ICT4I40 2018 - 1st workshop on Information and Communication Technologies for Industry 4.0

The ongoing transition towards an ICT-backed automated and interconnected industry has been named “Industry 4.0” and is commonly agreed to represent the fourth stage of industrialization, after the introduction of mechanization, electricity, and digitalization achieved through the first three industrial revolutions. This fourth revolution heavily depends on most recent ICT paradigms (e.g., IoT as well as Cloud, Fog, and mobile-edge computing), integrated Cyber-Physical Systems, as well as Big Data Analytics techniques, and associated technologies. Industry 4.0 is envisioned to potentially disrupt the overall industry scenario at several layers, (e.g., providing extensive automation, fostering cooperation among enterprises along a value chain, and even enabling the transition from a linear value chain to a more complex value network) thus leading to uncover new possibilities as well as raising new challenges. Novel approaches often require to heavily redesign the role of human operators. Together with the new possibilities provided by the aforementioned technological enablers of I4.0, a number of technical issues come, being the more important and limiting as they refer to autonomous machines, manufacturing processes, and value creation networks. Examples of technical issues of recent ICTs of concern for I4.0 pertain to the fields of security (ranging from security of communications and of smart objects, to the protection of intellectual property of communicating enterprises, to privacy preservation of customers whose behavior informs the value network), communication performance (low-latency, high-bandwidth, highly available, wide-coverage, cost-efficient networks), integration (interoperability, standardization), etc. Due to the youth of the I4.0 scenario and the relatively limited real-world applications it has experimented, more challenges are expected to be revealed and addressed.
The goal of this workshop is to provide an inter-disciplinary platform for researchers to exchange ideas, present results, share experience, stimulate new research, and foster collaborations among researchers, professionals, and developers involved in the various aspects of ICTs for the evolving Industry 4.0, including back-end infrastructure such as the Cloud and Fog/Edge networks.
TOPICS
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Workshop topics include, but are not limited to:
Communication/network infrastructures,architectures and protocols for Industry 4.0
Wireless communications for Industry 4.0
Quality of experience (QoE) with mobile services/applications
Security, privacy and trust for Industry 4.0 services/applications
Computing/storage infrastructures for Industry 4.0, such as clouds and virtualization
Software, systems and performance engineering for Industry 4.0
Narrowband technology
5G
Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality
Power-efficient communication
Artificial Intelligence for Industry 4.0
Delay-tolerant, fault-tolerant and reliable communication
ICTs for Industrial Robotics
Industry networking, body area networking and cloud-integrated networking
Smartphones in industrial applications
Social Networking, Computing and Education in I4.0
Cloud computing applications for Industry 4.0
Internet of Things (IoT) applications for Industry 4.0
Industrial Informatics
Sensor-based industrial applications
Proximity-based communication, group communication and social networks
Software-defined networks and network management
Network Function Virtualization
Nanoscale/molecular communications
Network coding and error detection/correction
Resilience and robustness
Ambient intelligence and pervasive computing
3D Printing
COMMITTEE
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General Chairs:
Antonio Pescapè, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy
Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues, National Institute of Telecommunications, Brazil
Program Co-chairs:
Augusto José Venâncio Neto, University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Valerio Persico, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy