GOODTECHS 2015 - International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good (GOODTECHS 2015)

GOODTECHS: Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good
Web page: http://goodtechs.eu/2015/show/home
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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 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. Authors are solicited to submit original, previously unpublished papers in the following, but not limited to, topic areas: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
* Communication between mobile devices
* Content Distribution
* E-learning solutions
* Smart governance and e-administration solutions
* Smart economy solutions: e-banking, e-business
* Smart living and E-health
* Data collection, organization and dissemination methods
* Data replication protocols in network partitions
* Delay-tolerant aerial networks and ferrying approaches
* Deployment and field-testing
* Experimental results of communication testbeds
* Game, entertainment, and multimedia applications
* Human-object interaction
* 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
* Internet of Things
* ICT for development
* Digital tools for art and feelings
* Technology addressing the digital divide
* Environment sensing, monitoring and preservation
HIGHLIGHTS:
* The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organization devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT and will be co-located with the IOT360 Summit;
* Accepted papers will be published in the GOODTECHS Conference Proceedings and by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST). The proceedings will be available both in book form and via the SpringerLink digital library, which is one of the largest digital libraries online and covers a variety of scientific disciplines.
* The proceedings are submitted for inclusion to the leading indexing services: DBLP, Google Scholar, Thomson Scientific ISI Proceedings, EI Elsevier Engineering Index, CrossRef, Scopus, as well as ICST's own EU Digital Library (EUDL).
* Best Papers will be considered for publication in the ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications Journal (MONET) and http://eai.eu/transaction/internet-things.
* This conference will be held within the scope of IoT360 (http://iot-360.eu/2015/), a flagship event around Internet of Things.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Full Paper Submission deadline: 15 June 2015
Notification deadline: 25 July 2015
Camera-ready deadline: 25 August 2015
Start of Conference: 26 October 2015
End of Conference: 27 October 2015
NAMES AND AFFILIATIONS OF MAIN ORGANIZERS:
General Co-Chairs
Ombretta Gaggi, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Claudio Palazzi, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
Technical Program Committee Chair
Armir Bujari, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
Workshops Chair
Priscila Solis, University of Brasilia, Brasil
Publications Chair
Johann M. Márquez Barja, CTVR - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Web Chair
Carlos Calafate, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Publicity and Social Media Chair
Carlos Calafate, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Conference Manager
Kristina Lukacova, European Alliance for Innovation