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The 15th Annual International Conference on

Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2019)

May 29-31, 2019

Santorini Island, Greece

www.dcoss.org

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DCOSS 2019 is the 15th International Conference on Distributed 

Computing in Sensor Systems to be hosted on Santorini Island in Greece, 

in May 29-31, 2019. In the last few years, we have witnessed a 

significant growth in the use of distributed sensor systems in a number 

of application areas, ranging from smart transport, energy and 

buildings, to factory automation, smart healthcare and environmental 

monitoring. In order for smart sensor systems to truly become useful and 

pervasive, we need to address a number of research challenges, including 

the tight integration of sensing and machine intelligence, reliable and 

efficient networking, interoperability and scalability, the need for 

dependable autonomy, interaction with humans, and important aspects of 

security, privacy and trust. DCOSS focuses on distributed information 

processing issues arising in networked sensor systems, covering aspects 

of high level abstractions, models and languages, novel algorithms and 

applications, system design approaches and architectures, as well as 

tools for simulated and real deployments.

Potential authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts 

that demonstrate recent advances in both theoretical and experimental 

research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the 

following:

- Edge and fog computing: distributed computing models from sensor to 

cloud

- Energy harvesting models and optimisation

- Machine intelligence in distributed sensor systems and real time 

analytics

- Communication and networking primitives and protocols

- Autonomy: closing the loop between sensing and actuation

- Task allocation, reprogramming, and reconfiguration

- Robustness, resilience and dependability

- Security and privacy issues

- Approaches, tools, and experience of deployment and operation

- Performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability

- Mobile and human-centered sensing

- Interoperability, heterogeneity and scalability

- Crowd sensing and social sensing techniques, applications, and systems

- Complex systems comprising wearable, robotic and/or fixed sensor 

systems

- Novel and compelling applications

******** Main Organizers ********

- General Chair:

Sotiris Nikoletseas (University of Patras and CTI, Greece) 

- Technical Program Committee Chairs:

Niki Trigoni (University of Oxford, UK)

Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA) 

Gian Pietro Picco (University of Trento, Italy)

- Steering Committee Chair:

Jose Rolim (University of Geneva, Switzerland)

******** Special Issue and Best Paper Awards ********

All accepted papers will be candidate to a "Best Paper Award" that will 

be announced at the conference. Also, a best poster/demo award will be 

announced.

Further, selected papers will be fast-tracked to a thematic special 

issue of the Ad Hoc Networks Journal by Elsevier, on algorithms, systems 

and applications for distributed sensing.

******** Collocated Events ********

DCOSS 2019 will collocate with several thematic Workshops and Special 

Sessions on emerging topics and technologies.

The event will also feature a poster and demo session

********Important Dates********

Abstract Registration Deadline: January 11, 2019 (11:59 pm AoE)

Paper Submission Deadline: January 18, 2019 (11:59 pm AoE)

Acceptance Notification: March 1, 2019

Camera Ready Submission Deadline: March 15, 2019 (11:59pm AoE)

Early Registration Deadline: April 10, 2019 (11:59 pm AoE)

Conference Dates: May 29-31, 2019