Message from the FiCloud-2019 Chairs

On behalf of the organizing committee, we welcome you to the 7th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud-2019), IEEE CS-TCI, which is held during 26-28 August 2019, in Istanbul, Turkey. Istanbul is one of the major cities in Turkey wherein Europe and Asia meets across the Bosphorus Strait. Istanbul attracts a large number of visitors from different countries due to a combination of magnificent attractions such as centuries-old mosques, churches, traditional markets and modern restaurants and galleries. Alongside the attractions of Istanbul, we are delighted to see that FiCloud has become an established conference in the area of cloud computing and IoT and it is attracting an increasing number of participants every year. We are also pleased that the program committee has put together an interesting technical program which comprises a number of sessions that includes keynote, industrial talks and technical papers. We believe that the conference will provide useful opportunity to the participants for sharing ideas and establishing research network with colleagues from different countries across the world. The FiCloud 2019 focuses on new and emerging topics in the area of cloud and IoT which have been established as major modern IT platforms. Cloud and IoT have been used in various domains such as smart cities, home and office automation, healthcare services, weather and environment, transportation and so on. This year call-for-papers has generated significant interest in the research and development community and has attracted a large number of submissions from authors across different countries of the world. All the submitted papers went through a rigorous review process. Based on the reviews, 57 papers were accepted for the conference, which include, regular and short papers. The acceptance rate for the regular papers is 29%. Accepted papers have been organized into different technical sessions which span the three days of the conference. Technical sessions are related to various aspects of Cloud Computing and IoT such as security and privacy, smart environment, data and knowledge management, software-define network, fog and edge computing, energy efficiency, multimedia data and advanced networks. The success of the FiCloud conference involves contributions from many people in planning and organizing the technical program, social events and local arrangements. We are very grateful of the Local Organizing Chairs, Perin Unal (Teknopar, Turkey), Tacha Serif and Sezer Gören Uğurdağ (Yeditepe University, Turkey). We would like to thank Vincenzo Piuri, (General Co-Chair), Filipe Portela (Workshop Coordinator), Joyce El Haddad (Publicity Chair), Lin Guan, (Journal Special Issue Coordinator) and Barbara Masucci (Publication Chair). We thank members of the Program Committee for helping in the review process and for providing timely and constructive feedback to the authors. We are deeply indebted to the track chairs, Antonio Celesti, Edmundo Madeira, Helen Karatza, Joyce El Haddad, Khaled Aloufe, Luiz Fernando Bittencourt, Madihah Mohd Saudi, Marcin Bajer, Marisa Catalan Cid, Marwan Hassani, Natalia Kryvinska, Patience Anitta Namanya, Jules Pagna Disso, Rafael Angarita, Ron Austin, R. Venkatesha Prasad, Tacha Serif, Tuna Tuğcu, Ella Pereira, Vijay S. Rao, and A. S. M. Kayes, for their great work and support. We express our thanks to all the authors for submitting papers to the conference and for presenting and discussing their papers during the conference. We thank the keynote and industry speakers, Pierangela Samarati (Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy), Soumya Kanti Datta (EURECOM, France) and Gökhan Büyükdığan (Arçelik A.S., Turkey) for delivering interesting talks. FiCloud 2019 has a number of associated symposia and workshops which focus on particular topics. These include MobiApp, AIRS2, SoNet, ICI, PMECT, DS4IDS, CSW and AWMA. We highly appreciate the efforts and hard work that the Organizing and Technical Committees have put into organizing such valuable symposia and workshops. We greatly appreciate the help and guidance provided by the members of the FiCloud international advisory committee. We sincerely appreciate the support of the IEEE CS Technical Committee on the Internet (IEEE-CS TCI) for the technical co-sponsorship of FiCloud 2019.