[hpc-announce] CFP for SITE 2024, Workshop in Conjunction with IEEE CAMAD 2024

[Kübra Duran]

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Call for Papers

*SITE 2024*

The 1st Workshop on Systems and Technologies for IT/OT IntegraTion

in Industry 4/5.0 Environments (SITE 2024)

Co-located with *IEEE CAMAD 2024*

October 21-23, 2024 – Athens, Greece

On-site event

website: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://site2024.spilab.es/__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!YA6UB_ISj-9U5cnoKIYC4arqsHeIIlKlPXt5jRhUysvId_4FpbqFqLvMhMZg_yTb7slmMWYw2LefWRp1CoErcrFR$ 

*Technically co-sponsored by IEEE & IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc)*

Recently, the Industry 4.0 revolution claims the need for a paradigm shift
consisting of a massive adoption of Information and Communication
Technologies by all factory departments (from business to production
lines), to transform production and product delivery processes radically.
I4.0 fosters a deep change in the rigid organization model of the factory.
The multiple implications of the “connected factory" concept will lead the
production environments to unexpected developments, impacting both OT and
IT layers. Connected and interacting objects will populate the factories of
the future.

In the prospected landscape, a progressive and decisive integration of the
IT and OT layers is expected to occur, which practitioners are used to
refer to as IT/OT convergence, stressing the shortening of the gap (both
physical and conceptual) between the manufacturing processes running at the
OT layer, and storage, networking, computing resources, and
business-oriented software suites populating the IT layer.

In this context, emergent paradigms, approaches, and technologies like
artificial intelligence (AI), privacy-enhancing technologies (PET),
cybersecurity, blockchain (BC), Cloud Continuum, Zero Defect Manufacturing
(ZDM), Zero Waste Manufacturing, Industrial Sustainability, IIoT Platforms,
Advanced Service Orchestration in industrial deployments, 5G/6G
communication, Digital Twins (DT), and metaverse are key enablers shaping
the development of an IT/OT convergent smart factory.



The focus of SITE is on the convergence of IT and OT layers within the
modern Industry 4/5.0 compliant factories, and the systems and technologies
that ease or enable this revolutionary integration.



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

- Application of Industrial Cloud Continuum.

- IIoT Platforms and Service Orchestration.

- 5G/6G communication for industrial deployments.

- Computing continuum for smart cities services.

- Digital Twins for industrial process or product monitoring.

- Edge data center deployment in industrial environments.

- ML- and AI-based approaches cloud/edge-based smart city applications.

- AI-driven models, architectures, and frameworks for edge computing.

- Reliable communication protocols in industrial production lines.

- Design and evaluation tools for scalability and efficient resource
allocation in Industry 4/5.0.

- ML-evaluation for automatic road anomaly detection and predictive
maintenance.

- Models and paradigms for the management of cloud/MEC services
within/between industrial data.

- Blockchain solutions for secure and reliable transactions between
counterparts in data sharing/trading.

- Security and privacy techniques for IT/OT convergence in smart factory
applications.

- Post-quantum security and privacy for Industrial applications.

- Zero Waste/Defect Manufacturing.

- IIoT for the sustainability of modern industrial production plants.

- Green Manufacturing in Industry 5.0 deployments.

- Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Networks in Industry 5.0 environments.

- Interoperability of Digital Twins in the manufacturing industrial process.



*Submission Guidelines*

Authors are invited to submit original technical papers for publication in
SITE 2024. Manuscripts must be written in English, in the IEEE
double-column proceedings format, and their length should not exceed 6
pages (including tables, figures, references and appendices).

Authors can find the IEEE double-column conference proceedings template at
the following link:

https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!YA6UB_ISj-9U5cnoKIYC4arqsHeIIlKlPXt5jRhUysvId_4FpbqFqLvMhMZg_yTb7slmMWYw2LefWRp1CqMl9vZt$ 

Paper Submission Link:

https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=32238&track=125491__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!YA6UB_ISj-9U5cnoKIYC4arqsHeIIlKlPXt5jRhUysvId_4FpbqFqLvMhMZg_yTb7slmMWYw2LefWRp1CvtsMwLZ$ 



*Best Paper Award*

In the Workshop, one paper will be honoured with the Best Paper Award,
sponsored by the BTS Group Turkey. The author of the winning paper will
also be granted a complimentary full conference registration.



*Important Dates*

Submission deadline: *June 30th*, 2024

Notifications: *July 15th*, 2024

Camera Ready deadline: August 31st, 2024



*Workshop Chairs*

Kubra Duran, Edinburgh Napier University

Jaime Galán-Jiménez, University of Extremadura

Riccardo Venanzi, University of Bologna