Topics include:

• Advances in pervasive systems and infrastructures: middleware systems and services; large-scale data management for pervasive computing; clouds, cloudlets, and fog computing; device-to-device coordination; Internet of Things; sensor and actuator networks; experiences from real-world deployments.
• Theoretical and analytical models and algorithms: context modeling and reasoning; adaptive and context-aware computing; activity recognition; programing paradigms; applied machine learning; cognitive computing techniques.
• Domain-specific challenges and novel applications: pervasive technologies for healthcare, sport, smart homes and buildings, smart manufacturing (Industry 4.0), smart cities; innovative pervasive computing applications in such domains.
• Intersections of pervasive computing and communications with other research areas: social networks; urban/mobile crowd sensing & intelligence; opportunistic networks; big data.
• New techniques for user-level concerns: participatory and social sensing; trust, security, and privacy; user interfaces, interaction, and persuasion; blockchain and smart contracts.
• Technological innovations: architectures, protocols, and technologies for pervasive communications; mobile and wearable computing systems and services; smart devices and intelligent environments; cognitive and reconfigurable hardware; positioning and tracking technologies.