CCFI 2013 - 2nd International Workshop on Cloud Computing and Future Internet (CCFI'13)

The second International Workshop on Cloud Computing and Future Internet (CCFI-2013) is dedicated to the theories, practices and concepts of advancing Cloud computing to enable the realization of a smarter Future Internet and specifically, the Internet of Things (IoT). During the last years, Clouds, inter-Clouds and Federated Clouds are emerging as significant e-infrastructures for performing and delivering improved business and science. While these are becoming popular by providing a new supplement, consumption, delivery and efficient Internet model, IoT has been emerged as a world-wide network of inter-connected physical objects uniquely addressable, based on standard communication protocols. IoT importance is described in terms of providing a different lens on how to link data and hardware resources as well as services that can be available from the Internet; these further focus on how to link the Internet with real world’s objects. IoT is associated with technologies such as ad hoc networks, near-field communications, femtocells, real-time localization, and embedded tags and sensors as a way to transform everyday objects into smart objects which in turn, lead to a shared next generation Internet, what is also known as Future Internet. A notable opportunity ? that is the CCFI-2013 scope ? is to what are the challenges for cloud infrastructures to meet the requirements towards the realization of Future Internet and IoT. CCFI-2013 is a merging effort between CCC4IoT-2012 and IFIoT-2012. Specifically, CCFI-2013 aims to provide a forum for original discussion and prompt future directions on how to support the harvesting, storage, processing and exploitation of real-time and dynamically generated available inter-connected objects in a smart yet reliable, scalable and secure manner.
The main topic areas include, but are not limited to:
Internet of (Intelligent) Things, Architecture, Components, RFID, Sensors and Actuator Technologies
Inter-networking and Radio Access Protocols, Technologies, Near Field Communications, Femtocells
Inter-operability and Inter-cooperative Protocols, Standards, Services and Technologies
Future Internet and Cloud Computing Models, Architectures, Services and Applications in Health and Bio-informatics; eScience; Computational Intelligence; Threat Detection, etc.
User needs, Requirements Analysis and Use Case Modelling
Concurrency and Synchronization, Wireless and Mobile Communications, Protocols and Standards
Data/Text Mining, Data Clustering, Graph Partitioning, Collective Decision Making
Multi-objective Optimization Techniques in Dynamic and Real-time Computational Environments
Social Networks Analysis, Formal Concept Analysis, Temporal Analysis, Topic Maps
Ad-Hoc Networks, RF Modeling, Object and Context Representation, Ontology Management
Meta-Data, Annotation, Intra-/Inter- Tagging, Semantic Web, Web Services, Multi-Agents, Aytonomy
(Autonomous) Service and Model Architectures, Discovery, Retrieval, Scheduling, Allocation, Monitoring
Mobility Management, Traffic Models, Process Workflow, Resource and Device Management
Data Centers, Real-time and (Historical) Data Management, Data Growth, Storage, Implications
Social Cloud, Crowd Sourcing, Crowd Dynamics, Crowd Source Data Modeling, Management and Analysis
Context-Aware Infrastructures and Services, Smart Objects, Positioning Location-Based Services
Security, Privacy, Identity, Trust and Reputation Management
Organizing Committee
Workshop Chairs:
Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK [n.bessis at derby.ac.uk]
Stelios Sotiriadis, Technical University of Crete, Greece [s.sotiriadis at intelligence.tuc.gr]
Workshop Programme Committee Members:
Eleana Asimakopoulou, University of Derby, UK
Li Bo, Beihang University, China
Ciprian Dobre, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Bilal Muhammad Khan, University of Sussex, UK
Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria
Dimosthenis Kyriazis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Maozhen Li, Brunel University, UK
Nicolas Markatos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Navonil Mustafee, Swansea University, UK
Evangelos Pournaras, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Florin Pop, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Shuai Zhao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China