As an emerging cross-disciplinary research area, the Cyber Physical System (CPS) is attracting attention worldwide. A Cyber-Physical System is a system featuring a combination of computational and physical elements, all of which are capable of interacting, reflecting and influencing each other. Furthermore, social systems are evolving with cyber systems and physical systems along with the popularity of online social networking. With the advent of ubiquitous sensing and networking, future social networks turn into cyber-physical interactions, which are attached with associated social attributes.
The emergence of the cyber-physical-social computing will significantly change the way we see the world. In the mean time, the convergence of the physical, cyber, and social spaces will exhibit a variety of complicated characteristics, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities.
The goal of this symposium is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the Computational Intelligence technologies and theories for Cyber, Physical, and Social Computing. We seek submissions of papers which invent new techniques, introduce new methodologies, propose new research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues.
IEEE CPSCom 2016 will be held on Dec. 15th-18th, 2016 in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
■ Networks and Networked Systems where intelligent entities exchange information to achieve improved overall performance for both cyber and physical components.
■ Modelling and Control where mathematical and computational methods are developed and applied to facilitate innovative design, in-depth analysis, and novel insights of the fundamental principles.
■ Data Management where novel methods are developed to reliably gather, store, transfer, and analyse large amount of data and dataflow.
■ Software and Hardware where novel designs and implementations of test-beds, platforms, and software will significantly improve the speed, efficiency, and reliability of next generation CPS.
■ Other Emerging Areas where new challenges, new ideas, and new principles are shaping

PAPER SUBMISSION
Papers need to be prepared according to the IEEE format, and submitted in PDF format via the CPSCom 2016 submission site: http://umc.uestc.edu.cn/conference/cybermatics2016/CPSCom2016/special-issue.php
PAPER PUBLICATION
Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (indexed by EI). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Please visit the CPSCom 2016 website http://umc.uestc.edu.cn/conference/cybermatics2016/CPSCom2016/special-issue.php
for the complete listing of all the journals.
Distinguished papers selected from the conferences and associated workshops, after further extensions, will be recommended for submission and publication in the following prestigious journals or their Special Issues:

1. IEEE MultiMedia
Special Issue on Cyber Security for Cyber-Enabled Multimedia Applications

2. Future Generation Computer Systems
Special Issue on Cybermatics: Advanced Strategy and Technology for Cyber-Enabled Systems and Applications

3. IEEE Transactions on Emerging topics in Computing
Special Issue on Cyber Social Computing and Cyber-Enabled Applications

4. World Wide Web Journal
Special Issue on Mobile Crowdsourcing

5. IEEE Access
Special Issue on Cooperative and Intelligent Sensing

6. IEEE Access
Special Issue on Heterogeneous Crowdsourced Data Analytics

7. IEEE Access
Special Issue on The Internet of Energy: Architectures, Cyber Security, Applications

8. Future Generation Computer Systems
Special Issue on Energy Management for Cyber-Physical Cloud Systems

9. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing
Special Issue on Secure Sustainable Green Smart Computing

10. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing
Special Issue on Low-Power Dependable Computing (LPDC)

11. Future Generation Computer Systems
Special Issue on Resource Management for Big Data Platforms