[AISWorld] AIS Pre-ICIS Workshop in Dublin on,“IoT & Smart City Challenges and Applications” – ISCA 2016

[Markus Helfert]

Call for Papers

*AIS Pre-ICIS Workshop on**“IoT & Smart City Challenges and 
Applications” – ISCA 2016*

http://iot-smartcities.lero.ie/isca-2016/

December 9, 2016, Dublin, Ireland


Background – New episode in Smart City research
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Urban IoT solutions and Smart Cities are exciting research areas and it 
bears historical potential for the Information Systems (IS) discipline 
to demonstrate their relevance. Urban IoT solutions and Smart Cities 
deal with the design, use and impact of information systems in our 
everyday working and living environment, so they affect the quality of 
both life and work for all of us. The shift towards a more 
multidisciplinary perspective on the IoT & Smart City discourse signals 
the journey of technological solutions towards becoming integral part of 
every aspect of our society. As a consequence, there is a growing need 
to provide more meaningful IT solutions incorporating the needs of the 
urban society. This is where contributions from IS research are needed 
in order to study and design urban IoT solutions and smart systems from 
a socio-technical systems perspective. At the same time IS research 
needs to partner up with colleagues from other disciplines, such as 
Science Technology & Society, Architecture and Design, Geography and 
Anthropology, just to name a few.

Discussions around urban socio-economic development and quality of life 
have for long placed technology in the centre of attention, (Zinam, 
1989). IoT and Smart city challenges therefore represent contemporary 
urban and social challenges. Building on early iterations of the Smart 
City definitions, urban information systems encompass more than just 
pieces of technology. They refer to a way of thinking, acting and 
organizing in the contemporary urban society. Not surprisingly, we put 
great hope and investments into IoT and Smart City initiatives. We 
expect nothing less from a city that engages in such initiatives, than 
dramatically increasing the pace at which a city can improve its value 
proposition to society and economy, the integration between its 
services, as well as ‘…its sustainability and resilience by 
fundamentally improving how it engages society, how it applies 
collaborative leadership methods, how it works across disciplines and 
city systems, and how it uses data and integrated technologies, in order 
to transform services and quality of life to those in and involved with 
the city’ (The International Organisation for Standardisation’s Smart 
City definition, 2015).

Despite its importance, IS research on urban IoT and Smart Cities is 
still fairly scarce. This Pre-ICIS Workshop, therefore, intends to 
foster research on IoT and Smart Cities, and to push the discourse to a 
next level, opening up to a new episode of IoT and Smart Cities that 
takes a socio-technical perspective on innovating and improving our 
working and living environment, which we believe is exciting and of high 
relevance for both practice and the field.

Workshop focus
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The unique value of Information Systems as a discipline lies in its 
ability to integrate practical solutions with socio-technical thinking 
about contemporary issues. Smart City & Urban IoT initiatives offer a 
platform for conversation among experts in information technology, 
business and society. This AIS Pre-ICIS Workshop has a general 
orientation towards successful Smart Cities, including citizens, policy 
makers, infrastructure services, industry representatives, sociologists 
and academics.

The focus is on “IoT & Smart City Challenges and Applications” with both 
practical implementations as well as theoretical solutions to modern 
cities’ concerns welcomed.

Workshop purpose
================
ISCA 2016 workshop aims to bring together practitioners and academics to 
discuss how cities can benefit from a better integration of information 
systems underpinning our daily lives. The purpose of the ISCA 2016 
workshop is to bring forward the current empirical and theoretical works 
in Urban IoT & Smart Cities through two themes – Business Processes and 
Information Systems and Enterprise Architecture. The workshop intends to 
feature contributions from the perspective of computer science as well 
as business and society. The goal is to create a platform where scholars 
studying Urban IoT & Smart City initiatives may enrich their 
understanding of the current Smart City discourse and implemented solutions.

Best Papers/Publication
=======================
Best papers of the workshop will be fast tracked at the AIS Journal 
JITTA (Journal of Information Technology Theories & Applications). With 
17 years of tradition, JITTA is considered in a number of databases and 
rankings world-wide and it has been identified an A Journal in 
Australian Business Deans Council Journal Quality List 2013 (on a 
four-Tier scale of A*, A, B, and C). JITTA is also included in the 
Journal List of the Chartered Association of Business Schools (United 
Kingdom) and the VHB Journal List (German Academic Association for 
Business Research). A journal dedicated to high impact and fast tracked 
publications in topical application areas of IS research (vom Brocke, 
2014), JITTA specifically welcomes high quality contributions to the 
field of Urban IoT and Smart Cities research.

Topics
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The workshop can include papers from diverse fields of IS related to 
Urban IoT and Smart Cities. Topics can include but are not limited to:

Theme 1: Business Processes and Information Systems for Smart Cities
* Conceptual frameworks of Urban IoT & Smart City challenges
* Conceptual frameworks of smart governance
* Decision-making and management in the Smart City
* Value creation & business models in Smart Cities
* Smart City security and privacy
* Success factors of Smart City initiatives
* Urban IoT, Smart City and open innovation
* Vulnerabilities in smart infrastructures
* Smart partnerships and collaboration models
* Citizen participation and engagement with Smart City initiatives
* Procurement processes for Urban IoT & Smart City challenges

Theme 2: Enterprise Architecture (EA) for Urban IoT and Smart Cities
* Enterprise Modelling Theory, Practice and Case Studies in Smart City 
Context
* Big Data Analytics in Urban IoT and Smart City systems
* Smart City theory, modelling and simulation
* Case studies of big data processing in Smart City
* Scalability of Smart City Enterprise Models and Frameworks
* Urban Internet of Things from an open data perspective
* Cloud-Based Enterprise Tools and Architectures for Urban IoT and Smart 
Cities
* EA and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
* Architectures and Design Principles for Urban IoT and Smart City systems
* Smart City Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) Analysis, Integrity 
Checking & Validation
* Use of Open Data for Smart City EIS
* Smart City  EIS and Internet of Things
* Standards and regulations in Urban IoT and Smart City systems
* Sensors and network technology for Urban IoT and Smart City systems


Dates and submission details
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Submissions: September 30, 2016
Notification: October 31, 2016
Final manuscripts: November 30, 2016
Workshop: December 09, 2016

The workshop website is http://iot-smartcities.lero.ie/isca-2016/ where 
templates and further information are provided. The workshop will follow 
an ordinary scientific procedure with submission of papers and selection 
of papers through peer-review. Papers are expected to be between 7-16 
pages. We welcome full research papers as well  as shorter papers 
(work-in-progress or position papers). For submissions we use the 
EasyChair system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isca2016). The 
format of papers should follow the requirements of the ICIS2016 
conference. Workshop proceedings will be electronically published and 
distributed.

Workshop co-chairs
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Marija Bezbradica, Dublin City University, Ireland 
(marija.bezbradica at dcu.ie)
Jan vom Brocke, University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein  
(jan.vom.brocke at uni.li)
Brian Donnellan, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland 
(brian.donnellan at nuim.ie)
Markus Helfert, Dublin City University, Ireland (markus.helfert at dcu.ie)
Réka Pétercsák, Maynooth University, Innovation Value Institute, Ireland 
(reka.petercsak at nuim.ie)


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Dr. Markus Helfert
School of Computing
Dublin City University
Dublin 9, Ireland

Director Business Informatics Research Group
Science Foundation Ireland - Funded Investigator
Programme Chair: B.Sc. in Enterprise Computing
Senior Lecturer

Research Affiliate at:
The Open Government Institute (TOGI)
Zeppelin Universität, Germany

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