[IRTF-Announce] Fwd: Call For Papers: IoT Semantic Interoperability Workshop

["Eggert, Lars" <[e-mail]>]

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> From: IAB Executive Administrative Manager <[e-mail]>
> Subject: Call For Papers: IoT Semantic Interoperability Workshop
> Date: December 9, 2015 at 19:26:18 GMT+1
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> IoT Semantic Interoperability Workshop
> 
> Background
> 
> With the expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT), interoperability
> becomes more and more important. Standards-developing organizations have
> done a tremendous amount of work to standardize protocols to simplify
> implementation and to lower the cost of IoT products. As a result, new
> protocols were developed, existing protocols were combined in new ways,
> and lightweight profiles were defined.
> 
> At the application layer, interoperability is not yet mature; the work
> on data formats (in the form of data models and information models) has
> not seen the same level of consistency throughout various
> standardization groups. Examples of standardization efforts in this area
> include the work by IPSO on their Starter Pack, the Cluster Library
> developed by the Zigbee Alliance, the OMA LWM2M, or the UPnP Management
> and Control:1 specifications.
> 
> One common problem is the lack of an encoding-independent
> standardization of the information, the so-called information model.
> Another problem is the strong relationship with the underlying
> communication architecture, such as an RPC or a RESTful design.
> Furthermore, different groups develop similar concepts that only differ
> slightly, leading to interoperability problems. Finally, some groups
> favor different encodings for use with various application layer
> protocols.
> 
> This raises a number of questions:
> 
> - What is the state of the art in data and information models? What
>  should an information model look like?
> - What is the role of formal languages, such as schema languages, in
>  describing information and data models?
> - What is the role of metadata, which is attached to data to make it
>  self-describing?
> - How can we achieve interoperability when different organizations,
>  companies and individuals develop extensions?
> - What is the experience with interworking various data models developed
>  from different groups, or with data models that evolved over time?
> - What functionality should online repositories for sharing schemas
>  have?
> - How can existing data models be mapped against each other to offer
>  interworking?
> - Is there room for harmonization, or are the use cases of different
>  groups and organizations so unique that there is no possibility for
>  cooperation?
> - How can organizations better work together to increase awareness and
>  information sharing?
> 
> (A discussion about the difference between information and data models
> can be found in RFC 3444.)
> 
> Workshop Style
> 
> The workshop’s main focus will be on discussing the harmonization of
> information and data models for use with IoT deployments. In order to
> keep the group at a manageable size, prospective participants are
> required to submit a position paper as an expression of interest. We
> will invite the authors of accepted position papers to attend the
> workshop.
> 
> The workshop will be structured as a series of working sessions
> punctuated by invited speakers, who will present on-going
> standardization and research developments. The organizing committee may
> ask submitters of particularly salient papers to present their ideas and
> experiences at the workshop. We expect active participation of all
> guests.
> 
> Participation at the workshop is free of charge.
> 
> Important Dates
> 
> Position papers must be submitted by February 22nd, 2016 at the latest.
> 
> The program committee will review submitted position papers and send an
> invitation to the workshop to one of the paper authors. Invitations will
> be distributed by February 27th, 2016 at the latest.
> 
> This workshop will be a day and a half, and take place on the 17th and
> 18th of March, 2016.
> 
> Position Paper Requirements
> 
> Interested parties must submit a brief document. We welcome papers that
> describe existing work, answers to the questions listed above, new
> questions, write-ups of deployment experience, lessons-learned from
> successful or failed attempts, and ideally a vision. Contributions are
> not required to be original in content.
> 
> We solicit brief write-ups of one to three pages, formatted as HTML,
> PDF, or plain text (for example as a submitted Internet Draft).
> Representatives of IoT Standards Development Organizations or Alliances,
> who have published relevant specifications, and representatives of
> vendors who have shipped commercial IoT products supporting multiple
> schemas, may minimally submit a pointer to existing documentation.
> 
> We will publish accepted position papers (as well as meeting minutes,
> slides, and a workshop report). Please send your position paper to
> [e-mail].
> 
> Venue
> 
> The planned location for the workshop is San Jose, California, US. We
> will provide the full details of the meeting venue to the invited
> workshop participants. The workshop includes coffee and tea during
> breaks.
> 
> IPR Policy
> 
> The workshop will have no expectation of IPR disclosure or licensing
> related to its submissions.
> 
> Privacy Notice
> 
> You provide your name and your email address for the registration to
> this workshop. We use this information for planning purposes (such as
> finding rooms and ordering refreshments). We will also use this
> information to contact you about the location of the meeting venue, or
> other urgent and relevant notifications. Before the meeting minutes are
> publicly distributed, you will also receive a copy for review. We will
> share your contact details with the other workshop participants.
> 
> Program Committee
> 
> This workshop is organized by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and
> the following persons:
> 
> - Jari Arkko, IETF Chair / Ericsson, Finland.
> - Ralph Droms, IAB / Cisco, US.
> - Jaime Jimenez, Ericsson, Finland.
> - Michael Koster, SmartThings/Samsung, US.
> - Dave Thaler, IAB / Microsoft, US.
> - Hannes Tschofenig, ARM Ltd, Austria.
>