IEEE PerCom 2017 / Preliminary Call for Papers March 13-17, 2017 - Kona, Big Island, Hawaii, USA http://www.percom.org

# The Fifteenth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing
and Communications, PerCom 2017

## Important Dates

* Paper registration: September 23, 2016
* Paper submissions: September 30, 2016
* Notification: December 12, 2016
* Camera ready: January 13, 2017


## Preliminary Call for Papers

IEEE PerCom, now in its fifteenth year, is established as the premier annual
scholarly venue in the areas of pervasive computing and communications.
Pervasive computing and communications have evolved into highly active areas
of research and have found their way to many current commercial systems, due
to the tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics
including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor
systems, ambient intelligence, and smart devices.

PerCom is going all the way to Hawaii Big Island, famous for its
breathtaking beaches, volcanoes, and natural parks. PerCom 2017 will provide
a leading edge, scholarly forum for researchers, engineers, and students
alike to share their state-of-the art research and developmental work in the
broad areas of pervasive computing and communications.

Research contributions are solicited in all areas pertinent to pervasive
computing and communications, including:

* Advances in systems and infrastructures.
middleware systems and services; large-scale data management for pervasive
computing; clouds, cloudlets, and fog computing; integrations of smartphones
in pervasive experiences; device-to-device coordination and self-organising
networks; opportunistic networking and sensing

* Technological innovations.
architectures, protocols, and technologies for pervasive communications;
mobile and wearable computing systems and services; smart devices and
intelligent environments; positioning and tracking technologies; sensors and
RFID; energy-efficient and green pervasive computing

* Domain-specific challenges and novel applications.
urban and mobile crowd sensing and intelligence; pervasive technologies for
healthcare; cyber-physical pervasive computing; innovative pervasive
computing applications; applications for smart cities

* Models and algorithms.
context modeling and reasoning; adaptive, autonomic, and context-aware
computing; activity recognition; opportunistic networking; programming
paradigms; cognitive computing; user profiling and personalization in
pervasive computing

* New techniques for user-level concerns.
participatory and social sensing; trust, security, and privacy; user
interface, interaction, and persuasion; social networking and pervasive
computing

Authors should pay special attention to the evaluation of the work.
Contributions can be analytical, empirical, technological, methodological,
or even cross-cutting. Evaluations should be appropriate to the type of
contribution in terms of metrics and scale. Papers reporting strong systems
engineering contributions backed by solid and appropriate evaluations are
strongly encouraged.

In all cases, the impact of the contributions should be demonstrated and
evaluated in the context of pervasive computing and communications. Papers
applying known techniques from other fields must clearly demonstrate
substantial novelty in or impact on pervasive computing and communications.


## Workshops and Affiliated Events

A number of workshops will be held in conjunction with the main conference.
Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital libraries
(Xplore) along with papers from the main conference. As in the past, PerCom
2017 will also feature a PhD Forum, Work-in-Progress Posters, and Live
Demonstrations. Please visit the conference website for details.


## Best Paper Award

The best paper will receive the prestigious Mark Weiser Best Paper Award.

Papers of particular merit will be considered for a special issue of the
Elsevier journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC).


## Submission Guidelines

Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for
publication. Also, they must show a significant relevance to pervasive
computing and networking. Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be
considered. Papers must be 9 pages of technical content (10pt font, 2-column
format), including text, figures, and tables and up to one additional page
for references only.

The IEEE LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates, as well as formatting
instructions, can be found here
(http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.htm
l).

All papers will be managed electronically through EDAS.

Submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process handled by the
Technical Program Committee. Additional author names cannot be added after
acceptance.


## General Chairs

Claudio Bettini, University of Milan, Italy
Matt Mutka, Michigan State University, USA


## Technical Program Chair

Christine Julien, The University of Texas at Austin, USA


## Technical Program Vice chairs

Franca Delmastro, IIT-CNR, Italy
Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Amy L. Murphy, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Italy


## Steering Committee Chair

Mohan Kumar, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA