CFP: The 2nd Int. Conf. on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud-2014)

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The 2nd International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud
(FiCloud-2014)

27-29 August 2014, Barcelona, Spain
http://scim.brad.ac.uk/~iawan/FiCloud-2014/

Technically co-sponsored by the Technical Committee on the Internet of the
IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS TCI)
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The Internet of Things (IoT) vision is to provide a dynamic and global
network infrastructure which is characterized by intelligent and self
configuring capabilities. IoT is considered as an integral part of the
future Internet. It is based on  interoperable communication protocols in
order to enable the interaction
and integration of virtual as well as physical Things such as computers,
smart devices, sensors, cars, refrigerators, food packages, medicines, etc.
Things can be seamlessly integrated into the information network and
interaction can be made through the provision of intelligent interfaces. In
not so distant future, IoT will be forcing its way into every aspect of our
lives and technologies including smart homes, smart cities, environment and
nature, green energy, food, medicine, automotive, aerospace and aviation,
telecommunication, and so on.

IoT is generally characterized by real world and small Things, limited
capacity, constrained devices and the consequential issues such as less
reliability, security
and privacy. Cloud computing on the other hand deals mainly with virtual
world and has unlimited capabilities in terms of storage and processing
power. Thus cloud and IoT are the main complementary aspects of the future
Internet. IoT can benefit from the unlimited capabilities and resources of
cloud computing. Similarly, cloud can benefit from IoT by extending its
scope to deal with real world things in a more distributed and dynamic
manner.

The theme of this conference is to promote the state of the art in
scientific and practical research of the IoT and cloud computing. It
provides a forum for bringing
together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public
sector in an effort to present their research work and share research and
development
ideas in the area of IoT and cloud computing.

Conference Tracks:

- Network Design and Architecture
- Software Architecture and Middleware
- Mobile Services
- IoT and Cloud Data Management
- Context Awareness in Cloud and IoT
- Security, Privacy and Reliability
- Performance Evaluation and Modelling
- Standards in Cloud and IoT
- Networking and Communication Protocols
- Machine to Machine communication protocols
- Smart Environment
- Industry Track
- General Track-Future IoT and Cloud Computing

Publication:

All papers accepted for this conference will be published in the conference
proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service
(CPS). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE
Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also
submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and
other indexing services.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of
their papers for special issues in international journals (see Journal
Special Issues section).

Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: 15 March 2014
Authors Notification: 30 May 2014
Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2014

General Chairs:
Xavier Franch, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada

Program Chairs:
Antonio Pescape, University of Napoli, Federico II, Italy
Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Local Organising Chair:
Carme Quer, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

International Advisory Committee:
Athman Bouguettaya, RMIT University, Australia
Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College London, UK
Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK
Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA
A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Chonggang Wang, InterDigital Communications, USA

Track Chairs:

Track 1: Network Design and Architecture
Chair: Payam M. Barnaghi, University of Surrey, UK
Track 2: Software Architecture and Middleware
Chair: Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Track 3: Mobile Services
Chair: Danish Aziz, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Germany
Track 4: IoT and Cloud Data Management
Chair: Sylvain Kubler, Aalto University, Finland
Track 5: Context Awareness in Cloud and IoT
Co-Chair: Qiang Duan, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Co-Chair: Honggang Wang, The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA
Track 6: Security, Privacy and Reliability
Chair: Jules F. Pagna Disso, EADS Innovations Works, UK
Track 7: Performance Evaluation and Modelling
Chair: Alessio Botta, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy
Track 8: Standards and Social Issues
Chair: Ivona Brandic, Technical University Wien, Austria
Track 9: Networking and Communication Protocols
Chair: Charalabos Skianis, University of Aegean, Greece
Track 10: Machine to Machine communication protocols
Chair: Vamsi Krishna Paruchuri, University of Central Arkansas, USA
Track 11: Smart Environment
Chair: Elisabetta Farella, Universita di Bologna, Italy
Track 12:Green Cloud and IoT
Chair: José Luis Vázquez-Poletti, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Track 13: Industry Track
Chair: Noel Portugal, Oracle Corporation, USA
Track 14: General - Future IoT and Cloud Computing
Chair: Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Workshop Coordinator:
Ruben Casado, Treelogic, Spain

Journal Special Issue Coordinator:
Mohamed Bakhouya, Aalto University, Finland

Publicity Chair:
Satish Narayana Srirama, University of Tartu, Estonia

Website Administrator:
Hatem Musbah Ibrahim, University of Bradford, UK