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<div class="">IEEE Internet Computing — Call for Papers</div>
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<div class="">Special Issue on Decentralized Systems</div>
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<div class="">Our world is filled with decentralized systems, human society and organizations being the most familiar examples. In such systems, we see multiple loci of control representing different parties or administrative domains. We use the term decentralized
system to mean any system formed of autonomous entities. That is, the members of a decentralized system are, belong to, or represent different people or organizations. Traditional computing is not able to deal well with decentralization. As computing systems
become more integrated into our lives and grow beyond the scale of a single organization, we will need better tools and methods for designing and implementing such systems. Relevant research into decentralized systems is scattered across multiple communities,
including those focused on Web programming, multiagent systems, distributed computing. </div>
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<div class="">This issue seeks to consolidate the state of the art in decentralized systems. To this end, it seeks submissions that address the challenges of developing and deploying decentralized systems. Papers on component technologies that are well-related
to system-level concerns are welcome.</div>
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<div class="">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:</div>
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<div class="">- Sociotechnical systems with multiple stakeholders from a computational perspective</div>
<div class="">- Models of institutions and norms as a basis for building decentralized systems</div>
<div class="">- Methods and tools for supporting the construction and maintenance, including requirements modeling, software engineering, and information system design</div>
<div class="">- Programming models, methods, and tools, including languages and development frameworks</div>
<div class="">- Debugging and monitoring tools and methods</div>
<div class="">- Applications and empirical studies in specific domains (e.g., transportation or healthcare)</div>
<div class="">- Enabling technologies such as distributed ledgers, Linked Data technologies, peer-to-peer computing, and federated learning</div>
<div class="">- Construction, maintenance, querying, and reasoning of knowledge graphs as incorporated in decentralized systems </div>
<div class="">- Intelligent user interfaces for decentralized technologies including front-ends, crawlers, and browsers</div>
<div class="">- Robust and scalable management of distributed semantics</div>
<div class="">- Trust, privacy, and security despite decentralization</div>
<div class="">- Work that incorporates insights or approaches from other areas, e.g., distributed computing, semantic web, blockchain, and machine learning</div>
<div class="">- Decentralized architectures for extreme volume, heterogeneity, and dynamicity </div>
<div class="">- Evaluations of approaches for decentralized systems</div>
<div class="">- Contributions along the above dimensions that emphasize scale, complexity, or adaptivity of decentralized systems, taking into account timeliness as well as collective behavior of the system as a whole</div>
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<div class="">Important Dates</div>
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<div class="">- Paper submissions due: 1 April 2022</div>
<div class="">- First-round review due: 1 June 2022</div>
<div class="">- Revision due: 7 July 2022</div>
<div class="">- Final decision notification: 25 July 2022</div>
<div class="">- Camera-ready submission due: 30 August 2022</div>
<div class="">- Publication: November/December 2022</div>
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<div class="">Submission Guidelines</div>
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<div class="">All submissions must be original manuscripts of fewer than 5,000 words. All manuscripts are subject to peer review on both technical merit and relevance to IEEE Internet Computing’s international readership–primarily practicing engineers and academics
who are looking for material that introduces new technology and broadens familiarity with current topics. We do not accept white papers, and papers that are primarily theoretical or mathematical must clearly relate the mathematical content to a real-life or
engineering application. Please read the author instructions available at <a href="https://www.computer.org/publications/author-resources/peer-review/magazines" class="">https://www.computer.org/publications/author-resources/peer-review/magazines</a>. To submit
a manuscript, create or access an account on ScholarOne at <a href="https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ic-cs" class="">https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ic-cs</a>.</div>
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<div class="">Guest Editors</div>
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<div class="">Contact the guest editors at <a href="mailto:ic6-2022@computer.org" class="">
ic6-2022@computer.org</a>.</div>
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<div class="">- Samuel Christie, North Carolina State University</div>
<div class="">- Lalana Kagal, MIT</div>
<div class="">- Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna</div>
<div class="">- Munindar P. Singh, North Carolina State University</div>
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Alessandro Ricci<br class="">
DISI, Dep. of Computer Science and Eng. <br class="">
University of Bologna, Cesena Campus<br class="">
mailto: <a href="mailto:a.ricci@unibo.it" class="">a.ricci@unibo.it</a><br class="">
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