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submission deadlines: September 14, 2019 (deadline)
October 14, 2019 (extended deadline)
Social, Legal, and Ethical Implications of IoT, Cloud, and Edge Computing Technologies
A book edited by Gianluca Cornetta(1,2), A. Touhafi(2) & G.-M. Muntean(3)
(1)Department of Information Engineering, Universidad San Pablo-CEU, Madrid (Spain)
(2)Department of Electronics and Informatics, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Brussels (Belgium)
(3)School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University, Dublin (Ireland)
https://iot-book.tk
Introduction:
In the last five years Cloud and IoT technologies have experienced significant improvements and gained a wide acceptance among both industrial and academic communities. The new technological framework has enabled a plethora of new applications and prompted new research in many areas that can potentially benefit from this new technological and industrial revolution we are experiencing nowadays. The target markets include not only strategic areas for governments such as health, defense and education, but also architecture and urbanism, environmental sciences, human dynamics, industrial processes monitoring, etc. The new technologies have the potential to empower the current business models by either reducing the running costs or fostering sustainability and circularity, or by generating new value related to the data processed.
However, Cloud and IoT technologies are enabling technologies; thus, their real value is not in the technology in itself, but in the new applications and business models that can benefit from those technologies and that can result into an advance in society and in the perception of a real improvement in individual and community welfare. There is a general misconception that research in Cloud and IoT technology is strictly a technological issue. Research in IoT is not only making a device smaller, or faster, or cheaper, or making the Cloud and the network more secure and reliable. The new technological revolution we are experiencing is also entailing many ethical issues that eventually will not stop the worldwide adoption of the new IoT paradigm, but that are currently slowing down its diffusion and that require a broad consensus among all the potential stakeholders of the new technologies (governments, policy makers, technologists, industries and citizens). Any researcher that wants to pursue investigations in the IoT field, regardless his/her background (either technical or non-technical) must answer a series of ethical questions. Does the pervasive network of things imply a violation of our right to privacy? Will the collected data be ethically used, and how can it be we ensured? Are there any regulatory issues that could act as a potential barrier for our technology?
This context is extremely new and challenging for several researchers, especially in the ICT field since most of them have never been concerned with ethical issues before. The new IoT technological paradigm requires a researcher in the field to have a broad and intersectoral knowledge as well as the consciousness of the possible ethical issues that can be raised by the adoption of a given technology.
Book aim and scope:
The book is markedly intersectoral and multidisciplinary and aims to provide to researchers, practicing engineers, as well as other possible stakeholders of the new IoT technological paradigm (e.g. architects, urbanists, policy makers, attorneys, etc.) a broad and comprehensive overview of (i) all the potential applications and benefits enabled, and (ii) all the possible technological, social and ethical implications raised by the adoption of the new IoT technologies.
In this multidisciplinary context, the underlying Cloud and IoT technologies are seen in their real essence; namely, as enabling technologies whose importance can be understood
only in a broader context, i.e. the application context that can leverage those technologies to solve a given problem in a particular situation. Thus, the technologies must be clearly bound to the application by providing a wide set of real use cases and application scenarios in different fields (e.g. smart cities, e-government, e-health, etc.). Finally, technologies must be analyzed under the ethical point of view. Technical feasibility does not imply the automatic acceptance of a given technology if its adoption raises ethical issues about data management, data privacy and user profiling.
Target audience:
Target audience is supposed to be broad and includes senior graduate students, PhD students, practicing engineers, potential IoT and Cloud technologies stakeholders and researchers with different background (either technical or non-technical) aiming to gain a deeper insight and a comprehensive view of all the technological, social, ethical, and regulatory aspects of IoT and Cloud technologies.
Recommended topics:
The research areas covered in this book embrace all the technical and non-technical aspects related to IoT, edge and cloud technologies and applications with special emphasis on IoT, edge and cloud technologies and applications, regulatory and ethical issues. Example of applications are smart cities, smart homes, e-governance, smart transportation, smart grid and efficient power delivery, security and defense, education and technology-enhanced learning, crowd control, e-health and assisted living, smart agriculture, environmental monitoring, circular and sustainable business models. The book should cover in depth the following technical topics: machine learning algorithms for IoT, data analysis, data lakes design, big data, data security, data privacy, cloud architecture and infrastructure, IoT architecture and infrastructure, edge computing, dew computing, Industry 4.0, machine-to-machine protocols, real-time communications, wireless sensor networks, embedded security, smart devices, device interoperability and standardization.
In addition, the book should also cover the following non-technical topics: human dynamics in smart cities, ethics of devices, ethics of data, ethics of practices, ethical design, data ownership, management and exploitation, GDPR and international regulations on data protection, smart cities planning and design, e-governance, strategic management and sustainable innovation, e-governance for social innovation, social impact of IoT technologies, public value creation in smart cities, stakeholders engagement in smart cities.
About the Publisher:
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), an international academic publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference”
imprints. IGI Global specializes in publishing reference books, scholarly journals, and electronic databases featuring academic research on a variety of innovative topic areas including, but not limited to, education, social science, medicine and healthcare, business and management, information science and technology, engineering, public administration, library and information science, media and communication studies, and environmental science. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2020.
Important dates:
September 14th, 2019 Chapter proposal submission deadline
October 14th, 2019 Extended deadline for chapter proposal submission
On or before October 21st, 2019 Notification of acceptance/rejection of the proposal
November 27th, 2019 Deadline for full chapter submission
January 10th, 2020 Review results due to authors
February 21st, 2020 Final acceptance/rejection notification to authors
March 6th, 2020 Submission deadline for reviewed manuscripts
For more detailed information, please visit https://iot-book.tk For any questions or enquiries, please contact the editors:
Gianluca Cornetta
[email protected]
Tel.: (+34) 91 372 4035
Universidad San Pablo-CEU Escuela Politécnica Superior Campus de Montepríncipe
28668 Boadilla del Monte (Madrid) SPAIN
Abdellah Touhafi
[email protected]
Tel.: (+32) 629 2872
Vrije Universiteit Brussels
Pleinlaan 2 1050 Brussel BELGIUM
Gabriel-Miro Muntean
[email protected]
Tel.: (+353) 1 700 7648
Dublin City University Glasnevin, Dublin 9 IRELAND
Editorial Advisory Board Members:
Guadalupe Cantarero Universidad San Pablo-CEU Spain
Nieves Navarro Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Spain
Magdalena Suárez Universidad Complutense Madrid Spain
José Luís Piñar Universidad San Pablo-CEU Spain
Jan Helsen Vrije Universiteit Brussels Belgium
Kris Steenhaut Vrije Universiteit Brussels Belgium
Cristina Muntean National College of Ireland Ireland
Diana Bogusevschi Dublin City University Ireland
Zhenhui Yuan Hangzhou Dianzi University China
Abderrahim Tahiri Abdelmalek Essaädi University Morocco
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