The First International Workshop on Utility Clouds for IoT(UCIOT 2017)

The ever-increasing inter-connectedness of physical devices presents many opportunities and challenges for research communities to address. Areas of interest range from the design of hardware and infrastructure, protocol performance and data analytics, power management and energy harvesting, through to trust mechanisms and decentralised governance. Utility clouds play an important role in the specification, design and realisation of approaches to the Internet of Things (IoT), and there is much to be explored from both the evaluation of traditional approaches to managing distributed networks of devices, as well as the application of novel approaches and technologies to solve emerging challenges.

This workshop provides the forum for research communities to discuss, tools, technologies, techniques, methods, approaches and frameworks for the utilisation of utility clouds and cloud-like architectures for the IoT.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to), the following subjects:

• Software Defined Networks for IoT
• Visualising data in IoT networks
• In-Transit Analytics for IoT
• Trust mechanisms and cypto-currencies/distributed ledger for IoT
• QoS in IoT cloud and cloudlet architectures
• Secure clouds for IoT
• IoT security as a service
• Microservices architectures for IoT
• IoT data and analytics provenance
• Power management as a service for green IoT
• Utility cloud applications for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Industry 4.0

Paper Submission

This workshop is open to all members of the Cloud, Big Data, Grid and Cluster Computing communities.

At least one author of each accepted submission must be available to attend the workshop and present the paper, and be registered as an attendee of UCC2017 at the full (non-student, non-workshop) rate.

Publications

Accepted papers will be published as part of the UCC2017 IEEE main conference proceedings. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their work to a forthcoming edited volume to be published by Springer UK.

Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 6 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE double-column templates . Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format and make sure that the file will print on a printer that uses letter size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the meeting is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the UCIOT 2017 paper submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=uciot2017).

IMPORTANT DATES:

• Submission Deadline: 15th July 2017
• Notification of Acceptance: 27th August 2017
• Camera Ready Deadline: 22nd September 2017

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