Call for Papers

The Internet of Things (IoT) technology offers unprecedented opportunities to interconnect human beings as well as Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, whereby sensors and networks allow all ‘things’ to communicate directly with each other to share vital information and allow us to have an instrumented universe where accurate data is readily available to inform optimal decision making. The IoT would enable a range of new capabilities and services far beyond today’s offerings which will radically change how people go about their lives. According to Cisco IBSG’s prediction, the number of objects connected to the Internet is set to reach 25 billion by 2015 and 50 billion by 2020. The scale of the IoT is set to have a major economical, social and environmental impacts; the intersection of which forms the future sustainable growth. The Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOT_SMS) workshop will be held in conjunction with 12th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA' 2015)The IOT_SMS workshop aims at soliciting original ideas on the broad area of IoT including challenges and opportunities, concepts and applications and future trends. The workshop aims to facilitate discussions amongst academics and IoT practitioners and make positive contributions to the field. Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished manuscripts. Submitted papers should be in accordance with IEEE format, and will be reviewed by at least two expert reviewers in terms of relevance, originality, contribution, correctness, and presentation.

The topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

Emerging concepts of IoT
Design methodologies for IoT
Novel services and applications of IoT to facilitate environmental responsibility
Green by Internet of Things
IoT and Social benefits/impact
IoT Economics
Emerging Internet of Things business models and process changes
Communication systems and network architectures for the IoT
IoT and Data Management
Security and privacy of IoT
Reliability of IoT
Disaster recovery in IoT
Applications of Internet of things
Emerging applications and interaction paradigms for everyday citizens
Big data and IoT
Self-organizing IoT
Cloud Computing and IoT
IoT and sustainable Growth


The workshop important dates:

Paper submission: 1st August 2015
Notification of acceptance: 1st September 2015
Camera Ready: 22nd September 2015

General Co-chairs
Elhadj Benkhelifa, Staffordshire University, UK
Ammar Rayes, Cisco Systems, USA



Technical Program Co-Chairs
Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
Abdallah Khreishah, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Issa Khalil, Qatar Foundation, Qatar



Publication and Publicity Chairs
Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
Ala Al-Fuqaha, Western Michigan University, USA
Mohamed Abdel-Maguid, University Campus Suffolk, UK



Technical program committee:

Anthony Pipe, Bristol Robotics Laboratory, UK
Qutaibah Althebyan, JUST, Jordan
Mokhtar Nibouche, University of the West of England
Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK
Andy Rindos, IBM Research, USA
Jianwu Wang, University of California, San Diego, USA
Ahmed Bouridane, University of Northumbria, UK
Mohamed Abdel-Maguid, University Campus Suffolk, UK
Rehab Duwairi, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
Robert Kinmond, Staffordshire University, UK
Hongnian Yu, Bournemouth University, UK
Muhannad Quwaider, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
Saleem Abuleil, Chicago State University, USA
Khaled Alsamara, Chicago State University, USA
Khalid Alzoubi, Saint Xavier University, USA
Muhammad Anan, Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia
Kashif Munir, King Fahad University of Petrolium and Minerals, Saudi Arabia
Ali Bou Nassif, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Yousef Farhaoui, Moulay Ismail University, Morocco
Mohammad Hamdaqa, University of Waterloo, Canada
Bo Ji, Temple University, USA
Mehdi Mohammadi, Western Michigan University, USA
Sihua Shao, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

For any Inquiry please send an email to:
E.Benkhelifa@staffs.ac.uk

yijararweh@just.edu.jo