Call For Papers

Cities around the world are currently under quick transition towards providing a low carbon environment, high quality of living, and resource efficient economy. Urban performance depends not only on the city's endowment of hard infrastructure, but also on the availability and quality of knowledge communication and social infrastructure. There is a growing importance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), social and environmental capital in profiling the competitiveness of cities.
 
 
Information and communication systems play a critical role in building smart cities and supporting comprehensive urban informatics. Extensive research is taking place on a wide range of enabling technologies, including cloud and network infrastructure, wireless sensing and actuation technologies, mobile crowdsourcing, social networking, real time data stream processing and big data analytics for smart cities. This brings together citizens and integrates technologies and services such as transportation, broadband communications, buildings, healthcare, social care, emergency response, and other utilities. Advanced communication and computing techniques can facilitate a participatory approach for achieving integrated solutions and creating novel applications to improve urban life and build sustainable societies.
 
 
The main purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers/academics/industries in the field of system, networking and communication to discuss major challenges, research problems, and potential applications to support smart cities and urban informatics. We are expected to share new findings, exchange ideas, discuss research challenges and report latest research efforts that cover a variety of topics including, but not limited to:
 
 
    Application, deployment, testbed, and experiment experiences in smart cities
    Big data in urban informatics
    Cloud computing and network infrastructure in smart cities
    5G and next generation of Cellular networks in smart cities
    Delay tolerant networks and systems for urban data collection
    E-health and connected healthcare systems
    Environmental and urban monitoring
    Enabling wireless and mobile technologies for smart cities
    Fault tolerance, reliability and survivability in smart systems
    Green computing, networking and energy efficiency
    Human mobility modeling and analytics
    Mobile crowdsourcing for urban analytics
    QoS and QoE of smart city systems, applications, and services
    IoT for smart cities
    Cyber-physical and social computing and networks
    Software defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) in smart city environments
    Smart grids
    Smart transportation
    Smart buildings
    Safety, security, privacy and trust in smart city applications and servcies
    Smartphone and mobile systems and applications
    Vehicular networks