CfP: 2nd International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Social Systems for Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities (CPSS4Sus)
The workshop is held in conjunction with the 18th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS2024) in Guimarães, Portugal, 14-17 May 2024. https://sites.google.com/view/cpss4sus2024/home 1. Motivation A Cyber-Physical System (CPS) is composed of the physical, networking, and computational elements controlled or monitored by algorithms. CPS must include requirements for security, safety, privacy, reliability, resilience, and the processing of massive amounts of information. According to NIST, "CPS will bring advances in personalized health care, emergency response, traffic flow management, and electric power generation and delivery, as well as in many other areas now just being envisioned. Therefore, the economic and social potential of such systems is huge, and large investments are being made worldwide to develop these systems. The world is confronting numerous challenges that should be dealt with in the near future, such as tackling climate change and environmental degradation, producing affordable and clean energy, eliminating poverty, and ensuring education, health, and social protection for all. CPS can be relevant in addressing social, environmental, economic, and governance sustainability. Regarding social sustainability, it is imperative to identify early development approaches for CPS systems that promote strong and fair communities, such as social and health equity, community development, human rights, and social justice. These human and social characteristics and interactions are brought into the CPS due to the human-centric computation shift to the Cyber-Physical Social System (CPSS), which is the target of our workshop. The workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners i) to discuss their current work focusing on requirements, design, frameworks, and empirical studies about emerging opportunities and challenges of CPSS for sustainability, ii) to identify the main challenges and define a research agenda on the topic of CPSS for sustainability. 2. Potential topics (not limited to topics listed below): 1. CPSS requirements elicitation, specification, and validation for sustainability; 2. CPSS (e.g., IoT and Big Data) quality requirements for sustainability; 3. Smart cities requirements elicitation, specification, and validation for social sustainability; 4. Smart cities’ quality requirements for social sustainability; 5. CPSS to specific domain (health, tourism, mobility...) regarding sustainability; 6. Interaction design in CPSS for sustainability; 7. (Multi) user experience design and assessment in CPSS for sustainability; 8. Privacy requirements for CPSS regarding sustainability; 9. Ethics in CPSS regarding sustainability; 10. Teaching and learning CPSS for sustainability. 3. Important dates Workshop paper submission: March 15, 2024 Workshop paper notification: April 12, 2024 Workshop paper camera-ready copy: April 19, 2024 Workshop paper author registration: April 19, 2024 4. Submission process Authors are invited to submit unpublished and innovative work on the topics of interest of the workshop in the following categories: full papers (7-10 pages), short papers (4-6 pages), and position papers (4-5 pages). Full papers are intended to describe a technical contribution, an empirical evaluation of existing solutions, and experience reports regarding the workshop topics. Short papers are intended to describe work in progress and research ideas at an early stage. For example, a short paper could describe a pilot study evaluating a CPSS in a specific domain. Finally, position papers are intended to present problems and challenges or state the position of the author (s) on any of the workshop topics. Submitted articles should be in English and PDF format according to the 1-column CEUR-ART style (see " CEURART style files for papers" in http://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html) and submitted through EasyChair. The submission site is https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=rcis2024. Accepted papers will be published in CEUR proceedings using the 1-column CEUR-ART style (see " CEURART style files for papers" at http://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html). Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit extended versions for publication in the Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development (JSERD https://sol.sbc.org.br/journals/index.php/jserd/about/submissions ). 5. Organizing Committee Isabel Sofia Brito, isabel.so...@ipbeja.pt, Polytechnic Institute of Beja, Beja, Portugal. Ivan Machado, ivan.mach...@ufba.br, Institute of Computing at the Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil João Paulo Barros, joao.bar...@ipbeja.pt, Polytechnic Institute of Beja, Beja, Portugal.
