41st Annual Conference of the
IEEE Industrial Electronics
Society IECON’15
9-12 November 2015, Yokohama, Japan
Special Session on
“Digital Ecosystems and Smart Technologies
(DEST)”
organized by
Principal Organizer: Prof Elizabeth Chang
(Elizabeth.chang@unsw.edu.au)
Affiliation: University of New South Wales and Australian Defence Force
Academy (UNSW@ADFA), Australia
Prof Veleriy Vyatkin (valeriy.vyatkin@aalto.fi);
Aalto University, Finland)
Dr. Farookh Hussain (farookh.hussain@uts.edu.au)
University Technology Sydney, Australia
Call for Papers
Digital Ecosystems inherit concepts of open, loosely coupled, demand-driven,
domain clustered, agent-based self-organized collaborative environments where
species/agents form a temporary coalition (or longer term) for a specific purpose or
goals. Within this environment every agent is proactive and responsive for their own
benefit or profit. The essence of digital ecosystems is inspired by ecological and
biological system concepts, and creating value by making connections through
collective intelligence and promoting collaboration instead of unbridled competition
and ICT-based catalyst effects in a number of domains, to produce networked
enriched communities, humanities and societies.
Smart Technologies presents Digital Age, digital networks and digital infrastructure
which has dominated our service and delivers economic growth and life style. Future
applications in domains such as Health-Care, Energy, Transportation and DataIncentive society demand digital infrastructures that are more agile than those
operated currently. Smart Digital Ecosystem Technologies encompass Human
Space Computing and Cyber Information Engineering, starting from Web 2.0 to Web
of Things, from Heterogeneity to Elasticity, from Internet of Things to Cloud of Things
which has become a major theme for digital economy and digital
society.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Cyber Physical Systems as embodiment of Digital Ecosystems
Foundations of Digital Ecosystems
Heterogeneous System Integrations
Convergence of Technologies
Smart Phone Technologies
Sustainable Infrastructures
Internet of Things
Web of Things
Cloud of things
Cloud Services
Engineering
Digital Humanities
Big Data Ecosystems
Cyber-Security Ecosystem
Cyber-Physical Energy Systems
Hybrid Biological-Digital Ecosystems
Fuzzy Semantic computing in digital ecosystems
Cyber-Physical Healthcare and Aged Care Ecosystems
Platforms for Social and Community Involvement / Engagement
Collaborative Platforms for Logistics, Transportation and Supply
Submission procedure, deadlines, and author instructions:
A manuscript submitted to the Special Session of IECON 2015 must be in the IEEE
double format with single space 10p fonts and figures included in the text, so the
length of the manuscript of 8 pages long in PDF format can be evaluated. For your
convenience you may download the WORD template.doc that will be made available
on the conference website: http://iecon2015.com/
Deadlines:
 Reception of full paper:
 Paper acceptance notification:
 Camera ready paper reception:
April 15, 2015
June 15,2015
August 15, 2015
This Special Session is supported by the IEEE IES Technical Committee on
Industrial Informatics (ieee-tcii.org)
International Reviewers
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Jenny Huang
Alex Talveski
Tharam Dillon
Morteza Sabari
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Maryam Haddad
Pronpit Wonthongtham
Wing-Kuen Ling
Ernesto Damiani
Paolo Cervalo
Achim Karduck
George Fodor
Jaipal Singh
Zia-ur-Rahman
Zahre Saberi
Hongbin Yang
Maja Jokic
MP Nagen
Abolbashari, Mohammad Hussan
Jabbar,Fakhar