The Seventh International Conference on Emerging Networks and Systems Intelligence EMERGING 2015 July 19 - 24, 2015 - Nice, France

Call for Papers

Next-generation large distributed networks and systems require substantial reconsideration of exiting ‘de facto’ approaches and mechanisms to sustain an increasing demand on speed, scale, bandwidth, topology and flow changes, user complex behavior, security threats, and service and user ubiquity. As a result, growing research and industrial forces are focusing on new approaches for advanced communications considering new devices and protocols, advanced discovery mechanisms, and programmability techniques to express, measure and control the service quality, security, environmental and user requirements.

The event EMERGING 2015, The Seventh International Conference on Emerging Networks and Systems Intelligence, constitutes a stage to present and evaluate the advances in emerging solutions for next-generation architectures, devices, and communications protocols. Particular focus is aimed at optimization, quality, discovery, protection, and user profile requirements supported by special approaches such as network coding, configurable protocols, context-aware optimization, ambient systems, anomaly discovery, and adaptive mechanisms.

We solicit both academic, research, and industrial contributions. We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.

Industrial presentations are not subject to the format and content constraints of regular submissions. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.

Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry contributions.

Computing trends

Computational science
Cloud computing
Cluster, Grid, and P2P computing
Big Data Processing
Machine to Machine computing
High Performance Computing
Mobile computing
Knowledge Management
Social Computing
Sentiment analytics
Bio-inspired computation
Natural language processing
Computational social systems

Mobility and Ubiquity

Mobile Cloud
Cloud-based mobile services and applications
Mobile Internet services
Mobility-oriented protocols /Mobile IP, etc./
Wearable and/or mobile technologies
Self-discovery and localizing entities
Seamless handover
Ubiquitous computing
Pervasive and embedded systems
Ubiquitous sustainability
Sensing location
Citizen activity patterns
Smart environments in the workplaces
Ubiquitous cities
Internet of Things architectures
Autonomous and autonomic systems
Self-manageable systems

Intelligent services

Service-oriented smart cities
Cognitive and collaborative radio
Autonomic and dependable communications
Ambient systems
Identity and location in mobile environments
Smart homes
Brain-like networking and computing
Resource discovery
Service discovery
Content discovery
Flaws/anomaly discovery
Semantics and Adaptation
Content-aware networks
Network-aware applications
Semantic Web
Adaptive systems
Adaptive applications
Self-adaptiveness
Ontology-based adaptation
Semantic profile
Semantic service orchestration
Multi-technology semantic integration (sensors, ehealth, geosensing, etc.)

Applications and services

Smart communication
Citizen-oriented services
Peer-to-Peer applications and services
Web services
Mobile applications
Entertainment and games
Home automation
Surveillance, Home monitoring
Medical and health applications
e-commerce, m-commerce
Location-based services
Real-time and multimedia applications
Real-time services over IP
Business intelligence
Web-based analytics
e-Commerce services
Disaster management

Technology and networking trends

Advanced communications systems
Clouds-based systems
Scalable data centers
New configurable protocols stacks and real-time mechanisms
Massive uncoordinated access protocols
Applications and services for next-generation architectures
Scalability and manageability of network architectures
Opportunistic and cooperative communications
Optical networks
Wireless networks
Mobile networks
Ad-Hoc, Sensor, Vehicle networks
Access, Residential, Last mile networks
Home, Body and Personal area Networks
Self-organizing networks
Storage area networks
Peer-to-Peer and overlay networks
Network measurements and testbeds
Transmission technologies (e.g., Ultra Wideband)
Wireless access technologies / WLANs, WiMAX, satellite, 5G, etc./
Multi-hop wireless networks /sensor, ad hoc, mesh, etc.
Open spectrum solutions

Vision and image related trends

Visual computation
Image processing
Remote sensing
Human computer interaction
Computer vision
Robotics vision
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Video analysis
Medical diagnosis
Visual brain models
Augmented reality
Virtual reality
Visual atmosphere models
Visual city interactive maps
Image mining
Multimedia and visualization
Media storage, indexing, and retrieval
Visualizing multi-dimensional data, textual data, multimedia data
Visualization infrastructures, services and applications for specific domains

Networking and service differentiation

Network design and planning
Network management and control
Traffic engineering
Traffic control, Flow control
Congestion and admission control
QoS support and Performance
Routing, Switching, QoS routing
Mobility management
Multicast
Service reliability, availability, robustness
Network coding
Visualization of network behavior
Semantic routing
Network flow processing
Cross-layer design and optimization
High-speed networking
Context-aware mobile networking
Bio-inspired networks

Intelligent network elements and programmability

Network processors
Content addressable memories
Multi-core processors
Context-aware reconfigurable devices
Portable and wearable devices
Mobile multimedia devices
Programmable and real-time network traffic measurements
Adaptive scheduling
Network and application load balancing
High-performance capabilities-based networks
Software techniques to improve virtualized I/O performance

Quality and optimization

Quality of service
Quality of performance
Quality of experience
Quality of data
Quality of modeling
Quality-oriented routing
Quality of context /degradation, trust, uncertainty, consistency
Quality of experience
Power optimization in data centers
Delay and fault tolerant networks
Video conferencing and telepresence systems
Resource optimization
Context-aware optimization

Security, Trust, Privacy

Trust and credential negotiations
Privacy
Intrusion prevention and containment
Security in virtualization approach
Architectural support for security
Security, privacy, and dependability
Security in cooperative networks
Anticipative control and management
Data protection strategies
Collaborative Internet attack containment
Micro-kernels and robustness
Surveillance
Biometrics
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
Cyber Security
Cryptography
Secure protocols

Energy and electronics

E-waste
Energy-efficiency methods on sustainable ICT
Energy-efficiency in data centers
Energy efficiency in cloud computing
Green Computing
Smart Grids
Energy in Sensing and Sensor Networks
Energy-aware digital circuits
Energy optimization in analog circuits and signal processing techniques
Energy saving in assembly and packaging

User-centric

User-centric services and applications
User-oriented analytics
Frequently changing user profile
User mobility and ubiquity
Scalable and resource intensive multi-user distributed applications
User identity and multi-service access technologies
End-user perception
End-user based networking and service orchestration
End-user activity recognition with multiple goals
e-Learning
Web-based learning
Gamming
Emerging computation business models
Social networks
e-Society
Interaction accessibility and usability

 

INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.

Publisher: XPS (Xpert Publishing Services)
Archived: ThinkMind^TM Digital Library (free access)
Prints available at Curran Associates, Inc.
Articles will be submitted to appropriate indexes.

Important deadlines:

Submission (full paper)	February 27 March 23, 2015
Notification	April 28, 2015
Registration	May 12, 2015
Camera ready	June 12, 2015

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received submissions will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Contribution types

• regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]
• short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]
• ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
• extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
• posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
• posters: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
• presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
• demos: two pages [posted on www.iaria.org]
• doctoral forum submissions: [in the proceedings, digital library]

Proposals for:

• mini symposia: [in the proceedings, digital library]
• workshops: [in the proceedings, digital library]
• tutorials: [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
• panels: [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]

FORMATS

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received submissions will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11", not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here. Latex templates are also available.

Slides-based contributions can use the corporate/university format and style.

Your paper should also comply with the additional editorial rules.

Once you receive the notification of contribution acceptance, you will be provided by the publisher an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.

We would recommend that you should not use too many extra pages, even if you can afford the extra fees. No more than 2 contributions per event are recommended, as each contribution must be separately registered and paid for. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to ensure that the paper will be included in the conference proceedings and in the digital library, or posted on the www.iaria.org (for slide-based contributions).

CONTRIBUTION TYPE

Regular Papers (up to 6-10 page article -6 pages covered the by regular registration; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost- ) (oral presentation)
These contributions could be academic or industrial research, survey, white, implementation-oriented, architecture-oriented, white papers, etc. They will be included in the proceedings, posted in the free-access ThinkMind digital library and sent for indexing. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the appropriate contribution type. 12-14 presentation slides are suggested.

Short papers (work in progress) (up to 4 pages long) (oral presentation)
Work-in-progress contributions are welcome. These contributions represent partial achievements of longer-term projects. They could be academic or industrial research, survey, white, implementation-oriented, architecture-oriented, white papers, etc. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as work in progress. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings, posted in the free-access ThinkMind digital library and sent for indexing. For more details, see the Work in Progress explanation page. 12-14 presentation slides are suggested.

Ideas contributions (2 pages long) (oral presentation)
This category is dedicated to new ideas in their very early stage. Idea contributions are expression of yet to be developed approaches, with pros/cons, not yet consolidated. Ideas contributions are intended for a debate and audience feedback. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as Idea. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings, posted in the free-access ThinkMind digital library and sent for indexing. For more details, see the Ideas explanation page. 12-14 presentation slides are suggested.

Extended abstracts (2 pages long) (oral presentation)
Extended abstracts summarize a long potential publication with noticeable results. It is intended for sharing yet to be written, or further on intended for a journal publication. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as Extended abstract. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings, posted in the free-access ThinkMind digital library and sent for indexing. 12-14 presentation slides are suggested.

Posters (paper-based, two pages long) (oral presentation)
Posters are intended for ongoing research projects, concrete realizations, or industrial applications/projects presentations. The poster may be presented during sessions reserved for posters, or mixed with presentation of articles of similar topic. A two-page paper summarizes a presentation intended to be a POSTER. This allows an author to summarize a series of results and expose them via a big number of figures, graphics and tables. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as Poster Two Pages. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings, posted in the free-access ThinkMind digital library and sent for indexing. 8-10 presentation slides are suggested. Also a big Poster is suitable, used for live discussions with the attendees, in addition to the oral presentation.

Posters (slide-based, only) (oral presentation)
Posters are intended for ongoing research projects, concrete realizations, or industrial applications/projects presentations. The poster may be presented during sessions reserved for posters, or mixed with presentation of articles of similar topic. The slides must have comprehensive comments. This type of contribution only requires a 8-10 slide-deck. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as Poster (slide-only). The slide-deck will be posted, post-event, on www.iaria.org.
8-10 presentation slides are suggested. Also a big Poster is suitable, used for live discussions with the attendees, additionally to the oral presentation.

Presentations (slide-based, only) (oral presentation)
These contributions represent technical marketing/industrial/business/positioning presentations. This type of contribution only requires a 12-14 slide-deck. Please submit the contributions following the submission instructions by using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as Presentation (slide-only). The slide-deck will be posted, post-event, on www.iaria.org.
12-14 presentation slides are suggested.

Demos (two pages) [posted on www.iaria.org]
Demos represent special contributions where a tool, an implementation of an application, or a freshly implemented system is presented in its alfa/beta version. It might also be intended for thsoe new application to gather the attendee opinion. A two-page summary for a demo is intended to be. It would be scheduled in special time spots, to ensure a maximum attendance from the participants. Please submit the contributions following the submission instructions by using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as Demos. The Demos paper will be posted, post-event, on www.iaria.org.

Doctoral forum submissions: (up to 6-10 page article -6 pages covered the by regular registration; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost- ) (oral presentation)
There contributions refer to PhD dissertations, new PhD approaches, and PhD out-of-the-book thinking, etc. They will be included in the proceedings, posted in the free-access ThinkMind digital library and sent for indexing. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the appropriate contribution type Doctoral forum. 12-14 presentation slides are suggested.

Tutorial proposals
Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals should be for 2-3 hour long. Proposals must contain the title, the summary of the content, and the biography of the presenter(s). The tutorials' slide decks will be posted on the IARIA site.
Please send your proposals to tutorial proposal

Panel proposals
The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies. The panel's slide deck will be posted on the IARIA site.
Please send your proposals to panel proposal

Workshop proposals
See http://www.iaria.org/workshop.html

Mini Symposium proposal
See http://www.iaria.org/symposium.html