International Conference on Civic Technologies for Smart Cities

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on Civic Technologies for Smart Cities13 October, 2015 – Bratislava, Slovakia

SCOPE:

1st International Conference on Civic Technologies for Smart Cities seeks novel previously unpublished contributions in smart cities research. Smart cities can be characterized as cities that offer sustainable economic environment and high quality of life, while relying on technology in order to achieve these goals. The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers, designers, developers and practitioners interested in smart cities technologies. We invite articles discussing theoretical aspects of smart cities, simulation, modeling and experimentation, case studies and tests as well as review articles.

HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Participation in this event will give attendees the unique opportunity to be exposed to all technical scientific aspects of Smart City related topic areas at co-located conferences, as well as be able to have full access to the Smart City market place and business aspects in practice at the Smart City 360 Summit.

CONFERENCE TOPICS:

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Big data
  • Urban security
  • Biometrics
  • Enabling wireless and mobile technologies for smart cities
  • M2M Communications for Smart Cities
  • IoT architectures and middleware for smart cities;
  • Self-organizing wireless networks for pervasive urban access;
  • Mobile-aware cloud computing models, infrastructures, and approaches for smart cities
  • Crowd sourcing in smart cities;
  • Reliability, Security, Privacy and Trust in smart cities ecosystems;
  • Sensor networks, smart sensors, smart integrated systems
  • Communication protocols for smart cities
  • Intelligent infrastructure
  • Vehicle-to-infrastructure communication
  • Smart buildings
  • Modeling and simulation of smart cities
  • Urban population modeling and simulation
  • Smart grid
  • Energy efficient technologies
  • Smart traffic operation systems
  • Monitoring technologies
  • Fault detection technologies
  • Social networks for smart cities
  • Information harvesting in smart cities
  • Advanced robotic systems for smart cities
  • In-building navigation
  • Modeling experimentation for Smart Cities
  • Case Studies of Smart Cities

Call for Posters

Authors who wish to present their work as posters are required to submit a one-page PDF with a title and an abstract of their work (not the poster itself). Submissions should preferably represent early work that is not yet ready for submission to a refereed conference or journal, or describe a technical (non-marketing) innovation. Authors of accepted posters are expected to prepare and present their posters.

Call for Demos

Technology demos are encouraged. Authors who wish to present a technology prototype are required to submit a one-page PDF with a title and a description of their work. Submissions should preferably represent technological innovations in the making. Submitters of accepted demos are expected to present the demo at the conference.

PUBLICATION:

Accepted papers will be published in the CivicTech Conference Proceedings and by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST). The proceedings will be available both in book form and via the SpringerLink digital library, which is one of the largest digital libraries online and covers a variety of scientific disciplines.

The proceedings are submitted for inclusion to the leading indexing services: DBLP, Google Scholar, Thomson Scientific ISI Proceedings, EI Elsevier Engineering Index, CrossRef, Scopus, as well as ICST’s own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

PAPER SUBMISSION:

Papers should be submitted through EAI ‘Confy’ system at Confy, and have to comply with the SPRINGER format (seeAuthor’s kit section).

Full details of submission procedures are available at conference web page.

Important dates

 

Full Paper Submission deadline15 June 2015Notification deadline31 July 2015Camera-ready deadline31 August 2015Start of Conference13 October 2015End of Conference13 October 2015

 

Steering Committee Chair:

Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, EAI, Italy

General Chair:

Miloš Oravec, Slovak University of Technology

General Co-Chairs:

Valeria Loscri, Inria Lille-Nord Europenna

Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia

Maria Vegni, University of Roma Tre

TPC Chair:

Martin Drozda, Slovak University of Technology

TPC Members:

Luca Bedogni – Univesity of Bologna

Marco Di Felice – University of Bologna

Alessandro Neri, Roma Tre University

Sema Oktug – Istanbul Technical University

Pasquale PACE, University of Calabria

Al-Sakib Khan Pathan – International Islamic University (IIUM), Kuala Lumpur,

Zhengguo SHENG, University of British Columbia

Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad – EWI – TUDelft, The Netherlands

Conference Coordinator

Lucia Mrazova, EAI, Slovakia

ASK FOR INFO – info@smartcity360.org

 

This year we offer a special registration fee that we warmly invite you to consider. By registering for the “Open Pass” ticket, with the price of a full conference registration, you also get the opportunity to attend the Summit at no additional cost and network with the top influencers, entrepreneurs and professionals in the field of Smart City.

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