PAPELE 2017 - First IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Protocols, Applications and Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments

First IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Protocols, Applications and Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments
PAPELE 2017
Co-located with the 15th IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management (IM 2017)
Lisbon, Portugal, May 8-12 2017
http://papele.eu
Aim and Scope
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The First IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Protocols, Applications and Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments (PAPELE) will be held in conjunction with IFIP/IEEE IM 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal from May 8-12, 2017. The workshop is supported by the University Politehnica of Bucharest, the University of Beira Interior, the University of Nicosia and the University of Wuerzburg.
Enhanced Living Environments (ELE) encompass all Information and Communications Technologies' (ICT) achievements supporting true Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) environments. ELE promotes the provision of infrastructures and services for the independent or more autonomous living, via seamless integration of ICT within homes and residences. For this, ELE encompasses the latest developments associated with the Internet of Things, to-wards designing services designed to better help and support people, or as a general term, to better live their life and interact with their environment. Both, in AAL and ELE, a multitude of heterogeneous applications, involving different stakeholders, have to communicate via a common network environment. Hence, infrastructures
have to become pervasive, with an increasing number of distributed devices that will need to communicate between themselves, as well as with centralized services. Moreover, in the context of mobility, temporary colocation of devices will be exploited to build dynamic networks, without a prerequisite infrastructure, or to complement existing communication infrastructures with ad-hoc ones. The current networking infrastructures, however, are mostly based on the Internet, and were not designed to support the varying requirements for the dynamic interaction processes between human beings, sensors and systems (e.g. machine-to-machine communication styles).
PAPELE 2017 will focus on management approaches, applications and technologies to satisfy these requirement and thus enable a widespread usage of AAL/ELE systems. It will cover different aspect related to the planning and the operation of ELE platforms and the corresponding applications and services. Proposed mechanisms, architectures and technologies can be evaluated against metrics related to the different stakeholders in the ELE environments. The research topics cover several areas in the design, planning and operational phase.
Topics of Interest
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Authors are invited to submit papers that fall into or are related to the topic areas listed below:
Technologies ranging from smart sensors to future communication approaches and distributed platforms to support effective AAL systems:
Processing devices
Smart data manipulation
Distributed architectures supporting a multitude of heterogeneous sensor devices
Communication patterns between involved entities, e.g., sensors and actuators
Design, planning and operational issues of AAL / ELE systems and architectures
Design phase: Platform considerations, Protocol considerations
Planning phase: Capacity planning, Use-cases and daily life activities, Application modeling
Operational phase: Platform and service monitoring, Optimization techniques considering application quality, energy efficiency and resilience
Internet of Things and Internet of Everything related technologies enabling AAL/ELE
Interoperability between devices
Integrated management of IoT devices
Social information understanding
Enhancing social interaction among peers
Mobile social networks
IoT/IoE architectures
Emerging trends of context awareness in the IoT and IoE
IoE cloud-oriented systems
Applications and use-cases in the ELE / AAL domain
Stakeholders analysis and profiling
Pilot evaluation of proof of concept implementations
User interaction and user design aspects
Security and privacy related considerations in the ELE / AAL domain
Device security
Cloud security
Data access privacy
Submission Instructions
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Paper submissions must present original, research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged. Only original papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Each submission must be written in English, accompanied by a 75 to 200 word abstract and a list of up to 5 key words. There is a length limitation of 6 pages (including title, abstract, figures, tables, and references) for workshop papers and 4 pages for short papers. Submissions must be in IEEE 2-column style. Papers exceeding these limits, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review.
Authors should submit their papers in PDF, postscript, or Word formats via JEMS: (https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=2683).
PLEASE NOTE: To be published in the IFIP/IEEE IM 2017 Proceedings and to be eligible for publication in IEEE Xplore, an author of an accepted paper is required to register for the workshop at the full (member or non-member) rate and the paper must be presented by an author of that paper at the conference [or workshop] unless the TPC Chair grants permission for a substitute presenter arranged in advance of the event and who is qualified both to present and answer questions. Non-refundable registration fees must be paid prior to uploading the final IEEE formatted, publication-ready version of the paper. For authors with multiple accepted papers, one full registration is valid for up to 3 papers. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IFIP/IEEE IM 2017 Proceedings and submitted to IEEE XploreÆ.
Important Dates
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Abstract registration deadline: December 15, 2016
Paper submission: December 19, 2016
Notification of acceptance: January 30, 2017
Final version of papers due: February 15, 2017
Workshop date: May 8-12, 2017
Workshop Co-Chairs
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Nuno Garcia, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Constandinos Mavromoustakis, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Ciprian Dobre, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Thomas Zinner, University of Wuerzburg, Germany