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** CALL FOR PAPERS ** IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic

Smart Infrastructures for Crowd Management

Recent efforts in the research and industry communities are aimed at realizing the Smart City, a term utilized for a city that exploits its distributed computing and communication infrastructure in order to sense, aggregate, process, discern and act upon various data, with the objective of bettering the management of the city’s various sector (e.g., health, education, weather, business, etc.). Traditional efforts have sought the application of Wireless Sensor Network (WSNs) and RFID tags, as well as processing of sparsely distributed feeds (e.g., public and private live CCTV) in order to do the monitoring and processing. An expanded consideration for the Internet of Things (IoT) applications in smart cities has been explored with emphasis on facilitating high-density sensor and actuator deployment. Such an evolution yielded powerful architectures for enabling smart cities. Fundamental issues, however, abound in the high cost of deployment and maintenance, especially when attempting to smarten an existing city infrastructure. Such serious restraints make the aforementioned advanced technologies fully viable and attractive for new cities/districts, but reduces their applicability in the dominant transitional scenarios. Comprehensive and scalable crowd management infrastructures are required to overcome the economic and technical constraints of state-of-the-art conceptualizations and implementations, while maintaining both practical and commercial appeals.

This Feature Topic Issue, motivated by the latest advances in crowd management, will tackle outstanding contributions that deal with state-of-the-art setups, techniques, methodologies, designs and actual deployment of crowd management solutions. Researchers and engineers from academia and industry are invited to submit their recent results and innovations. The list of topics includes, but not restricted to the following topics:

* Data aggregation and analytics for Mobile Crowd Management. * Data filtering for crowdsourced information. * Reputation Scores for Crowd Management through crowdsourcing. * Crowd inference and classification. * Trust and privacy in crowd management. * Optimization of crowd management systems * Incentive mechanisms for crowdsourcing * Prediction approaches in Mobile Crowd Management. * Mobile crowd management quality indicators (Quality of Source, measurements uncertainty, etc.). * Network and computing infrastructures for crowd management. * Geo-positioning schemes for crowd management. * Smart City indicators inference and classification. * Crowd management in emergency and disruptive scenarios. * Infrastructure inference and classification and behavior characterization. * Testbeds and real measurements of infrastructures for crowd management in Smart Cities.

Important Dates

* Manuscript Submission Deadline: August 1, 2018 * Notification of Acceptance/Rejection due date: December 1, 2018 * Final version due date: January 15, 2019 * Publication: March 2019

Guest Editors

Prof. Hossam Hassanein, Queen’s University, Canada (Lead)

Dr. Nizar Zorba, Qatar University, Qatar

Dr. Shuai Han, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Dr. Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales, Australia

Eng. Mutaz Shukair, Qualcomm, USA

Submissions

Submitted papers should not be under consideration elsewhere for publication and the authors must follow the IEEE Communications Magazine guidelines regarding manuscript content and format for preparation of the manuscripts. For details, please refer to the “Author Guidelines” at the IEEE Communications Magazine Web site at https://www.comsoc.org/commag/author-guidelines

Authors must submit their manuscripts via the IEEE Communications Magazine manuscript submission system at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee

All papers will be reviewed by at least three (3) reviewers for their technical merit, scope, and relevance to the CFP.

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