AIMS

The advances in minuscule sensor devices, mobile computing and cloud computing offer tremendous opportunities to interconnect and seamlessly integrate the physical world and the cyber space. The notion of cyber-physical systems (CPSs) is aimed at a computing paradigm to sense, understand, intervene in, control and/or predict physical phenomena, events and processes. Cloud-integrated CPS (CCPS) refers to virtually representing physical system components (e.g., sensors, actuators, robots and other devices) in clouds, accessing (e.g., monitoring, actuating and navigating) those physical components through their virtual representations, and processing/managing the sheer amount of data collected from physical components in clouds in a scalable, on-demand, efficient and/or reliable manner.

The objective of this book is to provide a medium for researchers and practitioners to present their findings related to the synergy among cloud computing and various CPS-enabling technologies such as sensor-actuator networks, Internet of Things (IoT), machine-to-machine (M2M) communication and SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition).

TOPICS OF INTERESTS

• Monitoring, actuation and navigation of physical components in CCPS
• Virtualization of physical components
• Signal/information processing, communication and software architectures
• Cloud architectures and integration techniques
• A cloud of clouds for CCPS
• Autonomy, adaptability, manageability, reliability, safety and usability of CCPS
• Mobile and pervasive services for CCPS
• Design, performance and optimization
• Security, privacy and anonymity
• Data acquisition, data analysis, data mining and computational intelligence
• Spatiotemporal data management and communication
• Data visualization
• Cloud-assisted situational awareness and decision support
• Software engineering and systems engineering
• Programming models and domain-specific languages
• Modeling, simulations and empirical experiments
• Tools, testbeds and deployment issues
• Applications and standardization

Application domains include, but not limited to, agriculture, atmospheric engineering, automotive/avionics systems, biomedical monitoring, computer vision, emergency response, entertainment, energy engineering, environmental informatics, green engineering, healthcare, industrial process control, logistics and transportation, marine science, manufacturing, mechanical engineering, nanoscience, pervasive computing, prosthetics, robotics, smart garments, sports science, and surveillance.

IMPORTANT DATES

Chapter proposal/abstract due: September 1, 2014
Chapter submission due: November 1, 2014

CHAPTER SUBMISSION

Chapter authors are invited to submit chapter proposals/abstracts (2 to 3 pages) to jxs [at] cs.umb.edu. No specific page format is required for proposals/abstracts.

Full chapters are required to follow Springer's SVMult style (LaTeX and MS Word). Chapters should be submitted to jxs [at] cs.umb.edu.

EDITORS

Junichi Suzuki
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts, Boston
USA

Pruet Boonma
Department of Computer Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Chiang Mai University
Thailand

Toshimi Munehira
OGIS Research Institute, Co. Ltd
Japan

Shingo Omura
OGIS International, Inc.
USA