The 2012 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings 2012) will be held from Sept 11-14th in Besançon, France this year.
Event Description:
"iThings 2012 will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present state-of-art advances and innovations in theoretical foundations, systems, infrastructure, tools, testbeds, and applications for the Internet of Things, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. iThings 2012 is the next edition of the successful series, previously held as iThings 2011 (Dalian, China, October 2011), IOTS 2010 (Hangzhou, China, December 2010), EPS 2009 (Vancouver, Canada, August 2009), MINES 2009 (Hangzhou, China, May 2009), and MINES 2008 (Chengdu, China, July 2008).
Scope and Interests:
The scope of the conference includes, but not limited to, the following areas:
Track 1: Architecture and Infrastructure
- Conceptual frameworks for the Internet of Things
- Service oriented architectures
- Heterogeneous network infrastructure
- Parallel/distributed system architectures
- Internet of Things as a socio-technical system
Track 2: System Design, Modeling and Evaluation
- System hardware design, MEMS design, sensors design
- System software design
- Embedded software, Filtering, "Things" Semantics / Ontolog
- Application software design
- System modeling and evaluation
Track 3: Intelligent Data Processing
- Data fusion and mining algorithms
- Pervasive computing
- Grid Computing, clouding computing, genetic algorithms, ant algorithms
- Neural Network Computing, Learning Automata
- Modeling and simulation algorithms
Track 4: Networks and Communications
- Post-IP Networks
- Heterogeneous network gateway design
- Network routing algorithms, communication algorithms
- Global sensor networks and positioning technology
- Network and communication protocols for IoT
Track 5: Scalable distributed sensing and control
Track 6: Reliability, Security, Privacy and Trust
- Reliability and fault-tolerance
- Privacy and information sharing
- Intrusion detection and analysis
- Trust and safety of cyber world and physical world
- Data security and biometric-based security
Track 7: Nanocommunication network
Track 8: Applications, Business and Social Issues
- Applications from industry: manufacturing, logistics, banking, smart grid, building, etc.
- Applications in Environment: agriculture & breeding, environmental management, etc.
- Cyber human and network life, e-health, digital home
- Society and relativity: governmental services, digital city, etc.
- Design and innovative application of online social networking
- Web of things
- Performance evaluation and measurements
More details about the event can be found at: http://ithings.univ-fcomte.fr/index.html
