Call for papers: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings 2015), 11-13 Dec. 2015, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/ithings2015/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2015 (firm) Notification: September 25, 2015 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2015 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/ithings2015/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Big Data. =========== Introduction The Internet of Things (IoT) brings promising opportunities and challenges. It attracts great attentions, and has important economic and social values. IoT will play a key role in the next generation of information, network, and communication developing. Future IoT may bring us an era of “harmony of man with nature”, which means harmony fusion of Physical-space, Cyber-space, and Social-space. We will witness emancipation not only from onerous labor works brought by machine-human interface, but also from the spatial-temporal constrains in Physical-space, and will achieve substantial benefits from IT development. Scope and Topics A. IoT Architectures • Things-centric, service-centric and data-centric architecture • CPS and SCADA platforms • Future Internet and network design for IoT • Cloud-based IoT • System security and management • Data centre design for IoT B. IoT enabling technologies • Sensing technologies • Radio frequency identification • Low power and energy harvesting • Sensor networks • Machine-type communication • resource-constrained networks • real-time systems • IoT data analytics • Embedded software. C. IoT services, applications and standards • Streaming data management and mining platforms • Service middleware • Open service platform • Semantic service management • Security and privacy-preserving protocols, • Design examples of smart services and applications • IoT application support Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/ithings2015/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Big Data. General Chairs Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA Mahmoud Daneshmand, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA General Co-Chairs Xiangyang Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Sanjay K. Jha, The University of New South Wales, Australia Program Chairs Hua Wang, Victoria University, Australia Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada Jian Tang, Syracuse University, USA Workshops Chairs Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China, Xiaoliang Fan, Lanzhou University, China Arne Wilston, UTS, Australia Steering Committee Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan (Chair) Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Zhikui Chen, Dalian University of Technology, China Julien Bourgeois, UFC/FEMTO-ST Institute, France Vincenzo Piuri, University degli Studi di Milano, Italy Son Vuong, UBC, Canada Pierre Paradinas, CNAM, France Huansheng Ning, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China Yen-Kuang Chen, Intel-NTU Connected Context Computing Center, Taiwan Mischa Dohler, CTTC, Barcelona, Spain