[AISWorld] Fwd: 2nd CFP - JISA Thematic Series on Smart Cities - Enabling Services and Applications

[Edward Curry]

> ==2nd Call for Papers==
> Journal of Internet Services and Applications (JISA)
> Thematic Series on Smart Cities - Enabling Services and Applications
>
> http://sites.lero.ie/jisasmartcities/
>
> The unprecedented level of urbanization and consequent growth in size and
> numbers of
> cities in different parts of the world present both challenges and
> opportunities. The
> proliferation of “Smart Cities” initiatives around the world is part of
> the strategic response
> by governments to the challenges and opportunities of increasing
> urbanization and the rise
> of cities as the nexus of societal development.
>
> Smart Cities provide a framework for urban transformation that harness
> Information and
> Communication Technologies and Knowledge Infrastructures for economic
> regeneration,
> social cohesion, better city administration and infrastructure management.
>
> A Smart City is inherently a complex “Socio- technical System of Systems”.
> Emerging ICT
> paradigm such as data-intensive computing (Big data), Open Data, Internet
> of Things,
> Physical-Cyber-Social Computing and Cloud Computing, are key to the
> realization of the
> vision of Smart Cities.  In fact, real-world Smart Cities are being
> enabled by a combination of
> these paradigms using a mixture of architectures (centralized,
> decentralized, and a mixture
> of both) and infrastructures such as Middleware, and IoT Platforms.
>
> The creation of innovative applications for Smart Cities using this
> infrastructure is crucial to success. Smart City applications can be in the
> areas of Economy, Environment, Energy, Water, Waste, People (intellectual
> endowment and engagement), Lifestyle Building, Mobility (Transportation),
> and public spaces.
>
> This JISA Thematic Series aims at providing innovative contributions to
> the research and
> development of novel approaches for the design and development of
> Infrastructure, Services and Applications for the Smart City and Urban
> context.  Submissions involving both novel technical advances as well as
> demonstrations or evaluation involving real-world data are preferred.
>
> Topics include, but are not limited to the following:
>
> =Architectures and Paradigms for Smart Cities=
>  - Theoretical foundations on Smart City services and applications
>  - Data-intensive computing (Big Data) for the City
>  - Open Big City Data and Urban-Scale Data Sharing
>  - Internet of Things in the City
>  - System of Systems & Cloud Computing Approaches for Smart City
>  - Centralized and/or Decentralized Architectural Approaches to Smart City
>
> =Infrastructures for Smart Cities=
>  - Design and implementation of Internet of Things infrastructure services
> for Smart City
>  - Middleware support for Heterogeneous Smart City infrastructures
>  - Services for cooperative sensing Context-, Resource-, and
> Semantic-awareness for Smart City
>  - Service Innovation and Design for Smart Cities
>  - Dynamic configuration and self- or autonomic- management of Smart City
> middleware
>  - City-as-a-Platform
>
> =Applications, Experiences, and Requirements for Smart Cities
>  - Case studies on evaluation and deployment of Smart City Services and
> Applications: challenges, techniques, and lessons learned
>  - Empirical and deployment studies for Urban Infrastructures
>  - End-to-end applications for Smart Cities
>  - Infrastructure requirements for next-generation Smart City solutions
>
> JISA is an open access journal. Recent papers can be downloaded from
> http://jisajournal.com/content
>
> =Important Dates=
>  - Manuscript due: May 15th, 2015
>  - First response from reviewers: July 1st, 2015
>
> =Submission Instructions=
> Before submission, authors should carefully read over the Instructions for
> Authors, which
> are located at jisajournal.com. Manuscripts are typically 14 two-column
> pages in length, and should not exceed 16 pages.
>
> Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete
> manuscript through
> the Springer Open submission system at jisajournal.com/manuscript
> according to the
> submission schedule. They should choose the correct Thematic Series in the
> “sections” box
> upon submitting. In addition, they should specify the manuscript as a
> submission to the
> “Thematic Series on Smart Cities - Enabling Services and Applications” in
> the cover letter. It
> is the wish of the JISA board that all quality articles will be published
> in the journal
> independent of the funding capacity of the authors. Thus, if the authors
> are unable to pay
> the APC charge, we request that they contact the lead guest editors so
> that a waiver can be
> granted.
>
> =Guest Editors=
>  - Edward Curry, University College Dublin, Ireland
>  - Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
>  - Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia
>  - Amit Sheth, Kno.e.sis Center at Wright State University, USA
>
> Please address queries related to this call to:  edward.curry at lero.ie
>
>
>