IoT is hot. Experts and organizations are addressing the topic in policy statements, papers and conferences. There are many aspects to be looked at when talking about IoT. Earlier developments were quite focused on the lower level aspects such as interfacing, communication protocols and standards, base platforms, energy efficiency and energy harvesting, smart devices and smart sensors, etc. With the exponential growth of the number of devices and sensors connected to Internet and their increasing levels of embedded intelligence, other relevant challenges emerge, including organizational structures, collaborative cyber-physical ecosystems, end-user development, self-organizing systems, distributed decision making, collective adaptive and cognitive systems, behavioural models, systems resilience, handling big data, etc. The IFIP Internet of Things (IoT) Conference as part of the IFIP WCC 2018 addresses this wide variety of aspects. Papers will show technical advancements, research on major questions, policy issues, practical implementation issues and so on.

Perspectives will be from the people and organizations involved (users, ICT professionals, user organizations, ICT industry, authorities / regulators) but also from the phase of an IoT system or component (development, production / manufacturing, implementation, maintenance, management, use).

We invite you to submit papers to this conference. We also welcome proposals for special sessions.

Main topics of interest (non-exhaustive list)

• IoT networks
• IoT architectures
• IoT devices
• IoT Low Power Design
• CAD for IoT
• Legal issues (incl. liability)
• Ethical issues
• Education, training, awareness
• End-User Development
• Usability and accessibility

• Context-dependent applications
• Environmental issues
• Organizational and collaborative structures
• Risks, Privacy, Security, and Resilience issues
• Impact on persons and society
• Novel applications and business models
• Professionalism / duty of care
• Internet of ..... (Everything, People, Health, ....)
• General technical issues and challenges
• Etc.

Submission Guidelines

Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted to another conference or journal for consideration. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and included in the conference proceedings published in the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (AICT) series by Springer Science and Business Media.

All papers must be written in English. Submissions should be at most 16 pages long in total including references and appendices. While the emphasis is on full papers, submissions of short papers and position papers are also solicited.

Submissions should not be anonymized. Program Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them.

Authors must follow the Springer formatting instructions. Each paper will receive at least 3 reviews. At least one author of each accepted paper must register by the early registration date indicated on the conference website and present the paper.

Proposals for special sessions should be sent to: strous@iae.nl

Important dates

• Submission due: 1 May 2018
• Notification of acceptance: 1 June 2018
• Deadline for final version: 1 August 2018

Program Co-Chairs

• Vinton Cerf - Google, USA
• Leon Strous - De Nederlandsche Bank, Netherlands

Program Committee

(the list may be expanded with additional program committee members)

For more information visit the congress website (alternatively this) or feel free to contact Leon Strous at strous@iae.nl