[AISWorld] WebAndTheCity: 8th ACM International Smart City Workshop – The Web and Smart Cities
KARADIMOS PANAGIOTIS
pkaradimos at uth.gr
Sun Dec 19 06:48:07 EST 2021
(Apologies for cross-posts)
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CALL FOR PAPERS
WebAndTheCity: 8th International Smart City Workshop – The Web and
Smart Cities
In conjunction with The Web Conference (WWW’22): 32nd World Wide Web
International Conference, Lyon, France, April 25-29, 2022
http://webandthecity.home.blog/
IMPORTANT DATES
* Extended Submissions due: Feb. 03, 2022 (23:59 Anywhere on
Earth (AoE) time zone)
* Notification of Acceptance: March 03, 2022
* Camera-ready version due: March 10, 2022
* Workshop authors’ early registration: March 03, 2022
* Workshop day: April 25, 2022
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVE
This is the 8th 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 Ljublanja during The Web Conference 2021. 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 SMART ENVIRONMENT.
In the era of cities and under the UN 2030 Agenda and the European
Green deal for sustainable growth, cities appear to play crucial role
in securing humanity against environmental threats and generate
sustainable and circular cities. In this regard, cities attempt to
improve their forms (e.g., more compact, and eco-friendlier) and
performance to become friendlier and able to host their increasing
populations. Additionally, new types of business appear (e.g., that
utilize IoT and data, manage e-waste and recycle), while the
co-existence of autonomous things and people generate another
challenge that cities have been started phasing. Τhis workshop aims to
demonstrate how the web (web applications Apps and Web intelligence)
can serve smart environment in general.
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 the SC emerges rapidly with the
contribution of all the scientific fields, while ISO37120 and ISO37122
attempt to certify and measure the performance of SC services. Last
but not least, customer satisfaction from SC services is being
measured real-time with corresponding data collection. All these
issues are being supported by data, the Web, Apps and recently with AI
and it is important to focus on future achievements. Additionally, an
increasing criticism is that smart city represents an ambiguous urban
utopia, which is supported by the partnership of local governments
with big technological vendors. Articles can deliver a clearer view of
smart city reality, while innovative applications can strengthen the
existence of opportunities for new entrants in the SC market.
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 community engagement in environmental awareness and
circularity with Web Applications, mobile Apps and Services;
* Apps and services that support community preparation to climate
change, adaptation, mobility, sharing, crowd-sourcing etc. (especially
during an environmental crisis);
* Smart City platforms (e.g. environment; waste and water
management; parking; traffic etc.);
* Smart and Self evolving services (e.g. self-threat analysisl
self-responsive government services etc.);
* City metabolism and the role of the web;
* 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 10 pages long, including the
abstract, references and appendices.
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/?conf=webandthecity2022) or via
e-mail (in .doc/docx and .pdf format) to: lanthopo at uth.gr with the
subject: “WebAndTheCity 2022 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[1]) 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 10 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 and they
will follow a blind peer-review process by the workshop co-chairs and
at least one external reviewer. More details regarding WWW2022
conference can be found on https://www2022.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 2022
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/?conf=webandthecity2022) or via
e-mail (in .doc/docx and .pdf format) to: lanthopo at uth.gr with the
subject: WebAndTheCity 2022 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 at uth.gr
* Marijn JANSSEN, Professor, Delft University of Technology, The
Netherlands, M.F.W.H.A.Janssen at tudelft.nl
* Vishanth WEERAKKODY, Professor, University of Bradford, United
Kingdom, v.weerakkody at bradford.ac.uk
PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS (TENTATIVE)
• Toru Ishida, Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto
University, Japan
• 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
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