SCUCA 2014 - The 2nd International Workshop on Smart City and Ubiquitous Computing Applications (SCUCA 2014)

IEEE WiMob 2014 2nd International Workshop on Smart City and Ubiquitous Computing Applications (SCUCA 2014), tol be held in conjunction with the 10th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (IEEE WiMob 2014), in Larnaca, Cyprus, on 8th October, 2014.
The SCUCA 2014 Workshop follows the success of the 1st International Workshop on Smart City and Ubiquitous Computing Applications (SCUCA 2013) held in conjunction with the 14th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (IEEE WoWMoM 2013), June 4, 2013, Madrid, Spain.
As more and more people leave villages and farms to live in cities, urban growth results. In regard to future trends, it is estimated 93% of urban growth will occur in developing nations, with 80% of urban growth occurring in Asia and Africa. Urged by these observations, city halls and political decision makers have become very alert, calling for urgent solutions to the growing problems. However, the recent advances in information and communication technologies may stimulate new solutions towards the urbanization problems. The mission of this workshop is to present recent achievements in ubiquitous computing from a smart cities perspective. In particular, this workshop examines how new technologies in the area of machine-to-machine and mobile communications, multimedia services, data management can contribute towards intelligent and sustainable urban environments. Attention is also given to other issues that stem from the exploitation of ubiquitous technologies such as innovative business models, security, safety and privacy.