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CALL FOR PAPERS
AW4city 2018, 4th International ACM Smart City Workshop:
Enhancing Citizen Centricity with Web Applications
In conjunction with The Web Conference 2018 (WWW'18: 27th
World Wide Web International Conference) Lyon, France, April
23, 2018
http://aw4city2018.wordpress.com
Important Dates
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Submissions due: Jan. 20th, 2018 (23:59 Hawaii Standard
Time)
Notification of Acceptance: Feb. 14, 2018.
Workshop authors' registration and camera-ready papers:
March 10, 2018
Workshop day: April 23, 2018
Workshop Objective
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Following up the success of the past events at WWW2015,
WWW2016 and WWW2017, the 4th AW4City 2018 aims to keep on
attracting a significant international attention with regard
to web applications for smart cities.
The aim of this workshop is to address web-based application
and Apps' design and development in the smart city and urban
context. More specifically, it focuses on innovative
applications smart city component and more specifically on
the design and implementation of web-based applications and
Apps. This component is crucial, since it addresses all the
smart city dimensions:
* Economy, since new types of entrepreneurship
and innovative business models appear in data, creative and
climate economies, and develop web applications and Apps.
* Mobility, with regard to urban transportation
(intelligent transportation), distance working, job offering
demonstration etc.
* Environment, since applications enhance
resource management, transportation improvement,
environmental monitoring etc.
* Living, since applications enhance local life
(i.e., e-learning, e-banking, e-commerce, e-tourism etc.).
* People, since they concern applications' end
users and
* Governance, where open data and e-government
applications play crucial roles in smart city operation.
This year, the workshop will emphasize on the contribution
of web applications and Apps to citizen centricity. In the
era of cities, municipal leaders, service and utility
providers are making an important shift regarding thinking
of people as customers and of customer experience. This
shift 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 and providers more personal
and responsive. In this respect, this workshop aims to
demonstrate how web applications and Apps can enhance local
service delivery and continuous monitoring and improvement.
Theoretical concepts, empirical evidence and selected case
studies from leading scholars and practitioners in the field
showing the "big picture" of smart cities and urban areas
will be examined in this workshop.
This workshop aims at gathering researchers from the fields
of smart cities and web application development to think
about the obstacles that hurdle the leveraging of
understanding and capturing of smart city trends with regard
web application development that interconnect citizens,
businesses and government in a smart city.
AW4City 2018 is timely, since an increasing criticism is
being generated that smart city represents an ambiguous
urban utopia, which is supported by the partnership of local
governments with big technological vendors. In this respect,
articles can deliver a clearer view of smart city reality,
while innovative applications can strengthen the existence
of opportunities for new entrants in the smart city market.
Moreover, most standardization bodies evolve competitive
standards for smart city components and to this end, this
workshop is expected to highlight existing development and
trends with regard to application development (web-based,
apps and end-to-end).
We target researchers from both industry and academia to
join forces in this exciting area. We intend to discuss the
recent and significant developments in the general areas of
smart cities and web applications and to promote
cross-fertilization of techniques. In particular, we aim at
identifying trends and respective applications in smart
cities; the potential impact of smart city in web
applications; techniques from end-to-end solutions' or apps'
development that will enable researchers to understand the
dynamic phenomena in smart cities, as well as specify
important directions for the research communities. Standards
for web applications' development in smart cities is
interesting for several areas such as sustainability, crisis
management, marketing, security, and interoperability. To
address the above mentioned aspects, we solicit the
following topics (but not limited to):
* Enhancing citizen/customer experience with Web
Applications and Apps;
* Apps that support citizen engagement;
* Smart City management systems;
* Practices of Web applications and Apps in
smart cities;
* Theoretical foundations on Smart City
applications and standards;
* Creative partnerships, creative industries and
industry 4.0 in Smart City with a focus on application
development (Internet Economics and Monetization);
* Pervasive Web and Mobility for Smart City
emerging topics (i.e., user behavior analytics, energy,
water, waste, transportation etc.)
* The role of government for smart city
applications development and standardization (i.e.,
promotion push, start-ups, open data);
* Web Infrastructure standardization;
* The role of standards on smart city data
mining;
* Smart city e-services for evaluation and
benchmarking;
* Smart city information quality and evolution
in social content;
* Ensuring security and privacy in Smart Cities:
the role of web applications and Apps.
Submission
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We welcome full research papers, research in progress, and
discussion papers. Full papers should be up to 6 pages long
(max 5000 words), including the abstract and appendices.
Discussion papers may be short (up to 4 pages), but should
clearly and distinctly address one or more issues pertinent
to Smart City research including research methods and
quality as well as focus of studies. Papers should be
designed to support in-depth discussions of one of these
issues during the workshop.
Although it is a half-day event, the workshop papers will be
clustered and each session will discuss a small set of
papers focusing on similar or related issues.
Submission Guidelines
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The accepted papers will be included in the companion volume
of WWW2018's proceeding, which will be published by ACM and
included in the ACM Digital Library.
All submitted papers must be:
- written in English;
- contain author names, affiliations, and email
addresses;
- be formatted according to the ACM SIG
Proceedings template (
http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template)
with a font size no smaller than 9pt;
- be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be
viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size.
Files in Postscript (ps) or any other format will not be
accepted. Authors should submit a .doc/.docx too to the
workshop's chairs.
- occupy no more than six pages, including the
abstract, references, and appendices
It is the authors responsibility to ensure that their
submissions adhere strictly to the required format.
Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may
be rejected without review.
All submissions must be entered into the reviewing system.
Each submission will be reviewed by the workshop co-chairs
and at least one external reviewer. More details regarding
WWW2018 conference can be found on
https://www2018.thewebconf.org/
Extended version of accepted articles are possible to be
selected and included in a special issue with relevant theme
of International Journal of Public Administration in the
Digital Age (IJPADA), International Journal of Electronic
Government Research (IJEGR) or some other relative journals
(i.e., Journal of Knowledge Economy (JKEC) and Journal of
Innovation and Entrepreneurship (JoI) published by
Springer).
Accepted refereed papers, must be presented at the
conference by an author who is registered to attend. Please
be aware that the WWW 2018 organizers will require at least
one registration per paper published in either the main
Proceedings or in the Companion volume. At the time of
submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have
to indicate the already registered person for that
publication. We strongly encourage at least one author of
every paper to register by the early-bird deadline so that
session chairs can make plans for its presentation.
Please submit your papers via WWW2018 easychair or via
e-mail (in .doc/docx and .pdf format) to:
lanthopo@teilar.gr
with the subject: "AW4city 2018 proposal"
Details of the programme will be made available online.
For any questions, please contact the Workshop chairs:
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Leonidas ANTHOPOULOS, Associate Professor, University of
Applied Science (TEI) of Thessaly, Greece,
lanthopo@teilar.gr
Marijn JANSSEN, Professor, Delft University of Technology,
The Netherlands,
M.F.W.H.A.Janssen@tudelft.nl
Vishanth WEERAKKODY, Professor, University of Bradford,
United Kingdom,
v.weerakkody@bradford.ac.uk
Program Committee Members (tentative)
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* Toru Ishida, Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto
University, Japan
* Sofia Toufic Shwayri, University of California at Berkeley
* Nicolas Douay, MCF Paris 7 / UMR Geographie-Cites / LabEx
DynamiTe
* Beth Coleman, University of Waterloo, Director of City as
Platform
* Arthur Riel, The World Bank, Washington, U.S.A.
* Cristina Maria Bueti, International Telecommunication
Union (ITU)
* Christopher G. Reddick, The University of Texas at San
Antonio, U.S.A.
* Markus Rittenbruch, Queensland University of Technology,
Australia
* Flora Salim, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
* Mag. Michael Sachs, Zentrum fur E-Governance,
Donau-Universitat Krems.
* Stephen Cohen, Microsoft, USA
* Nikolaos Mavridis, NCFSR Demokritos, Greece
* Alois Paulin, TUWien, Vienna, Austria.