The International Workshop on Utility Clouds for IoT (UCIOT 2017)
Held in conjunction with the 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2017), which will take place in Austin, Texas, USA, December 5-8, 2017.

*** Website
https://hud-cs-research.github.io/uciot2017/

*** Call for papers
The ever-increasing inter-connectedness of physical devices presents many opportunities and challenges for research communities to address. Areas of interest range from the design of hardware and infrastructure, protocol performance and data analytics, power management and energy harvesting, through to trust mechanisms and decentralised governance. Utility clouds play an important role in the specification, design and realisation of approaches to the Internet of Things (IoT), and there is much to be explored from both the evaluation of traditional approaches to managing distributed networks of devices, as well as the application of novel approaches and technologies to solve emerging challenges.

This workshop provides the forum for research communities to discuss, tools, technologies, techniques, methods, approaches and frameworks for the utilisation of utility clouds and cloud-like architectures for the IoT.

*** Topics of interest include (but are not limited to), the following subjects:
Software Defined Networks for IoT
Visualising data in IoT networks
In-Transit Analytics for IoT
Trust mechanisms and crypto-currencies/distributed ledger for IoT
QoS in IoT cloud and cloudlet architectures
Secure clouds for IoT
IoT security as a service
Microservices architectures for IoT
IoT data and analytics provenance
Power management as a service for green IoT
Utility cloud applications for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Industry 4.0

This workshop is open to all members of the Cloud, Big Data, Grid and Cluster Computing communities.

At least one author of each accepted submission must be available to attend the workshop and present the paper, and be registered as an attendee of UCC2017 at the full (non-student, non-workshop) rate.

*** Publications
Accepted papers will be published as part of the UCC2017 IEEE main conference proceedings. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their work to a forthcoming edited volume to be published by Springer UK.

*** Submission
Authors are requested to submit papers electronically. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 6 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the templates available at http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template, which include an optional free collaborative cloud-based LaTeX authoring tool https://www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/acm-official#.WOuOk2e1taQ. The official language of the meeting is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the UCIOT 2017 paper submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=uciot2017).

All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, relevance of the problem to the workshop theme, technical strength, rigour in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper.

Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Further details on the publication instructions and registration information will be published on the UCC website.


*** Important dates
Submission Deadline: 15th August 2017
Notification of Acceptance: 15th September 2017
Camera Ready Deadline: 30th September 2017


*** Organizers
Dr Yongrui (Louie) Qin – University of Huddersfield, UK
Prof Richard Hill – University of Huddersfield, UK