VISIT 2019 - 4th IEEE International Workshop on Vehicular Information Services for the Internet of Things (VISIT '19)

The Internet of Things (IoT) has 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
• Machine learning for vehicular services
• 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: June 24, 2019 [HARD DEADLINE]
Notification of acceptance: July 5, 2019
Camera-­ready submission due: July 22, 2019
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://vtc2019f-rr-wks.trackchair.com/track/1799) will be considered.
For more details, please visit the VISIT 2019 official website
(https://visit19.weebly.com/).
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Sherin Abdelhamid, Ontario Centres of Excellence, Canada
Khalid Elgazzar, Ontario Tech University, Canada