DEFEA 2023

InQbit and INFOLYSis partners were at DEFEA 2023 promoting our project with communication material! DEFEA took place on 9-11 May 2023, at Athens Metropolitan EXPO. DEFEA was addressed to several sectors such as defense and Security. fAt Defense Exhibition Athens top Greek defense industry manufacturers and the most important international companies presented the latest technologies and cutting-edge defense systems. You may find out more here: https://defea.gr/

“aerOS: A Meta Operating System for the IoT-Edge-Cloud Continuum” presentation

Harilaos Koumaras from NCSR DEMOKRITOS, aerOS Technical Manager presented “aerOS: A Meta Operating System for the IoT-Edge-Cloud Continuum” during International Conference on Internet of Things (ICIOT), 2023.
The conference aim was to provide an outstanding opportunity for both academic and industrial communities to share their knowledge on new trends and challenges in emerging technologies and progress in standards on topics relevant to todays fast moving technology trends into the Internet of Things. It also provided a platform for the discussion of new results in the field of Internet of things. The Conference had different themes for each day and each theme contains different thought-provoking sessions.
Find out more here: https://www.iciot.in/?fbclid=IwAR0Xtre7IHOqKNzlzyMk9w1MQcT-mfXqovC4mTWg4M36239_DCB2zoUUouI

7th Workshop on Internet of Things – Enablers, Challenges and Applications (IoT-ECAW’23)

aerOS co-organises the 7th Workshop on Internet of Things – Enablers, Challenges and Applications (IoT-ECAW’23) in Warsaw, Poland, 17–20 September, 2023 (organized within the 18th Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems-FedCSIS 2023 (IEEE: #57573), 16th International Workshop on Computational Optimization (WCO’23), Track 3). Call for papers is open – Submission deadline 23 May 2023.

CALL FOR PAPERS

7th Workshop on Internet of Things – Enablers, Challenges and Applications (IoT-ECAW’23), Warsaw, Poland, 17–20 September, 2023

(organized within the 18th Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems-FedCSIS 2023 (IEEE: #57573), 16th International Workshop on Computational Optimization (WCO’23), Track 3)

Strict submission deadline: May 23, 2023, 23:59:59 AOE (no extensions)

KEY FACTS:

Proceedings: submitted to IEEE Digital Library; indexing: DBLP, Scopus and Web of Science; organized within framework of the ASSIST-IoT project; 70 punktów parametrycznych MEiN

Please feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it.


Statement concerning LLMs

Recognizing developing issue that affects all academic disciplines, we would like to state that, in principle, papers that include text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM) are prohibited, unless the produced text is used within the experimental part of the work.


The Internet of Things is a technology which is rapidly emerging around the world. IoT applications include: smart city initiatives, wearable devices aimed to real-time health monitoring, smart homes and buildings, smart vehicles, environment monitoring, intelligent border protection, logistics support. The Internet of Things is a paradigm that assumes a pervasive presence in the environment of many smart things, including sensors, actuators, embedded systems and other similar devices. Widespread connectivity, getting cheaper smart devices and a great demand for data, testify to that the IoT will continue to grow by leaps and bounds. The business models of various industries are being redesigned on basis of the IoT paradigm. But the successful deployment of the IoT is conditioned by the progress in solving many problems. These issues are as the following:

The integration of heterogeneous sensors and systems with different technologies taking account environmental constraints, and data confidentiality levels;
Big challenges on information management for the applications of IoT in different fields (trustworthiness, provenance, privacy);
Security challenges related to co-existence and interconnection of many IoT networks;
Challenges related to reliability and dependability, especially when the IoT becomes the mission critical component;
Zero-configuration or other convenient approaches to simplify the deployment and configuration of IoT and self-healing of IoT networks;
Knowledge discovery, especially semantic and syntactical discovering of the information from data provided by IoT.
The IoT technical session is seeking original, high quality research papers related to such topics. The session will also solicit papers about current implementation efforts, research results, as well as position statements from industry and academia regarding applications of IoT. The focus areas will be, but not limited to, the challenges on networking and information management, security and ensuring privacy, logistics, situation awareness, and medical care.

Topics

The IoT session is seeking original, high quality research papers related to following topics:

Future communication technologies (Future Internet; Wireless Sensor Networks; Web-services, 5G, 4G, LTE, LTE-Advanced; WLAN, WPAN; Small cell Networks…) for IoT,
Intelligent Internet Communication,
IoT Standards,
Networking Technologies for IoT,
Protocols and Algorithms for IoT,
Self-Organization and Self-Healing of IoT Networks,
Object Naming, Security and Privacy in the IoT Environment,
Security Issues of IoT,
Integration of Heterogeneous Networks, Sensors and Systems,
Context Modeling, Reasoning and Context-aware Computing,
Fault-Tolerant Networking for Content Dissemination,
IoT Architecture Design, Interoperability and Technologies,
Data or Power Management for IoT,
Fog – Cloud Interactions and Enabling Protocols,
Reliability and Dependability of mission critical IoT,
Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicles (UAV) Platforms, Swarms and Networking,
Data Analytics for IoT,
Artificial Intelligence and IoT,
Applications of IoT (Healthcare, Military, Logistics, Supply Chains, Agriculture, …),
E-commerce and IoT.
The session will also solicit papers about current implementation efforts, research results, as well as position statements from industry and academia regarding applications of IoT. Focus areas will be, but not limited to above mentioned topics.

Submission rules:

Authors should submit their papers as Postscript, PDF or MSWord files.
The total length of a paper should not exceed 10 pages IEEE style (including tables, figures and references). IEEE style templates are available here.
Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the workshop.
– Preprints containing accepted papers will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants.
Only papers presented at the conference will be published in Conference Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore® database.
Conference proceedings will be published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers and posted at the conference WWW site.
Conference proceedings will be submitted for indexation according to information here.
Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS technical sessions.
Important dates:

Paper submission (strict deadline): May 23, 2023, 23:59:59 (AoE; there will be no extension)
Position paper submission: June 7, 2023
Author notification: July 11, 2023
Final paper submission and registration: July 31, 2023
Payment (early fee deadline): July 26, 2023
Conference date: September 17-20, 2023
IoT_ECAW Committee: https://fedcsis.org/sessions/nsa/iot-ecaw/committee
IoT_ECAW is organized within the framework of the aerOS project: https://aeros-project.eu/

SUBMIT your papers at https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fedcsis2023

“COMMON TAXONOMY FOR EU METAOS” workshop

As we explained during the EUCloudEdgeIoT launch event (February 8th) one of the goals of Task Force 3 (Architecture) is to develop a shared taxonomy for all European projects and initiatives in our field of expertise. The idea is that everyone uses the same words to refer to the same things, eliminating ambiguities and duplication of terminology and being as specific as possible. EUCloudEdgeIoT will process your inputs and provide the European Union with this commonly agreed taxonomy

So, this workshop gathered representatives of EU MetaOS projects to work collaboratively on the development of a common standardised taxonomy for all MetaOs European projects. The workshop held online and lasted 2 hours, on April 4th.

NGIoT Newsflash #14

The latest issue of the NGIoT Newsflash is now available! In this issue you may find all the latest details on the NGIoT related projects. You may also find information about the last NGIoT event and all the recently published papers.
You may find the Newsflash online here: https://mailchi.mp/07524a94d64f/ngiot-newsflash-mar-23?e=3383e2e9b7

aerOS minitrack in HICSS57 – Call for papers

8 April 2023
Minitrack in Cognitive Cloud Continuum Ecosystems: Theory and Practice (HICSS57 co-organised by aerOS and ASSIST-IoT projects as part of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)), Honolulu, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2024. Call for papers opens soon. Submission deadline 15 June 2023.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Cognitive Cloud Continuum Ecosystems: Theory and Practice, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2024 – part of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)), Honolulu, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2024. HICSS57 Minitrack co-organised by aerOS and ASSIST-IoT projects. More info here: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-57/software-technology/#cognitive-cloud-continuum-ecosystems-theory-and-practice-minitrack

Call for papers is now open. Deadline submission June 15, 2023 | 11:59 pm HST.

Cognitive Cloud is an enhanced Cloud-Fog-Edge system that is capable of sensing its environment, learning from it, and opportunistically and dynamically adapting its computational loads to the user intents. Here, the core enabling technologies, for management of resources, services and data are AI/ML techniques, which infuse the cognitive aspects into the continuum.

This minitrack intends to solicit papers that discuss the theoretical and practical aspects of Cognitive Cloud Ecosystems from a system perspective. Topics of interest include:

Architectures for the Cognitive Cloud for systems that are user-aware, self-aware and (semi-)autonomous; address the need for real-time capable solutions; and solve performance challenges, such as data streaming and
filtering near/at the edge, overcoming latency and network constraints
Service mesh networking that controls service-to-service communication across cognitive cloud ecosystem
Orchestration of (sub)systems in the Cognitive Cloud, possibly subdivided into orchestration of resources, services, and data (including zero-touch approaches)
Use of distributed AI across the Cognitive Cloud to make it intelligent
Interconnection of Cognitive Clouds with Data Spaces
Security, privacy and trust (likely, by design) in a multi-tenet de-centralized systems, possibly with no single point of governance
Interoperability across the Cognitive Cloud Ecosystems to cope with the increased complexity of vast numbers of heterogeneous devices, while supporting demands for data sharing combined with the demand for protection of privacy
Role of intelligent devices, drawing from applicable results in micro/nano/bio technologies, including resource-aware hardware/software concepts, low power processor platforms integrating computing, networking, storage and acceleration elements, new communication schemes and topologies that range from the cloud continuum towards mesh, and securing computing and communication at device level with constrained resources
Tactile/contextual Internet of Things based on human-centric sensing/actuating, augmented/virtual reality and new service capabilities such as integration with parallel and opportunistic computing capabilities, neuromorphic and contextual computing.
Energy aware systems from the perspective of systems integration for efficient deployment of services and use of resources in the Cognitive Cloud
Strategies for the deployment of hyper-distributed applications in the Cognitive Cloud from services description to dynamic reorganization of the deployment
Extreme data processing applications and Frugal AI in the cognitive cloud
Applications of Cognitive Cloud including implementation of ecosystems, pilots, lessons learned, barriers, etc.
Important Dates

Submission Deadline: June 15, 2023 | 11:59 pm HST


Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: August 17, 2023 | 11:59 pm HST
Deadline for Submission of Final Manuscript for Publication: September 22, 2023 | 11:59 pm HST
Deadline for at least one author to register for HICSS-57: October 1, 2023 | 11:59 pm HST
Submission instructions are available at https://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/

Minitrack Co-Chairs

Marcin Paprzycki (Primary Contact)
Polish Academy of Sciences
marcin.paprzycki@ibspan.waw.pl

Maria Ganzha
Polish Academy of Sciences
m.ganzha@mini.pw.edu.pl

Harilaos Koumaras
Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications
koumaras@iit.demokritos.gr

Carlos Palau
Univeristat Politecnica de Valencia
cpalau@dcom.upv.es

EUCLOUDEDGEIoT Survey

The European Commission is requesting all the community members to give their ideas for the next 2025-2027 research programme.

Give your thoughts regarding:
Which challenges you had to overcome in your project?
What research priorities will lead to more successful research?
How would you define a clear research framework for the near future?
What research gaps in the current Work Programme would you like to see covered in Horizon Europe 2025-2026?
What suggestions do you have for expanding the research areas in Horizon Europe 2025-2026?
What would you like to see as support from the CSAs?

The deadline is on April 30th. You may find the survey online here: https://eucloudedgeiot.eu/call-for-expression-of-interest/

EU-IoT Final Event

The final event of EU-IoT, took place on March 30. The event was based on the achievements of EU-IoT community and the upcoming activities. EU-IoT has been a vital accelerator for the European IoT ecosystem, supporting the development of synergies, fostering strategic coordination among Next Generation Internet of Things (NGIoT) projects and related initiatives, and promoting the adoption of IoT solutions. As the project comes to a close in March 2023, this event provides an opportunity to reflect on the achievements and lessons learned and explore the future of IoT in Europe.
More information about the agenda, available here: https://www.ngiot.eu/event/eu-iot-final-event-from-iot-to-cloud-edge-iot-continuum-takeaways-and-transition-to-the-new-paradigm/

EU-IoT Final Event: From IoT to Cloud-Edge-IoT Continuum – Takeaways and Transition to the New Paradigm
https://www.ngiot.eu

3rd International Workshop on Advances on Privacy Preserving Technologies and Solutions co-organised by aerOS project!

This workshop aims to strengthen security and privacy through research and relevant activities in the models and design of secure, privacy-preserving and trust architectures, investments in cyber-defense, data analyses, fusion platforms, protocols, algorithms, services, and applications for next generation systems and solutions. We especially encourage security and privacy solutions that employ innovative machine learning techniques to tackle the issues of inspecting large data volumes, cyberattacks, and variety problems that are systemic in IoT platforms, theoretical and practical challenges related to the design of privacy-preserving AI systems and algorithms and will have strong multidisciplinary components, including soliciting contributions about policy, legal issues, and societal impact of privacy and affect the cyber risk of the participating entities.
Call for Papers is up to May 31, 2023. The event will take place on August 29 – September 01, 2023 in Benevento.
You may find more information online here: https://www.ares-conference.eu/

aerOS Project will be present through a booth at DEFEA 2023 on May in Athens.

Metropolitan Expo is Greece’s most contemporary venue and one of the largest and most functional centres for congresses, events, exhibitions and conferences in SE Europe which has achieved Covid Shield Certification by TUV Austria. With this achievement Metropolitan Expo Centre is being safeguarded and showcased as the largest, the most advanced and the safest exhibition centre in Greece fully in compliance with the European standards and practices. Paramount consideration of Metropolitan Expo Centre administration continues to be the safety and well-being of every exhibitor, visitor and personnel alike, fortifying its functioning with the achievement of the aforementioned certification.

Metropolitan Expo exhibition centre is located at Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” just 2km from the main terminal building and the Metro Subway station.