MAS4IoT&CPS
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Special session on Multi-Agent Systems for the Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems (MAS4IoT&CPS) http://apice.unibo.it/xwiki/bin/view/Events/MAS4IoT&CPS to be held at ICNSC 2017 14th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control May 16-18, 2017, Calabria, Southern Italy http://icnsc2017.dimes.unical.it Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are highly-interconnected ensembles of software processes, hardware devices, and humans seamlessly interacting in order to provide functionalities that are strongly related to the spatial, temporal, computational, and physical context they operate within. The Internet of Things is thus a paradigmatic example of a CPS, particularly focussing on everyday objects and uses. Engineering CPS demands for effective approaches facing critical issues such as unpredictability of users behaviour and operating environment, fast-paced information production, consumption, and elaboration rate, effective distribution and decentralisation of computations, resilience to programs and devices failure, adaptiveness to change in execution context and physical environment, decision making under uncertainty and/or partial information, etc. Agent-oriented technologies such as Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) already proven to be effective when dealing with most of the aforementioned issues, thus further investigating their applicability in the context of IoT is worth the effort. Advancing in the field of Agent-oriented CPS means enabling better technologies for IoT, healthcare, transportation, manufacturing, entertainment. Suggested topics ---------------- Accordingly, the main topics of interest for the special session concern the exploitation of agent-oriented models, technologies, and methodologies in the context of - Internet of Things - Cyber-Physical Systems - Information systems & infrastructures - Health care and m-Health - Smart home environments - Intelligent transportation - Manufacturing automatio - Swarm robotics along with any similar or related application scenarios. Contributions may approach the aforementioned issues in these topics by proposing either models, languages, reference architectures, infrastructural solutions: the novelty of the approaches and the potential of the research line will be among the most relevant criteria for acceptance, and should then properly discussed in the contributions. Submission instructions ----------------------- Complete manuscripts must be electronically submitted through easychair at: http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icnsc2017 Submitted manuscripts should be within six (6) pages in IEEE two-column format, including figures, tables, and references. Please use the templates at http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html to prepare your paper. All submissions MUST be in PDF format. Please, during the submission process specify this Special Session as topic SS7 - MAS4IoT&CPS in Easychair. Accepted Papers --------------- All submitted papers will be reviewed by members of the International Program Committee and the corresponding author will be notified of acceptance or rejection. Accepted papers MUST be presented at theconference and will be published in the conference Proceedings, expected to be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI. Important Dates --------------- January 15, 2017 Paper submission due February 28, 2017 Notification of acceptance March 15, 2017 Camera-ready copy due Organisers ---------- Stefano Mariani, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia mailto:stefano.mariani@unimore.it [contact] Andrea Omicini, Università di Bologna Franco Zambonelli, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia