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IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2016) 12-15 September 2016 | Trento - Italy http://events.unitn.it/en/isc2-2016 CALL FOR PAPERS

According to the United Nations projections, urbanization combined with the overall growth of the worlds population could add another 2.5 billion people to urban populations by 2050. The worlds population in urban areas is expected to be over 6 billion. Consequently, effective management of urban areas is one of the most important development challenges of the 21st century; it may open significant opportunities for economic growth, but also create many threats that municipalities need to tackle, including increasing living costs, growing crime rates, difficulties in epidemics control, management of strategic infrastructures, exponential growth of data and potential cultural disagreements to name a few.

It is clear that new technologies are essential to address the above challenges and the IEEE, as one of the worlds leading professional associations for the advancement of technology, is at the forefront of helping the world address urban population growth.

The IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2) is the premier conference sponsored by the IEEE Smart Cities Initiative and the IEEE Italy Section. The primary goal of the ISC2 is to foster discussions and collaborations between all people involved in planning and implementing successful smart cities, including citizens, policy makers, administrators, infrastructure operators, industry representatives, economists, sociologists and academicians. Specifically, the core purposes of the event are:

-to promote and strengthen partnerships and cooperation between all involved entities; -to increase the citizens' understanding and awareness of how their active participation through new technologies can positively affect quality of life; -to disseminate recent research advancements, novel implementations and advanced deployments fostering smart city evolution; -to provide a clear view of challenges in urban areas and discuss new ideas and approaches promoting the transition towards a vibrant innovation-based society.

The program of this flagship event includes panels, plenary talks, technical sessions, tutorials, exhibitions and a hackathon. Panels are a fundamental feature of ISC2. They bring together speakers from around the world, representing different viewpoints from government, industry, and academia in order to promote interactive discussion on how technological and social innovation can positively affect urban environments. In tutorials, experts present challenging or emerging topics to researchers, practitioners or to the wide public. Exhibitions encompass innovative world-class hardware and/or software products, with a significant potential impact for smart cities evolution.

The Technical Sessions focus on challenging and emerging issues in the field of smart cities. They cover new developments in theory, analytics, numerical simulation and modeling, experimentation, advanced deployment and case studies, results of laboratory or field operational tests, and other related creative endeavors as well as special educational developments for smart city curricula.

The theme of the 2016 edition of ISC2 is Improving the citizens' quality of life.

The Technical program topics include, but are not limited to: -Smart city theory, modeling and simulation -Intelligent infrastructure -Sensors and actuators -Smart economy development -Open data and big data analytics -Safety and security systems -Smart healthcare -Smart emergency management -Smart environment and policy development -Citizen engagement and smart governance -Connected Vehicle (CV) technologies -Smart mobility and transportation -Internet of Things (IoT) for smart cities -Intelligent vehicle-to-infrastructure integration -Smart grid -Environmental capital reduction -Digital city and smart growth -Smart traffic system operations -Smart buildings -Smart city implementation -Pedestrian and bicyclist safety; mobility systems -Smart city for special needs -Smart manufacturing and logistics -Environmental monitoring technologies

Proposals for Special Sessions are solicited (see the Call for Special Session Proposals). Prospective authors are invited to submit high quality original Full or Short papers via the EDAS submission site (https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21810). Full papers should describe novel research contributions with evaluation results and are limited to 6 pages (two additional pages are allowed with a per-page extra fee of 100). Short papers, limited in length to four (4) pages, should be more visionary in nature and are meant to discuss new challenges and visions, showcase early research results, and explore novel research directions.

All submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication, should be written in English and formatted according to IEEE Template (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html).

Each submitted paper will pass through the standard IEEE peer-review process and, if accepted and presented at the Conference, will appear in the conference proceedings and will be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

Paper contests will include a Conference Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award.

The Authors of papers presented during the ISC2-2016 are allowed to submit suitably extended versions of their papers to one of the following journals, according to the respective scope: IEEE System Journal, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. Agreement with other perspective Journals is underway.

CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS

Organization of Special Sessions on a clear and specific topic relevant to the Conference scope (but significantly different from the topics of regular tracks) is encouraged. The goal of Special Sessions is to complement the regular program with new or emerging topics, or innovative applications of established approaches. Special Sessions may also cut across and beyond traditional IEEE fields of interest. Special Sessions aligned with the conference theme Improving the citizens' quality of life are especially welcome.

Prospective organizers of Special Sessions for ISC2-2016 are invited to submit their proposals by sending an email to isc2-2016-chair@unitn.it. Proposals should include:

-Title of the proposed Special Session. -Short description (less than 300 words) of the topic (which has to be significantly different from the topics of the regular tracks), stressing its novelty and/or its multidisciplinary features (if any). -Session organizer(s) name(s), affiliation(s), short biography and contact information (including email addresses).

Each Special Session proposal is limited to no more than two organizers. It will be carefully evaluated at the time it is received on the basis of its pertinence to the scope of the Conference, the timeliness of the topic, and the qualifications of organizers and contributors.

Once approved, it will immediately be announced on the Conference website, and the organizers will be invited to join the Technical committee as Special Session Co-Chairs. Moreover, they will be requested to propose a list of qualified peer-reviewers that will be submitted to the ISC2-2016 Program Co-chairs for approval.

Organizers will be welcome to promote their Special Session. Prospective authors will be able to submit their papers to the approved Special Sessions by selecting the corresponding track in EDAS. All submitted manuscripts will undergo the same review process as regular papers. Papers accepted and presented at the Conference will be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

Each Special Session should contain a minimum of five accepted papers.

The ISC2-2016 Program Co-chairs reserve the right to cancel any Special Session if deadlines are missed or an insufficient number of attendees are preregistered.

DEADLINES: Submission of special sessions proposals: 11 March 2016 Papers submission deadline: 11 April 2016 Acceptance notification: 6 June 2016 Camera-ready submission: 27 June 2016 Early registration deadline: 27 June 2016

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Gilles Betis, Chair IEEE SCI, EIT digital, France Dario Petri, IEEE SCI, University of Trento, Italy

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Soufiene Djahel, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Gustavo Giannatanasio, past Director IEEE Region 9 Bernardo Tellini, University of Pisa, Italy

WEB SITE http://events.unitn.it/en/isc2-2016

CONTACTS isc2-2016-chair@unitn.it isc2-2016@unitn.it

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