The workshop
The Internet of Everything (IoE) model presents at its core the promise to aggregate the "four pillars" of people, data, processes and things, in order to extend and improve the processes already present in classical models and, in turn, to enrich the lives of people. One of the most intriguing challenges in IoE is the paradigm "connections among things" shifting to "connections among people, process, data and things". At the same time, in a similar manner, the concept of Industry 5.0 makes its way in the nowadays industrial ecosystem. A peculiar necessity in Industry 5.0 is to increase productivity while not removing human workers from the manufacturing processes. This can be tackled by defining and evaluating hybrid ecosystems in which smart machines are intertwined with humans as collaborators rather than competitors.
Goals and motivations
HIEMI 2022 aims at bringing together scientific and industrial communities on discussing, proposing, defining and evaluating innovative and hybrid models for IoE in Industry 5.0 ecosystems. Considering the novelty of the context, the workshop also aims at defining a collaborative research agenda to highlight future research directions.
The workshop focuses on a rapidly advancing context that is attracting a considerable attention both from academic and industrial communities. For instance, according to Semantic Scholar, since 2020 more than 1,700 scientific contributes have been published regarding IoE and relating concepts, such as 6G networks, healthcare systems and edge- and fog-based architectures. Larger mentions are present for Industry 5.0, with more than 250,000 contributes mentioning it. Instantiating a novel workshop on such contexts encourages researchers and practitioners to share new ideas and developments, in order to tackle well known challenges and to pose new ones.