ATCC 2018 - Special Issue on Advances and Trends on Cognitive Cyber-Physical Systems

The emerging technologies on the Internet of Things, wearable devices,
cloud computing and data analytics offer the potential of acquiring
and processing tremendous amount of data from the physical world. More
and more people are engaged dynamically via multiple, heterogeneous ad
hoc networks while most networks are still running in isolation. It
becomes significant to analyze, understand, and utilize modern
heterogeneous ad hoc networks, in order to provide more intelligent
systems and cutting-edge applications to end users, who are typically
dynamically interconnected through wireless networks. Promising
computing paradigms and advanced technologies, relating to context
awareness systems, distributed smart sensing, heterogeneous big data
analytics, condition monitoring, and deep learning, etc., have been
increasingly developed and integrated into this cyber-physical world.
Despite the related technologies are advancing at an unprecedented
pace, many challenges remain in bridging the cyber and physical
worlds. For example:
How to acquire and aggregate distributed data across heterogeneous networks?
How to interpret data with diversified relations from physical-social systems?
How to establish models, networks, and understandings based on real world data?
How to offer intelligent applications and cognitive services to the end users?
How to protect privacy among different data sources and networked users?
These critical issues need to be addressed in a holistic and
multidisciplinary way. This issue on advances and Trends on Cognitive
Cyber-Physical Systems・aims at promoting and facilitating exchanges of
research knowledge and findings across different disciplines on the
design and investigation of future generation intelligent cyber
physical systems based on ad hoc network infrastructures. In addition,
this issue encourages and invites researches with great significance
and impact on:
1)Addressing the emerging trends and issues on cognitive
cyber-physical systems and services across various application
domains.
2) Investigating the challenges posed by the emergent cognitive CPSs
on networking models and services.
3) Providing fundamental theory, model, and methodology in
interpreting, aggregating, processing/analyzing data for intelligent
cyber-physical systems.
4) Exploring new functions and technologies to provide adaptive
services and intelligent applications for different end users.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Context-Aware Cyber-Physical Systems
Cognitive Services using Distributed Ad Hoc Networks
Network and Software Architecture for Cognitive Systems and Applications
Novel Network Structures and System Design for Cyber-Enabled Applications
Distributed Data Acquisition, Routing and Scheduling
Cloud-based IoT Applications and Technologies
Wireless Networks and Smart Sensing
Multi-Sensors Fusion for IoT
Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications
High Performance Evaluation Metrics of Cyber-Physical Systems
Framework and Implementation for Smart Energy Systems
Smart Applications in Cyber-Physical-Social Systems
Sensor Networks and Mobile Applications
Human Centric Systems
Semantic Social Network Analysis
Cognitive Ambient Intelligence Systems
Community Detection and Structural Analysis in Cyberspace
Analysis of Network Dynamics across Cyber-Physical Systems
Behavior Analysis and Interaction Measure in Cyber-Enabled Applications
Heterogeneous Big Data Analytics
Cyber-Physical-Social Networks and Communications
Cyber-Enabled Learning Analytics
Cyber-Physical Healthcare Services
Cognitive Privacy Protection
Security, Privacy and Safety in Cyber-Enabled Applications
Submissions
Prospective authors are invited to submit research contributions
representing original, previously unpublished work. Submitted papers
will be carefully reviewed based on originality, significance,
technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors should prepare
their manuscript according to "Author Guidelines" page at the journal
website, https://www.journals.elsevier.com/ad-hoc-networks/.
The submission website for this journal is located at:
https://ees.elsevier.com/adhoc/default.asp
IMPORTANT: To ensure that your manuscript is correctly identified for
inclusion into the special issue, it is important that authors select
"VSI:Trends on Cognitive CPS" when they reach the "article Type" step
in the submission process.
This issue is an open special issue where everyone is encouraged to
submit papers.
Schedule
Paper Submission Deadline: Feb. 28, 2018
1st Review Deadline: May 15, 2018
Review Notification: May 31, 2018
Paper Revision Deadline: Jul. 31, 2018
2nd Review and Acceptance Deadline: Sep. 30, 2018
Camera-ready Manuscript Deadline: Oct. 31, 2018
Guest editors:
Flavia C. Delicato, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Xiaokang Zhou, Shiga University, Japan
Kevin Wang, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Song Guo, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Contact Information
Corresponding Guest Editor, Prof. Flavia C. Delicato (fdelicato-AT-gmail.com)