DCOSS 2022 is the 18th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems to be held in Marina Del Rey, LA, California, USA on May 30-June 1, 2022, and is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and by the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP).

In the last few years, we have witnessed a significant growth in the use of IoT and 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 issues arising in the entire IoT and networked sensor systems stack, 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 Potential authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate recent advances in both theoretical and experimental research.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:

    Artificial Intelligence for IoT
    Machine learning and data mining for IoT and sensor systems
    Smart healthcare to combat epidemics (including COVID-19)
    Edge and fog computing: distributed computing models from sensor to cloud
    Energy harvesting models and optimization
    Machine intelligence in distributed sensor systems and real time analytics
    Communication and networking primitives / protocols for wireless embedded systems / cross-technology communication schemes
    Autonomy: closing the loop between sensing and actuation
    Time and location management
    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
    Social sensing and crowd sensing and techniques, applications, and systems
    Complex systems comprising wearable, robotic and/or fixed sensor systems
    Novel and compelling applications
    IoT systems for emerging and developing economies
    Green and environmentally-friendly IoT (low-power, harvesting, energy management)
    Design and implementation of real-world applications and systems
    Measurement studies and deployment experiences

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on distributed sensor systems 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. Note that DCOSS does not follow the double-blind review policy, i.e., the names and affiliations of all the authors must be present in the submitted manuscript.