Workshop on Wild and Crazy Ideas on the interplay between IoT and Big Data

Workshop Date: January 4, 2017

The inter-working of IoT and Big Data is set to transform and disrupt many areas of business and everyday life. WACI will bring together researchers and practitioners to present their latest achievements and innovations in the area of IoT and Big Data.

We welcome submissions that define challenges, report experience, or discuss progress toward design and solutions that integrate embedded, mobile, and cloud resources in the context of physical spaces, machines, and other interconnected Things. Contributions describing techniques applied to real-world problems and interdisciplinary research involving novel networking architectures, system designs and applications of wearable devices, sensor networks and machine learning techniques are especially encouraged. We specifically focus on high impact fields such as automation and manufacturing, healthcare, retail and transportation.

Relevant topics include but are not limited to:

  • Applications, case studies and deployments of IoT and Big Data systems
  • Novel system, networking, service architectures for specific IoT verticals
  • Trust, Security, Privacy, and Authentication in IoT
  • Dependability, adaptation, intermittency, and assembly in IoT
  • Designing and deploying IoT systems for healthcare, retail, manufacturing, transportation and security
  • Deployments and evaluation of sensor networks in large-scale industrial settings
  • Experiences in managing wearable devices, smart-home systems and mobile sensor networks
  • Novel system designs, deployments and applications of aerial vehicles
  • Last-mile communication challenges and novel networking protocols
  • Use of low power wireless technologies in IoT devices and applications
  • System designs to balance network delay, network throughput, and device energy trade-offs
  • Challenges and solutions in IoT data and stream processing at the edge and in the cloud
  • Design and evaluation of machine learning models on IoT data
  • High dimensional big data (images, videos) analysis using machine/deep learning

Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.

Submission Guidelines

  • Submissions must be no greater than 4 pages in length including all figures, tables, and references and must be a PDF file. A minimum number of 3 pages are required.
  • Reviews will be single-blind: authors name and affiliation should be included in the submission.
  • Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines as given on IEEE Website.
  • All workshop papers (full papers - both regular and invited) will appear in conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.
  • All papers must be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and submitted through the WACI Workshop submission site on EDAS.

Papers can be submitted through EDAS : Click Here

Important Deadlines


Submission Due Nov 18, 2016
Notification of Acceptance Dec 5, 2016
Camera-ready Version Due Dec 12, 2016
Workshop Date Jan 4, 2017

Keynote Speakers

Jeffrey Tew

Jeffrey Tew

TCS Innovation Labs, USA

Archan Misra

Archan Misra

SMU, Singapore


Invited Speakers

Rushi Bhatt

Rushi Bhatt

LinkedIn, India

Shivkumar Kalyanaraman

Shivkumar Kalyanaraman

IBM Research, India

Sudhir Rawat

Sudhir Rawat

Microsoft Corporation, India

Zainul Charbiwala

Zainul Charbiwala

Tricog Health, India

Giridhar Mandyam

Giridhar Mandyam

Qualcomm, USA


Panel Discussion : IoT for India - Business and Technology Challenges

Devadatta Kulkarni

Devadatta Kulkarni

Principal Scientist
TCS Innovation Lab, Cincinnati, USA

Somshubhro(Som) Pal Choudhary

Som Pal Choudhary

IoT Consultant & Advisor
Past MD, Analog Devices, India

Sanjeev Malhotra

Sanjeev Malhotra

CEO, IOT Centre of Excellence
NASSCOM

Deva P. Seetharam

Deva P. Seetharam

Co-Founder
DataGlen Inc.


Workshop Schedule


Time Activity Talk Title & Speaker
09:00 AM - 09:15 AM WACI Curtain Raiser
Session - 1:   WACI F(ly)ing
09:15 AM - 10:00 AM Keynote - 1 Industrial Internet of Things: Challenges and Opportunities for Digital Manufacturing
Jeffrey Tew
Chief Scientist and Innovation Lab Director, Tata Consultancy Services, USA
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM Paper - 1 Using an Arduino and a Smartwatch to Measure Liquid Consumed From Any Container
Sonia Soubam (IIIT-Delhi), Manisha Agrawal (IIIT-Delhi),
Vinayak Naik (IIIT-Delhi)
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM Paper - 2 An Experimental Wearable IoT for Data-driven Management of Autism
Yan Shi (Michigan State University), Saptarshi Das (Michigan State University), Sarah Douglas (Michigan State University), Subir Biswas (Michigan State University)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Tea Break
Session - 2:   Going Lean with "Big D"
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Invited Talk - 1 Cognitive IoT for the Energy-Transportation Nexus
Shivkumar Kalyanaraman
Program Director, Special Initiatives & Sr. Manager Cognitive Industry Solutions, IBM Research, India
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM Paper - 3 Suitability of NoSQL systems---Cassandra and ScyllaDB---for IoT workloads
Ashraf Mahgoub (Purdue University); Sachan Ganesh (Purdue University); Folker Meyer (Argonne National Laboratory); Ananth Grama (Purdue University); Somali Chaterji (Purdue University)
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM Paper - 4 An Adaptive and Elastic Cloud Based Framework for Service Oriented Computing in Internet of Things
Arpita Bajpai (NIT Durgapur), Bikash Choudhury (NIT Durgapur), Subhrabrata Choudhury (NIT Durgapur)
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Invited Talk - 2 Machine Learning in the Web World
Rushi Bhatt
Senior Manager, LinkedIn, India
12:30 PM - 01:00 PM Invited Talk - 3 Building IoT Apps With Microsoft Azure
Sudhir Rawat
Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation
01:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch Break
Session - 3:   Pervasive Sensing ... It is all in the AIR
02:00 PM - 02:45 PM Keynote - 2 Fusing Wearable & IoT Sensing: New Directions & Challenges
Archan Misra
Associate Professor & Associate Dean (Research), Singapore Management University, Singapore
02:45 PM - 03:00 PM Paper - 5 On Automatizing Recognition of Multiple Human Activities using Ultrasonic Sensor Grid
Arindam Ghosh (BCREC Durgapur), Anubrata Sanyal (BCREC Durgapur), Amartya Chakraborty (BCREC Durgapur), Praveen Kumar Sharma (NIT Durgapur), Mousumi Saha (IIEST Shibpur), Subrata Nandi (NIT Durgapur), Sujoy Saha (NIT Durgapur)
03:00 PM - 03:15 PM Paper - 6 On Detecting Acceptable Air Contamination in Classrooms using Low Cost Sensors
Praveen Kumar Sharma (NIT Durgapur), Bibek Poddar (BCREC Durgapur), Soumyo Dey (BCREC Durgapur), Sujoy Saha (NIT Durgapur), Subrata Nandi (NIT Durgapur), Tanmay De (NIT Durgapur), Mousumi Saha (IIEST Shibpur), Sandip Mondal (NIT Durgapur)
03:15 PM - 03:45 PM Invited Talk - 4 IoTifying Healthcare to Save Lives
Zainul Charbiwala
Founder and CTO, Tricog Health, India
03:45 PM - 04:15 PM Tea Break
Session - 4:   Lock and Key ... Many Keys, but not Enough Locks
04:15 PM - 04:45 PM Invited Talk - 5 Tiered Attestation for Internet-of-Things (IoT) Devices
Giridhar Mandyam
Chief Security Architect - IoT and Automotive,
Qualcomm, USA
04:45 PM - 05:00 PM Paper - 7 PHY Layer Security for IOT in κ-µ fading channel
Archisman Roy (NIT Durgapur), Pranabesh Maji (NIT Durgapur), Gowthamkrishnan Cherukuri (NIT Durgapur), Sumit Kundu (NIT Durgapur)
Session - 5:   India & IoT-fication
05:00 PM - 06:00 PM Panel Discussion IoT for India: Business & Technology Challenges
Panelist:
1. Devadatta Kulkarni,Principal Scientist, TCS Innovation Lab, Cincinnati, USA
2. Somshubhro(Som) Pal Choudhary, IoT Consultant & Advisor/ Past MD, Analog Devices, India
3. Sanjeev Malhotra, CEO, IOT Centre of Excellence, NASSCOM
4. Deva P. Seetharam, Co-Founder, DataGlen Inc.
06:00 PM - 06:15 PM WACI Closure

Workshop Co-Chairs

Prasant Misra

Prasant Misra

TCS Innovation Labs, Bangalore

Vijay Gabale

Vijay Gabale

Infilect Technologies, India


Workshop Steering Committee

P. Balamuralidhar

P. Balamuralidhar

TCS Innovation Labs, Bangalore

Rahul Mangharam

Rahul Mangharam

University of Pennsylvania, USA

Rajeev Shorey

Rajeev Shorey

TCS Innovation Labs, Bangalore


Program Committee:

  • Vijay Arya, IBM Research, India

  • Madhur Behl, University of Virginia, USA

  • Fernando Boavida, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

  • Ignacio Castro, Queen Mary University of London, UK

  • Karthik Dantu, University of Buffalo, USA

  • Simon Duquennoy, INRIA, France

  • Julian De Hoog, IBM Research, Australia

  • Salil Kanhere, UNSW, Australia

  • Vinay Kolar, CISCO, USA

  • Kirill Kogan, IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain

  • Abhishek Murthy, Philips Research, USA

  • Kumar Padmanabh, Robert Bosch Corporate Research, India

  • Anand Seetharaman, SUNY Binghamton, USA

  • Philipp Sommer, ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland

  • Divyasheel Sharma, ABB Corporate Research, India