Scope

In recent years, large-scale urbanization has been on the rise, with the sustainable development of smart cities being the hubs for growth. Still, rural business plays a vital role in any country’s overall development. Therefore, smart villages, alongside smart cities, need time for the holistic development of society in vision with Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the United Nations (UN). The current rural villages lack proper health care facilities, advanced agriculture techniques, proper education, quality of drinking water, better energy management, etc. Therefore, to overcome these challenges and remain competitive and sustainable, there is a need to develop new and emerging technologies and their applications to fulfill the vision of the smart village, which impacts the holistic development of society. The Internet-of-things (IoT) is a crucial technology player to envisage the smart village. The IoT provides interactive platforms for exchanging information and controlling the actions between the smart devices. Smart things are embedded with smart sensor-computing platforms and information exchanges across the communication protocols. This special session intends to serve as a forum to present state-of-the-art innovative advances in solutions and research for smart and sustainable solutions ranging from IoT, efficient sensing, cloud/edge computing, smart actuators, etc., to address the problems associated with the villages. The topics for this special session of interests include, but are not limited to the following:

1. Smart village applications and services
2. IoT for agriculture/healthcare/water management/, climate monitoring, etc.
3. IoT for handling Critical Emergencies and Disasters
4. Sensor and Actuator Networks
5. Smart village embedded and cyber-physical systems
6. Computing for smart villages (edge/cloud, Agriculture 4.0, Society 5.0, etc.)
7. AI/ML approaches using IoT in the smart village domain
8. System and architectural approaches for sensor integration in IoT
9. Security by design in consumer IoT devices
10. Sensor and Actuator Networks
11. IoT for supporting Policy Development and Governance
12. IoT and Security & Privacy

Session Organizers

Venkanna Udutalapally, IIIT Naya Raipur, India, venkannau@iiitnr.edu.in
Laavanya Rachakonda, University of North Carolina Wilmington, rachakondal@uncw.edu
Debanjan Das, IIIT Naya Raipur, India, debanjan@iiitnr.edu.in
Saraju Mohanty, University of North Texas, USA, saraju.mohanty@unt.edu

Topics / Keywords

1. Smart Agriculture
2. Smart Healthcare
3. Smart Farm
4. Livestock Care
5. Rural Development
6. Artificial Intelligence
7. Mining and Analytics
8. Security & Privacy

Acceptance of papers is based on the full paper (up to 18 pages). Each paper will be evaluated by three members of the International Program Committee.
When submitting on the website, you have to indicate the name of the special session.
Submission procedure available via Easychair, with a copy by email to the chairs of the special session.

Scope

With its ubiquitous nature and abundance of application areas, IoT has the potential to transform society and provide value far beyond that found in ordinary technological innovation. This special session focuses on IoT as a technological, social, and cultural phenomenon and on the opportunities and challenges of adopting IoT on an individual, organizational, and/or societal level. We welcome contributions that provide empirical insights into implications of using IoT in different contexts as well as papers that address IoT as an integral part of the ongoing digital transformation of society. Some key topics may include but are not necessarily limited to: (1) Creating value with IoT, (2) Risk management and ethical IoT, and (3) IoT adoption, management and strategy. While the implementation of sensor-based systems has received considerable attention in practice, it has not yet garnered as much attention in research, especially not from an organizational or managerial perspective. As both the public and private sectors alike are scrambling to take advantage of the perceived opportunities enabled by this new technological paradigm, there is a need for research studies that provide a deep and nuanced understanding of IoT use and contribute insights for both practitioners and researchers.

Session Organizers

Ulrika H. Westergren, Umeå University, ulrika.westergren@umu.se
Katrin Jonsson, Umeå University, katrin.jonsson@umu.se
Ted Saarikko, Umeå University, ted.saarikko@umu.se

Topics / Keywords

1. Socio-technical issues
2. Value creation
3. Risk management
4. - IoT ethics
5. Digital transformation
6. Transformed practices and behaviors
7. IoT user perspectives
8. Micro/Macro analysis on IoT use

Acceptance of papers is based on the full paper (up to 18 pages). Each paper will be evaluated by three members of the International Program Committee.
When submitting on the website, you have to indicate the name of the special session.
Submission procedure available via Easychair, with a copy by email to the chairs of the special session.

Scope

Sustainability (see UN’s Sustainable Development Agenda), increased customer expectations and shorter product life cycles are challenging the manufacturing industry and companies that want to stay competitive. Trends like mass-customization and global supply chains have emerged which puts pressure for increasing flexibility and resilience in operations, which in turn are leading to Smart Factories made possible by the digital transformation and enabled by Internet-of-Things (IoT).
IoT systems in manufacturing may span the scope of a production cell or a plant but may also orchestrate global supply chains. In some cases, the product itself is even an active IoT entity, possibly linked to the factory’s digital twin. Therefor the challenges for IoT in manufacturing are broad, ranging from predictive real-time behavior in below 1 one milli second accuracy to adaptability, safety, security, resilience, scalability, and trustworthiness just to name a few. Information security and cyber-security also takes center stage, as connected systems may be open to attacks. However, the value of IoT in manufacturing cannot be underestimated from the perspective of increased resource utilization and cost-efficiency.
The topics for this special session of interests include, but are not limited to the following:

1. Examples of IoT implementations in manufacturing
2. Examples of value creation utilizing IoT in manufacturing
3. Engineering and operation of Manufacturing IoT systems
4. Products enabled by or designed for Manufacturing IoT systems
5. Flexible production systems enabled by IoT
6. Security in the scope of Manufacturing IoT
7. Inclusion of legacy components and systems, obsolescence
8. Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
9. Standards for IoT in manufacturing
10. Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS)
11. Predictability of IoT Manufacturing systems
12. Usability and interaction with human operators

Session Organizers

Martin Hochwallner, Linköping University, Sweden, martin.hochwallner@liu.se
Marie Jonsson, Linköping University, Sweden, marie.s.jonsson@liu.se
Luis Ribeiro, Linköping University, Sweden, luis.ribeiro@liu.se

Topics / Keywords

1. Manufacturing Systems
2. Smart Factory
3. Industry 4.0
4. Artificial Intelligence
5. Machine Learning
6. Cyber-security

Acceptance of papers is based on the full paper (up to 18 pages). Each paper will be evaluated by three members of the International Program Committee.
When submitting on the website, you have to indicate the name of the special session.
Submission procedure available via Easychair, with a copy by email to the chairs of the special session.

Scope

Current critical and complex ICT ecosystems address multidimensional and heterogeneous components and systems, including multi-actors and different technologies, communicating and generating an exchange of data. This emerging complexity, which includes IoT environments, has been evolving fast, empowering the emergence of system vulnerability to malicious attacks. In the new landscape of fast deployment of new technologies, cybersecurity has become a major concern requiring continuous monitoring, testing, assessment, and improvement of digital ecosystems to assure their integrity, security and privacy. Current research is focusing on the development of measures for improving resilience, trust, and security and privacy within ICT supply chains, including IoT security and privacy standards and certification as one of the major challenges. In this regard, this special session aims addressing the current research in cybersecurity in IoT, enabling the discussion and knowledge generation fostering security and trust within ICT ecosystems across their entire lifecycle. For such, a set of topics for this special session can be found below, but not limited to such list.

Session Organizers

José Barata, Uninova-CTS/Nova School of Science & Technology, Portugal, jab@uninova.pt
Ricardo Peres, Uninova-CTS/Nova School of Science & Technology, Portugal, ricardo.peres@uninova.pt
Ovidiu Cosma, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, ovidiu.cosma@cunbm.utcluj.ro
Eda Marchetti, National Research Council, Italy, eda.marchetti@isti.cnr.it
Emilia Cioroaica, Fraunhofer-IESE, Germany, Emilia.Cioroaica@iese.fraunhofer.de
Ana Inês Oliveira, Uninova-CTS/Nova School of Science & Technology, Portugal, aio@uninova.pt
Filipa Ferrada, Uninova-CTS/Nova School of Science & Technology, Portugal, faf@uninova.pt

Topics / Keywords

1. Trust in ICT supply chains
2. Vulnerability assessment and testing
3. Achieving resilience (in ecosystems formed by unreliable components)
4. Extending auditing (evaluation of interconnected ICT systems)
5. Advanced risk analysis
6. Security, safety, and privacy assurance
7. Safety and security Co-engineering
8. Industrial validation
9. Ontologies for cybersecurity
10. Cybersecurity prediction and maintenance
11. Security-by-design
12. IoT Security standards and certification
13. Internet of Behaviour (IoB)
14. Functional and non-functional monitoring

Acceptance of papers is based on the full paper (up to 18 pages). Each paper will be evaluated by three members of the International Program Committee.
When submitting on the website, you have to indicate the name of the special session.
Submission procedure available via Easychair, with a copy by email to the chairs of the special session.