Conference Overview
Modern systems such as distributed systems, cloud computing, mobile computing, edge computing, fog computing, and cyber-physical systems are tend to complexity, elasticity, dependability, security especially when dealing with dynamics events or actions in their environments and/or Internet applications, we are not only need to keep those systems running normally, but also need them to self-adaptive many of changes. On the other hand, the development of the Internet is very high rapid, and the Internet has already entered the 5G era. The Internet as society infrastructure and the widespread use of mobile edge, wireless wearable devices or IoT sensors have laid the foundation for the emergence of innovative network applications and transportation and logistics. Under the influence of these most advanced technologies, human production and life are gradually changing. The academic and industrial worlds are constantly developing and innovating in areas such as mechanical learning, artificial intelligence, and media stream processing. These technologies not only enrich and improve the quality of life of modern people, but also in the process of integration in many fields, the huge amount of data processing, and the integration of the digital world with the physical environment make humans also constructive development in biological, agricultural, and policy.

This conference desired to look for inspiration in diverse areas (e.g., infrastructure & system design, software development, big data, control theory, artificial intelligence, IoT, self-adaptation, emerging models, paradigms, applications and technologies related to Internet-based distributed systems) to develop new ways to design and mange such complex and adaptive computation resources.

Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

Full papers
Up to 12 pages regular manuscripts prepared in the standard Springer LNCS proceedings paper template. Submitted papers should present original results of theoretical or practical research applied to practical engineering problems. Papers submitted for presentation at the IDCS2018 Conference will be peer‐reviewed.

Selected papers will be invited for possible publication in International Journals. Best paper and best student paper will be chosen in our conferences, and the first author will receive the certificate and pretty gift at the IDCS2018.

Short Papers
Up to 8 pages manuscripts prepared in the standard Springer LNCS proceedings paper template. Submitted papers should present original results of theoretical or practical research applied to practical engineering problems. Short papers submitted for presentation at the IDCS2018 Conference will be peer‐reviewed.

Posters
From 2 to 4 pages manuscripts prepared in the standard Springer LNCS proceedings paper template. Submitted papers should present original results of theoretical or practical research applied to practical engineering problems.

List of Topics
Distributed Computing, Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing, Edge Computing, Fog Computing, Internet Applications, Cyber-Physical Systems, Internet of Things, Big Data, and Transportation and Logistics.

The topics of interest are organized into five major tracks:

Topic 1:
Distributed computing technologies
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- Middleware for Distributed systems, cloud, mobile edge, and IoT

- Networked Sensing and Control

- Domain-specific language

- Theory and practice of Architectures

- Big data

- Self-* systems

- Mobile agents

- IoT sensors

- Environmental Sensing Applications

Topic 2:
Internet and Web Technologies
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- Embedded Software for Sensor Networks

- Body Sensor Networks

- Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks

- Internet and Protocols

- Software-defined Networking

- Modeling and Evaluation of Internet-based Systems

- Internet Quality of Service

- Real-time Multimedia Communication Systems

- Web services

- Image Processing

- Social Networks

Topic 3:
Network Operations & Management
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- Energy Efficiency in Large-scale Distributed Systems

- Security of Network-based Systems

- Network-based Applications (VoIP, Streaming)

- Network Traffic Engineering

- Tools and Techniques for Network Measurements

- Management of Extreme-scale Systems

- Transportation and Logistics

Topic 4:

Information Infrastructure
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- Next Generation Content Delivery Network

- Biological systems

- Grid, Cloud, and P2P Computing

- Distributed Computing Applications

- Mechanical Learning

- Artificial Intelligence

- Autonomic Computing

- Cognitive Networks

- Computational Economy for Distributed Systems

- Collaborative Technology and Applications

Topic 5:

Resilience, Fault tolerance, and Availability
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- Fault Tolerant and Self-managing Distributed Systems

- Dependability and Dependable Systems

- Computing Models for Resilient Distributed Systems

- Principles for Resilient Software Architecture

- Availability Design

- Security

Committees
Organizing committee
Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy
Jason J. Jung, Chung-Ang University, Korea
Jingtao Sun, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Program Chairs
Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia
Giuseppe Di Fatta, University of Reading, UK
Lei Zhong, Toyoda InfoTechnology Center, Japan
Sisi Duan, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Markus Ullrich, University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz, Germany
Local Arrangement Chair
Jingtao Sun, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Web Chair
Mingkang Chen, Central China Normal University, China
Publicity and Industry Chair
Antonio Guerrieri, University of Calabria, Italy
Mukaddim Pathan, Telstra, Australia
Qiang Wang, Wuhan University of Technology, China
PhD Workshop Chair
Kazushige Saga, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Steering Committee - IDCS Series
Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia
Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy
Dimitrios Georgakopolous, RMIT University, Australia
Mukaddim Pathan, Telstra, Australia
Yang Xiang, Swinburne University, Australia
Program Committee
Shawkat Ali, University of Fiji
Gianluca Aloi, University of Calabria
Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne
Mert Bal, Assistant Professor at Miami University
Jingjing Cao, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Xiaojiang Chen, northwest university, China
Min Chen, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Massimo Cossentino, National Research Council of Italy
Zhicheng Dai, Huazhong Normal Uinversity
Marcos Dias De Assuncao, Inria Avalon, LIP, ENS de Lyon
Claudio De Farias, PPGI-IM/NCE-UFRJ
Jerker Delsing, Lulea University of Technology
Giuseppe Di Fatta, University of Reading
Sisi Duan, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Declan Delaney, University College Dublin
Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria
Xiuwen Fu, Wuhan University of Technology
Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom SudParis
Antonio Guerrieri, University of Calabria
Maria Ganzha, University of Gdańsk, Poland
Luca Geretti, University of Udine - DIEGM
Chryssis Georgiou, University of Cyprus
Raffaele Gravina, University of Calabria
John Gray, University of Manchester, UK
Bin Guo, Institut Telecom SudParis
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, School of Computer Science and Information Technology
Dr. Mohammad Mehedi Hassan, King Saud University
Fazhi He, Wuhan University
Xiaoya Hu, Huazhong Univrsity of Science and Technology
Jaehoon Paul Jeong, Sungkyunkwan University, China
Desheng Jiang, Wuhan University of Technology
Xiaoli Jiang, TU Delft
Ram Krishnan, University of Texas at San Antonio
Dimitrios Katsaros, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Thessaly
Qi Kang, Tongji University
Wenfeng Li, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Bin Li, Dept. Transportation, Fujian University of Technology,Fuzhou, China
Xiaolei Liang, Wuhan Univ. of Sci. &Tech., China
Valeria Loscri, Inria Lille-Nord Europe
Antonio Liotta, Eindhoven University of Technology
Dengming Liu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Bin Lei, Wuhan Univ. of Sci. &Tech., China
Gabriel Lodewijks, Delft University of Technology
Jie Mei, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Kashif Munir, UOHB
Carlo Mastroianni, ICAR-CNR
Mustafa Mat Deris, UTHM
Marco Netto, IBM Research
Enrico Natalizio, Universitè de Technologie de Compiègne
Andrea Omicini, Alma Mater Studiorum–Università di Bologna
Sergio Ochoa, Universidad de Chile
George Pallis, Dpt. of Computer Science, University of Cyprus
Mukaddim Pathan, Telstra Corporation Limited
Marcin Paprzycki, IBS PAN and WSM
Pasquale Pace, University of Calabria
Ting Qu, Guangdong University of Technology
Wilma Russo, University of Calabria
Ramesh Sitaraman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Giandomenico Spezzano, CNR-ICAR and University of Calabria
Jingtao Sun, National Institute of Informatics
Riaz Ahmed Shaikh, King Abdul Aziz University
Corrado Santoro, University of Catania - Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica
Claudio Savaglio, Università della Calabria
Weiming Shen, National Research Council Canada
Wenan Tan, Shanghai Second Polytechnic University
Parimala Thulasiram, University of Manitoba
Giorgio Terracina, Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' della Calabria
Paolo Trunfio, DEIS, University of Calabria
Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, ICB
Athanasios Vasilakos, Prof. NTUA
Andrea Vinci, affiliation ICAR-CNR
Chaozhong Wu, Associate Professor
Qiang Wang, Wuhan University of Technology
Zhelong Wang, Dalian University of Technology
Youlun Xiong , Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Shengwu Xiong, Wuhan University of Technology
Xin-Qing Yan, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power
Xiang Yang, Deakin University, Australia
Zhouping Yin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Norihiko Yoshida, Division of Mathematics, Electronics and Informatics, Saitama University
Mengchu Zhou, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Lanbo Zheng, Wuhan University of Technology

Invited Speakers
Dr.Takefusa Atsuko (Information Systems Architecture Science Research Division, National Institute of Informatics & the Department of Informatics of the Graduate University for Advanced Studies)
Dr.Renato J. Figueiredo (the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Florida, US)
Dr.Giancarlo Fortino (the Department of Informatics, Modeling, Electronics and Systems (DIMES) of the University of Calabria (Unical), Rende (CS), Italy)

Publication
IDCS 2018 proceedings will be published as Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). All contributions will also be electronically available through SpringerLink Database and will be indexed through ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S), EI, Scopus, ACM Digital Library, DBLP, and Google scholar.

Authors of selected conference papers will be invited to submit an extended paper to a Special Issue on international journals related to IoT, Computer Science or software technologies.

Venue
As Japan's only general academic research institution, National Institute of Informatics (NII) promotes the creation of a state-of-the-art academic-information infrastructure that is essential to research and education within the broader academic community, with a focus on partnerships and other joint efforts with universities and research institutions throughout Japan.

The IDCS2018 will be held at the Hitotsubashi Hall in the center of Tokyo, which is in the same building as the NII. The traffic around NII is very convenient.

You can by Trains (Subways) as follows:
1. Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line / Toei Mita Line / Toei Shinjuku Line
"JIMBOCHO" Exit A9
2. Toyko Metro Tozai Line"TAKEBASHI" Exit 1b
3-5 minutes walk from the stations

You also can walk to the Imperial Palace, Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art, Budokan Hall and many other famous attractions in 5-15 minutes.

During the conference, we arranged for participating professors, scientists and students to attend a banquet at the Gakushi kaikan (the birthplace of the University of Tokyo). The elegant piano accompaniment will promote the atmosphere of our discussions.

Conference Series
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IDCS'18 is the 11th edition of a successful conference series.
* IDCS'08, Khulna, Bangladesh
* IDCS'09, Jeju Island, Korea
* IDCS'10, Melbourne, Australia
* IDCS'11, Melbourne, Australia
* IDCS'12, Wu Yi Shan, China
* IDCS'13, Hangzhou, China
* IDCS’14, Calabria, Italy
* IDCS'15, Windsor, UK
* IDCS’16, Wuhan, China
* IDCS’17, Mana Island, Fiji

Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to

Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, yxiang@swin.edu.au

Jingtao Sun, National Institute of Informatics, Japan, sun@nii.ac.jp