for short papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template. See instructions on the conference website (http://www.ficloud.org/2017/).

All papers accepted for this conference will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service (CPS). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for special issues in international journals (see website).

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: 18 April 2017
Authors Notification: 30 May 2017
Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2017

Organising Committee:

General Chair:
Athman Bouguettaya, RMIT University, Australia

Program Co-Chairs:
Markus Aleksy, ABB, Germany
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Local Organising Chair:
Irena Holubova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Workshop Coordinator:
Filipe Portela, University of Minho, Portugal

Journal Special Issues Coordinator:
Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Publicity Chair:
Joyce El Haddad, University of Paris Dauphine, France

Track Chairs:
Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, University of Leicester, UK
Shuiguang Deng, Zhejiang University, China
Maude Manouvrier, Universite Paris-Dauphine, France
Hai Dong, RMIT University, Australia
Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA
Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria
Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Zahoor Ali Khan, Dalhousie University, Canada
Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China
Mithun Mukherjee, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China
Nandini Mukherjee, Jadavpur University, India
Said Tazi, LAAS-CNRS, France
Khalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS, France
David Chiu, University of Puget Sound, USA
Antonio Celesti, University of Messina, Italy
Luiz Fernando Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil
Edmundo Madeira, University of Campinas, Brazil
Fano Ramparany, Orange, France