Cloud Computing Services within a Smart Product
Environment
International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Sciences
In Lisbon, Portugal on May 20-22 2015
“CLOSER2015”
Session chairs
A. BOURAS
Qatar University- Qatar
[email protected]
A. SEKLOULI SEKHARI
University Lyon2 - DISP
laboratory- France
[email protected]
Y. OUZROUT
University Lyon2 - DISP
laboratory- France
[email protected]
Call for papers
Thanks to innovations in information and mobile technologies, new product development shifts from physical
to hybrid configuration that integrates physical devices within digital platforms. Such kind of Smart Products
consist in physical parts working as an interface and software parts collecting data from users or environments
and interpreting the results as the services. Integration of communication and information technologies into
products enables new functionalities and services to satisfy customer’s requirements. In order to satisfy the
desires for personalized products, smart products require variability and customized features. Smart product
development is more complex than traditional product and requires knowledge from interdisciplinary expertise.
Hence, smart product development requires a collaborative platform to support information/knowledge
sharing and decision-making among involved stakeholders (designers, physical part manufacturers, software
developers, users).
Cloud computing approaches have the potential to support collaborative working environment during the
beginning of life (BoL) i.e. product design, development, and manufacturing phase and middle of life (MoL) i.e.
use and maintenance phase. BoL requires a collaborative platform for multiple-stakeholders. The development
of smart product can be enabled through the integration of online communication, collaborative design, virtual
prototyping through in the cloud and developed in modular form. At MoL, smart products desire cloud
infrastructure to manage the information among users, service providers, and manufacturers. Several research
works on smart product development; digital applications, and cloud computing but they lack a real integration.
This leads to new research challenges in developing new methodologies for designing and developing smart
products based on cloud computing framework.
Collaboration among product development actors and an identification of customer requirements are other
challenges. For instance; information extraction can effectively integrate the voice of customers into smart
product development. The specific product features and the customer’s opinions extraction enable the early
product validation before the production and assembly launch. Moreover, intelligent analysis of the dynamic
customer requirements can better support the new product development. The basic information extraction
tasks including identifying product features, identifying opinions regarding product features, determining the
polarity of opinions, and recommending the relevant information to specific needs. Although more and more
works are emerging to handle these tasks, the existing approaches often produce uninformative or incoherent
information. In additional, the unstructured and the ambiguous data can raise many new information
extraction challenges. Addressing these challenges requires new approaches, which can support smart
products development.
This special session aims to focus on Cloud Computing based methodologies, tools, and applications
implemented during BoL and MoL of smart products. What are the specific features of smart products and how
does cloud computing technology facilitate the collaborative product development along lifecycle of smart
products? Theoretical approaches and practical case studies are welcome to this Special Session. Typical areas
include (but are not limited to) the following topics:
Topics
Collaborative Smart Product Development and Manufacturing
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Cloud architecture for smart product development
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Cloud Manufacturing
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Cloud Product Lifecycle Management
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Privacy, security and trust in Cloud Computing
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Cloud deployment models: Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud
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Cloud interoperability
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Collaborative tools
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Enterprise architectures and services
Use, Service, and Maintenance Phase of Smart Products
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Cloud application architectures
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Mobile cloud computing models, infrastructures, and approaches
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Big data management
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Cloud-based Mobile Media Systems and Social Networks
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Innovative Front-End Services
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Security Issues in Mobile Systems
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Services Security and Reliability
Information extraction
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Information extraction approach
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Customer opinion integration and extraction
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Product features extraction
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Unstructured data analysis
Important dates
Paper submission
Author Notification
Camera Ready and Registration
15 Mar 2015
26 Mar 2015
06 Apr 2015
Instruction for authors
All papers must be submitted through
http://www.insticc.org/Primoris/Default.aspx.
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