Call for
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IEEE Communications Magazine
Smart
Cities
Urban living is commencing to take a central
role in the direction humanity evolves. Today, more than 1 in 2 is
living in urban environments with related efforts to facilitated
viable living conditions becoming tremendous. Urged by these
observations, city halls and political decision makers have become
very alert, calling for urgent solutions to the growing problems.
Quickly advancing ICT technologies may just be the answer, which has
triggered global ICT players to have launched various smart city
initiatives. This corroborates that suitable technologies are a
cornerstone to a sustainable development of a city. This is
facilitated by means of smart services that use networked sensors and
actuators deployed in the city, allowing the authorities to monitor
the environment in real-time, to react immediately and just in time
if needed and to establish automated control processes with less or
even without human intervention. These services, on the other hand,
rely heavily on appropriate technologies, be they in the field or in
the cloud.
This special issue, the first of its kind, thus
focuses on ICT technologies, allowing for Smart City rollouts,
deployments and growth. Part of the gamut of technologies have been
researched and developed for years already, others are new. However,
their composition and application in the area of smart cities is
unprecedented and accounts for the tremendous upsurge in work in this
area, which is mainly attributed to the unique timing between the
undeniable need for making cities more efficient, and an enormous set
of ICT technologies having become available and affordable. As of
today, however, some major issues remain to be tackled, which pertain
to technologies, their integration and interaction, architectures,
applications, services, privacy, to name a few.
In the light of
the above, the main purpose of this special issue is threefold:
- to obtain a coherent and concise synthesis from
the abundance of recently emerged material in the area of smart city
technologies and architectures,
- to promote unprecedented
approaches in analyzing, designing and optimizing smart city
technologies and architectures, and
- to identify open
issues which remain as a challenge towards using ICT technologies in
smart city markets.
Topics of
Interest:
Given all above, the technical topics of interest
in the area of ICT for Smart Cities include, but are not limited
to:
- green technologies (energy scavenging,
low silicon footprint, low EM exposure, etc.)
- license-exempt technologies (reliable, robust, secure,
delay-constraint, miniaturized, etc.)
- machine-to-machine technologies (low-power, impact onto
macro cells, etc.)
- architecture designs
(heterogeneous technologies, enormous data streams, etc.)
- smart city control platforms (use of diverse data
streams, sensing/control/notification, etc.)
- city data
storage, ownership and access methods (crowdsourcing, cloud
approaches, etc.)
- business, service and billing approaches
(business models, exploitation approaches, etc.)
- privacy
issues (escrow-type approaches, ensuring citizens, etc.)
- innovative applications (unprecedented use of smart city
streams, new applications, etc.)
Papers must be tailored
to the problems of smart cities and explicitly consider above issues.
The editors maintain the right to reject papers they deem to be out
of scope of this special issue. Only originally unpublished
contributions and invited articles will be considered for the issue.
The papers should be formatted according to the IEEE Communications
Magazine guidelines (http://www.comsoc.org/commag/paper-submission-guidelines).
Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript via
Manuscriptcentral (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee Sign in and
select June 2013/Smart Cities for manuscript type.) according to the
timetable below.
Important Dates:
Submission deadline:
10 September 2012
Author Notification: 15
January 2013
Final Manuscript: 1 April
2013
Publication: June 2013
Guest
Editors:
Mischa Dohler CTTC & Worldsensing,
Barcelona, Spain
Carlo Ratti Director MIT
SENSEable City Laboratory, USA
Jurij Paraszczak
Director Industry Solutions and Smarter Cities, IBM, USA
Gordon
Falconer Director Urban Innovation IBSG,
Cisco, Singapore