Tuesday, February 27, 2018

[DMANET] [CFP] IEEE PICom 2018 (Deadline March 30, Best Papers invited for Special Issues of Prestigious Journals)

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=========================CALL FOR PAPERS=============================

                                                                IEEE
PICom 2018
     The 16th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence
and Computing (PICom 2018)
http://cyber-science.org/2018/picom/

                                              Athens, Greece, 12-15
August 2018

   Sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Technical
Committee of Scalable Computing (TCSC)

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Workshop Proposal Due:      Feb.  28, 2018
Regular Paper Submission Due:     Mar.  30, 2018
Wksp/SS/Poster Paper Due:    April 30, 2018
Authors Notification:         May   20, 2018
Camera-ready Submission:      June  15, 2018

INTRODUCTION
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Over the last fifty years, computational intelligence has evolved from
logic-based artificial intelligence, nature-inspired soft computing, and
social-oriented agent technology to cyber-physical integrated ubiquitous
intelligence towards Pervasive Intelligence (PI). The International
Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing is intended to cover
all kinds of these intelligent paradigms as well as their applications
in various pervasive computing domains. PICom-2018 is the conference on
Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, previously held as PCC (Las Vegas,
USA, 2003 and 2004), PSC (Las Vegas, USA, 2005), PCAC (Vienna, Austria,
2006, and Niagara Falls, Canada, 2007), IPC-2007 (Jeju, Korea, December
2007), IPC-2008 (Sydney, Australia, December 2008), and since 2009 as
the name PICom. IEEE PICom 2018 will be held on 12-15 August 2018 in
Athens, Greece, co-located with IEEE CyberSciTech 2018, IEEE DASC 2018
and DataCom 2018. It aims to bring together computer scientists and
engineers, to discuss and exchange experimental and theoretical results,
work-in-progress, novel designs, and test-environments or test-beds in
the important areas of Pervasive Intelligence and Computing.

SCOPE AND TOPICS
================

Topics of interests include, but are not restricted to:†

-     Deep Learning and Deep Computation
-     Big Data and Smart Data
-     Brain-inspired Computing
-     Crowd Souring and Intelligence
-     Social Intelligence and Computing
-     Agent-based Computing
-     Ubiquitous Intelligence
-     Cyber-Physical Computing
-     The Internet of Things
-     Cloud of Things and Cloud of Sensors
-     Embedded HW, SW & Systems
-     Pervasive Devices and RFIDs
-     Wearable Devices and Applications
-     Sensor Technology and Networks
-     Pervasive Networks/Communications
-     Edge and Fog Computing
-     Mobile Edge Computing (MEC)
-     Device Virtualization
-     Privacy, Security and Trust
-     Context-Aware Computing
-     Mobile Data Mining
-     Ubiquitous Data Mining
-     Activity Recognition
-     Cloud Computing
-     Services for Pervasive Computing
-     Smart Cities and Smart Homes
-     Intelligent Social Networking
-     Pervasive Technologies for ITS
-     HCI for Pervasive Computing
-     Mobile Data Modeling
-     Middleware for Pervasive Computing
-     Intelligent/Smart IoT
-     Programming Abstractions for IoT
-     Semantic Analysis


PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE
==========================

Authors are invited to submit their original research work that has not
previously been published or under review in any other venue. Papers
should be prepared in IEEE CS Proceedings format and submitted via EDAS
systems (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=24494). Research papers should
explore a specific technology problem and propose a complete solution to
it, with experimental results. A regular (full) paper is between 6-8
pages. A WiP, workshop, or special session paper should be between 4-6
pages and a poster paper should be between 2-4 pages. Some papers
originally submitted as full can be accepted as short papers or posters
during the review process. In such cases, the authors will need to
reduce the paper accordingly when preparing the camera-ready version. At
least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register
and present the paper at the conference.

SPECIAL ISSUES
==========================
Extended versions of selected excellent papers will be considered for
fast-track publication in regular or special issues of prestigious
journals. The following journals are already confirmed:

1 - Information Fusion - Elsevier - Impact Factor: 5.667
(https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-fusion/)
2 - World Wide Web journal - Springer (www.Springer.com/11280 ) -
Special Issue on Smart Computing and Cyber Technology for Cyberization

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
==========================
General Chairs
-Flavia C. Delicato, Federal U of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
-Nikolaos Doulamis, Nat Tech Univ. of Athens, Greece

General Executive Chairs
-Klimis Ntalianis, Athens U of Applied Sciences, Greece
-Liqiang Wang, University of Central Florida, USA

Program Chairs
-Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy
-Pietro Manzoni, Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
-Qiang Yang, Zhejiang University, China
-Vana Kalogeraki, Athens U of Economics and Business

Workshop and Special Session Chairs
-Tie Qiu, Dalian University of Technology, China
-Andreas Panayides, University of Cyprus

Publicity Chairs
-Aline Carneiro Viana, INRIA, France
-Kazuaki Tanaka, Kyushu Inst. of Technology, Japan
-Igor dos Santos, Federal U of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
-Wei Li, University of Sydney, Australia
-Yaoqing Liu, Clarkson University, USA

Local Arrangement Chair
-Nikolaos Mastorakis, Hellenic Naval Academy, Greece

Advisory Committee Chairs
-Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA
-Constantinos S. Pattichis, University of Cyprus

Steering Committee
-Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
-Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada
-Adnan Al-Anbuky, Auckland U of Tech., New Zealand

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