Call for Extended Abstracts

International Workshop on Privacy, Trust, and the Internet of Things (PT-IoT'14)
Mit Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, October 8, 2014
https://sites.google.com/site/ptiot2014/

Co-located with the 4th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT2014)
Mit Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, October 7-8, 2014
http://www.iot-conference.org/iot2014/

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The PT-IoT'14 invites submission of previously unpublished extended abstracts on recent developments in the area of Privacy, Trust and the Internet of Things. With this workshop we aim to draw together academics and professionals of all disciplines and backgrounds to discuss the key problems in these areas, and explore methodologies, technologies and tools for addressing them. We seek contributions that highlight/discuss challenges in IoT and solutions that may benefit from knowledge driven approaches.

--- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to ---

Semantic support for evaluation of trustworthiness of devices and services in the IoT
Semantic policy management and reasoning for the IoT
Ontologies describing IoT devices and their use
Semantic web in tracking provenance and usage in the IoT
Modelling and evaluating quality in IoT
Modeling and communicating transparency in IoT
Situational awareness through semantic context modeling in IoT
Intelligent decision making using semantic web reasoning
Semantic discovery of devices, data and services in the IoT
Reasoning with incomplete or uncertain information in the context of the IoT
Adaptive architectures for IoT
Experience in IoT applications of semantic technologies
IoT Application scenarios


The purpose of the extended abstracts is to provide conference attendees from industry and academia with information about recent research and development on these developing areas. All accepted extended abstracts will be made available in the workshop website.

--- Paper Submission ---
Extended abstracts are limited to two pages including references, formatted according to the IEEE CS two-column, conference style: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/peerreviewjournals/author#templates

Extended abstracts can be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ptiot14

We look forward to your submissions and your participation.

--- Key Dates ---
Extended abstract deadline: August 29, 2014
Author Notification: September 1, 2014
Camera-ready copy due: September 30, 2014

--- Workshop Chairs ---
Edoardo Pignotti (University of Aberdeen), Geeth de Mel (IBM TJ Watson Research) and Murat Sensoy (Özyeğin University)