The First International Workshop on Network Meets Intelligent 

Computations (NMIC)



https://www.eee.hku.hk/~kcleung/service/NMIC/2019/cfp.html 



Organized in conjunction with IEEE ICDCS 2019, 7 July - 10 July 2019, 

Dallas, Texas, USA



The new computation technologies, such as big data analytics, modern 

machine learning technology, artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, 

and security processing, have the great potential to be embedded into 

network to enable it to be intelligent and trustworthy. On the other 

hand, Information-Centric Networking (ICN), software-defined network (

SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), network slicing, and data 

center network have emerged as the novel networking paradigms for fast 

and efficient delivering and retrieving data. Against this backdrop, 

there is a strong trend to move the computations from the cloud to not 

only the edges but also the resource-sufficient networking nodes, which 

triggers the convergence between the emerging networking concepts and 

the new computation technologies.



The ultimate goals for networking researches include intelligence, trust,

 and efficiency, which can be enhanced by or benefit for the intelligent 

computations. There are many open challenges for the emerging network 

concepts to meet the intelligent computations: what computations should 

be embedded; which node should be enforced with the computation; how can 

the computations, such as big data analytics, security, AI, machine 

learning, blockchain, be seamlessly embedded into the network and enable 

it to be efficient, trustworthy and accountable; how to fast locate the 

required and suitable computation nodes; how to efficiently transfer 

data through series of computation nodes; how to efficiently collect and 

process the big networking data; how to design networking architectures 

and protocols to easily support the efficient and diverse computations; 

how to achieve ultra-low latency communications with distributed 

computations; and how to migrate from the Internet to the computation-

enabled network.



The NMIC workshop 2019 solicits the papers that address the technical 

challenges and applications of the distributed computations for 

networking, the intelligent computations supported by the novel 

networking technologies, and the enforcement of series of computations. 

The areas of interests include, but are not limited to, the following:



    Networking architecture and protocols for integrating caching, 

computation, and communications

    Machine learning, data mining and big data analytics in networking

    In-network computation for future networks, inter-data center 

networking and 5G

    Information-centric networking with/for computations

    Intelligent Internet edge integrating edge, fog, and mobile edge 

computing with networking

    Intelligent service function/computation chaining

    Security, privacy, trust, accountability for/with intelligent 

computation networking

    Collection and processing for big network data

    Distributed computations for network anomaly detection and security

    Integrating Blockchain with networking

    Network function virtualization, software-defined network, and 

network slicing for distributed computations

    Networking computations for big data, streaming, IoT, and AR/VR

    In-network data computations for network measurement and management

    Distributed artificial intelligence with/for networking

    Data modelling and applications of networking

    Big data networking in healthcare, V2V, smart cities, industry and 

other applications



Selected papers will be recommended to EURASIP Journal on Wireless 

Communications and Networking or IEEE Network Magazine for potential 

publications.



Submission Procedure



All submissions should follow the IEEE 8.5? x 11? Two-Column Format. 

Each submission can have up to 6 pages. Authors of accepted papers are 

expected to present their papers at the workshop.



Submission link: https://easychair.org/cfp/ICDCS2019

Submission Method 

1. Click the ICDCS 2019 CFP webpage: https://easychair.org/cfp/ICDCS2019 

2. Click the submission link 

3. Login and then click "enter as an author" 

4. Select "Network Meets Intelligent Computations"



Committee:



Technical Program Chairs:

Dijiang Huang, Arizona State University, USA

Ruidong Li, National Institute of Information and Communications 

Technology (NICT), Japan

Michele Nogueira, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil 



Web Chair

Ka-cheong Leung, Hongkong University 



Publicity Chair

Moayad Aloqaily, Gnowit Inc. Ottawa, Canada

Ouns Bouachir, Zayed University, UAE



Steering Committee:

Jie Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Hitoshi Asaeda, NICT, Japan

Xiaoming Fu, University of Gottingen, Germany



Important Dates



New Paper submission deadline: April 3, 2019

Author notification: April 25, 2019

Camera ready: May 10, 2019

Conference and Workshops: July 7-10, 2019





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