CFP: Special Issue on Decentralized Systems @ IEEE Internet Computing

> Special Issue on Decentralized Systems @ IEEE Internet Computing — Call for Papers
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> Our world is filled with decentralized systems, human society and organizations being the most familiar examples. In such systems, we see multiple loci of control representing different parties or administrative domains.  We use the term decentralized system to mean any system formed of autonomous entities. That is, the members of a decentralized system are, belong to, or represent different people or organizations. Traditional computing is not able to deal well with decentralization. As computing systems become more integrated into our lives and grow beyond the scale of a single organization, we will need better tools and methods for designing and implementing such systems. Relevant research into decentralized systems is scattered across multiple communities, including those focused on Web programming, multiagent systems, distributed computing. 
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> This issue seeks to consolidate the state of the art in decentralized systems. To this end, it seeks submissions that address the challenges of developing and deploying decentralized systems. Papers on component technologies that are well-related to system-level concerns are welcome.
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> Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
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> - Sociotechnical systems with multiple stakeholders from a computational perspective
> - Models of institutions and norms as a basis for building decentralized systems
> - Methods and tools for supporting the construction and maintenance, including requirements modeling, software engineering, and information system design
> - Programming models, methods, and tools, including languages and development frameworks
> - Debugging and monitoring tools and methods
> - Applications and empirical studies in specific domains (e.g., transportation or healthcare)
> - Enabling technologies such as distributed ledgers, Linked Data technologies, peer-to-peer computing, and federated learning
> - Construction, maintenance, querying, and reasoning of knowledge graphs as incorporated in decentralized systems 
> - Intelligent user interfaces for decentralized technologies including front-ends, crawlers, and browsers
> - Robust and scalable management of distributed semantics
> - Trust, privacy, and security despite decentralization
> - Work that incorporates insights or approaches from other areas, e.g., distributed computing, semantic web, blockchain, and machine learning
> - Decentralized architectures for extreme volume, heterogeneity, and dynamicity 
> - Evaluations of approaches for decentralized systems
> - Contributions along the above dimensions that emphasize scale, complexity, or adaptivity of decentralized systems, taking into account timeliness as well as collective behavior of the system as a whole
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> Important Dates
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> - Paper submissions due: 1 April 2022
> - First-round review due: 1 June 2022
> - Revision due: 7 July 2022
> - Final decision notification: 25 July 2022
> - Camera-ready submission due: 30 August 2022
> - Publication: November/December 2022
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> Submission Guidelines
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> All submissions must be original manuscripts of fewer than 5,000 words. All manuscripts are subject to peer review on both technical merit and relevance to IEEE Internet Computing’s international readership–primarily practicing engineers and academics who are looking for material that introduces new technology and broadens familiarity with current topics. We do not accept white papers, and papers that are primarily theoretical or mathematical must clearly relate the mathematical content to a real-life or engineering application. Please read the author instructions available at https://www.computer.org/publications/author-resources/peer-review/magazines <https://www.computer.org/publications/author-resources/peer-review/magazines>. To submit a manuscript, create or access an account on ScholarOne at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ic-cs <https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ic-cs>.
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> Guest Editors
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> Contact the guest editors at ic6-2022@computer.org <mailto:ic6-2022@computer.org>.
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> - Samuel Christie, North Carolina State University
> - Lalana Kagal, MIT
> - Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna
> - Munindar P. Singh, North Carolina State University