IEEE-5th International Workshop on Smart City and Ubiquitous Computing Applications

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When : 2017-07-03

Where : Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Submission Deadline : 2017-03-27

Categories : Networks & Communications , Multimedia, Computer Graphics & Animation

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IEEE-5th International Workshop on Smart City and Ubiquitous Computing Applications (SCUCA 2017)
July 03, 2017, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Call for Papers:

Cities and urban areas in general are experiencing immense growth in the last few years as they are the centers of economic activities. Regarding future trends, it is estimated that 93% of urban growth will occur in developing nations, with 80% of urban growth occurring in Asia and Africa. Urged by these observations, city halls and political decision makers are calling for urgent solutions to the growing problems caused by this increasing population concentration. Recent advances in information and communication technologies may stimulate new solutions towards the urbanization problems, and the mission of this workshop is to present recent achievements in ubiquitous computing from a smart cities perspective. Smart city research mainly focuses on applying next-generation information technologies in daily activities, like embedding sensors and actuators in hospitals, power grids, roads, buildings, water systems, vehicles, and other objects forming the Internet of Things (IoT). A recent study identifies five industry sectors that are core to the development of smart cities: energy, water, transportation, buildings, and government. This Workshop addresses the aforementioned issues by examining new technological developments, under the context of ubiquitous computing and smart environments, in the general areas of: Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Mobile Communications, IoT architectures, data storage and handling, security and privacy, reliability and fault tolerance, risk analysis and service business models. Experiences from deployments and case studies related to the aforementioned subject areas are particularly welcome.

Papers primarily based on (but not limited to) the following topics are welcome: (Topics include but not limited to)

# Places of Living and Work

Multimedia pervasive computing for smart environments
E-Health services in smart environments
Smart applications for special user groups (e.g. people with disabilities)
Personalized, transformable urban housing and farming
Time-shifted, shared space-on-demand for collaborative work
Sensing and algorithms to understand fine-grained human activity for responsive lighting, HVAC, health, energy conservation, water management, and communication in the home and workplace

#Mobility Networks:

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) in the context of cooperative applications and services, vehicular networking for smart transportation
Multi-modal mobility platforms
Technologies and services for new urban vehicles
Autonomous vehicle technology and vehicle-pedestrian interfaces
Technologies for shared-use vehicle systems
Assistive technologies

#Social Networks and the City

New network-centric methods for managing reactive, data-driven city systems
Social, multimedia and ubiquitous computing for smart cities
Urban-scale serious games to shape use of resources such as shared-used mobility, variable-rate power, and flexible workspaces
The development of exchange networks in order to obtain more stable, fair, and socially acceptable services

#Urban Analysis and Modeling

Data-driven analysis of economic activity, human behavior, mobility patterns, resource consumption, etc. in order to inform an evidence-based process of designing new cities
Parametric urban design tools to schematically define mobility nodes, streets, building massing, and location of resources to create nested compact urban cells (walkable neighborhoods)
Definition of energy, mobility, water, food, and waste management models for urban areas
Typology of streetscapes, pathways, mobility nodes, and responsive technologies for cities

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper Submission deadline : March 27, 2017
Notification of Acceptance : April 17, 2017
Camera-Ready Deadline : April 24, 2017

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