FiCloud 2017 - The 5th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (Call For Workshops)

[Filipe Portela]

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*FiCloud 2017***

5th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud
21-23 August 2017, Prague, Czech Republic

http://www.ficloud.org/2017/workshops.php


*CALL FOR WORKSHOPS
*Deadline for submission of workshops proposals (via email): 25 January 2017

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*WORKSHOP FORMAT*

FiCloud 2017 invites workshop proposals. Research and industrial 
community is invited to submit proposals of Workshops for FiCloud 2017 - 
The 5th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud 
to be held at Prague, Czech Republic, *21-23 August 2017*: 
http://www.ficloud.org/2017/

The main objective of the workshops is to provide a forum for 
researchers and professionals to discuss a specific topics related to 
the theme of FiCloud 2017. Each workshop will be coordinated by an 
Organizing Committee (Workshop Chair) composed of, at least, two 
researchers in the field. The organizers should create an international 
Program Committee for the Workshop, with recognized researchers within 
the specific Workshop scientific area.

The selection of Workshops will be performed by FiCloud 2017 Workshop 
Coordinator. Workshops full and short papers will be published in the 
conference main proceedingsby the IEEE Computer Society Conference 
Publishing Service (CPS) (approval pending). The proceedings will be 
submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) 
digital libraries. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing 
through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing 
services;

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version 
of their papers for a special issues in international journals (see 
Journal Special Issues section).

Detailed and up-to-date information may be found at FiCloud website: 
_http://www.ficloud.org/2017_

*WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION*

The Organizing Committee of each Workshop will be responsible for:

-Producing and distributing the Workshop Call for Papers (CFP);

-Coordinating the review and selection process for the papers submitted 
to the Workshop, as Workshop chairs (on the paper submission system to 
be installed);

-Delivering the final versions of the papers accepted for the Workshop 
in accordance with the guidelines and deadlines defined by FiCloud 2017 
organizers;

-Coordinating and chairing the Workshop sessions at the conference.

Submission and reviewing of the papers will be managed by the workshops 
organizers. All the workshop papers must be reviewed by at least of 2 PC 
members.

*PROPOSAL CONTENT*

Workshop proposals should contain the following information:

-Title of the proposed workshop

-Brief description of the specific scientific scope of the Workshop;

-Workshop theme and call for papers;

-List of topics of interest;

-Name and contact of workshop chairs

-List of potential Workshop Program Committee (Names and affiliations)

-Important dates (You should see the conference dates)

Proposals should be submitted electronically by email to cfp at 
dsi.uminho.pt, in PDF, (in English), by January 25, 2017.

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*Workshop Coordinator*

Filipe Portela, University of Minho, Portugal