[agents] [VISIT17] Final Deadline - May 31, 2017 - Toronto, Canada

[Khalid Elgazzar]

The submission deadline has been extended to May 29, 2016 (firm)

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The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Vehicular Information Services for
the Internet of Things (VISIT '17)
(http://visit17.weebly.com/)

Held in conjunction with the IEEE 86th Vehicular Technology Conference:
VTC2017-Fall
(http://ieeevtc.org/vtc2017fall/)

24–27 September 2017, Toronto, Canada

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SCOPE

The Internet of Things (IoT) has recently gained great attention from both
academia and industry. Connecting billions of devices for communication
and service provisioning shapes the main target of the IoT. Among the key
enablers of IoT, smart vehicles have been promising solutions for
providing on-road communication and ubiquitous information services.
Equipped with high sensing, computing, and storage capabilities, along
with diversified communication modules, smart vehicles have been enabled
to become mobile resource providers. The real value of vehicular resources
is much realized when translated into information services that put these
resources into action. Expanding the smart vehicle-based
services/applications beyond the intelligent transportation services
requires research and development efforts to explore new service scopes,
create innovative system architectures, and design enabling technologies.

The VISIT workshop is intended to create a platform for researchers,
developers, and practitioners from academia and industry in the areas of
IoT and vehicular technologies, service provisioning, and ubiquitous
computing to share and discuss their ideas, experiences, challenges, and
practical implementations. We encourage high quality submissions
addressing current challenges and proposing novel research directions. We
invite technical research papers, industrial papers, position papers, and
tool demonstration papers.

Specific topics include, but are not limited to:
Emerging vehicular applications and services
Intelligent transportation systems
Pervasive sensing and computing in vehicular environments
Vehicular platform, prototype, and middleware design and evaluation
Context management in ubiquitous scenarios and mobile services
Vehicular cloud applications and architectures
Data aggregation, storage, and management architectures
Sensor fusion in vehicle and IoT levels
Service and resource discovery
Participant selection and recruitment
Data delivery and routing
Inter and intra-vehicle communication
Incentive and pricing models
Mobility prediction and management
IoT heterogeneity/interoperability issues
Vehicular information-centric networks
Vehicular localization mechanisms and algorithms
Privacy and security mechanisms
Quality of information and reputation assessment
Software architecture and design for vehicle-enabled IoT
Reliability, availability, and scalability in ubiquitous vehicular services


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: May 31, 2017 (FINAL)
Notification of acceptance: June 5, 2017
Camera-­ready copy due: June 26, 2017


INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors are required to submit fully formatted, original papers (PDF),
with graphs, images, and other special areas arranged as intended for the
final publication. Papers should be written in English conforming to the
IEEE two-column standard conference format. All final submissions should
be with a maximum paper length of 5 pages without incurring additional
page charges (Up to 2 additional pages are allowed with the purchase of
additional page charges in the amount of $100 USD per additional page at
the time of registration and final paper submission).

Workshop content will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well
as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. Each accepted paper
must be presented at the workshop by one of the co-authors or a third
party, otherwise it will not be indexed nor archived through IEEE Xplore.

Only timely submissions through TrackChair at
(https://vtc2017f-rr-wks.trackchair.com/track/1624/submit) will be
considered.

For more details, please visit the VISIT 2017 official website
(http://visit17.weebly.com/).


WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Sherin Abdelhamid, Ain Shams University, Egypt
Khalid Elgazzar, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
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