The growing strategic importance of environmental, energy, and structural monitoring boosts the need for flexible, effective and innovative solutions for design methods and implementation technologies with strong adaptation and evolution capabilities. This workshop aims to discuss the most recent advances in complex monitoring systems from a cross-disciplinary perspective, encompassing technology, methods and applications. Contributions are solicited in all aspects of environmental, energy, and structural monitoring, including the following topics within these application areas:

Sensors and instrumentations
Signal and image processing
Intelligent monitoring systems
Software infrastructure
Wide-area monitoring
Communications
Data security and privacy
Fault tolerance, dependability and resilience
Quality of service
Safety
Standardization issues
Management and operation
Engineering education
Environmental monitoring
Water and air monitoring
Pollution monitoring
Agricultural and forest monitoring
Energy and electrical power systems monitoring
Energy distribution monitoring
Oil/gas pipeline monitoring
Structural health monitoring
Smart structures
Critical infrastructures monitoring
Transportation systems monitoring
Monitoring for sustainable environments
Ethical issues

Submission of draft papers: 15 February 2016 (Hard deadline)
Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2016
Final manuscript: 1 April 2016
Early registration: 15 April 2016


Details for the submission and all information concerning the workshop are available at the workshop web site at http://eesms2016.aeflab.net/. Acceptance/rejection will be emailed by 15 March 2016. The final manuscript is due by 1 April 2016. Submission implies willingness to register at the conference, pay the registration fee and present the paper in person. Papers will be included in the proceedings only if at least one author will register by 15 April 2016 (IEEE member and non-member fees only are acceptable to this purpose) - no exceptions. Papers included in the proceedings will be submitted for possible inclusion in the IEEE Xplore digital library only if the paper will be presented in person at the conference by one of the authors. If an author covers more than one paper with her/his registration to guarantee inclusion in the proceedings, she/he must pay a 50 Euro surcharge for each paper in excess of one