First International Workshop on Cloud Computing Challenges for enabling the Internet of Things (CCC4IoT-2012)

in conjunction with

The 5th IEEE/ACM International Conference on

Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2012)

November 5-8, 2012

Chicago, Illinois, USA - http://www.cloudbus.org/ucc2012/


http://www.derby.ac.uk/computing/research/ccc4iot2012


Aims and Scope

The first International Workshop on Cloud Computing Challenges for enabling the Internet of Things (CCC4IoT-2012) is dedicated to the theories, practices and concepts of advancing Clouds to enable the realization of Future Internet and specifically, the Internet of Things (IoT). During the last years, Clouds and inter-Clouds (an initiative to enable Clouds working together) are emerging as significant e-infrastructures for performing and delivering business and science. While Clouds are becoming popular by providing a new supplement, consumption, delivery and efficient Internet model, IoT has been emerged as a world-wide network of inter-connected physical objects uniquely addressable, based on standard communication protocols. IoT is associated with technologies such as ad hoc networks, near-field communications, femtocells, real-time localization, and embedded tags and sensors as a way to transform everyday objects into smart objects which in turn, lead to a shared next generation Internet, what is also known as Future Internet. A notable opportunity – that is the CCC4IoT-2012 scope – is to what are the challenges for Clouds as facilitating e-infrastructures to meet the requirements towards an IoT realization. CCC4IoT-2012 aims to provide a forum for original discussion and prompt future directions on how to support the harvesting, storage, processing and exploitation of real-time and dynamically generated available inter-connected objects in a reliable, scalable and secure manner.



The main topic areas include, but are not limited to:

Internet of Things, Architecture, Components, RFID, Sensors and Actuator Technologies
Inter-networking and Radio Access Protocols, Technologies, Near Field Communications, Femtocells
Inter-operability and Inter-cooperative Protocols, Standards and Technologies
Concurrency and Synchronization, Wireless and Mobile Communications, Protocols and Standards
Data/Text Mining, Data Clustering, Graph Partitioning, Collective Decision Making
Multi-objective Optimization Techniques in Dynamic and Real-time Computational Environments
Social Networks Analysis, Formal Concept Analysis, Temporal Analysis, Topic Maps
Ad-Hoc Networks, RF Modeling, Object and Context Representation, Ontology Management
Meta-Data, Annotation, Intra-/Inter- Tagging, Semantic Web, Web Services, Multi-Agents
Service Architectures, Discovery, Retrieval, Scheduling, Allocation, Monitoring
Mobility Management, Traffic Models, Process Workflow, Resource and Device Management
Data Centers, Real-time and (Historical) Data Management, Data Growth, Storage, Implications
Social Cloud, Crowd Sourcing, Crowd Dynamics, Crowd Source Data Modeling, Management and Analysis
Context-Aware Infrastructures and Services, Smart Objects, Positioning Location-Based Services
Security, Privacy, Identity, Trust and Reputation Management


Organizing Committee

Workshop Chair:
Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK
n.bessis at derby.ac.uk


Dora Varvarigou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece


Workshop Programee Committee Members (TBC):

Vassiliki Andronikou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK

Simon Andrews, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Eleana Asimakopoulou, University of Derby, UK

Liz Bacon, University of Greenwich, UK

Kevin Curran, Ulster University, Ireland

Ciprian Dobre, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania

Tim French, University of Bedfordshire, UK

Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria

Maozhen Li, Brunel University, UK

Lu Liu, University of Derby, UK

Minhua Ma (Eunice), University of Glasgow, UK

Paul Mc Kevitt, Ulster University, Ireland

Navonil Mustafee, Swansea University, UK

Florin Pop, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania

Noel Sharkey, University of Sheffield, UK

Stelios Sotiriadis, University of Derby, UK

Sergio Toral Marn, University of Seville, Spain

Ipke Wachsmuth, Bielefeld University, Germany


Submission

All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two or more independent referees of the Workshop programme committee and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit, originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.

Submit a full paper of at most 8 pages (IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style: two columns, single-spaced), including figures and references, using 10 fonts, and number each page. To confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines see: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/submission The papers must be submitted electronically via the EasyChair system that is available from the UCC-2012 website, see: http://www.cloudbus.org/ucc2012/



Accepted workshop papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, must register and present their work at the conference otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital library after the conference. Extended version of distinguished workshop papers will be published in a book volume and/or a special issue of an international journal.



Important Dates

Manuscript Submission Due: July 13, 2012

Notification of Acceptance: August 10, 2012

Final Manuscript Due: September 7, 2012

Author Registration Due: September 7, 2012

Symposium Dates: November 5-8, 2012


Contact
Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK
n.bessis at derby.ac.uk