<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-m_2458760960904929000gmail-:3ov" style="display:block"><div id="gmail-m_2458760960904929000gmail-:3or" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" style="direction:ltr;min-height:416px"><div>Dear Authors,<br><br>Hope
this message finds you well. We would like to invite you to contribute a
paper to the “Pervasive Digital Twins in the Era of Web of Things”
Special Session of the 8th IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things. <br><br>Brief description:<br><br>During
the past decade, due to the dynamic evolution in the Internet of Things
(IoT) domain, several advancements opened up the possibility of a more
effective merging between the physical and the cyber worlds.
Furthermore, the need to support more open systems and higher
interoperability among devices, services, and users led to the
development of the concept of the Web of Things (WoT) and the
wide-spread adoption of Web approaches to overcome the massive
fragmentation and heterogeneity of the network layer in terms of
protocols, data formats and closed platforms.<br><br>This dynamic and
challenging scenario became relevant both in Academia and Industry,
revitalizing the concept of Digital Twins (DT) in order to shape and
deploy virtual synchronized replicas of physical objects. They are
moving fast towards a widespread adoption and diffusion beyond
industrial contexts where they are rooted, as a general way to bridge
the physical space and cyberspace. This challenging pervasive evolution
calls for new software architectures, network protocols and
interoperable platforms, featuring levels of flexibility beyond the ones
provided by the solutions available in the state of the art, for
example investigating how the WoT can be adopted in the DT space to
support these challenges.<br><br>This Special Session aims to provide a
forum that brings together authors from the research and academic
communities, standardization bodies, and industrial companies to meet
and exchange ideas on recent research, challenges, future directions,
and application design for DTs, IoT and Web of Things technologies in
multiple application scenarios and use cases.<br><br>Official Webpage: <a href="https://wfiot2022.iot.ieee.org/" target="_blank">https://wfiot2022.iot.ieee.org/</a><br>Paper submissions for Special Sessions: 13 June 2022<br>Acceptance Notification: 8 July 2022<br>Camera-Ready Paper Submission Deadline: 31 July 2022<br><br>Kind regards<br>The Organizers<br><br>Prof. Marco Picone, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy<br>Prof. Antonio Virdis, University of Pisa, Italy<br>Prof. Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy<br>Prof. Simon Mayer, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland<br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">*************************************************************************************************</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Marco Picone, Ph.D</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">Assistant Professor (RTD-B), PhD @ UniMore</font><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span><span style="font-size:12.8px">E-mail (Personal): </span><a style="font-size:12.8px" href="mailto:picone.m@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font color="#0b5394">picone.m@gmail.com</font></a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">E-mail </span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">(UniMore)</span>: <a href="mailto:marco.picone@unimore.it" target="_blank"><font color="#0b5394">marco.picone@unimore.it</font></a></span><span style="font-size:12.8px"></span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Homepage: <a href="https://www.marcopicone.net" target="_blank">https://www.marcopicone.net</a> <br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">*************************************************************************************************</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>