[AISWorld] WebAndTheCity: 8th International Smart City Workshop – The Web and Smart Cities

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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);
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   Pervasive Web for Smart City emerging topics (i.e., user behavior
   analytics, energy, water, waste, transportation etc.)
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   The role of city stakeholders for smart city applications development
   and standardization (i.e., promotion push, start-ups, open data);
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   Web Infrastructure and AI service standardization;
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   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) 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:

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   Leonidas ANTHOPOULOS, Professor, University of Thessaly, Greece,
   lanthopo at uth.gr
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   Marijn JANSSEN, Professor, Delft University of Technology, The
   Netherlands, M.F.W.H.A.Janssen at tudelft.nl
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   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