-------- Forwarded Message --------
(Apologies for cross-posts)
-----------------------------
CALL FOR PAPERS
WebAndTheCity: 9th International Smart City Workshop – The Web and
Smart
Cities
In conjunction with The Web Conference (WWW’23): 33rd World Wide
Web
International Conference, Austin, Texas, April 30 - May 4, 2023
*
http://webandthecity.home.blog/
<http://webandthecity.home.blog/>*
*Important Dates*
-
Submissions due: Feb. 06, 2023 (23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time
zone)
-
Notification of Acceptance: March 06, 2023
-
Camera-ready version due: March 31, 2023
-
Workshop authors’ early registration: March 31, 2023
-
Workshop day: May 1, 2023
*Workshop Objective*
This is the 9th edition of the workshop series with the label “Web
Applications and Smart Cities” (previous name: AW4City), which
started back
in Florence in 2015 and kept on taking place every year in
conjunction with
the WWW conference series. Last year the workshop was in Lyon,
France
during The Web Conference 2022. The workshop series aim to
investigate the
role of the Web and of Web applications in smart city growth.
*This year, the workshop focuses on the role of the web in social
coherence. *
In the era of cities and under the UN 2030 Agenda for sustainable
growth,
cities appear to play a crucial role in securing humanity against
social
threats and generating sustainable and circular cities. In this
regard,
cities attempt to secure social sustainability and coherence
(e.g., deal
with affordable energy, poverty, hunger, equal opportunities in
education,
jobs, and health, etc.) and enhance their performance to become
friendlier
and able to host their increasing populations. Additionally, new
types of
business appear (e.g., for smart energy), while the co-existence
of
autonomous things and people generate another challenge that
cities have
started phasing. Τhis workshop aims to demonstrate how web
applications
Apps can Web intelligence serve communities.
WebAndTheCity aims at gathering researchers from the fields of SC
that are
related to this year’s conference topics, to think about the
obstacles that
hurdle the leveraging of understanding and capturing of SC trends
with
regard to the WWW role (web-based, Apps, platforms and web
intelligence).
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.
WebAndTheCity is timely since SC must deal with emerging social
threats.
Nevertheless, communities have not been supported by the SC during
emerging
social crises (i.e., access to affordable energy, shelters etc.),
while the
SC does not seem to play a central role in circular economic
growth. This
skepticism can be added to the existing criticism that represents
an
ambiguous urban utopia, which is supported by the partnership of
local
governments with big technological vendors. Articles can deliver
ideas for
intelligent sensing, crowdsourcing, and risk analysis with the
Web, which
can provide a clearer view of SC role against social emergencies,
while
innovative applications can strengthen the community’s coherence
(e.g.,
access to affordable energy with smart energy efficiency;
communication
about social threats with transparency etc.).
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):
-
Enhance community living with the web (services, Apps and
intelligence);
-
Apps and services that support community engagement in governance,
circularity, climate change adaptation, mobility, sharing,
crowd-sourcing
etc.;
-
Smart City platforms (e.g. consultation; openness; parking;
traffic
management; environment etc.);
-
Smart and Self evolving services (e.g. self-threat analysis;
self-responsive government services etc.);
-
Practices of Web applications, Apps and AI 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 and AI (Internet
Economics and
Monetization);
-
Pervasive Web for Smart City emerging topics (i.e., user behavior
analytics, energy, water, waste, transportation etc.)
-
The role of city stakeholders for smart city applications
development
and standardization (i.e., promotion push, start-ups, open data);
-
Web Infrastructure and AI service standardization;
-
The role of standards on smart city data mining;
-
Smart city information quality and evolution in social content;
-
Ensuring security and privacy in Smart Environment: the role of
web
applications and Apps.
*Submission*
We welcome full research papers, research in progress, and
discussion
papers. Full papers should be up to 12 pages long (maximum 8 pages
for the
main paper content + maximum 2 pages for appendixes + maximum 2
pages for
references).
Discussion papers may be short (up to 6 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.
Accepted refereed papers, must be presented at the conference by
an author
who is registered to attend. Please be aware that The Web
Conference's
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 the Easychair
(*
https://easychair.org/conferences/submissions?a=29997269
<https://easychair.org/conferences/submissions?a=29997269>*)
and via e-mail
(in .doc/docx and .pdf format) to:
lanthopo@uth.gr with the
subject:
“WebAndTheCity 2023 proposal”
Details of the programme will be made available online.
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*
The accepted papers will be included in the companion volume of
The Web
Conference'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
(*www.acm.org/publications/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 12 pages (maximum 8 pages for the main paper
content +
maximum 2 pages for appendixes + maximum 2 pages for references)
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 and they
will
follow a blind peer-review process by the workshop co-chairs and
at least
one external reviewer. More details regarding WWW2023 conference
can be
found on *
https://www2023.thewebconf.org/
<https://www2023.thewebconf.org/>*
Extended version of accepted articles are possible to be selected
and
included in a special issue with relevant theme of MDPI
Sustainability
(like
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/WebIntelligence_SmartMobility),
International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR),
ACM DGov
or IET Smart Cities.
Accepted refereed papers, must be presented at the conference by
an author
who is registered to attend. Please be aware that the WWW 2023
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 Easychair
(*
https://easychair.org/conferences/submissions?a=29997269
<https://easychair.org/conferences/submissions?a=29997269>*)
and via e-mail
(in .doc/docx and .pdf format) to: *lanthopo@uth.gr
<lanthopo@uth.gr>* with
the subject: WebAndTheCity 2023 proposal”
*Details of the programme will be made available online.*
For any questions, please contact the Workshop chairs:
-
Leonidas ANTHOPOULOS, Professor, University of Thessaly, Greece,
lanthopo@uth.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)*
• Toru Ishida, Department of Social Informatics, Hong Kong Baptist
University, Hong Kong
• Sofia Toufic Shwayri, Independent Scholar, U.S.A.
• 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
• Stephen Cohen, Microsoft, USA
• Soon Ae Chun, City University New York (CUNY)
• Amel Attour, Universite Cote d’Azur, CNRS, GREDEG, Nice
• Alois Paulin, HVF Ludwigsburg, Germany
• Zohreh Pourzolfaghar, Maynooth University, Ireland
• Marianna Cavada, Lancaster University, U.K.
_______________________________________________
AISWorld mailing list
AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org