[CFP] The 1st EAI International Conference on Smart Grid Assisted Internet of Things (SGIoT 2017) July 11–13, 2017, Sault Ste. Marie, Onta rio, Canada with MONET (SCIE) Special Issue

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Please find below a call for papers of SGIoT 2017.

URL: http://sgiot.org/2017/show/home

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The 1st EAI International Conference on Smart Grid Assisted Internet of
Things (SGIoT 2017)
July 11–13, 2017, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
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MONET SPECIAL ISSUE

Selected papers (accepted and presented in the conference) with sufficient
extension and revision would be included in a Special Issue of:

Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) journal [SCIE-Indexed, Impact
Factor: 1.045].

Please see the Special Issue information here:
http://sgiot.org/2017/media/uploads/SI_Proposal-SIoTlatest.pdf

Journal URL: http://www.springer.com/engineering/signals/journal/11036
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TECHNICAL SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE
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The IoT is a grand vision as it ascribes the concept of millions of
interconnected intelligent devices that can communicate with one another,
and thereby control the world around us. Technically speaking, the smart
grid can be considered to be an example of the IoT composed of embedded
machines, which sense and control the behavior of the energy world. The
IoT-driven smart grid is currently a hot area of research boosted by the
global need to improve electricity access, economic growth of emerging
countries, and the worldwide power plant capacity additions. GlobalData, a
renowned consulting firm, forecasted that the global power transformer
market is anticipated to increase from $10.3 billion in 2013 to $19.7
billion in 2020, with an astounding compound annual growth rate of 9.6
percent due to the phenomenal rise in energy demand in China, India and the
Middle East. Therefore, it is the perfect time to invest research
initiative, e.g., through our event, in the IoT-dominated smart grid sector.

In addition to its timeliness, the event comprises a broad range of
interests. The theme invites ideas on how to achieve more efficient use of
resources based largely on the IoT-based machine-to-machine (M2M)
interactions of millions of smart meters and sensors in the smart grid
specific communication networks such as home area networks, building area
networks, and neighborhood area networks. The smart grid also encompasses
IoT technologies, which monitor transmission lines, manage substations,
integrate renewable energy generation (e.g., solar or wind), and utilize
hybrid vehicle batteries. Through these technologies, the authorities can
smartly identify outage problems, and intelligently schedule the power
generation and delivery to the customers. Furthermore, the smart grid
should teach us a valuable lesson that security must be designed in from
the start of any IoT deployment. Since there is an alarming lack of
standards to address the protection of the secret keys and/o!
 r the life-cycle security of the embedded smart grid devices, intruders
could use conventional attack techniques to breach the security just as in
any other IoT deployment.

In order to address and solve many of the tough challenges in the
IoT-driven smart grid, prospective authors are cordially invited to submit
their original and unpublished research contributions to this event on the
following technical areas of (but not limited to) smart grid communications.

- IoT enabled smart grid architectures and models
- Communication networks for smart grids and smart metering
- Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) communication and management
- Sensor, actuator, and machine-to-machine (M2M) networks for smart grid
- Support for storage, renewable or green energy resources, and micro-grids
- Demand side management, demand response, and dynamic pricing for smart
grid
- Smart grid cyber security
- Emerging applications, services, and management models of smart grid
- Reliability, availability, resiliency, and robustness of smart grid
- Simulation and performance analysis of smart grid communications and
operations
- Desktop and mobile human-computer interaction (HCI) in IoT-driven smart
grids
- User interfaces in IoT technologies for monitoring smart grids
- Multimodal HCI in smart grid environments and related IoT technologies
- Data visualization in smart grid operation
- Mobile UIs in smart grids
- User interaction design in smart grids and related interactive IoT
technologies
- Information and communications technology (ICT) innovations in smart grids
- Big data in IoT-based smart grids
- Ubiquitous computing in smart grid IoT technologies

HIGHLIGHTS AND PUBLICATION
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The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading
community-based organisation devoted to the advancement of innovation in
the field of ICT.

All accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available
through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world's largest scientific
libraries.

Proceedings are submitted for inclusion to the leading indexing services:
Elsevier (EI), Thomson Scientific (ISI), Scopus, Crossref, Google Scholar,
DBLP.
Accepted authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their
papers to Special Issue in the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial
Networks and Intelligent Systems

SUBMISSION GUIDELINE
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Authors can follow the submission guidelines here:
http://sgiot.org/2017/show/initial-submission

IMPORTANT DATES
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Full Paper Submission deadline: 15 January 2017
Notification deadline: 15 March 2017
Camera-ready deadline: 15 April 2017
Start of Conference: 11 July 2017
End of Conference: 13 July 2017

COMMITTEES
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Steering Committee Chair

Imrich Chlamtac, CREATE-NET, Italy

General Co-Chairs

Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Southeast University, Bangladesh and Islamic
University in Madinah, KSA
Zubair Fadlullah, Tohoku University, Japan

Technical Program Committee Chairs

Salimur Choudhury, Algoma University, Canada
Karan Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Web Chair

Mohammad A Hoque, East Tennessee State University, USA

Publicity and Social Media Chair
Mubashir Husain Rehmani, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology,
Pakistan

Workshops Chair
Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Temple University, USA
Mostafa Fouda, Benha University, Egypt

Sponsorship & Exhibits Chair
Homero Toral Cruz, University of Quintana Roo, Mexico

Publications Chair

Mohamed Guerroumi, University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene,
Algeria

Posters and PhD Track Chair
Nurilla Avazov, Inha University, South Korea

Local Chair

Miguel Garcia-Ruiz, Algoma University, Canada

Technical Program Committee

List of all TPC members: http://sgiot.org/2017/show/prog-com

For any query about the conference, kindly contact the General Chair at
[email protected]


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Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Ph.D., Senior Member IEEE
Editor, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
Associate Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine
Associate Editor, IEEE *Access*
Associate Editor, Elsevier CAEE and JNCA Journals
Associate Editor, Springer Wireless Networks
Associate Editor, AHSWN Journal and JCN Journal
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Cantt, Pakistan
Tel: +92-333-3052764
https://sites.google.com/site/mshrehmani/
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