DCOSS 2021: Abstract Deadline 18-Jan-2021

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The 17th Annual International Conference on
Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2021)*
Coral Bay, Pafos, Cyprus
June 7 - 9, 2021
www.dcoss.org



* DCOSS has always been technically co-sponsored by IEEE; approval for this year pending.
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Submission deadline approaching!
https://dcoss.org/paper-submission/

DCOSS 2021 is the 17th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems to be hosted in Coral Bay, Pafos, Cyprus in June 7-9, 2021. In the last few years, we have witnessed a significant growth in the use of IoT and distributed sensor systems in a number of application areas, ranging from smart transport, energy and buildings, to factory automation, smart healthcare and environmental monitoring. In order for smart sensor systems to truly become useful and pervasive, we need to address a number of research challenges, including the tight integration of sensing and machine intelligence, reliable and efficient networking, interoperability and scalability, the need for dependable autonomy, interaction with humans, and important aspects of security, privacy and trust. DCOSS focuses on issues arising in the entire IoT and networked sensor systems stack: covering aspects of high-level abstractions, models and languages, novel algorithms and applications, system design approaches and architectures, as well as tools for simulated and real deployments. Potential authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate recent advances in both theoretical and experimental research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Artificial Intelligence for IoT

- Smart healthcare to combat epidemics (including COVID-19)

- Edge and fog computing: distributed computing models from sensor to cloud
- Energy harvesting models and optimization
- Machine intelligence in distributed sensor systems and real time analytics
- Communication and networking primitives and protocols
- Autonomy: closing the loop between sensing and actuation
- Task allocation, reprogramming, and reconfiguration
- Robustness, resilience and dependability
- Security and privacy issues
- Approaches, tools, and experience of deployment and operation
- Performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability
- Mobile and human-centered sensing
- Interoperability, heterogeneity and scalability
- Crowd sensing and social sensing techniques, applications, and systems
- Complex systems comprising wearable, robotic and/or fixed sensor systems
- Novel and compelling applications
- IoT systems for emerging and developing economies
- Green and environmentally-friendly IoT

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on distributed sensor systems related to DCOSS topics of interest. Please use the US letter size (8.5 X 11 in) standard IEEE conference LaTeX format or Microsoft Word template available on the link below:

http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Note that DCOSS does not follow the double-blind review policy. The names and affiliations of all the authors must be present in the submitted manuscript.



A Special Issue of the Computer Networks (COMNET) Elsevier Journal will include selected best papers of DCOSS 2021.

Please visit DCOSS website at www.dcoss.org for more information.


******** Main Organizers ********

- Technical Program Committee Chairs:
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Enzo Mingozzi (University of Pisa, Italy)

Stefano Basagni (Northeastern University, USA)

Jiannong Cao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)




TPC Members
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Carlo Alberto Boano, Graz University of Technology

Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa

Kevin Chan, US CCDC Army Research Laboratory

Thomas Erlebach, University of Leicester

Raja Jurdak, Queensland University of Technology

Tomasz Jurdzinski, University of Wroclaw

Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University

Olaf Landsiedel, Kiel University

Jun Luo, Nanyang Technological Univeristy

Prasant Misra, TATA Consultancy Services

Nathalie Mitton, Inria Lille-Nord Europe

Miguel Mosteiro, Pace University

Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento

Cristina Pinotti, University of Perugia

Utz Roedig, University College Cork

Vasos Vassiliou, University of Cyprus

Dong Wang, University of Notre Dame

Hongkai Wen, University of Warwick

Jie Yang, Florida State University

Desheng Zhang, Rutgers University

Ambuj Varshney, University of California, Berkeley

Nicolas Tsiftes, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

Xiaolong Zheng, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Shijia Pan, University of California Merced

Jiaxin Ding, Shanghai Jiaotong university

Chenren Xu, Peking University

Sirajum Munir, Bosch Research

Jean-Francois Chamberland, Texas A&M University

Behnam Dezfouli, Santa Clara University

Jie Gao, Rutgers University

Gaia Maselli, University of Rome

Enrico Natalizio, University of Lorraine/Loria

Theofanis Raptis, IIT-CNR

Francesco Restuccia, Northeastern University

Simone Silvestri, University of Kentucky

Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico

Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida

Antonio Virdis, University of Pisa

Thiemo Voigt, Swedish Institute of Computer Science



- Local Chairs
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Vasos Vassiliou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

Zinon Zinonos (Neapolis University Pafos, Cyprus)





- Workshops Chairs
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Enrico Natalizio (University of Lorraine, France)

Zhangyu Guan (University at Buffalo, USA)

- Poster & Demo Chairs
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Thomas Lagkas (International Hellenic University, Greece)

Roger Chamberlain (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)



- Proceedings Chair
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Marios Angelopoulos (Bournemouth University, UK)



- Publicity Chairs
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Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA)
Lei Shu (Nanjing Agricultural University & University of Lincoln, China/UK)
Tamoghna Ojha (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)


- Steering Committee Chair:
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Sotiris Nikoletseas (University of Patras and CTI, Greece)




******** Collocated Events ********

DCOSS 2021 will collocate with several thematic Workshops and Special Sessions on emerging topics and technologies.

The event will also feature a poster and demo session.

Important Dates:
Abstract Registration Deadline: January 18, 2021
Paper Submission Deadline: January 25, 2021
Acceptance Notification: March 15, 2021
Camera Ready Deadline: March 29, 2021
Early Registration Deadline: April 22, 2021



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