Special Sessions
Special Sessions consist of peer-reviewed papers and interactive presentations focused on a selected “hot” research topics of importance to IoT. A key aspect of Special Sessions is that they should be coherent, relevant to an aspect of IoT, timely and informative, while not overlapping with the content of the traditional technical paper program.
| Spes ID | Special Session | Chairs |
| Spes-01 | Future Platforms for Cloud-Edge Continuum – Theoretical Foundations and Practical Considerations |
Marcin Paprzycki - Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences Rajkumar Buyya - The University of Melbourne Tarik Taleb - The University of Oulu Maria Ganzha - Warsaw University of Technology and Systems Research Institute Carlos Palau - Universitat Politecnica de Valencia Levent Gürgen - Kentyou |
| Spes-02 | Special Session on Cybersecurity Issues of IoT in Ambient Intelligence Environment (2nd Edition) |
Abdellah Chehri - Royal Military College of Canada Gwanggil Jeon - Incheon National University Imran Ahmed - Anglia Ruskin University Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir - University of the West of Scotland |
| Spes-03 | Advances in the Internet of Biological and medical things (AdIoBMT) |
Maria Fatima Domingues - Khalifa University Andrea Sciarrone - University of Genoa |
| Spes-04 | Software Engineering for the Industrial Internet of Things |
Rui Pinto - Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto Gil Gonçalves - Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto Pedro Miguel Baptista Torres - Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco Paulo Leitão - Polytechnic Institute of Bragança |
| Spes-05 | GROWS: 6G-empoweRed iOt netWorkS |
Daniel Nunes Corujo - Instituto de Telecomunicacoes Håkon Lønsethagen - Telenor |
| Spes-06 | Internet of Robotic Things |
Prabha Sundaravadivel - The University of Texas at Tyler Thinagran Perumal - Universiti Putra Malaysia Soumya Kanti Dutta - Digiotouch Preetha Roselyn - SRM Institute of Science and Technology |
| Spes-07 | Navigating the Opportunities and Challenges in Maritime IoT |
Rui Campos - INESC TEC and Universidade do Porto Filipe Borges Teixeira - INESC TEC |
| Spes-08 | IoT for Agriculture and Aquaculture |
Stefano Giordano - University of Pisa Mike O Ojo - Texas A&M University Mehmet Can Vuran - University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| Spes-09 | LPWAN and 5G/6G-enabled Artificial Intelligence of Things applications for Internet of Ships and Maritime Internet of Things |
Ana Maria Drăgulinescu - Politehnica University of Bucharest Bogdan Ionescu - Politehnica University of Bucharest Frank Yong Li - University of Agder Octavia Dobre - Memorial University Marius Vochin - Politehnica University of Bucharest |
| Spes-10 | Scalable and Distributed Industrial Internet of Things(IIoT) Architectures and Industry 5.0 |
Hasita Kaja - Samsung Electronics America Ayoub Khan - University of Bisha |
| Spes-11 | Quantum Internet of Things |
Riccardo Bassoli - Technische Universität Dresden Holger Boche - Technische Universität München Christian Deppe - Technische Universität München Frank H.P. Fitzek - Technische Universität Dresden Janis Nötzel - Technische Universität München |
| Spes-12 | IoT for Road Safety: Innovations, Challenges, and Future Directions |
Abd-Elhamid Taha - Alfaisal University Sharief Oteafy - DePaul University Mohamed Abusharkh - Ferrist State University |
