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4th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference

Kansas City, MO, USA

September 16-19, 2018

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Fourth annual IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2-2018) is the flagship conference sponsored by the IEEE Smart Cities
Initiative. ISC2-2018 will bring together researchers and practitioners in a collaborative smart cities discussion, including scholars,
citizens, policy makers, administrators, infrastructure operators, industry representatives, economists, sociologists and academicians.
Technical exchanges within the research community will encompass panels, plenary talks, technical sessions, tutorials, and exhibitions.
The conference theme is Systems Approach for Smarter Communities that address the complex interplay between our technology
systems and our service delivery systems.
The IEEE ISC2 will contribute to further develop technical best practices across broad application and functional domains within the
context of urban infrastructure systems, and disseminate them to the broad stakeholders.

The technical areas include, but are not limited to:

Community & Governance
● Citizen participation
● Healthcare
● Emergency management
● Smart environment & ecosystems
● Policy development
● Mobility and transportation
● Special needs
● Digital city and smart growth
● Sustainability
● Energy efficiency

Infrastructure & Technology
● Smart grids for smart cities
● Smart buildings
● Transportation and traffic systems
● Smart city theory, modeling, and simulation
● Manufacturing and logistics
● Vehicle-to-infrastructure integration
● Intelligent infrastructure
● Sensors & Intelligent Electronic Devices
● Systems Integration
● Management & Control Platforms
● Energy systems

Data, Privacy & Security
● Computational intelligence
● Open data and big data analytics
● Internet of things (IoT)
● Pattern recognition
● Cybersecurity
● Networks and communications
● Security and regulations
● Data collection
● Data security and privacy
● Data visualization
● Intelligence & Data Analytics

Prospective authors are encouraged to contribute high-quality original full or short papers to this conference. All submitted papers must
be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. The papers should be written in English and formatted according to IEEE
Template. Conference content will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.
All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Accepted papers with confirmed
presentation will appear in the conference proceedings. The overall Best Paper and Best Student Paper Awards will be given and
recognized during the conference.
CALL FOR Workshop Proposals and Tutorials
Proposals are sought for Special Workshops and Tutorials related to the topics and theme of the conference. The detailed instructions on
Workshop proposals, Tutorials as well as Workshop papers are found at the conference website at http://sites.ieee.org/isc2-2018/.