Workshop: 1^st International Workshop on Smart and Circular Cities

Organizers: Athanasios Kalogeras, Luis Muñoz, Luca Ferrarini, Georgios Mylonas, Jaechang Shim

Call for papers:

    Smart Cities and the IoT, together with sustainability and circular economy, form a significant part of the current research landscape, as regards large-scale systems and applications. A number of challenges have surfaced during the last few years when designing and applying these systems in fields like energy, sustainability, smart transportation and digital twinning, especially when discussing their cross-section. In most cases, it is clear that a multi-disciplinary approach is required for designing and implementing systems for smart circular cities, and such aspects are at the core of this workshop.

    The aim of this workshop is to collect works from academia and industry reporting original, previously unpublished research, addressing technologies, systems, applications and services in the Smart and Circular Cities domain. In addition, novel approaches combining advances in IoT, Edge and Cloud computing, circularity and sustainability, Industry 4.0 are also within the scope of this workshop.

    Overall, the workshop will address the following topics:

    * Applications of AI for smart cities

    * Cross-section between smart cities, circularity and art

    * Data management, open data and knowledge extraction in smart cities

    * Digital Twins and their application in Smart Cities and Sustainability

    * People-centric systems and crowdsensing solutions in smart cities

    * DLT technologies for Smart Cities

    * Smart Cities as a system of systems

    * Smart city pilots/applications and related studies

    * Studies on behavioral change aspects for sustainability

    * Tools and techniques for urban co-creation

    * 6G and alternative communication architectures and IoT applications

Summission:

    Papers reporting strong contributions backed by solid evaluation are strongly encouraged. The impact of the contributions should be demonstrated in the context of smart cities and the IoT, and should demonstrate substantial novelty and/or impact. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. Submitted papers will undergo a review process handled by the Technical Program Committee.

    A maximum of 6 pages per submission, including all figures, tables and references, is requested. Formatting should follow the IEEE Computer Society author guidelines.

    Each accepted workshop paper requires a full SmartIoT registration (no registration is available for workshops only). Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore).

    Papers will be submitted through the Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeesmartiot2021) system for the SmartIoT conference, by selecting the Workshops Track.

    The workshop is supported by the IEEE Smart and Circular Cities Special Technical Community (https://smartcircularcity.isi.gr/).

Important Dates:

    Workshop Paper Submission Due: 1 June 2021 5 June 2021(fixed)

    Author Notification Due:                  10 June 2021 15 June 2021(fixed)

    Camera-ready Due:                         20 June 2021

    Registration Due:                             25 June 2021 10 July 2021(fixed)

    Conference Date:                             13-15 Aug 2021

Workshop Chairs:

    ·Athanasios Kalogeras, Industrial Systems Institute, Athena Research and Innovation Center, Greece
    ·Luis Muñoz, University of Cantabria, Spain
    ·Luca Ferrarini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
    ·Georgios Mylonas, Industrial Systems Institute, Athena Research and Innovation Center, Greece
    ·Jaechang Shim, Andong National University, South Korea

Organizing Committee:

    ·Prof. Dimitrios Serpanos, Computer Technology Institute & Press “Diophantus”, Greece
    ·Prof. Marylin Wolf, Professor of Engineering and Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA
    ·Assoc. Prof. Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Department of Computer, Control & Management Engineering, “La Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy
    ·Assoc. Prof. Sobah Abbas Petersen, Department of Computer Science, NTNU, Norway

Technical Program Committee:

    ·Antonio Jara, HOPU, Spain
    ·Antonio Skarmeta, University of Murcia, Spain
    ·Noel Crespi, TELECOM PARIS, France
    ·Flavio Cirillo, NEC, Germany
    ·Christos Chrysoulas, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
    ·Panagiotis Kokkinos, University of Peloponnese, Greece
    ·Christos Antonopoulos, University of Peloponnese, Greece
    ·Nikos Voros, University of Peloponnese, Greece
    ·Federica Paganelli, University of Pisa, Italy
    ·Μarcus Winter, University of Brighton, UK
    ·Michele Nati , IOTA Foundation, UK
    ·Eleni Christopoulou, Ionian University, Greece
    ·Dimitris Ringas, Ionian University, Greece
    ·Simone Mora, Senseable City Laboratory, MIT, USA
    ·Leendert Wienhofen, Trondheim Municipality, Norway

    Please contact Georgios Mylonas at email: mylonasg@isi.gr if there are any questions.

    IEEE SmartIoT 2021 workshop paper can be submitted and please select the Track Workshops