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
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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
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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
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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
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January 15, 2017 Paper submission due
February 28, 2017 Notification of acceptance
March 15, 2017 Camera-ready copy due
Organisers
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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