TSS 2016 - Thematic Series on Smart Cities - Enabling Services and Applications

Journal of Internet Services and Applications (JISA)
Thematic Series on Smart Cities - Enabling Services and Applications
http://sites.lero.ie/jisasmartcities/
Manuscript due: May 15th, 2015
The unprecedented level of urbanization and consequent growth in size and numbers of cities in different parts of the world present both challenges and opportunities. The proliferation of Smart Cities initiatives around the world is part of the strategic response by governments to the challenges and opportunities of increasing urbanization and the rise of cities as the nexus of societal development.
Smart Cities provide a framework for urban transformation that harness Information and Communication Technologies and Knowledge Infrastructures for economic regeneration, social cohesion, better city administration and infrastructure management.
A Smart City is inherently a complex Socio- technical System of Systems. Emerging ICT paradigm such as data-intensive computing (Big data), Open Data, Internet of Things, Physical-Cyber-Social Computing and Cloud Computing, are key to the realization of the vision of Smart Cities. In fact, real-world Smart Cities are being enabled by a combination of these paradigms using a mixture of architectures (centralized, decentralized, and a mixture of both) and infrastructures such as Middleware, and IoT Platforms.
The creation of innovative applications for Smart Cities using this infrastructure is crucial to success. Smart City applications can be in the areas of Economy, Environment, Energy, Water, Waste, People (intellectual endowment and engagement), Lifestyle Building, Mobility (Transportation), and public spaces.
This JISA Thematic Series aims at providing innovative contributions to the research and development of novel approaches for the design and development of Infrastructure, Services and Applications for the Smart City and Urban context. Submissions involving both novel technical advances as well as demonstrations or evaluation involving real-world data are preferred.
Topics include, but are not limited to the following:
Architectures and Paradigms for Smart Cities
Theoretical foundations on Smart City services and applications
Data-intensive computing (Big Data) for the City
Open Big City Data and Urban-Scale Data Sharing
Internet of Things in the City
System of Systems & Cloud Computing Approaches for Smart City
Centralized and/or Decentralized Architectural Approaches to Smart City
Infrastructures for Smart Cities
Design and implementation of Internet of Things infrastructure services for Smart City
Middleware support for Heterogeneous Smart City infrastructures
Services for cooperative sensing Context-, Resource-, and Semantic-awareness for Smart City
Service Innovation and Design for Smart Cities
Dynamic configuration and self- or autonomic- management of Smart City middleware
City-as-a-Platform
Applications, Experiences, and Requirements
Case studies on evaluation and deployment of Smart City Services and Applications: challenges, techniques, and lessons learned
Empirical and deployment studies for Urban Infrastructures
End-to-end applications for Smart Cities
Infrastructure requirements for next-generation Smart City solutions
JISA is an open access journal. Recent papers can be downloaded from jisajournal.com/content
Important Dates
Manuscript due: May 15th, 2015
First response from reviewers: July 1st, 2015
Guest Editors
Edward Curry, University College Dublin, Ireland
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia
Amit Sheth, Kno.e.sis Center at Wright State University, USA
Please address queries related to this call to: edward.curry-AT-lero.ie