Workshop on Vehicular Information Services for the Internet of Things (VISIT 16)

The Internet of Things (IoT) has recently gained great attention from both academia and industry. Among the key enablers of IoT, smart vehicles have been promising solutions for providing on-road communication and ubiquitous information services. The real value of vehicular resources is much realized when translated into information services that put these resources into action. Expanding the smart vehicle-based services/applications beyond the intelligent transportation services requires research and development efforts to explore new service scopes, create innovative system architectures, and design enabling technologies. Enabling pervasive and diversified vehicular service provisioning in the IoT era entails synergizing several related technologies such as distributed cloud and fog computing, networking infrastructures, crowdsourcing, public sensing, information-centric networking, privacy and security techniques. 

The main objective of the VISIT 2016 workshop is to highlight the ongoing efforts towards vehicular service provisioning and related technology blend. The workshop also addresses issues that arise when dealing with smart vehicles such as resource and service discovery, data communication and delivery, quality of information assessment, resource recruitment, and incentive modelling.