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Call for papers: The SmartWorld Congress

SmartWorld 2016

July 18-21, 2016 Toulouse, France

http://2016swc.sciencesconf.org/

submission deadline: April 8, 2016.

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The Smart World Congress is an event supported by the Task Force on Smart World that belongs to the Emergent Technologies Technical Committee(ETTC) of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

Scope:
The smart world is to enhance everyday things with intelligence so that many tasks and processes can be simple, safe and enjoyable. The physical space where people interact like home and workplace can become more efficient. It consists of numerous "smart things" that can be endowed with different levels of intelligence, and may be context-aware, active, interactive, reactive, proactive, assistive, adaptive, automated, sentient, perceptual, cognitive, autonomic and/or thinking. Research on smart world is an emerging research field covering many areas. A series of challenge issues exist to move from the current level of computing services to the smart world of adaptive and intelligent services.
The IEEE Smart World Congress (SmartWorld 2016) aims at promoting original and unpublished research works covering science, technologies, applications and related categories on smart world. It provides a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers and engineers to exchange on advances and innovations on smart world. In particular, the following topics are considered.

Topics:

Smart Objects and Interactions
Smart chips, tags, sensors, devices, wearables, goods, appliances, materials, textiles, IoT, etc.
Smart software, Machine to Machine, OS, programming, tools, interfaces, power/energy, reliability, etc.

Smart Systems and Services
Smart sensor networks, personal/body networks and systems, design, process management, diagnostic, optimal control.
Programming models, distributed computing, distributed intelligence, emergent properties, embedded intelligence.
Smart services, context-aware systems, smart clouds, smart big data processing, etc.

Smart Environments and Applications
Smart home, office, building, shop, campus, factory, farm, city, urban computing, etc.
Smart healthcare, transportation, robotics, energy consumption, environment protection, etc.

Personalization and Social Aspects
Mobile social computing, crowd sensing, human modeling and mining, etc.
Personalized recommendations, security, privacy, safety, affect and legal issues.

Smart World Education
Teaching smart world, demos, smart campus, academic and industrial projects.


Important Dates:
Paper Submission Deadline: March 25, 2016.
Paper Submission:
Authors are invited to submit an unpublished original work that must not have been submitted to an other conference, workshop or journal. All papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the Program Committee and be evaluated for originality, significance of the contribution, technical correctness and presentation.

Authors must quote their names and affiliations (no blind review).
Formatting and Publication Instructions:
Conference papers need to be prepared according to the IEEE CPS format via IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings.

Link to IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings

1) PAPER PAGE LIMIT:
- Regular Papers: 8 pages, including all figures, tables, and references.
- Workshop Papers: 8 pages, including all figures, tables, and references.

2) PURCHASING EXTRA PAGES:
- Regular Papers: Up to 2 extra pages may be purchased at $50 (US dollars) per extra page.
- Workshop Papers: Up to 2 extra pages may be purchased at $50 (US dollars) per extra page.
If you wish to submit a paper to IEEE SmartWorld 2016 or one of it's associated Workshops, then you should use the following EasyChair submission website and specify the track of your paper or the appropriate Workshop so that it can be reviewed by the appropriate Technical Program Committee and its reviewers.

Submit a paper to SmartWorld 2016 (SWC 2016):
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swc20160

Paper Publication:
The Proceedings of IEEE SmartWorld 2016 will be published by IEEE CPS (IEEE-DL and EI indexed). Each submission should be regarded as an undertaking that if the paper is accepted, then at least one of the authors must register to the conference and present the work in order for the paper to be included in the IEEE Digital Library.
Best Paper and Best Demo Awards will be presented to high quality work.
Extended versions of papers will be considered for publication in special issues of several journals.
The proceedings of IEEE SmartWorld 2016 will be submitted to IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (IEEE CSDL) and IEEE Xplore [1]. Proceedings will be submitted for EI indexing [2].
[1] While all conferences sponsored by the IEEE and/or published by CPS will be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore and the CSDL, all conference proceedings must meet IEEE's quality standards, and IEEE reserves the right not to publish any proceedings that do not meet these standards.
[2] The IEEE cannot guarantee that any particular abstract or index entry will be included in EI Compendex or any other indexing service. IEEE makes its best efforts to ensure indexing, but the indexing services are independent organizations not subject to IEEE control.

The Smart World Congress will be associated this year with five international Conferences and their workshops:
- the 13th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing;
- the 13th IEEE International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing;
- the 16th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications;
- the International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing;
- the International Conference on Internet of People.

The 2016 IEEE Smart World Congress will host European Workshops, Special Sessions, Industrial Sessions, demos and videos contests.

Oganizing Committee

General Chairs:
Beniamino Di MARTINO, Second University of Naples, Italy
Didier EL BAZ, LAAS-CNRS, France
Julien BOURGEOIS, FEMTO-ST, France

Program Chairs:
Michael MRISSA, Université de Lyon 1, France
Abd-El-Kader SAHRAOUI, LAAS-CNRS, France
Wenbing ZHAO, Cleveland State University, USA

Workshops Chairs:
Chao CHEN, Chongqing University, China
Bin GUO, Northwestern Polytechnic University, China
Liangxiu HAN, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Sébastien LERICHE, Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile, France, Zeinab MOVAHEDI, Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran
Benoît PIRANDA, Université de Franche-Comté, France
Yasha WANG, Peking University, China

Industrial Liaison Chair:
Pascal BERTHOU, LAAS-CNRS, France

Video Contest Session Chairs:
Amit KUMAR PANDEY, Aldebaran Robotics, France
Joseph RAFFERTY, Ulster University, UK
Yuqing SUN, Shandong University, China

Poster and Demo Session Chairs:
Gorka AZKUNE, University of Deusto, Spain
Jonathan SYNNOTT, Ulster University, UK

Publicity Chairs:
Philippe COUSIN, EGM, France
Tooska DARGAHI, University of Padua, Italy
Donghai GUAN, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China,
Claudia MISALE, University of Torino, Italy
Rami SELLAMI; Telecom SudParis, France
Kevin WANG, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Sami YANGUI, Concordia University, Canada
Zhiyong YU, Fuzhou University, China
Hua YUAN, University of Electronic Science & Technology of China, China

Special Issues Chair:
Mianxiong DONG, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan

Local Organisation Committee:
General Chair:
Didier EL BAZ, LAAS-CNRS, France
Committee:
Moussa ELKIHEL, LAAS-CNRS, France
Pascal BERTHOU, LAAS-CNRS, France
Bastien PLAZOLLES, LAAS-CNRS, France
Li ZHU, LAAS-CNRS, France
Bilal FAKIH, LAAS-CNRS, France
Communication: Brigitte DUCROCQ, LAAS-CNRS, France
Web Site: Isabelle LEFEBVRE, LAAS-CNRS, France
Secretariat: Caroline MALE, LAAS-CNRS, France

Advisory Committee:
Jian-nong CAO, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Karl K. CHANG, Iowa State University, USA
Yen-Kuang CHEN, National Taiwan University Taiwan
Jamal DEEN, McMaster University, Canada
Runhe HUANG, Hosei University, Japan
Victor LEUNG, University of British Columbia, Canada
Mohammad S. OBEIDAT, Fordham University, USA
Kaveh PAHLAVAN, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Michael PECHT, University of Maryland, USA
Yuanchun SHI, Tsinghua University, China
Zhaohui WU Zhejiang University, China
Fei-Yue WANG, University of Chinese Academy of Science, China
Xin YAO, University of Birmingham, UK
Mazin YOUSIF, T-Systems International, USA

Steering Committee:
Jianhua MA (Chair), Hosei University, Japan
Laurence T. YANG (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Sumi HELAL, University of Florida, USA
Huansheng NING, University of Science and Technology of Beijing, China Vincenzo PIURI, University of Milan, Italy
Stephen S. YAU, Arizona State University, USA

Contacts
Dr Didier EL BAZ, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse France
elbaz@laas.fr
telephone: +33 5 61336303