-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] GOODTECHS [virtual] going full online - new submission deadline Datum: Sun, 3 May 2020 10:32:37 -0300 Von: Daniel Fernandes Macedo damacedo@DCC.UFMG.BR Antwort an: Daniel Fernandes Macedo damacedo@DCC.UFMG.BR An: tccc-announce@COMSOC.ORG

Dear colleagues,

GOODTECHS Steering and Organizing committees, due to the current COVID-19 situation, have decided to make our 2020 Edition fully virtual to eliminate uncertainty and to ensure the health, safety, and well- being of our research community and society in general.

GOODTECHS has a new firm paper submission deadline: June 1st, 2020.

The dates of the virtual conference remain the same: September 14-16, 2020.

All accepted papers will be published in the ACM International Conference Proceeding Series — ICPS and made available through the ACM Digital Library. A mechanism for virtual presentation and participation will be provided. More details will be announced in a timely manner, so please stay tuned to the official website for more updates.

Best regards,

The Organizing Committee GOODTECHS 2020 14-16/09/2020 Antwerp, Belgium http://goodtechs.eu/

==== SCOPE ====

By social good we refer to a “good” or a service that benefits the largest number of people in the largest possible way. Some classic examples of social goods are, of course, healthcare, safety, environment, democracy, and human rights, but we can add to this classic list even communication, art, entertainment and much more.

In this context, the popularity of portable computing devices, like smartphones, tablets, or smart watches combined with the emergence of many other small smart objects with computational, sensing and communication capabilities coupled with the popularity of social networks and new human-technology interaction paradigms is creating unprecedented opportunities for each of us to do something useful, ranging from a single person to the whole world. Furthermore, Internet of Things, Smart-cities, distributed sensing and Fog computing are representative examples of modern ICT paradigms that aim to describe a dynamic and globally cooperative infrastructure built upon objects’ intelligence and self-configuring capabilities. These connected objects are finding their way into our pockets, vehicles, urban areas and infrastructure, thus becoming the very texture of our society and providing us the possibility, but also the responsibility, to shape it.

In GOODTECHS (http://www.goodtechs.eu) we are hence interested in experiences with the design, implementation, deployment, operation and evaluation of smart objects and technologies for social good. Clearly, we are not considering only the so called first world as the scenario for this evolution; we also refer to those areas where ICT is currently less widespread, hoping that it may represent a societal development opportunity rather than a source for further divide.

Inside GOODTECHS, the Work-in-Progress and Ph.D. Track provides an opportunity to showcase interesting new work that is still at an early stage. We encourage practitioners and researchers to submit to the Work-in-Progress venue as it provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting feedback on early-stage work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Moreover, this track provides a platform for Ph.D. students to present and receive feedback on their ongoing research. Students at different stages of their research will have the opportunity to present and discuss their research questions, goals, methods and results. This is an opportunity to obtain guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers and other Ph.D. students working in research areas related to technologies for social good.

==== TOPICS OF INTEREST ====

Authors are solicited to submit original, previously unpublished papers in the following, but not limited to topic areas:

App concepts and technologies for different mobile platforms Blockchain for social good Communication between mobile devices Content Distribution E-learning solutions Data collection, organization and dissemination methods Delay-tolerant aerial networks and ferrying approaches Deployment and field-testing Digital tools for art and feelings Environment sensing, monitoring and preservation Experimental results of communication testbeds Game, entertainment, and multimedia applications Health and social care Human-object interaction ICT for development Mobile service architectures and frameworks Mobility and handover management New application scenarios for vehicular communications Pervasive and ubiquitous services in cloud and IoT Platforms and frameworks for mobile devices Privacy issues and solutions Protocol design, testing and verification Security issues, architectures and solutions Smart cities and transportation Smart economy solutions: e-banking, e-business Smart governance and e-administration Smart living and E-health Technology addressing the digital divide

==== PUBLICATION ====

All accepted and presented papers will be published in ACM International Conference Proceeding Series — ICPS and made available through the ACM Digital Library.

Papers should be in English. Regular papers should be up to 6 pages in length. WIP and PhD track papers should be up to 4 pages in length. Previously published work may not be submitted, nor may the work be concurrently submitted to any other conference or journal. Such papers will be rejected without review.

Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services, Ei Compendex, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, DBLP, as well as EAI’s own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

Authors of selected best accepted and presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal (IF: 2.390)

==== COMMUNITY REVIEW ====

Community Review is a service offered to Program Committees and submitting Authors of all EAI conferences designed to improve the speed and the quality of the review process.

Abstracts of all authors who opt in to Community Review during submission will be published and available for Bidding here.

Learn more about the Community Review process

==== IMPORTANT DATES ==== Full Paper Submission Deadline 1 June 2020 WIP and PhD Track Paper Submission Deadline 15 June 2020 Notification Deadline 13 July 2020 Camera-ready Deadline 30 July 2020 Start of Conference 14 September 2020 End of Conference 16 September 2020