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SPECIAL ISSUE ON Industrial Internet of Things (I2oT)

Overview: 

Industrial Internet of Things (I2oT) consists of a variety of objects (e.g., sensors, RFID tags, actuators, mobile devices, appliances, industrial equipment), which could communicate and cooperate with each other to perform information sensing and automatically control, fulfilling various industrial applications (e.g., intelligent manufacturing, product quality inspection, equipment diagnostics, intelligent logistics). The essence of the I2oT is to provide companies with the opportunity to enhance their computing paraphernalia for use in industry, which in turn will render them more proficient and more profitable. By virtue of transforming embedded computers into intelligent systems, companies can improve the throughput of their processes and workforces, boost their productivity and hence enter new horizons. Numerous world-leading companies have discovered the great potential to benefit from I2oT. The realization of I2oT involves establishing smart connected infrastructures and remotely interconnecting the industrial applications with users by utilizing technologies such as distributed computing, ubiquitous computing and Cloud.  However, there are still quite a number of critical issues (e.g., sensor deployment, big data and analysis, information management, information services, query processing, network security, software system) which could strongly influence the successful realization of I2oT. This special issue solicits high-quality original research papers which focus on the design, development, analysis, standardization and application of I2oT. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following categories

Topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following scope: 

- Big data and analysis in industrial IoT 

- Data security and privacy in industrial IoT 

- Control and optimization of industrial IoT 

- Sensors and actuator networks for industrial IoT 

- Network security and privacy in industrial IoT 

- Software/middleware in industrial IoT 

- Architectures of industrial IoT 

-  Applications and services of industrial IoT 

- Information management for industrial IoT 

- Efficiency, availability, reliability, robustness, and fault-tolerance 

- Simulation and experiment regarding industrial IoT 

- Cloud computing for industrial IoT 

- Communication protocols for industrial IoT 

- Machine to machine for industrial IoT

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: November 10, 2016 

First Reviews Due: January 30, 2017 

Revision Due: March 30, 2017      

Second Reviews Due/Notification: April 30, 2017 

Final Manuscript Due: May 30, 2017 

Publication Date: August 2017 

Submission Procedure

Paper submissions: Submission to this special issue is by invitation only. Extended versions of selected relevant best papers from 2nd EAI International Conference on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems (INISCOM 2016) will be invited for consideration. The guest editors will also invite a few additional papers to complement the topics covered by the contributed papers. The special issue seeks submission of papers that present novel original results and findings on I2oT.  Authors should follow the MONET Journal manuscript format described at the journal site. Manuscripts should be submitted on-line through http://www.editorialmanager.com/mone/.

Guest Editors:

Guest Editors 

-Leandros Maglaras, De Montfort University, U.K. 

 Email: leandros.maglaras@dmu.ac.uk 

-Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China (leading)     

 Email: lei.shu@ieee.org 

-Athanasios Maglaras, Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly 

 Email: maglaras@teilar.gr 

-Jianmin Jiang, Shenzhen University 

 Email: jianmin.jiang@szu.edu.cn 

-Helge Janicke, De Montfort University 

 Email: heljanic@dmu.ac.uk 

-Dimitrios Katsaros, University of Thessaly 

Email: dkatsar@inf.uth.gr 

-Tiago J. Cruz, University of Coimbra 

 Email: tjcruz@dei.uc.pt