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The 10th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things
(iThings-2017)
http://cse.stfx.ca/~iThings2017/
Exeter, England, UK, 21-23 June 2017
Sponsored by
IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (TCSC)

INTRODUCTION
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The Internet-of-Things (IoT) brings promising opportunities and challenges. It attracts great attentions, and has important economic and social values. IoT will play a key role in the next generation of information, network, and communication systems. Future IoT may bring us an era of “harmony of man with nature”, which means harmony fusion of Physical-space, Cyber-space, and Social-space. We will witness emancipation not only from onerous labour works brought by machine-human interface, but also from the spatial-temporal constrains in Physical-space, and will achieve substantial benefits from IT development.
The 2017 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings-2017) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present state-of-the-art advances and innovations in theoretical foundations, systems, infrastructure, tools, testbeds, and applications for the IoT, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future.

SCOPE AND TOPICS
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IEEE iThings 2017 will be held on 21-23 June 2017 in Exeter, Devon, UK.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Track 1: IoT enabling technologies
• Efficient architectures for IoT
• Sensor and sensing technologies
• Actuator and acting technologies
• Low power and energy harvesting
• Real-time systems
• IoT data analytics
• Cloud-based IoT
• Embedded software
• Smart devices
Track 2: IoT networking and communications
• Wireless sensor networks
• Machine-type communication
• Wireless communication protocols
• Wireless networking
• Self-organizing design
• Efficient routing protocols
• Networking for emergency IoT
• Radio frequency identification
• Lightweight communication protocols for IoT
Track 3: IoT services and applications
• Streaming data management system
• Data mining platforms for IoT
• Service middleware
• Open service platform
• Semantic service management
• Security and privacy-preserving protocols
• Design examples of smart applications
• IoT application support
Track 4: IoT industries, education and others
• Industrial IoT applications
• Agriculture IoT applications
• Environment Monitoring
• Business system for IoT
• Experimental platforms
• Education for IoT
• Open topic for future IoT


IMPORTANT DATES
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• Workshop Proposal Due: 15 December 2016
• Paper Submission Deadline: 23 February 2017
• Authors Notification: 22 April 2017
• Camera-Ready Paper Due: 15 May 2017
• Early Registration Due: 15 May 2017
• Conference Date: 21-23 June 2017

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE
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All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission website ( http://cse.stfx.ca/~iThings2017/sub/ ) with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 8 pages (or 10 pages with over length charge) including figures and references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts). You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page:
http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/

Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings can be found at
https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI). At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register the paper at the conference.