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Call for Papers
2nd EAI International Conference on Industrial Networks
and Intelligent Systems (INISCOM 2016)
Leicester, Great Britain, Oct 31- Nov 2, 2016

http://iniscom.org/2016/show/home
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*******Selected papers will be considered for publication in MONET*******
*****(http://link.springer.com/journal/11036)*****

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Scope:

INISCom 2016 provides an excellent forum for researchers, engineers, and
practitioners to present and discuss the latest technology, advancement,
and future directions and trends in (1) industrial networks and applications,
(2) intelligent systems and applications, (3) information processing and
data analysis, (4) Hardware and software design and development, and
(5) Security & Privacy.

Highlights:

- The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation (http://eai.eu/),
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.

- The authors of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version
of their work through one of the following EAI endorsed publications:
EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems

Keynote speakers:

- Prof. Erol Gelenbe,
Head of Intelligent Systems and Networks (ISN), in the Department of Electrical
and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College, London
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/e.gelenbe

- Prof. Awais Rashid
Director of Security-Lancaster, University of Lancaster.
http://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/people/awais-rashid

Conference topics:

Authors are invited to submit full papers describing original research or
innovative practical applications in areas including, but not limited to:


Industrial networks and applications:

- New architectures, protocols and applications for industrial networks,
including control network, communication network, sensor network, body
area network, social network, opportunistic network, and cloud-based network

- Analysis of industrial networks, including network lifetime, scalability
and stability, transmission reliability, quality of service, etc.

Intelligent systems and applications:

- Computational intelligence in automation, including neural, fuzzy and
evolutionary approaches, ant colonies optimization, swarm intelligence,
machine learning, bioinformatics, expert systems, multi‐agent systems,
game and decision theories, etc.

- Industrial applications of intelligent systems.


Information processing and data analysis:

- Audio/image/video processing

- Data mining, pattern recognition, estimation and identification

- Information fusion, compressive sensing, signal transforming and filtering

- Fault detection and diagnosis

- Optimization techniques

- Big data analysis and processing


Hardware and software design and development:

- Analogue/Digital system design and structures

- Design and analysis of embedded industrial systems, including real-time
computing, operating systems, communications, etc.

- Modelling and analysis tools for industrial networks and intelligent systems

- Simulation and testbed of current industrial networks and intelligent systems

Security & Privacy

- Incident response

- Encryption, Authentication, Availability Assurance

- Hardware Forensics

- Intrusion Detection

- Network security and protocols


Paper Submission:

Papers should be submitted through EAI 'Confy' system, and have to comply with
the SPRINGER format.For more information and to submit your paper, visit:
http://iniscom.org/2016/show/initial-submission

Important Dates:

- Workshops proposal deadline: 20 May 2016

- Full Paper Submission deadline: 17 July 2016

- Notification and Registration opens: 07 August 2016

- Short, poster and demo paper submission deadline: 17 July 2016

- Camera-ready deadline: 21 August 2016

- Start of Conference: 31 October 2016

- End of Conference: 2 November 2016

Organising Committee

General Chairs

-Leandros A. Maglaras, De Montfort University, UK
-Helge Janicke, De Montfort University, UK
-Kevin Jones, Airbus Group

Technical Program Committee Co-chairs

-Dimitrios Katsaros, University of Thessaly, Greece
-Tiago J. Cruz, University of Coimbra, Portugal
-Jianmin Jiang, Shenzhen University, China
-Athanasios Maglaras, Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly, Greece

Steering Committee

-Imrich Chlamtac, CREATE-NET, Italy (Chair)
-Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China
-Carlo Cecati, University of L'Aquila, Italy
-Song Guo, The University of Aizu, Japan

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