CALL FOR PAPERS

By social good we refer to a “good” or a service that benefits the largest number of people in the largest possible way. Some classic examples of social goods are, of course, healthcare, safety, environment, democracy, and human rights, but we can add to this classic list even communication, art, entertainment and much more.

In this context, the popularity of portable computing devices, like smartphones, tablets, or smart watches combined with the emergence of many other small smart objects with computational, sensing and communication capabilities coupled with the popularity of social networks and new human-technology interaction paradigms is creating unprecedented opportunities for each of us to do something useful, ranging from a single person to the whole world. Furthermore, Internet of Things, Smart-cities, distributed sensing and Fog computing are representative examples of modern ICT paradigms that aim to describe a dynamic and globally cooperative infrastructure built upon objects’ intelligence and self-configuring capabilities. These connected objects are finding their way into our pockets, vehicles, urban areas and infrastructure, thus becoming the very texture of our society and providing us the possibility, but also the responsibility, to shape it.

In GOODTECHS we are hence interested in experiences with the design, implementation, deployment, operation and evaluation of smart objects and technologies for social good. Clearly, we are not considering only the so called first world as the scenario for this evolution; we also refer to those areas where ICT is currently less widespread, hoping that it may represent a societal development opportunity rather than a source for further divide.

• The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organization devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT and will be co-located with the IOT360 Summit;

• Participation in this event will give attendees the unique opportunity to be exposed to all technical scientific aspects of IoT related topic areas at co-located conferences, as well as be able to have full access to the IoT market place and business aspects in practice at the IOT360 Summit..

• All accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world’s largest scientific libraries.

• Best Papers will be considered for publication in the ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications Journal (MONET) and  http://eai.eu/transaction/internet-things.

• • This conference will be held within the scope of IoT360, a flagship event around Internet of Things.

Steering committee

STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR

• IMRICH CHLAMTAC
  Create-Net
  Trento, Italy

STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS

• PIETRO MANZONI
  Universitat Politècnica de València
  Spain
• CLAUDIO PALAZZI
  Università degli Studi di Padova
  Italy
• OMBRETTA GAGGI
  Università degli Studi di Padova
  Italy

Organizing committee

General Co-Chairs

Ombretta Gaggi, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy

Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

Claudio Palazzi, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy

Technical Program Committee Chair 

Armir Bujari, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy

Workshops Chair

Priscila Solis, University of Brasilia, Brasil

Publications Chair

Johann M. Márquez Barja, CTVR – Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Web Chair

Carlos Calafate, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

Publicity and Social Media Chair

Carlos Calafate, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

Conference Manager

Kristina Lukacova, European Alliance for Innovation

Technical Program committee

Marco Picone, University Of Parma, Italy

Francisco J. Martinez, University of Zaragoza, Spain

Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy

Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

Juan Carlos Cano, Universitat Politecnica Valencia, Spain

Piedad Garrido, University of Zaragoza, Spain

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