Call for Papers: DCOSS-IoT 2025

The 21st Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT 2025) will be held in Tuscany (Lucca), Italy, from June 9 to 11, 2025.

DCOSS-IoT 2025 is broadening its scope to include smart systems in general and the Internet of Things (IoT), building upon its previous focus on distributed computing in sensor systems.

Topics of Interest

Potential authors are invited to submit original manuscripts on topics including, but not limited to:

• Artificial Intelligence for IoT
• Machine learning and data mining for IoT and Smart Systems
• Smart healthcare to combat epidemics
• Edge and fog computing: distributed computing models from sensor to cloud
• Machine intelligence in distributed sensor systems and real-time analytics
• Novel communication paradigms (e.g., 5G/6G, VLC, DSA) for IoT and Smart Systems
• Cyber-Physical Systems
• IoT and Smart Systems for Smart and Connected Communities
• Autonomous systems: closing the loop between sensing and actuation
• Time and location management
• Robustness, resilience, and dependability of IoT and smart systems
• Security and privacy in IoT and Smart Systems
• Performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability
• Mobile and human-centric sensing
• IoT and Smart Systems for social computing
• Interoperability, heterogeneity and scalability
• Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based sensing/communications/networking
• Social sensing and crowd sensing techniques, applications, and systems
• Complex systems comprising wearable, robotic and/or fixed sensor systems
• IoT and Smart Systems for emerging and developing economies
• Green and environmentally friendly IoT (low power, harvesting, energy management)
• Sensors and Robots for Internet of Intelligent Things
• Design and implementation of real-world applications and systems
• Approaches, tools, and experience of deployment and operation
• Interdisciplinary applications of IoT and Smart Systems
• Smart healthcare and digital epidemiology
• Smart agriculture
• Smart infrastructures
• Smart cities
• Smart energy, transportation, and water distribution systems
• Smart factories
• Smart workspace

Submission Guidelines

• Format: Use the US letter size (8.5 X 11 in) standard IEEE conference LaTeX format or Microsoft Word template available on: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html.
• Length: Maximum of eight (8) printed pages, including figures and references. Two (2) additional pages at $100/page for supplementary material (such as theorems, proofs, implementation details) are allowed.
• Review Process: DCOSS-IoT follows a double-blind review process. Authors must make a good faith effort to anonymize their submissions.
• File Format: Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).
• Submission System: EDAS submission system.
• Requirements: Papers that do not meet the size, formatting, and anonymization requirements will not be reviewed.

Important Dates

• Abstract Registration Deadline: February 11, 2025
• Paper Submission Deadline: February 11, 2025
• Acceptance Notification: March 28, 2025
• Camera Ready Deadline: April 15, 2025

Special Issue and Awards

• A Special Issue of the Computer Networks (COMNET) Journal will include extended versions of selected best papers.
• DCOSS-IoT 2025 will announce a best paper award and a best poster/demo award.

Key Organizers

• Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs: Dario Pompili (Rutgers University, USA), Jennifer Simonjan (Technology Innovation Institute – TII, UAE), Zhi Sun (Tsinghua University, China)
• General Chairs: Francesco Betti Sorbelli (UNIPG, Italy), Cristina M. Pinotti (UNIPG, Italy)
• Steering Committee Chair: Sotiris Nikoletseas (University of Patras and CTI, Greece)

Technical Co-Sponsorship

DCOSS-IoT is always technically co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP).