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Invitation to the 4th IMT/TUM/GFA/DFH/UFA school.future-iot.org
by Marc-Oliver Pahl 28 Oct '21

28 Oct '21

tl;dr Please share with interested PhD students: ************************ ** 4th edition of the coolest PhD school in the world and you can participate ;-) ** ** 29.11.-3.12.2021 in Rennes, France. ** On-Site (recommended) and online (reduced) participation possible. ** More info and registration: ** ** https://school.future-iot.org/ ************************ Dear all, please share the following information with your interested networks and your own PhD students and friends. For the 4th time, we are co-organizing the Future-IoT PhD school. The school is a unique experience, combining lectures, hands-on sessions, a hackathon and of course discussions around your PhD, networking, and a cultural program around our hosting city, Rennes, France. This year’s topic is “IoT meets Cyber and Security”. We cover relevant topics around the softwarization and the securing of the Internet of things. Participating companies include key players such as Siemens, Airbus, or Celonis. Check the details and register on the website https://school.future-iot.org/ We will welcome 40 students on-site. At the moment there are still a few on-site places available, so do not hesitate to register before it is too late. There are three registration categories: 1) [limited to 40] On-site (with all local costs including housing and food included in the registration fee) 2) [limited to 60] Online via zoom (for a low fee and with interaction potential) 3) [unlimited] Via YouTube (for free but with reduced interaction possibilities) Please register in any case to receive the invitation mails and links to the talks (in case of remote participation): https://school.future-iot.org/register We are looking forward to welcoming you in Rennes end of November! Marc-Oliver Pahl p.s.: If you are unsure about what to expect, take a look at the recordings from the last editions and convince yourself about why you want to be there: - Impressions from 2020: https://future-iot.org/category/2020iotmeetssecurity/ - Impressions from 2019: https://future-iot.org/category/2019iotmeetsai/ ## Long announcement The 4th Future-IoT winter school takes place from Nov 29-Dec 3, 2021 in Rennes, France. The event will be hybrid, on-site, via zoom, and via YouTube and LinkedIN. Inform your friends and check the program at https://school.future-iot.org/. We look forward to welcoming you! Software drives the critical infrastructures around us, such as water and energy supply, communication, transportation, banking, manufacturing and health services. This year’s edition focuses on different aspects of the software cyberspace – the algorithms that move the things around us -, including cybersecurity. Marc-Oliver Pahl, co-organizer of the summer school series The German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future and the chaire Cyber CNI in collaboration with the OCIF team, the IRISA lab and many more organize the 4th Future-IoT PhD school – this time a winter school. The school is under the motto “IoT meets Cyber”. So it is about software and algorithms in the Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical systems – a topic that should be hot for everyone. The 4th Future-IoT school takes place in the beautiful city of Rennes, only 1,5h by train from Paris. The city and the added value of the on-site participation with the hackathon with people on-site, much better networking, and last but not least the opportunity to getting to know the city make this the best option. At the same time, you can also interactively participate and network via zoom, or you jus follow and interact over YouTube and LinkedIN. Please inform your friends about the event and participate yourself! On-site for the full experience, via Zoom for half of the experience, and via YouTube and LinkedIN for the keynotes only. We are looking forward to welcoming you in Rennes! Program: https://school.future-iot.org/ Registration: https://school.future-iot.org/register Impressions from 2020: https://future-iot.org/category/2020iotmeetssecurity/ Impressions from 2019: https://future-iot.org/category/2019iotmeetsai/ school.future-iot.org The Future-IoT.org PhD school series runs once a year since 2018. Previous editions are “IoT meets Industry (2018, St Malo)”, “IoT meets AI (2019, Munich)”, “IoT meets Security (2020 in Cyberspace)”. The series is organized by IMT Atlantique and the Technische Universität München as a flagship event of the Franco-German Academy for the Industry of the Future. The Franco-German series is supported by the Deutsch-Französische Hochschule / Université Franco-Allemande. Future-IoT.org connects academia and industry. As a result, the series is in collaboration with leading industry partners in France and Germany, including Airbus, ArianeGroup, Atos, AWS, elm.leblanc, Siemens and several other industry partners. The Future IoT Summer School offers an exciting mix of lectures, hands-on work, and hackathon-style challenges. There’s also plenty of room to get to know each other, network, and explore our host city! Find the full announcement at https://future-iot.org/2021/10/01/4th-school-future-iot-org-iot-meets-cyber… Marc-Oliver Pahl and the entire future-iot.org team

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LAST DAYS!!! NOMS 2022 CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS (Extended deadline: October 24th, 2021)
by Tortonesi Mauro 20 Oct '21

20 Oct '21

****************************************************************************** CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS - NOMS 2022 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 25-29 April 2022 // Budapest, Hungary Network and Service Management in the Era of Cloudification, Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence https://noms2022.ieee-noms.org ****************************************************************************** The 18th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2022) will be held on 25-29 April 2022 in Budapest, Hungary. Held in even-numbered years since 1988, NOMS 2022 will follow the tradition of 34 years of NOMS and IM as the primary IEEE Communications Society's forum for technical exchange on management of information and communication technology focusing on research, development, integration, deployment, standards, service provisioning, and user communities. NOMS 2022 will feature several workshops to further disseminate fine-tuned research that is organized around the main conference theme: Network and Service Management in the Era of Cloudification, Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence. IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2022 invites proposals for one-day or half-day workshops, which will be held before or immediately after the main NOMS 2022 technical program. The primary purpose of the NOMS 2022 Workshops is to provide a forum for research, development, integration, deployment, standards, service provisioning, and user communities, also investigating the opportunities and challenges of AI for network and service management. NOMS 2022 Workshops are expected to focus on a range of novel and compelling research avenues complementing or in-depth covering the topics of the main conference, such as intelligent and hyper-connected environments, virtualization and in general, softwarization of networking technologies, newly emerging and potentially challenging topics on advanced services and applications converged network operations, management and control, seamless, secure services in future Internet also embedding cyber-physical systems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Proposal Submission Guidelines Each workshop proposal must include: 1. Title of the workshop 2. Names, addresses, and a short (200 words) bio of the major organizers (e.g., TPC (co-) chair(s), OC General (co-)chair(s)) 3. A brief description (1 page) of the technical issues addressed by the workshop. Relations to the main topics of the conference. State reasons why and how the workshop would attract the NOMS 2022 audience. 4. Organizing Committee (OC) and possibly or initial Technical Program Committee (TPC) 5. Likely contributors and targeted audience. 6. The planned format of the workshop, including a strategy to facilitate lively and interactive discussions. 7. If applicable, a description of the past events of the workshop, including all statistics of submitted/accepted papers and attendee numbers. If the workshop does not have past editions, please provide estimates and explain a strategy on how to reach the targets of paper submissions and attendees. 8. Publicity and advertising plan to attract paper submissions and attendees. 9. A draft of 1-page "Call for Papers (CFP)" including title, description, topics, and important dates. 10. The workshop website address, if applicable. Submission of workshop proposals should be made to the Workshop Co-chairs of NOMS 2022 by email to the following addresses: - Andreas Johnsson <andreas.a.johnsson(a)ericsson.com> - Mauro Tortonesi <mauro.tortonesi(a)unife.it> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES - Workshop proposal submission: October 24, 2021 (Extended and firm!) - Notification of acceptance: October 31, 2021 (Extended!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *Tentative* Schedule for Accepted Workshops - Paper submission deadline (coordinated): January 9, 2022 - Paper acceptance notification (coordinated): February 13, 2022 - Camera-ready version due (coordinated): February 27, 2022 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Co-chairs - Andreas Johnsson, Ericsson, Sweden - Mauro Tortonesi, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy -- Mauro Tortonesi, Ph.D. Associate Professor Distributed Systems Research Group Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Ferrara https://ds.unife.it/people/mauro.tortonesi

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DSEA 2021 CFP: The 5th International Workshop on Data Science Engineering and its Applications, Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021
by Gizem Varkonyi 12 Oct '21

12 Oct '21

*The 5th International Workshop on Data Science Engineering and its Applications (DSEA 2021)* http://emergingtechnet.org/DSEA2021/ *In conjunction with **The 8th International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security(SNAMS-2021)* <http://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2021/index.php> * (Technically Co-Sponsoring by IEEE) Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021* *DSEA 2021 CFP* Today, Data is becoming an increasingly decisive resource in modern societies, economies, and governmental organizations. Data science inspires novel techniques and theories drawn from mathematics, statistics, information theory, computer science, and social science. It involves many domains, such as signal processing, probability models, machine learning, data mining, database, data engineering, pattern recognition, visualization, predictive analytic, data warehousing, data compression, computer programming, etc. High Performance Computing typically deals with smaller, highly structured data sets and huge amounts of computation. Data Science has emerged to tackle the problem of creating processes and approaches to extracting knowledge or insights from gigantic, unstructured data sets. The 5th International Workshop for Data Science Engineering and Applications (DSEA 2021) aims to provide a forum that brings together researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts for discussion and exchange of ideas on the latest theoretical developments in Data Science and Computing as well as on the best practices for a wide range of applications. The topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to: - Architecture, management and process for Data Science - Big Data Mining and Knowledge Management - Evaluation and Measurement in Data Science - Privacy and protection standards and policies for Data Science - Data Quality - Data science for the internet of things (IoT) - Management Issues of Social Network Big Data - Big Data Computing for Data science - Social Network and Big Data Analytics - Open Source tools for Data Science and Big Data - Data Mining for Data science - High performance computing for data analytic *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format (IEEE Templates <https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…>). All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the SNAMS Proceeding and to be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing to EI (Compendex), Scopus and other indexing services like DBLP. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 8 pages and must follow the IEEE paper format. Please include up to 7 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. Submitted papers that are deemed of good quality but that could not be accepted as regular papers will be accepted as short papers. Length of short papers *Important Dates* Submission Date: 20 Oct, 2021 (Firm and Final) Notification to Authors: 31 Oct, 2021 Camera Ready Submission: 10th November, 2021 Please send any inquiry to Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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HMiMS 2021 Final Call: The International Symposium on Health and Medical informatics, Management and Security , Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021
by Gizem Varkonyi 11 Oct '21

11 Oct '21

*The International Symposium on Health and Medical informatics, Management and Security (HMiMS 2021)* *http://emergingtechnet.org/HMiMS2021/index.php <http://emergingtechnet.org/HMiMS2021/index.php>* *Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021 * *in conjunction with* *The 8th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS 2021)* <https://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2021/> (Technically Co-Sponsoring by IEEE) *HMiMS 2021 CFP:* Health Information Technology (HIT) innovations offer significant potential to transform the delivery of care, to improve the quality and efficiency of the healthcare system, to enhance interactions between patients/caregivers and providers, and to enable greater access to the latest advancements in treatments, among other accomplishments and outcomes. Health and Medical Informatics is an important HIT area that is at the intersection of information science, computer science, social science, behavioral science and health care. This field is mainly concerned with the resources, devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, processing and use of information in health and biomedicine. Health and Medical Informatics is driven by computers, information and communication systems. It is a multi-disciplinary field that covers a wide spectrum of sub-fields. It combines the problem solving skills of computer scientists with health care professionals and health care givers. Databases, networking, graphical interfaces, IoT, data mining, machine learning, intelligent decision support systems and data science are just a few of the technologies and research areas currently contributing to health and medical informatics. Mobility and ubiquity in healthcare systems, standardization of technologies and procedures, certification, privacy and security are some of the issues that medical informatics professionals and the ICT industry and research community in general are addressing in order to further promote ICT in healthcare. The purpose of this symposium is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the application of information and communication technologies (ICT) to healthcare and medicine in general and to the support of persons with special needs in particular. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: o Big data on healthcare o Blockchain based intelligent data management in healthcare o Data driven smart health o Health Data Analytics, Data Mining, Data Science and Machine Learning for healthcare o Medical Devices, medical imaging, and biosignal Processing o eHealth o mHealth and Wearable Devices o Telemedicine o Health Internet of Things o Cybersecurity and Healthcare Information o Healthcare privacy o Biodata management, security and analytics o AI in healthcare applications o Healthcare Decision Support and Intelligent Systems o Biomedical Informatics o User interaction systems and data/information exchange o Applied connected health and integrated care systems o Personalized health systems and medicine o Interoperability in Healthcare Systems o Health Information Management and security o Healthcare Knowledge Management o Social media in e-health o Socio-Economic Issues o Healthcare Security and Privacy o Patient Safety o Standards, Social and Legal Issues o Patient Diagnosis Methods o Patient Monitoring Systems o Health Data Acquisition, Management and Visualization o E-learning and Education o Medical Robotics and Virtual Reality o Care processes and workflow models o Quality development in healthcare services o Usability, accessibility and user interface design o Patient involvement and empowerment o Electronic health record systems: solutions, implementations, evaluation o Games for health o E-health and organizational change o Sociological, sociotechnical and multi-disciplinary perspectives on e-health o Evaluation assessment of healthcare applications studies o Qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods studies in healthcare IT *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format (IEEE Templates <https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…>). All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the IoTSMS Proceeding and to be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing to EI (Compendex), Scopus and other indexing services like DBLP. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 8 pages and must follow the IEEE paper format. Please include up to 7 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. Submitted papers that are deemed of good quality but that could not be accepted as regular papers will be accepted as short papers. Length of short papers *Important Dates* Submission Date: 20 Oct, 2021 (Firm and Final) Notification to Authors: 31 Oct, 2021 Camera Ready Submission: 10th November, 2021 Please send any inquiry to Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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IoTNAT 2021 Final Call: The 7th International Workshop on Internet of Things: Networking Applications and Technologies , Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021
by Yufei Sun 11 Oct '21

11 Oct '21

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 7th International Workshop on Internet of Things: Networking Applications and Technologies (IoTNAT 2021) <http://emergingtechnet.org/IOTNAT2021/index.php> in conjunction with The 6th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2021) <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2021/index.php> Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021 (Technically Co-Sponsoring by IEEE) *IoTNAT 2021 CFP* The Internet of Things (IoT) technology offers unprecedented opportunities to interconnect human beings as well as Machine-to-Machine (M2M), whereby sensors and networks allow all ‘things’ to communicate directly with each other to share vital information allowing us to have an instrumented universe where accurate data is readily available to inform optimal decision making. The IoT is about to enable a range of new capabilities and services far beyond today’s offerings. It will fundamentally change how people go about their lives. According to Gartner, the number of objects connected to the Internet is set to reach 20 billion by 2021. Cisco estimates the number will be close to 26 billion objects by 2021. Others believe the actual number will be even higher with the assumption that any object with a simple microcontroller and on-off switch will be connected to the Internet in the near future. The scale of the IoT is set to have a major economic, social and environmental impacts; the intersection of which forms the future sustainable growth. The IEEE International Workshop on Internet of Things: Networking Applications and Technologies (IoTNAT 2021) Symposium will be held in conjunction with The Fifth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2021). The IoTNAT 2021 Symposium aims at soliciting original ideas on the broad area of IoT including challenges and opportunities, concepts and applications and future trends. The Symposium aims to facilitate discussions among academics and IoT practitioners and make positive contributions to the field. Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished manuscripts. Submitted papers should be in accordance with IEEE format, and will be reviewed by at least two expert reviewers in terms of relevance, originality, contribution, correctness, and presentation. The topics of interest include but are not limited to: Emerging concepts of IoT Design methodologies for IoT Novel services and applications of IoT to facilitate environmental responsibility Green by Internet of Things IoT and Social benefits/impact IoT Economics Emerging Internet of Things business models and process changes Communication systems and network architectures for the IoT IoT and Data Management Security and privacy of IoT Reliability of IoT Disaster recovery in IoT Applications of Internet of things Emerging applications and interaction paradigms for everyday citizens Big data and IoT Self-organizing IoT Cloud Computing and IoT IoT and sustainable Growth *Submission* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the FMEC Proceedings, which will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Papers must be 6 pages max in IEEE format, 10pt font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format, single space, A4 format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. *Important Dates:* Submission Date: 20 Oct, 2021 (Firm and Final) Notification to Authors: 31 Oct, 2021 Camera Ready Submission: 10th November, 2021 Please send any inquiry to Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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MCSMS-2021 Final Call:The 7th International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing systems, Management, and Security , Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021
by Emerging Tech 10 Oct '21

10 Oct '21

*The 7th International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing systems, Management, and Security (MCSMS-2021)* *http://emergingtechnet.org/MCSMS2021/ <http://emergingtechnet.org/MCSMS2021/>* *Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021 * *in conjunction with* *The 8th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS 2021) <https://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2021/>* *(Technically Co-Sponsoring by IEEE) * *MCSMS 2021 CFP:* With a Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) market value of US$9.5 billion in 2014 and with more than 1 trillion cloud-ready devices in the next four years, MCC is considered as one of today's hottest new technologies in both academia and industry. MCC integrates different major technologies such as smart devices technologies (phones, tablets, watches, …etc), cloud services, big data, and cloud computing in one platform that services the end users. Despite the rapid growth of MCC, many issues are still challenging and need to be addressed. These challenges are related to the underlying networks , cloud services, security, the required Quality of Service, the availability of services, the needed user data management, and many others. The International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing systems, Management, and Security (MCSMS) is introduced as a forum for scientists, researchers, students, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, and developments in the area of Mobile Cloud Computing that addresses the aforementioned challenges. MCSMS 2021 workshop aims to investigate the opportunities and requirements for Mobile Cloud Computing, as well as Fog and Edge Computing domains. The objective of MCSMS2020 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss their research and results on all aspects of Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) as well as Fog and Mobile Edge Computing. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Mobile Cloud Computing Systems. * Edge Computing Systems. * Fog Computing Systems. * Mobile Cloud Computing Security and Privacy Issues. * Mobile Cloud Computing Pricing and billing models. * Mobile Cloud Computing support for VANETS and MANETS * Cloudlet based computing * Lightweight authentication mechanisms in Mobile Cloud Computing architecture. * Access Control models in Mobile Cloud Computing. * Identification of incentives for FMEC service providers. * The future perspective for Mobile Cloud Computing: Challenges and Open Issues. * Mobile Cloud Computing Quality of Service (QoS) improvements techniques. * Mobile Cloud Computing architecture features and evolution. * Mobile Cloud Computing Networking and Communication considerations * Mobile Cloud Computing Software development platform and enabled new applications * Mobile Cloud Computing Power Efficiency for resources and networking * Mobile Cloud Computing Availability and Quality of Service. * Security and privacy of mobile cloud computing * Mobile Cloud Computing Resource Management, Optimization, and Migration * Mobile Cloud Computing Support for Multimedia Communication and Game Computing * Mobile Cloud Computing Support for Big Data Management * Mobile Cloud Computing intrusion detection systems * Security of pricing and billing for mobile cloud computing services * Security of mobile, peer-to-peer and pervasive services in clouds * Security of mobile commerce and mobile Internet of Things * Security of mobile social networks * Security and privacy in smartphone devices * Security and privacy in social applications and networks * Security of Mobile, peer-to-peer and pervasive services in clouds * Network virtualization and cloud-based radio access networks *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format (IEEE Templates <https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…>). All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the IoTSMS Proceeding and to be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing to EI (Compendex), Scopus and other indexing services like DBLP. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 8 pages and must follow the IEEE paper format. Please include up to 7 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. Submitted papers that are deemed of good quality but that could not be accepted as regular papers will be accepted as short papers. Length of short papers *Important Dates* Submission Date: 20 Oct, 2021 (Firm and Final) Notification to Authors: 31 Oct, 2021 Camera Ready Submission: 10th November, 2021 Please send any inquiry to Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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BAT 2021 Final Call:The 3rd International Workshop on Blockchain Applications and Theory , Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021
by Yufei Sun 09 Oct '21

09 Oct '21

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 3rd International Workshop on Blockchain Applications and Theory (BAT 2021) <http://emergingtechnet.org/BAT2021/index.php> in conjunction with The 8th International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2021) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2021/> Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021 *BAT 2021 CFP* A blockchain is a distributed ledger for recording transactions and/or data in a meaningful order, maintained by many connected nodes without a trusted central authority. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for most distributed systems by efficiently establishing trust among nodes, especially in emerging networks. Such a fundamental technology to enable decentralization play an important role in a wide spectrum of topics such as Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), edge computing, cloud computing, fog, mobile computing, social networking, wireless communication, vehicular network, and even more other fields. At the same time, there is a lack of fundamental study on the limitations of blockchain such as scalability, security, privacy, efficiency, availability and dependability. Hence, the development and deployment of blockchain-based systems and applications will likely exhibit new requirements and complicated challenges, which brings more open issues and exciting directions for research communities. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in cloud computing, distributed systems, cryptography, security, and networking, from academia and industry, who are interested in the applications and theory of blockchains and related protocols. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed data store for blockchain * Distributed transaction for blockchain * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanism * Blockchain in cloud computing * Blockchain in mobile and edge computing * Deployment and feasibility study in emerging networks such as VANET, connected vehicles * Blockchain in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) * Blockchain and Financial Networks * Blockchain in vehicular network * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain and governance/policy/regulation * Game theory and blockchain * Real-world blockchain-based system analysis and optimization * Experience papers with blockchain * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Secure smart contract and chain code *Submission* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the SDS Proceedings, which will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Papers must be 6 pages max in IEEE format, 10pt font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format, single space, A4 format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. *Important Dates:* Submission Date: 20 Oct, 2021 (Firm and Final) Notification to Authors: 31 Oct, 2021 Camera Ready Submission: 10th November, 2021 Please send any inquiry to Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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SCE 2021 CFP:The 5th International Workshop on Smart Cities Systems Engineering, Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021
by Gizem Varkonyi 09 Oct '21

09 Oct '21

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 5th International Workshop on Smart Cities Systems Engineering (SCE 2021) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SCE2021/index.php> in conjunction with The 6th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2021) <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2021/index.php> (Technically Co-Sponsoring by IEEE) Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021 *SCE 2021 CFP* Smart cities provide next generation engineering approaches for urbanization. Smart cities aim to exploit the intellectual and social capital as its core ingredient for urbanization, in addition to the physical and ICT infrastructure. Smart cities are driven by several interdependent trends. These include a pressing need for environmental sustainability, and peoples’ increasing demands for personalisation, mobility and higher quality of life. Technological developments such as miniaturization of devices, internet of things (IoT), big data, and decreasing costs of computational entities have also accelerated the smart cities developments. Smart cities encompass all aspects of modern day life, transportation, healthcare, entertainment, work, businesses, social interactions, governance, etc. It is therefore necessary to engineer smart cities as complex systems of systems supported by a converged ubiquitous infrastructure. A key challenge in the realization of smart cities is to create an ecosystem of digital infrastructures that are able to work together and enable dynamic real-time interactions between various smart city subsystems. With this background, this workshop invites submissions that propose state of the art solutions for smart cities systems engineering. A particular focus of the workshop are the studies that involve cloud computing, fog computing, and mobile edge computing technologies. Original articles including modelling and empirical studies and development, as well as relevant surveys are welcome. The topics of interest of the workshop include, but are not limited to: * IoT based developments for smart cities engineering * Big data technologies for smart cities * Modelling and analysis of smart city technologies and systems * Mobile applications for smart cities * Analytics for smart cities * Cloud computing based approaches for smart city engineering * Fog and edge computing based approaches for smart city engineering * Cloudlet based approaches for smart city engineering * Studies focussed on communication networks for smart cities * Information management for smart cities * Smart buildings, smart homes and smart energy grids * Transportation, healthcare, and governance for smart cities * Security and privacy of smart city systems *Submission* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the FMEC Proceedings, which will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Papers must be 6 pages max in IEEE format, 10pt font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format, single space, A4 format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. *Important Dates:* Submission Date: 20 Oct, 2021 (Firm and Final) Notification to Authors: 31 Oct, 2021 Camera Ready Submission: 10th November, 2021 Please send any inquiry to Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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SAMSN 2021 CFP:The International Workshop on Sentiment Analysis and Mining of Social Networks , Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021.
by Gizem Varkonyi 01 Oct '21

01 Oct '21

*The International Workshop on Sentiment Analysis and Mining of Social Networks (SAMSN 2021) * *Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021. * *http://emergingtechnet.org/SAMSN2021/ <http://emergingtechnet.org/SAMSN2021/>* *In Conjunction With* *The Eighth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS-2021)* <http://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2021/index.php> *SAMSN 2021 CFP:* When the first Social Networks were introduced in the beginning of this century, they were able to gain the attention of the whole world, and since then, more and more social networks have risen and have become increasingly popular and significantly effective. They have been able to change the way we live forever and how we interact with each other and with the environment. The world has become more and more connected. Nowadays, social networks are everywhere, and they play an important role in various aspects of our lives. With the rise of the era of social networks, many opportunities and challenges have appeared on the scene including but not limited to big data handling, security and privacy issues in social networks, the use of sentiment analysis and opinion mining in these rich environments, data analytics, recommender systems, and legal and ethical issues related to the offensive use of these environments. The objective of this workshop is to shed light upon all the issues, opportunities, challenges, and future trends that are related to online social networks. Authors are invited to submit their original work, which is not submitted elsewhere, to this workshop. The accepted papers of the workshop will be published by the IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and will be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The International Workshop on Sentiment Analysis and Mining of Social Networks (SAMSN 2021) aims to provide a forum that brings together researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts for discussion and exchange of ideas on the latest theoretical developments in Data Science and Computing as well as on the best practices for a wide range of applications. Proceedings of the workshops will be published by the IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and will be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. Authors are encouraged to submit their original work, which is not submitted elsewhere, to this workshop. The topics of the workshop include but not limited to: · Social Networks Mining and Analysis · Social Networks Architecture · Social networks Data Representation and Visualization · Big Data and Social Networks · IOT and Social Networks · Cloud Mining tools and Services for Social Networks Data · Geolocation aspects of Social networks · Impact of Social Networks on Society · Social Networks Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Minings · Information Retrieval for Social Networks · Multilingual Natural Language Processing Tools for Social Networks · Machine Learning with Social Networks · Recommender systems Applications in Social Networks · Artificial Intelligence-based Emerging technologies · Privacy challenges in Social networks · Social Network and Data Analytics · Legal and Ethical issues for Textual Online Data · Online Hate-Speech detection · Case studies *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format (IEEE Templates <https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…>). All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the SNAMS Proceeding and to be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing to EI (Compendex), Scopus and other indexing services like DBLP. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 8 pages and must follow the IEEE paper format. Please include up to 7 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. Submitted papers that are deemed of good quality but that could not be accepted as regular papers will be accepted as short papers. Length of short papers *Important Dates:* Submission Date: 5 Oct, 2021 Notification to Authors: 21 Oct, 2021 Camera Ready Submission: 30th Oct, 2021 Please send any inquiry to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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