FutureInternetofThingsandServices2009

Scope

Web technologies have been used to provide an interface to distributed services. These environments encompass the classical components of distributed application environments such as protocol conventions, security mechanisms, mechanisms to ensure reliable delivery and provide transaction functionality, interface description languages, and marshalling mechanisms.

While web services being a standard and widely adopted technology for the standard Internet, embedded systems as the worker nodes for the Internet of Things need to catch up in utilising similar functionality. Embedded distributed systems can implement service oriented architectures as a promising approach to solve the complexity of distributed embedded applications and propagate web services as a cross-domain technology. Wireless sensor networks, where the sensors are connected to and controlled by embedded systems may benefit from this approach, where services encapsulate the functionality and provide unified access to the functionality of the system through a middleware layer.

In addition, middleware solutions for embedded systems need to provide, monitor, and manage quality of service aspects, such as response time, resource consumption, throughput, availability, reliability and security.

Encapsulation of access to the system resources increases reliability of the overall communication network. In the future Internet of Things, intelligent embedded devices are expected to not only offer their functionality as a web service, but also to be able to discover and cooperate with other devices and services in a peer-to-peer way. Discovery processes distributing knowledge about the availability of services, capability descriptions and publish/subscribe mechanisms give full control to the developers for managing complex workflows. Interruptions, e.g. in the continuous flow of sensor data, can be detected timely and resumed by other nodes and services offering the same capabilities.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together industrial or academic researchers and developers interested in connecting limited embedded (web) services and/or sensor networks with the Internet in order to build the Internet of Things. Through paper presentations and discussions, this workshop will contribute to the exchange of knowledge and ideas, dissemination of results about completed and on-going research projects, as well as identification and analysis of remaining open research issues.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Architectural Issues in Future Internet of Things
• Real world applications and scenarios for embedded web services
• Interoperability of heterogeneous systems
• Event-driven SOAs & Device-centric SOA
• Service creation, deployment, life cycle management
• Tool support for service creation, validation and testing
• Enterprise application integration
• Protocols for efficient message transmission to embedded devices
• Web services and Middleware for embedded environments
• SOA-based integration of IT systems in the healthcare enterprise
• Web services executing in mobile or pervasive environments
• Distributed sensor networks for remote monitoring and surveillance
• Web services for field bus systems

Submission Instructions

Papers should be written in English and should be no more than 8 pages for full papers and 5 pages for short papers (font Times 11pt). Authors are requested to follow the LNCS Style. The first page should contain the title of the paper, names and addresses of all authors (including e-mail), an abstract (100-150 words) and a list of keywords. Submissions should describe original research. Papers accepted for presentation at FITS 2009 cannot be presented or have been presented at another meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this on the title page, as must papers that contain significant overlap with previously published work. Over lengthy or late submissions will be rejected without review. Notification of receipt and acceptance of papers will be sent to the first author.

Papers have to be submitted electronically, through the EasyChairSystem: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fits2009

Important Dates:

• Workshop paper submission deadline: August 10, 2009
• Notification of acceptance: August 17, 2009
• Camera ready proceedings: August 25, 2009
• Workshop day: September 1, 2009