Call For Papers

The International Workshop on Cooperation, Operation, Privacy and Safety in the IoT Universe (IOT-COPS'17) is co-located with the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC'2017), October 15-17, 2017, San Jose, CA.

OVERVIEW

Computing, communication, and sensory systems are advancing at an unprecedented pace. They offer new services and synthetic intelligence leading to the new level of cooperation between humans and machines internetworked anywhere and anytime. These advancements require more dynamic, diverse, safe, and secure interconnected platforms, infrastructures and systems. Unfortunately, supporting cooperation and maintaining resilient, safe and trustworthy operation of these complex systems are increasingly difficult challenges.

Research challenges include: Managing and effectively utilizing big data techniques for IoT; Supporting convergence for IoT–related standards and technologies; Embedding security, privacy and trust as intrinsic building blocks of IoT systems; Creating intelligent and adaptive natural user interfaces and interactions for IoT devices, infrastructure and systems; and Designing, developing and implementing IoT applications.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together the researchers from academia and industry to exchange the newest research results and findings. The other aim is to stimulate research discussion and collaboration addressing COPS challenges relevant to IoT. The topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

• Collaborative utility computing
• Body Area Networks
• Nature-inspired algorithms and technologies for COPS
• Platforms for smart cities and environments
• Adaptive and evolvable systems for COPS
• Privacy and policy management
• Autonomous services
• Cloud-supported COPS
• Theoretical development in heuristics
• Management of massively distributed networks
• Diversity in computing and communications
• Survivable and sustainable systems
• IoT safety challenges
• Visualization and visual analytics for COPS
• Intelligent user interfaces for human-machine cooperation

SUBMISSION AND REGISTRATION

Authors are invited to submit Regular Papers (maximum 6 pages) formatted using the CIC 2017 specifications. Papers will be peer reviewed and must contain original, high quality and previously unpublished work. All papers must be written in English. Papers accepted by the workshop will be published in the Conference Proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press. The extended versions of all accepted papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of a journal (TBD).

Submission link: EasyChair IEEECIC 2017.

The registration information is available from the CiC 2017 conference web site.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

• Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Military Institute, USA
• Denis Gracanin, Virginia Tech, USA
• Moustafa Youssef, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, Egypt

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

• Youna Jung, Virginia Military Institute, USA
• Kresimir Matkovic, VRVis Research Center, Vienna, Austria

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• Christo El Morr, York University, Canada
• Benjamin Eze, CISCO, Canada
• Errin Fulp, Wake Forest University, USA
• Abdelmounaam Rezgui, New Mexico Tech, USA
• George C. Polyzos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
• Ahmed Kamal, Iowa State University, USA
• Jin-Hee Cho, Army Research Lab, USA
• El-Sayed El-Alfy, King Fahd University, Saudi Arabia
• Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
• Mohamed Azab, City of Science and Technology, Egypt

CONTACT

For any inquires please contact us at: jungy[AT]vmi.edu