[agents] CFP-Special Issue in Springer Cluster Computing Journal

[Ejub Kajan]

Special Issue on
Enterprise Architectures in the IoT Era
- Challenges, Solutions, and Recommendations -

https://www.springer.com/journal/10586/updates/19533562

Internet of Things (IoT), one of the fastest growing Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT), is impacting organizations from all
perspectives (e.g., operational, legal, financial, and competitiveness)
forcing them to review their functional and non-functional practices.
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), ``IoT spending will
increase by a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.6% from 2017 to
2022, reaching $1.2 trillion within the next four years. It is also
predicted 41 billion IoT devices by 2027 and 70% of automobiles will be
connected to the Internet by 2023.

To tap into the endless benefits and uses of IoT, the design principles and
foundations of organizations’ enterprise architectures are expected to
adjust to ensure a smooth integration of IoT into these architectures’
foundations namely organization, business, information, application, and
technology. Aiming at examining these foundations separately and then
collectively, this special issue will report about the latest advances and
developments in the dynamic field of enterprise architecture in the IoT
era. The special issue will cover issues like lack of techniques and
guidelines that would enable enterprises to integrate IoT into the life
cycle of designing, developing, and deploying enterprise architectures.
This integration should lead to a new generation of enterprise
architectures that would foster not only a deeper retrospect on the
involved interactive digital resources inside the life cycle covering data
collection, information analysis, knowledge reasoning and wisdom
strategies, but also a better understanding of potential threats as well as
the development of new ways of aligning business and ICT resources together
to improve the competitiveness of the enterprise in the background of the
Artificial Intelligence (AI) trend.

Whilst, on the one hand, IoT enacts many opportunities that enterprises
could tap into, there are also obstacles that could undermine these
opportunities, on the other hand. Some of these obstacles are lack of
standards that cover both enterprise architecture and IoT, security holes
that potentially exist in IoT devices making them questionable in terms of
trust, security, and privacy, IoT limitations like silo restriction,
computational capabilities, lack of semantic technologies that should
describe IoT in a machine-understandable manner, just to mention some.

Topics of Interest
Topics for discussions in this special issue include, but are not limited
to:
* Standards for IoT-based enterprise architecture.
* Enterprise architecture for Industry 4.0.
* Fog/Cloud collaboration in enterprise architecture (F2F, F2C, C2C)
* Data science for IoT-based enterprise architecture.
* Semantic technologies for IoT-based enterprise architecture.
* Agentification of IoT-based enterprise architecture.
* Interoperability inside and between IoT-based enterprise architecture.
* Guidelines and best practices for IoT-based enterprise architecture
* Privacy, trust, and security of IoT-based enterprise architecture.
* Context management and awareness for IoT-based enterprise architecture
* Case studies related to IoT-based enterprise architecture.

Submission guidelines
Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one
of the topics of the Special Issue and the journal theme. In case of
extended papers from conferences/workshops please make sure that your cover
letter includes main improvements in the journal manuscript, and that you
are submitting to this special issue, as well.

All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance,
significance of contribution, technical quality, and quality of
presentation. Manuscripts should be prepared according to Guide for Authors
as published in Cluster Computing Journal at
https://www.springer.com/journal/10586/submission-guidelines. We invite
prospective authors to submit their manuscripts via the online submission
system on the main journal page.

Papers that either lack originality, clarity of presentation, or fall
outside the scope of the special issue will not be sent for review and
authors will be promptly informed in such cases.

Important dates
* Manuscript Submission Deadline: 15 December 2021
* Initial Decision: 15 February 2022
* Revised Manuscript Due: 15 Mart 2022
* Final Decision: 15 April 2022
* Final Manuscript Due: 30 May 2022

Guest Editors
* Ejub Kajan, State University of Novi Pazar, Novi Pazar, Serbia
Contact email: dr.ejubkajan at gmail.com
* Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, Dubai, UAE
* Yucong Duan, Hainan University, Haikou, China
*Dr. Ejub Kajan*
*Associate Professor*
*State University of Novi Pazar*
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