Smart City 2018 - Special Issue on "Smart City: Challenges and Outlook"

Scalable Computing and Communications invites papers for a special issue on “Smart City: Challenges and Outlook”.
Recently, as the future vision of urban development, smart city is attracting growing attention from both academia and industry. In particular, incorporating various information and communication technologies, smart city aims to offer many smart services (e.g., smart parking, smart street lighting, smart journey planning) for people. However, to achieve this goal, on the one hand, there are many issues to be coped with. For example, from the perspective of data, a variety of data generated by our city needs to be collected accurately, stored securely, and processed efficiently. On the other hand, with emerging computing technologies (e.g., social computing, edge computing, fog computing), there might also be new paradigms regarding smart city.
Therefore, to address the challenges and outlook of smart city, this special issue solicits original technical papers with novel contributions on the challenges/outlook of smart city. Tutorial or survey papers are also welcome. For each submission, the review process will begin immediately once the submission is received and the final decision will be made within 3 months. Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their work once it is ready.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Big data for smart city
- Sensor network for smart city
- Data mining for smart city
- Greenness for smart city
- Data center for smart city
- Security for smart city
- Social computing for smart city
- Communication for smart city
- Edge computing for smart city
- Middleware for smart city
- Fog computing for smart city
- Automation for smart city
- Cloud computing for smart city
- Hardware for smart city
- Testbed for smart city
- Novel application for smart city
IMPORTANT DATES:
- Submission deadline: December 31, 2017
- Author notification (first round) due: January 31, 2018
- Revised articles due: February 28, 2018
- Author notification (second round) due: March 31, 2018
GUEST EDITORS:
Dr. Chunsheng Zhu (cszhu-AT-ece.ubc.ca), The University of British Columbia, Canada
Dr. Lei Shu (lei.shu-AT-live.ie), Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China/University of Lincoln, UK
Dr. Guangjie Han (hanguangjie-AT-ieee.org), Hohai University, China
Dr. Xiaokang Wang (wangxiaokang-AT-hust.edu.cn), Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
PAPER SUBMISSION:
- Papers must be prepared following the Journal guidelines: www.springer.com/41122
- Submit manuscripts via: http://SCAC.edmgr.com
- Choose “Smart City: Challenges and Outlook” as the article type.