CALL FOR PAPERs
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The Third International Symposium on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS-2016)

in conjunction with

The 13th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications AICCSA 2016


November 29th to December 2nd, 2016. Agadir, Morocco




The Internet of Things (IoT) technology offers unprecedented opportunities to interconnect human beings as well as Machine-to-Machine (M2M), whereby sensors and networks allow all ‘things’ to communicate directly with each other to share vital information allowing us to have an instrumented universe where accurate data is readily available to inform optimal decision making. The IoT is about to enable a range of new capabilities and services far beyond today’s offerings. It will fundamentally change how people go about their lives. According to Gartner, the number of objects connected to the Internet is set to reach 20 billion by 2020. Cisco estimates the number will be close to 26 billion objects by 2020. Others believe the actual number will be even higher with the assumption that any object with a simple micro controller and on-off switch will be connected to the Internet in the near feature. The scale of the IoT is set to have a major economic, 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 13th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA' 2016)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 among 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 Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished manuscripts.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.

Proceedings of the workshops will be published by the IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and will be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries.


Topics of interest
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Authors are encouraged to submit their original work, which is not submitted elsewhere, to this workshop. The topics of the workshop include but not limited to:

Emerging concepts of IoT
Design methodologies for IoT
Novel services and applications of IoT to facilitate environmental responsibility
Green by IoT
IoT and Social benefits/impact
IoT Economics
Emerging IoT 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 IoT
Emerging applications and interaction paradigms for everyday citizens
Big data and IoT
Self-organizing IoT
Cloud Computing and IoT
IoT and sustainable Growth


Paper Submission :
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Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results and experience. The page limit for full papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template.

IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines are available at IEEE Guidelines

Papers should be submitted as PDF files via the EasyChair

Submitted research papers may not overlap with papers that have already been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference. All papers accepted for this conference are peer-reviewed and are to be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service (CPS), and indexed by IEEE Xplore Digital Library


Important Dates :
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Full Paper Submission: July 31, 2016
Notification of Decision: August 31, 2016
Registration and Camera-Ready: Sept 15, 2016
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Organizing Committee


General co-Chairs:
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Ammar Rayes, Cisco Systems, USA
Qussai M. Yaseen, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan


Technical Program co-Chairs:
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Houbing Song, West Virginia University, USA.
Issa Khalil, Qatar Foundation, Qatar
B.B. Gupta, National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, Indi


Publication and Publicity Chairs:
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Abdallah Khreishah, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Mohamed Abdel-Maguid, University Campus Suffolk


Steering Committee:
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Elhadj Benkhelifa, Staffordshire University, UK (Chair)
Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology (yijararweh@just.edu.jo)
Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
Ammar Rayes, Cisco Systems, USA


Technical Program Committee:
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Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
Jie Gao, Stony Brook University, USA
Elhadj Benkhelifa, Staffordshire University, UK
Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology


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