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Subject:	[WI] SmaCiT 2018 Smart City Track - Venice, Italy - Call for Papers
Date:	Fri, 16 Mar 2018 22:26:26 +0200
From:	Leonidas Anthopoulos <lanthopo@teilar.gr>
Reply-To:	Leonidas Anthopoulos <lanthopo@teilar.gr>
Organization:	Business School, TEI of Thessaly, Greece
To:	wi@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de

(Apologies for cross posts)

Call for Contributions

Special track - SmaCit: Smart and Connected Cities: Creating People-centered City Government

 

Chair and Coordinator: Leonidas Anthopoulos, Associate Professor, University of Applied Science of Thessaly (TEI), Greece

lanthopo@teilar.gr

along with

COLLA 2018, The Eighth International Conference on Advanced Collaborative Networks, Systems and Applications

June 24, 2018 to June 28, 2018 - Venice, Italy

http://www.iaria.org/conferences2018/COLLA18.html

SmaCiT 2018 aims at attracting a significant international attention with regard to smart city emerging topics. More specifically, the aim of this special track is to trace how smart city evolves, mainly -but not limited- with regard to smart government. This year track’s objective addresses the roles of data and the city government policies for achieving people-centricity.

In the era of cities, municipal leaders are making an important shift regarding thinking of people as customers. This shift is based on a private sector’s perspective; this is not a simple task since it demands a continuous service monitoring, assessment and improvement, which normally is based on accurate data analysis and appears as a thinking that makes government more personal and responsive. SmaCiT collected papers will investigate the role of data in making this shift feasible.

 

Prospective authors are invited to submit original papers on topics including, but not limited to:

• Theoretical foundations on Smart City and Smart Government;
• City government’s data streams;
• Case studies and practices of smart city data for government use;
• Creative partnerships and creative industries in Smart City (Data Economics);
• Data for Smart City emerging topics (i.e., energy, water, waste, transportation, etc.)
• The role of government data for smart city applications development (i.e., promotion push, start-ups, open data);
• Big, open and Linked data models;
• Practices in smart city data mining;
• Avoid hijacks: Ensuring security and privacy in Smart City data streams;
• Political implications of citizen-government interaction;
• Citizen participation practices in smart cities.

 Important Datelines

- Inform the Chair: As soon as you decided to contribute

- Submission: April 28, 2018 
- Notification: May 20, 2018 
- Registration: May 30, 2018
- Camera ready: May 30, 2018

Note: These deadlines are somewhat flexible, providing arrangements are made ahead of time with the chair.

Contribution Types
- Regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library] 
- Short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library] 
- Posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library] 
- Posters: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org] 
- Presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org] 
- Demos: two pages [posted on www.iaria.org] 

Paper Format 
- See: http://www.iaria.org/format.html 
- Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html 

Publications 
- Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org 
- Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html 
- Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org  

Paper Submission

https://www.iariasubmit.org/conferences/submit/newcontribution.php?event=COLLA+2018+Special

Please select Track Preference as SmaCit 

Registration 
- Each accepted paper needs at least one full registration, before the camera-ready manuscript can be included in the proceedings. 
- Registration fees are available at http://www.iaria.org/registration.html  
 
Contacts

Chair: Leonidas Anthopoulos, lanthopo@teilar.gr

COLLA logistics: steve@iaria.org