Call for chapters for the FIA book 2011

"Future Internet: Achievements and Promising Technology", to be published by Springer Verlag May 2011

Overview

The Future Internet Assembly (FIA) is a success.  FIA is a unique bi-annual event that brings together the participants of over 100 projects from a number of units in the EU Framework 7 Challenge 1 to share scientific and technical results and to discuss cross-domain research topics around the notion of creating a new global communications infrastructure, which is fit for Europe and the World.

FIA began in the Spring of 2008 in Bled, Slovenia, and Spring 2011 will see the seventh FIA in Budapest.  As with prior Spring FIAs, we are producing a book that aggregates both the results achieved so far within FIA, and the possibilities of what we can expect in the short term.  In this sense the scope of the text is broad rather than focusing on single technical or socio-economic topics.

The previous FIA books are:

• Towards the Future Internet: A European Research Perspective (2009)

• Towards the Future Internet: Emerging Trends from European Research (2010)

Early on in the FIA time line we realised that a number of key elements were required to ensure success:

• Cross-unit and cross-domain discussions: on both core technical issues (such as architecture, supporting experimentation at scale) and on softer issues such as socio-economics, trust and identity.
• Mediated engagement: between FIA and the 100 plus individual projects. In this respect is imperative that the FIA activities and processes are transparent and open and that clear explanation and direction is provided.
• Users: over the last few FIAs representatives from a variety of user communities including transport, energy, health and municipal services have joined the meetings facilitating the incorporation of a broad range of stakeholder views within Future Internet solutions.

In structuring the book, we suggest to mirror these elements, resulting in a tripartite book:

• Future Internet Foundations: covers the core cross-domain technical and ‘soft’ topics. The chapters under this section are: Architectural Issues; Socio-Economic Issues; Trust and Identity; Search and Discovery; and Experiments and experimental design.
• Future Internet Areas: the principle technical domains associated with the Future Internet, which are aligned with the units associated with Challenge 1. The chapters under this section are: Networks; Services; Internet of Things; Content; and Inter-area Issues.
• Future Internet Application Areas: key target areas with associated user communities, which will be revolutionised by the Future Internet. The chapters under this section are: Smart Cities; Smart Living; Smart Energy; Smart Health; Smart Enterprises; Smart Transportation; Smart Manufacturing; and Utilities environment;

Submission

Submission and acceptance of chapters will be done in two phases: in the first phase we seek chapter proposals in the form of abstracts. Authors of accepted proposals will then be invited to submitted full-length chapters which will be subject to further acceptance, review, and revision.

• Phase 1: Multiple papers for each chapter is envisaged. We invite one-two pages abstracts by 2010-10-08 as proposals for full-length chapters.  Each proposal should target one of the chapter descriptions at http://services.future-internet.eu/index.php/FIA_Book_3 Proposals should not be project-specific, but reflect a broad view of the subject. Authors should indicate their FIA and Challenge 1 Track record. The abstracts will be reviewed by the book reviewers and editors.

• Phase 2: Authors of selected abstracts will be invited to develop full chapters of 12 pages by 2010-12-03. In light of the actual submissions made, the editors may consider combining proposals and asking the authors to collaborate on single chapters.  The full chapters will again be reviewed by the editors and reviewers, and subject to acceptance and revision.

Abstracts should be submitted via Easychair.

Dates

• 2010-10-08 - Abstract submission
• 2010-10-22 - Notification for the accepted abstracts
• 2010-12-03 - Full chapter submission
• 2011-01-03 - Reviews of accepted chapters
• 2011-02-14 - Camera ready chapters
• 2011-03-15 - Book published by Springer

Editors

John Domingue, Susana Avesanna, Frederico Alvarez, Frances Cleary, Petros Daras, Alex Galis, Anastasius Gavras, Srdjan Krco, Dave Lambert, Volkmar Lotz, Hennig Muller, Michael Nilsson, Burkhard Stiller, Anne-Marie Sassen, Georgios Tselentis, Theodore Zahariadis.