IEEE PICom 2020 –  The 18th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive
Intelligence and Computing (PICom 2020) –
http://cyber-science.org/2020/picom/

           June 22-26, 2020, Calgary, Canada

Sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society

Supported by IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (TCSC),
IEEE SMC TC on CyberMatics and IEEE CIS Smart World TC

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Regular Paper Submission Due:     Feb. 15, 2020

Wksp/SS/Poster Paper Due:   March 10, 2020

Authors Notification:       April 1, 2020

Camera-ready Submission:    May 10, 2020

INTRODUCTION
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 Over the last fifty years, computational intelligence has evolved
from logic-based artificial intelligence, nature-inspired soft
computing, and social-oriented agent technology to cyber-physical
integrated ubiquitous intelligence towards Pervasive Intelligence
(PI). The International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and
Computing is intended to cover all kinds of these intelligent
paradigms as well as their applications in various pervasive computing
domains. PICom-2019 is the conference on Pervasive Intelligence and
Computing, previously held as PCC (Las Vegas, USA, 2003 and 2004), PSC
(Las Vegas, USA, 2005), PCAC (Vienna, Austria, 2006, and Niagara
Falls, Canada, 2007), IPC-2007 (Jeju, Korea, December 2007), IPC-2008
(Sydney, Australia, December 2008), and since 2009 as the name PICom.
IEEE PICom 2020 will be held on 22-26 June 2020 in Calgary, Canada,
co-located with IEEE DASC 2020 CBDCom 2020 and IEEE CyberSciTech 2020.
It aims to bring together computer scientists and engineers, to
discuss and exchange experimental and theoretical results,
work-in-progress, novel designs, and test-environments or test-beds in
the important areas of Pervasive Intelligence and Computing.

 TRACKS AND TOPICS

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Track 1: Computational Intelligence

Track 2: Intelligent Networks, Middleware and Applications

Track 3: Pervasive Computing and Activity/Affect Recognition

Track 4: Smart Object, Environment, System and City

Topics of interests include, but are not restricted to:

 * Deep Learning and Deep Computation

* Big Data and Smart Data

* Brain-inspired Computing

* Crowdsourcing and Social Computing

* Collective Intelligence

* Agent-based Computing

* Ubiquitous Intelligence

* Cyber-Physical Computing

* The Internet of Things

* Cloud of Things and Cloud of Sensors

* Embedded HW, SW and Systems

* Pervasive Devices and RFIDs

* Wearable Devices and Applications

* Sensor Technology and Networks

* Pervasive Networks/Communications

* Edge and Fog Computing

* Mobile Edge Computing (MEC)

* Device Virtualization

* Privacy, Security and Trust

* Context-Aware Computing

* Mobile Data Mining

* Ubiquitous Data Mining

* Activity Recognition

* Intelligent Cloud Computing

* Services for Pervasive Computing

* Smart Cities and Smart Homes

* Intelligent Social Networking

* Pervasive Technologies for ITS

* HCI for Pervasive Computing

* Mobile Data Modeling

* Middleware for Pervasive Computing

* Intelligent/Smart IoT

* Programming Abstractions for IoT

* Semantic Analysis

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 IEEE PICOM 2020 CALLS FOR

* Regular conference paper: 6 – 8 pages, submitted to one of five tracks

* WiP/workshop/special session paper: 4-6 pages, and poster paper: 2-4 pages

* Late breaking innovation paper: We seek the latest research and
development work. The submission can be of any type, and will be
allocated by the Program Chair to a suitable Regular,
Work-in-Progress, or Poster tracks

* All submissions in the IEEE CS proceedings format

* Papers should be submitted via EDAS (https://edas.info/N26908) in
the proper track

PROCEEDINGS
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* All accepted papers will be published by IEEE (IEEE-DL and EI
indexed) in Conference Proceedings.

* Best Paper Awards will be granted to high quality papers.

* Selected papers will be recommended to prestigious journal special issues.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

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– Honorary Chairs

Lisa Carter, Athabasca University, Canada

Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia

Sumi Helal, Lancaster University, UK

– General Chairs

Prof. Flavia C. Delicato, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil

Prof. Liang Chen, University of Northern British Columbia

 – General Executive Chairs

Henry Leung, The University of Calgary, Canada

– Program Chairs

Paulo Pires, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil

Juan Corchado, University of Salamanca, Spain

 – Track Chairs

Esteban Clua, UFF, Brazil

Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK

Deepak Puthal, Newcastle University, UK

Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

Claudio Miceli, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Roberto Morabito, Ericsson Research, Jorvas, Finland

Ali Dewan, Athabasca University, Canada

– Workshop and Special Session Chairs

Peng Li, The University of Aizu, Japan

Antonio Guerrieri, ICAR-CNR, Italy

 -Special Issue Chairs

Atiqur R. Ahad, U. Dhaka, Bangladesh / Osaka U, Japan
Gautam Srivastava, Brandon University, Canada

– International Liaison and Publicity Chairs

Wu-Yuin Hwang, National Central University, Taiwan

Zixia Liu, University of Central Florida, USA

Paulo Novais, Minho University, Portugal

Bruno Costa, IFRJ, Brazil

Edgar Ramos, Ericsson Research, Finland

 – Advisory Committee

Zhikui Chen, Dalian University of Technology, China

Liqiang Wang, University of Central Florida, USA  OK

Jane Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Qiang Yang, Zhejiang University, China – Aceitou

Lidia Fuentes, Malaga University, Spain

Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy

– Steering Committee

Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan

Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada

Adnan Al-Anbuky, Auckland U Tech., New Zealand

Jun Wang, University of Central Florida, USA

Flávia C. Delicato, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil

–  Local Organizing Committee

Oscar Lin (chair), Athabasca University, Canada

Ali Dewan, Athabasca University, Canada

Hongxin Yan, Athabasca University, Canada

Joelle Jackson, Athabasca University, Canada

Jillian Calliou, Athabasca University, Canada

Kevin Cole, Athabasca University, Canada

FIVE CO-LOCATED WORKSHOPS
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KDBD 2020: International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery for Big Data
(http://cyber-science.org/2020/picom/assets/docs/KDBD-CFP.pdf)

Workshop on Data Fusion in the Internet of Things (DFIoT –
http://dfiot2020.nce.ufrj.br/)

EoT Workshop 2020
(http://labs.dimes.unical.it/speme/events-organization/eot-workshop-2020/)

IEEE 6th International Workshop on COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGIES FOR INTERNET OF THINGS (IWCCT2020 –
https://sites.google.com/view/iwcct2020_

Intelligence Big Data Processing Infrastructure and Its Applications
(https://commin.github.io/ibpi2020/)

THREE CO-LOCATED CONFERENCES

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* The 5th IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech 2020)

* The 18th IEEE Conf. on Dependable, Autonomic & Secure Comp (DASC 2020)

* The 6th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Cloud and Big Data Computing (CBDCom 2020)

Hosted by

     Athabasca University, Canada