CISC 2015 - First International Symposium on Cloud and IoT enabled Smart Cities

The First International Symposium on Cloud and IoT enabled Smart Cities
in conjunction with
The 3rd International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud
http://www.ficloud.org/2015/workshops.php
m.kiran-AT-bradford.ac.uk
Workshop theme and call for papers:
The smart city initiative is being ICT driven, with arguments that it will help with disaster recovery and energy optimization or better resource management in cities. With major industry players such as IBM, Google and even Governments continuously investing in a ‘smart city a better society’ motto we are going into a technology led era where everything will become everything-as-a-service adopting models from Cloud computing. With political visions for urban areas being transformed into technology-oriented cities, it raises various concerns from all levels of risk, security, infrastructures and economy inorder to provide all service issues in small and large scale cities. Most of these issues need a multi-disciplinary approach for policy makers, technologists, software developers, researchers and academics to work together to find optimum solutions for current resource management problems and how technologies can be used for bettering the society. Internet of Things (IoT) enables various infrastructures to be interfaced with each other to ensure communication through mobile connectivity, web services and sensors. Cloud computing also forms a key ingredient and medium to enable smart city ICT. Various examples of knowledge-based cities include Kyoto, Amsterdam, Hull, Copenhagen, arguing that ICT can support democracy and economy. These projects use huge amounts of data being created and managed but at the moment have little transparency on the kind of laws being programmed into the software used. Security laws, governance laws and monitoring of citizens using sensors and M2M connectivity has repercussions on citizens through legal systems and online practices. Data encryption can be one way of securing the data being saved but legal, political (democracy), openness of information knowledge, economies, governances, and policy are still very sketchy at the moment. This workshop aims to bring together interdisciplinary papers discussing how Cloud and IoT, and their current research needs that need to be addressed for transforming current cities into technology led smart cities.
Key topics
Key topics of interest include (but are not limited to)aasa
Big data Processing and applications in Smart Cities
Cloud based technologies and applications in Smart Cities
Modelling and Simulation for Smart Cities
M2M connected devices and applications in Smart cities
Applications of Smart homes, buildings or energy grids
IoT applications in Smart Manufacturing
Interdisciplinary applications to Smart cities
Role of Crowd sourcing models in Smart cities
The relationship between cyber physical systems and Internet of Things in relation to smart cities
Security, threats and privacy aspects of Smart Cities
Legal awareness and policies of Smart cities
Sensor networks for large scale connectivity in Smart cities
Risks of smart cities
Experimental test beds and simulations environments and case studies
Who should participate? The workshops is suitable for academics, researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders engaged in smart city developments such as businesses, city councils and more. Interested in ICT innovative solutions for smart city developments.
Paper submission guidelines:s
Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and for short papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template. IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines are available at:
Submission Website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scciot1
All papers accepted for this conference are peer-reviewed and are to be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service (CPS).
Important Dates
May 10, 2015 Paper submission
June 10, 2015 Notification of acceptance
July 10, 2015 Camera-ready due
August 24 - 26, 2015 Workshop
Organizers
Mariam Kiran, University of Bradford, UK
Tom Kirkham, STFC, UK
Samir Khan, University of Cranfield, UK
Contact
m.kiran-AT-bradford.ac.uk