EPS 2012 - International Workshop on Engineering Pervasive Service Systems

The applications of large Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Services (IoS), Internet of People (IoP) are gaining increasing attention in the smart city vision that covers smart transportation, e-health, smart building, social networking and so on. IoT/IoS/IoP applications involve a large number of pervasive devices, which are usually limited by battery, memory, processing power, and are characterized by heterogeneity of their hardware, software, and networking capabilities.
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There arise a number of challenges for enabling pervasive services on such resource limited devices in these IoT/IoS/IoP applications, such as:
* how to make services running in a more scalable way than traditional pervasive systems which usually run in a small scale
* how to effectively protect the sensitive data and information against possible attack or intrusion in the ocean of constant information sensing and exchanging environments
* how to extend the capabilities of pervasive devices by utilizing the backend supporting infrastructure like cloud storage and cloud computation facilities
* how to effectively develop pervasive service systems which can run efficiently on various kind of devices using some tools and development environments
* how to manage large amount of data produced during the running of large scale IoT/IoS/IoP applications
* how to efficiently process large number of events generated from various sources in order to get high level information for example the system running status
* how to make the pervasive services running in a self-managed manner, in order for example to save battery/energy consumption, to make a system running optimally following some QoS (quality of service) requirements
Workshop Objectives
The resolving of these issues needs cross discipline research from Internet of Things and services, autonomic computing, service oriented computing, cloud computing, software engineering, pervasive and mobile computing, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, and so on. The EPS workshop will build a bridge between these related areas
All accepted papers be published will be published in the Internet of Things 2012 Workshop Proceedings but will NOT be on IEEE Xplore. Selected high quality papers will be recommended to a special issue of ELSEVIER Knowledge-Based Systems (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.574 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.454).