[manet] AOC 2016: IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Autonomic and Opportunistic Communications

[Antonino Masaracchia<[e-mail]>]

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                               CALL FOR PAPERS                              	
                    	Tenth IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on                       	
         	Autonomic and Opportunistic Communications (AOC 2016)          	
            	      June 21, 2016 - Coimbra, Portugal  
   	                http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/aoc2016

		     in conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM, 2016     
                           http://wowmom2016.uc.pt/
                 	
 
         	**** Submission Deadline --- March 10, 2016 ****             	

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SCOPE AND OVERVIEW

The recent proliferation of sensor-rich portable devices is enabling novel communication paradigms for users and contributing to the implementation of the ubiquitous computing and networking vision. Opportunistic networking represents a key communication paradigm for this vision. Either as a standalone communication mode or as a complement to infrastructure-based communication, opportunistic networking leverages the mobility of end users to enhance their ability to communicate in the absence of reliable end-to-end connectivity. Opportunistic networking opens up many possibilities but also poses countless new challenges. The goal of the AOC 2016 workshop is to serve as a forum for researchers, professionals, application developers, and other experts from both academia and industry to exchange new ideas, discuss new solutions, and share their experiences. As with previous editions, this year's workshop is particularly interested in novel research directions, such as service composition techniques, co-existence with infrastructure networks such solutions based on fog or edge computing, and insights from complex network analysis applied to autonomic and opportunistic communications.

The workshop will solicit original papers addressing theoretical and practical aspects of autonomic and opportunistic communications as well as papers describing prototype implementations and deployments.
Topics of interest for AOC 2016 include, but are not limited to:
- Techniques for data dissemination and replication
- Context and social awareness mechanisms and algorithms
- Autonomous and self-adaptive systems for smart cities
- Autonomous solutions for IoT and cyber-physical systems
- Solutions based on fog or edge computing
- Big data for autonomic and opportunistic systems
- Mobile social networking algorithms and applications
- Co-existence of opportunistic networks with infrastructure mobile wireless networks
- Mobility models and statistical analysis of mobility traces
- Service composition in autonomic and opportunistic networks
- Cognition-driven information processing and decision making
- Performance modelling, scaling laws, and fundamental limits for autonomic and opportunistic communications
- Participatory and urban sensing in autonomic and opportunistic networks
- Game-theoretic insights to the operation of autonomic and opportunistic networks
- Trust, security, and reputation
- Autonomic and opportunistic communication testbeds and prototypes, measurement data from real experiments
- Socio-economic models for autonomic and opportunistic communications
- SNA and graph modeling for autonomic and opportunistic networks
- Autonomic and opportunistic solutions for mobile cloud applications
- Applications and middleware support
- Routing, transport, and reliability issues
 

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Submission will be managed electronically through EDAS (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21826).
 
Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor being currently under review by another conference or journal. Manuscripts are limited to 6 pages, single spacing, double column, and must strictly adhere to the template format.
Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by IEEE. There will be no separate workshop registration, as one single registration will cover both conference and workshops participation. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the workshop and present his/her work.
 
 
IMPORTANT DATES
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Full papers due:	March 10, 2016
Notification:		April 15, 2016
Camera-ready:		April 29, 2016
Workshop:		June 21, 2016

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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Workshop Co-Chairs 
     Michela Papandrea, SUPSI, Switzerland
     Matteo Zignani, University of Milan, Italy
     Valerio Arnaboldi, IIT, CNR, Italy

Publicity Chair
    Antonino Masaracchia, IIT, CNR, Italy

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    Alan Ferrari, SUSPSI, Switzerland
    Anna Forster, University of Bremen, Germany
    Chiara Boldrini, IIT-CNR, Italy
    Christian Rohner, Uppsala University, Sweden
    Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK
    Elena Pagani, Universita' di Milano, Italy
    Franck Legendre, ETH, Switzerland
    Hongyi Wu, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
    Jorg Ott, Technische Universitat Munchen
    Kamini Garg, SUPSI, Switzerland
    Kyunghan Lee, UNIST, Korea
    Lorenzo Valerio, IIT-CNR, Italy
    Matteo Mordacchini, IIT-CNR, Italy
    Nicholas Lane, Bell Labs, UK
    Pavlos Sermpezis, FORTH, Greece
    Roger Whitaker, University of Cardiff, UK
    Sabrina Gaito, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
    Sebastian Zander, Swinbourne University of Technology, Australia
    Serge Fdida, UPMC Sorbonne Universites, France
    Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, EURECOM, France
    Tristan Henderson, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
    Vania Conan, Thales Communication and Security, France
    Waldir Moreira, COPELABS/University Lusofona, Portugal

For further information, please contact the workshop chairs at aoc2016 at iit.cnr.it