Scopes:

The Internet of Things (IoT), also called Industrial Internet, has been defined as a global infrastructure for the information society, enabling advanced services by interconnecting (physical and virtual) things based on existing and evolving interoperable information and communication technologies. It has been considered as another technological revolution. More and more smart and complex systems are based on IoT, such as Smart Cities, Smart Grid, Smart Factories, Smart Homes, Smart Buildings and Smart Cars. They are able to intelligently respond to their environment and offer value-added services to their clients. Their discrete-event nature and hybrid modeling, control, scheduling, simulation and security management pose a deluge of theoretically significant and practically meaningful issues to researchers in many fields. They often require interdisciplinary efforts and mathematical modeling and optimization approaches to move this field forward.

The aim of this special issue is to seek the original cutting-edge research results on advances in IoT-based Smart and Complex Systems, with particular emphasis on system modeling/analysis/control methods, system design and evaluation, and security management.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Formal modeling and analysis methods for IoT-based Smart and Complex Systems;

• Fundamental control and security issues related to IoT-based Smart and Complex Systems;

• IoT applications arising from sensor networks, social networks, cyber-physical systems, modern production systems, hardware/software systems, process-aware information systems, service-oriented systems, and intelligent transportation systems, and other smart systems.

Guest Editors:

Naiqi Wu, Macau University of Science and Technology, nqwu@must.edu.mo

Zhiwu Li, Macau University of Science and Technology, systemscontrol@gmail.com

Kamel Barkaoui, CEDRIC, CNAM, kamel.barkaoui@cnam.fr

Xiaoou Li, CINVESTAV-IPN, lixo@cs.cinvestav.mx 

Tadahiko Murata, Kansai University, murata@kansai-u.ac.jp

MengChu Zhou, New Jersey Institute of Technology, zhou@njit.edu

Important Dates:  

Submission site is open for submission on 1 February 2016

15 April 2016 – Deadline for manuscript submission

1 July 2016 – Notification of authors

1 August 2016 – Deadline for submission of revised manuscripts

1 October 2016 – Final decision of acceptance

1 January 2017- Publication date

Submission Instructions:

Please prepare manuscripts by using IEEE Trans. Template(https://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/authors/author_templates.html).

To submit your manuscript, please go to: https://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/ieee-jas. Please specify that your paper is for this special issue.