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The concept of the smart city has been widely discussed in recent years. Its aim is to improve citizens quality of life. In particular, it encompasses modern urban consumption and production factors in a common framework using information and communication technologies as the implementation vehicle.
Modern automation systems are highly software and communication intensive but suffer from insufficient extensibility and flexibility: it is difficult to extend functionalities or enable intelligent control for those systems due to proprietarity of ICT solutions and their layered hierarchical organisation. Future automation systems should be able to collaborate with other counterparts in a peer to peer way and reconfigure themselves automatically.
Dependability, in its different forms (reliability, availability, safety, etc.) is an important attribute of many embedded and automation systems. Actually, it is claimed that one of the advantages of the introduction of distribution in such systems is that it facilitates the increase of dependability. Fault tolerance techniques play a prominent role in achieving high levels of dependability, particularly when distribution, and thus communication media, are present. Redundancy of different kinds (spatial, temporal, information, etc.) can be introduced in the system and different replication techniques can be used to achieve tolerance to both temporal and permanent faults at nodes and communication links.
Guidelines for preparing proceedings-style manuscripts are available for Microsoft Word, Open Office and LaTeX users in a specific template (see Camera Ready section).
All submitted files must be in any PDF version from 1.4 (Acrobat 5) thru 1.7 (Acrobat 9). You can find information about the formatting specifications for IEEE Xplore at the following places
The conference seeks original submissions which were not published yet elsewhere. In order for a paper to be accepted, and subsequently included in the IEEE eXplore paper base, they need to meet certain requirements.
The papers are expected to report on novel developments, not published yet elsewhere, with a prospect for a tangible impact on the research area and, hopefully, a potential for practical implementations.
