SmartCity 2015 - International Workshop on Smart Cities and Urban Informatics

Cities around the world are currently under quick transition towards a low carbon environment, high quality of living, and resource efficient economy. Urban performance depends not only on the city's endowment of hard infrastructure, but also on the availability and quality of knowledge communication and social infrastructure. There is a growing importance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), social and environmental capital in profiling the competitiveness of cities.
Information and communication systems play a critical role in building smart cities and supporting comprehensive urban informatics. Extensive research is taking place on a wide range of enabling information and communication technologies, including cloud and network infrastructure, wireless and sensing technologies, mobile crowdsourcing, social networking, and big data analytics for smart cities. This brings together citizens and integrates technologies and services such as transportation, broadband communications, buildings, healthcare, and other utilities. Advanced communication and computing techniques can facilitate a participatory approach for achieving integrated solutions and creating novel applications to improve urban life and build a sustainable society.
The main purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers/academics/industries in the field of system, networking and communication to discuss major challenges, research problems, and potential applications to support smart cities and urban informatics. We are expected to share new findings, exchange ideas, discuss research challenges and report latest research efforts that cover a variety of topics including, but not limited to
Application, deployment, testbed, and experiment experiences in smart cities
Big data for urban informatics
Cloud computing and network infrastructure that supports smart cities
Cellular networking in smart cities
Delay tolerant networks and systems for urban data collection
E-health systems
Environment and urban monitoring
Enabling wireless and mobile technologies for smart cities
Fault tolerance, reliability and survivability in smart systems
Green networking and energy efficiency
Human mobility modeling and analytics
Mobile crowdsourcing for urban analytics
QoS and QoE of smart city systems, applications, and services
Sensing and IoT for smart cities
Social computing and networks
Smart grid
Smart transportation
Smart buildings
Safety, security, and privacy for smart cities
Smartphone and mobile systems and applications
Vehicular networks
Submission Instruction
We call for original and unpublished papers with no longer than 6 pages. The reviews will be single blind. The manuscripts should be formatted in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font) and be submitted as PDF files (formatted for 8.5x11-inch paper).