SEUNet 2016 - 2016 IEEE WiMob 2016 Workshop on Smart Environments & Urban Networking

The continuous and unplanned urbanization has recently been considered as a major challenging factor in the fields of transport and mobility, health and wellness, safety and security, energy and environment, communication and society.
As ubiquitous computing is increasingly revolutionizing the way people interact and socialize, we strongly believe that the inclusion of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) within the public and the private entities of highly populated cities will pave the way towards sustainable smart environments. In fact, as the world urbanization is expected to increase by 80 % in 2050, the society needs to address the rapid population growth that increases the consumption of energy resources, amplifies noise and pollution levels and dramatically disrupts the normal flow of urban transportation by causing accidents and increasing travel times. These and other research challenges are lowering and weakening the life quality of citizens and are delaying the widespread of smart environments applications which encompass smart cities applications.
Although ICTs play a critical and potential role in empowering next-generation smart-environments and more specifically smart cities applications, they bring up a number of technical and environmental challenges that need to be tackled. The objective of this workshop is to bring together under one roof researchers, scientists and other like minded people with a common objective of using tomorrow’s technologies for today’s smart environments applications development. We aim to uphold the research activities in this area and to provide a platform for discussion on basic and potential challenges faced when considering the integration and the interoperation of ICTs in dynamic and hybrid urban environments. To this end we solicit submission of papers describing significant and innovative research contributions that address technical challenges and issues appearing from the integration, the interworking and the redefinition of new Internet architectures.
The objective of this workshop is to bring together under one roof researchers, scientists and other like minded people with a common objective of using tomorrow's technologies for today's smart environments applications development. We aim to uphold the research activities in this area and to provide a platform for discussion on basic and potential challenges faced when considering the integration and the interoperation of ICTs in dynamic and hybrid urban environments. To this end we solicit submission of papers describing significant and innovative research contributions that address technical challenges and issues appearing from the integration, the interworking and the redefinition of new Internet architectures.