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Guest Editors’ Introduction: Call for Papers for a Special Issue on Disruptive Computing, Cyber-physical Systems (CPS), and Internet of Everything (IoE) Kennedy Chinedu Okafor (Ph.D, M.Eng, B.Eng, Coren.Reg, MNSE, Member, IEEE, MNCS, MAASCIT, MIAENG, MICTTF, MIARCP, CCNA, CCNP, CompTIA A+, Server+) Embedded Systems/Cisco HPC & Security Consultant. Department of Mechatronics Engineering & Department of Electrical &Electronic Engineering. Federal University of Technology Owerri, Nigeria. Email:
[email protected] Submission URL: http://www.ccsarchive.org/special-issue-on-disruptive-cps
ABSTRACT Circulation in Computer Science (CCS) invites contributions for SPECIAL ISSUE on "Disruptive Computing, CyberPhysical Systems (CPS), and Internet of Everything (IoE)". Researchers and Postgraduate students in Computer Science/Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechatronics, Physics Electronics etc., are encouraged to submit their papers in this issue for detailed peer reviews with guidance on how to logically structure their papers for publication. Selected pool of experts from the industry and academia will be carrying out the review on the submitted papers. The details on this issue are briefly summarized next.
Keywords Disruptive Computing, Cyber-Physical Systems, IoT, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Big Data Security, Data-mining
1. INTRODUCTION OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE Disruptive technologies provoke and demonstrate massive change in the potentials and capabilities of the new industry 4.0 in terms of cost and performance. It offers a substitution alternative to large scale smart computing. Examples include Cyber-physical Systems (CPS), Internet of Things/Everything (IoT/IoE), Cloud computing, Mobile Internet, Knowledge Automation, Advanced Robotics/mechatronics, Autonomous vehicles, Renewable Energy Storage systems, 3D printing, and Smart Systems & cities. Disruptive CPS driven by IoTs in today’s industry 4.0 raises a number of specific challenges such as system-level management, traffic congestion control, and quality of services, security and data analytics. However, system-level challenges in Disruptive CPS include abstracted scalable methods for federated controls, effective harmonization of scalable platforms, well-defined control interfaces for Disruptive CPS driven by IoT/IoE technologies and system standardization. Also, data mining presents issues such effective data collection, normalization and storage, QoS and real-time analytics. The significance of this special issue is to deal with the challenges associated to Disruptive CPS. Submissions should
Special Issue on Disruptive Computing, Cyber-physical Systems (CPS), and Internet of Everything (IoE)
present novel methods, algorithms, architectures, protocols, and technologies for effectively developing, deploying and managing large-scale Disruptive CPS, platforms and applications. Contributions are also invited to provide thought provoking insights and remedies to real-time analytics, process management and low latency computation in context.
2. MOTIVATION AND IMPORTANCE Disruptive CPS driven by IoT/IoE in today’s industry 4.0 raises a number of specific challenges such as system-level management, traffic congestion control, and quality of services, security and data analytics. System-level challenges in Disruptive CPS include abstracted scalable methods for federated controls, effective harmonization of scalable platforms, well-defined control interfaces for Disruptive CPS driven by IoT/IoE technologies and system standardization. Again, data mining in Disruptive CPS presents issues such effective data collection, normalization and storage, QoS latency, throughput, resource utilization and real-time analytics. There is an urgent need for smarter integration of networked devices, people and physical systems thereby providing a vision of future possibilities offered by IoT/IoE as a vibrant part of the digital business landscape in the era of Industry 4.0. This will be very significant in the various sectors such as heath, manufacturing, energy, Agriculture, urbanization, etc. With the disruptive CPS enabled by IoT/IoE, this will facilitate better management of these sectors. The interest of this special issue cuts across a large multidisciplinary audience and the scientific robustness of the issue will lead to originality of novel solutions in terms of contribution to knowledge. The issue will address a lot of gaps in the cyber-physical domains. Finally, this issue seeks elicit contributions on how to nurture and cultivate Disruptive CPS driven by IoT/IoE in today’s industry 4.0 for the benefit of society at large.
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2.1 Advantages An outline of the key advantages is presented below: This issue will strongly drive research focus on smart innovation being led by industry 4.0. This will expose the economic potentials of disruptive cyberphysical systems while outlining its vulnerabilities and mitigations. Also, this issue will lead to massive transformation on how people live, and work while creating new opportunities for enterprises and drive growth extensively. The scientific community will better understand the disruptive CPS while articulating novel methodologies to addressing its challenges. Future research in Disruptive CPS will largely focus on developing interoperable CPSs as well as its application interfaces APIs that will sufficiently rely on IoT/IoE-enabled architectures, protocols and APIs. This will enhance the collection, managing and processing large data sets while supporting complex processes in this domain. With distributed cloud based infrastructure running type-1 network function virtualization, this will provide flexible computational power, resource optimization and high-capacity storage for data streams while offering core security. Future research in this area will be very interesting as system architects will remain ever busy with disruptive changes in the overall system designs and implementations. Consequently, cost optimization, efficiency, performance will be visible.
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This special issue solicits papers that advance the state-of-art in the following areas: Sensor network protocols for Cloud-assisted, IoT/IoE-based CPS. Cloud-assisted, IoT-based, large-scale cyber-physical applications to Automotive, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, Transportation & Logistics, Energy & Environment, And Healthcare. Software Defined Network (SDN) and IoT/IoE Virtualization in Disruptive Cyber-Physical System Architecture Industry 4.0 Sensor and Actuator Networks Ultra-low power IoT/IoE Technologies and Embedded Systems Architectures Wearable, Body Sensor Networks, Smart Portable Devices Design Space Exploration Techniques for IoT Devices and Systems Heterogeneous Networks, Web of Things, Web of Everything IoT/IoE Protocols and Internet of Nano-Things Sensors Data Management, IoT/IoE Mining and Analytics Adaptive Systems and Models at Runtime Distributed Storage, Data Fusion 14. Routing and Control Protocols 15. Resource Management, Access Control 16. Mobility, Localization and Management Aspects 17. Identity Management and Object Recognition 18. Localization Technologies 19. Edge Computing, Fog Computing and IoT/IoE 20. Machine to Machine (M2M)/Devices-to-Devices communications and IoT/IoE 21. Industrial IoT and Factory of Things and Internet of Things
22. 5G Networks and IoT 23. Theoretical foundations of Cloud-IoT/IoE Cyberphysical Systems. 24. System design methodologies for Cloud-assisted, IoEbased, large-scale Cyber-physical Systems. 25. Software platforms for managing of Cloud-assisted, IoEbased, large-scale Cyber-physical Systems. 26. Cyber security in Cloud-assisted, IoE-based, large-scale Cyber-physical Systems. 27. Validation of Cloud-assisted, IoE-based, large-scale Cyber-physical Systems. 28. Cyber-physical systems, Context Awareness, Situation Awareness, Ambient Intelligence 29. Collaborative Applications and Systems 30. Quality of Service Experiences and Analysis 31. Smart Cities, Smart Public Places, Smart Home/Building Automation 32. e-Health, e-Wellness, Automotive, Intelligent Transport 33. Smart Grid, Energy Management 34. Consumer Electronics, Assisted Living, Rural Services and Production 35. Industrial IoT/IoE Service Creation and Management Aspects 36. Crowd-sensing, human centric sensing in CPS 37. Trajectory data mining and big data analytics 38. Disruptive IoT/IoE Privacy and Security Concerns 39. Identification and authentication issues in Disruptive IoT/IoE. 40. Wireless sensor network for Disruptive IoT/IoE security 41. Intrusion detection in Disruptive IoT/IoE 42. Cryptography, key management and authorization for Disruptive IoT/Io 43. Physical/MAC/Network Attacks in Disruptive IoT/IoE 44. Cross-layer attacks in Disruptive IoT/IoE 45. Security with QoS optimization in Disruptive IoT/IoE 46. Privacy based channel access in Disruptive IoT/IoE 47. Disruptive IoT/IoE forensic science 48. Big data and information integrity in Disruptive IoT/IoE 49. Communication security in Disruptive IoT/IoE 50. Security standards in Disruptive IoT/IoE
4. SUBMISSION PROCESS We request that ORIGINAL manuscripts be submitted to the Guest Editor: Dr. Kennedy Chinedu Okafor at
[email protected]. A copy (cc) of the same must also be sent to
[email protected]. The initial paper should be submitted in MS Word (.doc/.docx) or PDF file format. Authors are recommended to download the CCS paper template and follow the guidelines to prepare the article for submission. Use the URL link: http://ccsarchive.org/forauthors/preparing-a-manuscript. Please choose to ensure that the manuscripts are directed toward the guest editors for handling the review process. Papers outside the scope in Section 3 will be immediately rejected.
5. IMPORTANT DATES Manuscript Submission Due: March 27, 2017 First-round Acceptance Notification: April 25, 2017 Revised Manuscript Due: May 10, 2017 Final Decision Notification: May 18, 2017 Final Paper (CRC) Submission Due: May 30, 2017 Publication (Online): June 2017
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7. About the Guest Editor Kennedy Chinedu Okafor is a Cisco network security expert with over 10years of experience in research and development (R&D) in high performance computing systems (HPCs). He received his B.Eng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, from Enugu State University of Science and Technology, (ESUT) in 2005, M.Eng in Digital Electronics and Computer Engineering from the University of Nigeria Nsukka, (UNN) in 2012 and obtained his PhD in Electronic Engineering at UNN in 2017. He worked with Electronic Development Institute (Former Centre For Adaptation of Technology-CAT), Awka, under National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure, (NASENI-FMST), Nigeria, as a Senior R&D Engineer from 2006-2014. He is also the Executive Director of Kswitche Consults, a leading ICT-based non-governmental organization in Nigeria. He has various vendor certifications including CCNA, (Routing & Switching), CCNP (Data Center Unified Computing), ComPTIA A+, and Server+. In 2009, he served with the House of Representative Committee on Cyber-security and Information Protection Bill. In 2010, he executed a major World Bank project on IT training in Anambra State, Nigeria. Also, he was the lead consultant in the Biometric Data Capture for PHCN in 2011. He is currently serving in a number of Journal editorial boards (below). Professionally, he is a Member of the IEEE, USA; Cooperate Member of Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Nigerian Computer Society (NCS), International Association of Engineers (IAENG) Hong Kong, American Association for Science and Technology (AASCIT) & Cyber Security Expert Association of Nigeria. He is COREN registered. Till date, he had worked in various areas of HPCs and Cyber-Physical Systems and has published more than 100 papers in referred journals and conferences. He is currently a serving as teaching academics in the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering/Mechatronics Engineering, Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria. His areas of interest include: Embedded Systems (IoT), Cybersecurity intelligence, Cloud Network Management, Big data Analytics, Middleware Technologies in Industry 4.0, VLSI computational intelligence, Enterprise-Wide Systems, Database Technologies, Application Development, WSN Technologies, and Project Management. His email contact:
[email protected]. Guest Editor’s URL: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kennedy_Okafor http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=qmT3df0AAAAJ https://www.linkedin.com/in/kennedy-chinedu-okafor-47448914 https://futonucdb.academia.edu/okaforkennedy
