Introduction

The 21th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT 2025) will take place in Tuscany (Lucca), Italy. The conference intended since its creation to cover several aspects of distributed computing in smartsystems such as high level abstractions and models, systematic design methodologies, signal and information processing, algorithms, analysis and applications. Starting from the 2023 event, DCOSS is broadening its scope beyond sensor networks to smart systems in general as well as the Internet of Things (IoT). The updated name is “Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things” (DCOSS-IoT).

Committee

Steering Committee

  • Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
  • Jie Gao, Stony Brook University, USA
  • Magnus Halldorsson, Reykjavik University, Iceland
  • Bhaskar Krishnamachari, University of Southern California, USA
  • Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece (Chair)
  • Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA
  • Jose Rolim, University of Geneva, Switzerland
  • Niki Trigoni, University of Oxford, UK

Organizing Committee

Technical Program Committee 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)

Workshops Chairs

  • Thomas Lagkas (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece)
  • Claudio Savaglio (Università della Calabria, Italy)

Poster & Demo Chairs

  • Dimitrios Zormpas (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan)
  • Eirini-Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA)
  • Federico Corò (University of Padova, Italy)

Publicity Chairs

  • Debashisha Mishra (Technology Innovation Institute – TII, UAE) – Chair
  • Aris Leivadeas (ETS, Canada)
  • Lorenzo Palazzetti (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy)
  • Jun Du (Tsinghua University, China)

Invitations/VISA Letter Chair

  • Francesco Betti Sorbelli (UNIPG, Italy)

Proceedings Chair

  • Marios Angelopoulos (Bournemouth University, UK)

 

Registrations Chair

  • Gabriel Filios (University of Patras, Greece)

Web Chairs

  • Stefanos H. Panagiotou (University of Patras, Greece)

Technical Program Committee

Technical Program Committee Chairs

  • Dario Pompili (Rutgers University, USA)
  • Jennifer Simonjan (Technology Innovation Institute – TII, UAE)
  • Zhi Sun (Tsinghua University, China)

TPC Members (tentative)

Full name Affiliation Country
Mário Alves Politécnico do Porto Portugal
Adriana Arteaga Arce Inria France
Stella Banou Northeastern University USA
Francesco Betti Sorbelli University of Perugia Italy
Shameek Bhattacharjee Western Michigan University USA
Chiara Boldrini IIT-CNR Italy
Leonardo Bonati Northeastern University USA
Martin C Bor University of Amsterdam The Netherlands
Saadi Boudjit University Sorbonne Paris Nord France
Fabio Busacca University of Catania Italy
Nan Cen Saint Louis University USA
Sandip Chakraborty Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur India
Antonio Di Maio University of Bern Switzerland
Lukas Esterle Aarhus University Denmark
Anna Förster ComNets, University of Bremen Germany
Wei Gao University of Pittsburgh USA
Andres Gomez TU Braunschweig Germany
Hongzhi Guo University of Nebraska Lincoln USA
Salil S Kanhere UNSW Sydney Australia
Hana Khamfroush University of Kentucky USA
JeongGil Ko Yonsei University Korea (South)
Thomas Lagkas Democritus University of Thrace Greece
Olaf Landsiedel Kiel University Germany
Aris Leivadeas École de Technologie Supérieure Canada
Hang Liu Rutgers University-New Brunswick USA
Debashisha Mishra Université de Lorraine France
Prasant Misra TATA Consultancy Services India
Christian Poellabauer Florida International University USA
James Pope University of Bristol United Kingdom (Great Britain)
Christian Raffelsberger Lakeside Labs GmbH Austria
Theofanis P. Raptis IIT-CNR Italy
Andreas Reinhardt TU Clausthal Germany
Bernd-Christian Renner Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) Germany
Francesco Restuccia Northeastern University USA
Bernhard Rinner Alpen Adria Universitat Klagenfurt Austria
Utz Roedig University College Cork Ireland
Swetank Kumar Saha Apple Inc. USA
Abusayeed Saifullah Wayne State University USA
Yasir Saleem Aberystwyth University United Kingdom (Great Britain)
Savio Sciancalepore Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) The Netherlands
Amartya Sen Oakland University USA
Sougata Sen BITS Pilani, Goa Campus India
Mo Sha Florida International University USA
Simone Silvestri University of Kentucky USA
Philipp Sommer ABB Corporate Research Switzerland
Grigore Stamatescu University Politehnica of Bucharest Romania
Pietro Tedeschi CY4GATE S.p.A. Italy
Ashok Samraj Thangarajan Nokia Bell Labs United Kingdom (Great Britain)
Nicolas Tsiftes RISE Research Institutes of Sweden Sweden
Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou University of New Mexico USA
Md Yusuf Sarwar Sarwar Uddin University of Missouri-Kansas City USA
Brecht Vermeulen Ghent University – imec Belgium
Leandro Villas University of Campinas Brazil
Evgenii Vinogradov Technology Innovation Institute United Arab Emirates
Damien Wohwe Sambo IMT Nord Europe France
Weitao Xu City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
Matteo Zella Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences Germany
Call for paper

Important date

2025-01-20
Draft paper submission deadline

* The DCOSS-IoT series of events are always technically co-sponsored by IEEE, and Proceedings are published by IEEE Xplore. 

The 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT 2025) will be held in Tuscany (Lucca), Italy. The conference is always co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and by the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP).

The conference was previously known as DCOSS. Starting in 2023, the event is broadening its scope beyond sensor networks to include smart systems in general and the Internet of Things (IoT). The updated name is “Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things” (DCOSS-IoT).

In the last few years, we have witnessed significant growth in the use of IoT and distributed sensor systems in several application areas, including smart transportation, smart energy systems, smart homes and buildings, smart healthcare, and environmental monitoring. For smart sensor systems to truly become useful and pervasive, we need to address several 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-IoT focuses on issues arising in the entire IoT and networked sensor systems stack, covering aspects of high-level abstractions, models and languages, communication technologies, novel algorithms and applications, system design approaches and architectures, and tools for simulated and real deployments. Potential authors are invited to submit original, unpublished manuscripts demonstrating recent advances in theoretical and experimental research.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • 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

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished manuscripts demonstrating current research on distributed smart systems and IoT related to the aforementioned topics of interest. Please 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.

All submissions should be written in English and have a maximum of eight (8) printed pages, including figures and references. Two (2) additional pages at 100$/page for supplementary material only (such as theorems, proofs, implementation details) are allowed. Starting 2023, DCOSS-IoT follows a double-blind review process. As a result, authors must make a good faith effort to anonymize their submissions.  Although submission is double-blind, the existence or availability of non-anonymous preprints (on arXiv or other preprint servers) will not lead to your paper being rejected. Reviewers will be instructed not to look for such preprints actively but encountering them will not constitute a conflict of interest. Papers that do not meet the size, formatting, and anonymization requirements will not be reviewed. We require each paper to be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and submitted through the EDAS submission system.

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

DCOSS-IoT 2025 will announce a best paper award and a best poster/demo award.

Extended versions of selected best papers from DCOSS-IoT 2025 will be included in a Special Issue of the Computer Networks (COMNET) Journal.

*** Important dates ***

  • Abstract Registration Deadline: January 20, 2025
  • Paper Submission Deadline: January 27, 2025
  • Acceptance Notification: March 28, 2025
  • Camera Ready Deadline: April 15, 2025

*** 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)
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University of Patras