DCOSS 2021 - The 17th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems

DCOSS 2021 is the 17th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems to be hosted in Coral Bay, Pafos, Cyprus in June 7-9, 2021. In the last few years, we have witnessed a significant growth in the use of IoT and distributed sensor systems in a number of application areas, ranging from smart transport, energy and buildings, to factory automation, smart healthcare and environmental monitoring. In order for smart sensor systems to truly become useful and pervasive, we need to address a number of research challenges, including the tight integration of sensing and machine intelligence, reliable and efficient networking, interoperability and scalability, the need for dependable autonomy, interaction with humans, and important aspects of security, privacy and trust. DCOSS focuses on issues arising in the entire IoT and networked sensor systems stack: covering aspects of high-level abstractions, models and languages, novel algorithms and applications, system design approaches and architectures, as well as tools for simulated and real deployments. Potential authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate recent advances in both theoretical and experimental research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Artificial Intelligence for IoT
Smart healthcare to combat epidemics (including COVID-19)
Edge and fog computing: distributed computing models from sensor to cloud
Energy harvesting models and optimization
Machine intelligence in distributed sensor systems and real time analytics
Communication and networking primitives and protocols
Autonomy: closing the loop between sensing and actuation
Task allocation, reprogramming, and reconfiguration
Robustness, resilience and dependability
Security and privacy issues
Approaches, tools, and experience of deployment and operation
Performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability
Mobile and human-centered sensing
Interoperability, heterogeneity and scalability
Crowd sensing and social sensing techniques, applications, and systems
Complex systems comprising wearable, robotic and/or fixed sensor systems
Novel and compelling applications
IoT systems for emerging and developing economies
Green and environmentally-friendly IoT