CfP: ETFA'2015 special session on Industrial Automation Systems in the Industrial Internet (of Things)

Industrial Automation Systems in the Industrial Internet (of Things)

Special session in IEEE 20th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation ETFA'2015

http://www.etfa2015.org/index.php?page=ss06
September 8-11, 2015, Luxembourg

Aim: There is a push in the market for making devices smarter and to generate new services by exploiting the increased connectivity and bandwidth, the computational capabilities and power efficiency of new hardware, the scalability and cost advantages of cloud computing, and the collaboration be-tween these devices, i.e., the Internet of Things (IoT). This is also true in the industrial domain, and although there are similarities between IoT for general systems and industrial systems, e.g., with respect to scalability, there are also significant differences such as constraints on low latencies, criticality of the systems, requirements for predictability and resilience to failures in the system. Hence, there is justification for specifically consider Industrial IoT systems (industrial Internet, Industry 4.0).

There are many potential applications for the industrial internet, e.g., collecting large quantities of device data for subsequent (big) data analytics to support preventive maintenance and remote service. It is also possible to envision the analytics as part of control loops, and act on the information in real-time. Clearly, there are challenges that need to be addressed to support critical industrial applications in an industrial internet scenario, e.g. Managing latencies, Supporting the required predictability, Resilience to failures and non-determinism in the infrastructure, Dealing with mixed criticality.

Topics: This special session will be focusing on (but not limited to) the following topics:

• Resource management related to edge computations, e.g., allocation of computations at different infrastructure levels ranging from edge to cloud.
• Architectures for robust and predictable control in an Industrial IoT setting.
• Supporting virtualization for industrial IoT context using servers, gateways or other devices.
• Efficient design and implementation of Virtual Machine Monitor VMM in terms of the timing constraint, QoS assurance, runtime overhead and energy consumption requirements.
• Methods for achieving advanced features found in server virtualization, such as live migration, with predictable real-time performance.
• Supporting service level virtualization for distributed real time systems.
• Supporting heterogeneous network technologies including Ethernet based field busses through virtualization techniques.
• Case studies of industrial IoT applications.
• Analysis framework for servers, communication, distributed systems for applications spanning in several levels of the IoT infrastructure.
• Runtime adaptable mechanisms for optimizing resource usage or for fault tolerance management in the IoT infrastructure.

Special Session Organizers
Kristian Sandstrom, ABB Corporate Research, Sweden
Moris Behnam, Malardalen University, Sweden

Submission of Papers
The working language of the conference is English. Papers are limited to 8 double column pages in a font no smaller than 10-points. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in PDF format, according to the instructions contained in the Conference web site.

Paper Acceptance
Each accepted paper must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. The final manuscript must be accompanied by a registration form and a registration fee payment proof. All conference attendees, including authors and session chairpersons, must pay the conference registration fee, and their travel expenses.

No- show Policy
The ETFA2015 Organizing Committee reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference at IEEE Xplore if the paper is not presented at the conference.

Important Dates
Deadline for submission of special sessions papers: April 15, 2015
Notification of acceptance of special sessions papers: May 15, 2015
Deadline for submission of final manuscripts-special sessions: July 1, 2015