[AISWorld] WebAndTheCity: 10th International Smart City Workshop – The Web and Smart Cities
ZIOZIAS CHRISTOS
cziozias at uth.gr
Sat Feb 17 09:59:06 EST 2024
(Apologies for cross-posts)
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CALL FOR PAPERS – DEADLINE EXTENSION
WebAndTheCity: 10th International Smart City Workshop – The Web and
Smart Cities
In conjunction with The Web Conference (WWW’24): 34th World Wide Web
International Conference, Singapore, May 13, 2024
http://webandthecity.home.blog/
Important Dates
• Submissions extended due: Feb 28, 2024 (23:59 Anywhere on Earth
(AoE) time zone)
• Notification of Acceptance: March 4, 2024
• Camera-ready version due: March 11, 2024
• Workshop authors’ early registration: March 31, 2024
• Workshop day: May 13, 2024
Workshop Objective
This is the 10th 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 held in Austin, Texas, USA, in conjunction with “The Web
Conference 2023”. 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 new era of the web and web
intelligence in cities and communities.
In the era of digital twinning and metaverse (so called citiverse for
cities), and under the UN 2030 Agenda for sustainable growth, cities
are being transformed to virtual spaces that generate new types of
value and new experiences to their citizens and enterprises that can
enhance living and offer new opportunities for economic growth.
Moreover, AI and web intelligence generate new types of automated
transactions in these virtual spaces, while they can utilize data
spaces and standardization for optimal data flow. Τhis workshop aims
to demonstrate how the web transforms cities to new virtual
environments.
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 SC must deal with emerging social
threats. Nevertheless, communities have not been supported by the SC
during emerging social crises (i.e., access to affordable energy,
shelters etc.), while the SC does not seem to play a central role in
circular economic growth. This skepticism can be added to the existing
criticism that represents an ambiguous urban utopia, which is
supported by the partnership of local governments with big
technological vendors. Articles can deliver ideas for intelligent
sensing, crowdsourcing, and risk analysis with the Web, which can
provide a clearer view of SC role against social emergencies, while
innovative applications can strengthen the community’s coherence
(e.g., access to affordable energy with smart energy efficiency;
communication about social threats with transparency etc.).
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):
• Meet the metaverse expectations for cities (new value creation,
immersive experiences for users etc.)
• Explore city digital twinning
• Enhance community living with the web (services, Apps and intelligence);
• Apps and services that support community engagement in
governance, circularity, climate change adaptation, mobility, sharing,
crowd-sourcing etc.;
• Smart City platforms (e.g. consultation; openness; parking;
traffic management; environment etc.);
• Smart and Self evolving services (e.g. self-threat analysis;
self-responsive government services etc.);
• 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 12 pages long (maximum 8 pages for
the main paper content + maximum 2 pages for appendixes + maximum 2
pages for references).
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/submissions?a=31988213)
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 12 pages (maximum 8 pages for the main paper
content + maximum 2 pages for appendixes + maximum 2 pages for
references)
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 WWW2023
conference can be found on https://www2023.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 2023
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/submissions?a=31988213)
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, Hong Kong Baptist
University, Hong Kong
• Soon Ae Choon, Professor, City of University of New York, U.S.A.
• Carl Erik Moe, Professor, University of Agder, Norway
• Sofia Toufic Shwayri, Independent Scholar, U.S.A.
• Nicolas Douay, MCF Paris 7 / UMR Géographie-Cités / LabEx DynamiTe
• Beth Coleman, University of Waterloo, Director of City as Platform
• Markus Rittenbruch, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
• Alois Paulin, HVF Ludwigsburg, Germany
• Zohreh Pourzolfaghar, Maynooth University, Ireland
• Kristina Lemmer, University of Lunenburg, Germany
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