Workshop Proposal Format
Each workshop proposal (maximum 5 pages) must include (please follow the following order in your proposal):

• Title of the workshop
• Workshop Organizers (names, affiliation and contact information), limiting up to 2 workshop chairs for half-day workshop and 3 workshop chairs for full-day workshop
• Scope and topics of the workshop (max 1 page)
• Rationale (max 1 page)
• Why is the topic current and important?
• Why the workshop may attract a significant number of submissions of good quality?
• Why the workshop may attract a large number of attendees, in addition to the authors?
• Why the workshop differs from others; i.e., related workshops and conferences of similar topic?
• A short biography of the organizers (up to 200 words)
• Names of potential participants, such as program committee members and invited speakers (indication that speakers accepted to participate is a plus)
• Planned format of the workshop, including
• Duration of the workshop: Half-day, Full-day and tentative schedule
• Preferred day of workshop
• Number of refereed papers
• Unique, creative and novel workshop formats are strongly encouraged
• Draft Call for Papers (max 1 page)
• A description of the publicity and promotion plan
• If appropriate, a description of past versions of the workshop, including the number of submitted and accepted papers, number of attendees, etc. is welcome to receive. If a similar workshop has been organized at recent ATC/SmartWorld/UIC/ScalCom/IoP/SCI, please state whether your proposed workshop is similar or different.

Workshop Preparation and Organization Timeline:

• Proposal Submission Deadline: 31st Dec, 2018
• Notification of Selection: 10th January, 2019
• Website for each workshop on: 1st February , 2019
• Deadline for workshop paper submission: 19th April, 2019
• Acceptance/rejection announcement: 4th May, 2019
• Camera-ready Workshop Paper Due: 19th May , 2019

Please submit your workshop proposal to the following IEEE ATC 2019 Workshop Chairs with subject “ATC2019 workshop proposal”

• Marinella Petrocchi, Institute of Informatics and Telematics (IIT), Italy, marinella.petrocchi@iit.cnr.it;
• Yu Chen, San Jose State University, USA, yu.chen.fifi@gmail.com;
• Wenxiu Ding, Xidian University, China, wxding@xidian.edu.cn.