[AISWorld] CfP EM Update: Smart Cities - Smart Governance Models for Future Cities

[Electronic Markets]

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Dear Colleagues,

 

Electronic Markets wants to share an update on their Call for Papers on "
Smart Cities - Smart Governance Models for Future Cities". The deadline has
been extended to January 31, 2021.

 

Guest Editors

* Edy Portmann, Human-IST Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland,
edy.portmann at unifr.ch  
* Sara D’Onofrio, CC Smart Citizen, Business Engineering Institute St.
Gallen, Switzerland, sara.donofrio at bei-sg.ch  
* Simon Trang, Chair of Information Security and Compliance, University of
Göttingen, Germany, strang at uni-goettingen.de  
* Elpiniki I. Papageorgiou, Department of Energy Systems, University of
Thessaly, Greece, elpinikipapageorgiou at uth.gr
<mailto:elpinikipapageorgiou at uth.gr> 
* Witold Pedrycz, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Alberta, Canada, wpedrycz at ualberta.ca
<mailto:wpedrycz at ualberta.ca> 

 

Theme

As of 2010 half of the world population lived in urban areas and 150
metropolitan urban regions across the world generated almost 50% of the
global GDP. In other words, from then on, cities became more and more the
places, where a process of deep societal and economic reform should start
from, where global issues may be addressed locally, where smart technology
may be discussed. Definitively, cities have a sufficient critical mass in
both demographic and economic terms to ignite a planetary revolution.

The concept of a smart city is understood as the specific use of advanced
information and communication technologies for a sustainable, social,
ecological and economic development of urban space. The focus of a smart
city is on the access, processing and use of information to improve existing
urban processes. The acquisition, collection and analysis of urban
(real-time) data and the coordination of data use with Internet- and
web-based services has opened up new possibilities for increasing economic,
social, natural and infrastructural resource efficiency and improving the
quality of life. 

However, the technology-focused perspective excludes two essential aspects
that are of high importance for a "future city": Preservation of knowledge
and involvement of the citizens in the design process. Solutions (e.g.,
digital platforms, civic (tech) events) designed by and with citizens
promote transparent and participatory collaboration that enables the
development of a smart living environment. In this respect, it is important
that civil society is willing to cooperate and that public administrations
take these efforts seriously. With regards to aspects of the socio-technical
approach, it is important that technical and human factors have equal weight
in the design process of new smart city models. This citizen-centered
approach makes it possible to develop new socio-economic and participatory
models that promote, for example, solidarity, social inclusion and
communities. This becomes particularly relevant in the field of governance
(D’Onofrio et al. 2019). 

With this in mind, in this special issue, we intend to help cities better
understand the strengths and weaknesses of the governance of their
infrastructures. On that account, with a focus on cities efficiency,
sustainability, and resilience (see Portmann & Finger 2016; Portmann et al.
2019), we invite researchers to submit their paper addressing an innovative
handling of societal challenges, presenting novel economic models to govern
them as well as technological prototypes and frameworks to have an impact.

 

Central issues and topics

This special issue of the Electronic Markets Journal will focus on new,
innovative approaches to smart governance models for future cities that may
improve existing processes and models of governance and will change/improve
the interaction and communication between citizens and representatives of
the public sector. They should discuss how their approaches and solutions
enable enhanced ways of information exchange and communication between
citizens and representatives of the public sector, how new models can
improve existing government models and thus how urban knowledge can be
preserved and be used for future cities. 

This special issue is not only intended for academics and researchers but
will also be valuable for executives, managers, innovators and project
leaders who would like to implement smart methods to govern urban systems.
To this end, it intends to present a set of state-of- the art method boxes,
case studies and web-based tools that together make it possible to design,
implement, and test smart cities strategies-to-be.

The (non-exclusive) list of topics includes:

·         Fundamentals of smart governance of urban systems

·         Fundamentals of complexity theory for smart governance of urban
systems

·         Fundamentals of collective city intelligence for implementation of
smart cities

·         Fundamentals of learning and cognition theory for implementation
of smart cities

·         Application of human-centered artificial intelligence for smart
cities  

·         Integration of smart citizens into the development of smart
governance models

·         Smart participation, smart voting 

·         Digital platforms and ecosystems for smart cities

·         Data mining for smart city applications

·         Application of smart open gov data 

·         Smart governance of networked business models

·         Addressing sustainable, social, ecological and economic issues in
smart governance models for future cities

·         Addressing trust, privacy, and security issues in smart governance
models for future cities

 

Keywords

collective intelligence, digital platforms, ecosystems, governance, open gov
data, privacy, security, smart citizen, smart city, smart participation,
trust

 

Submission

Electronic Markets is a Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)-listed journal
(IF 3.553 in 2018) in the area of information systems. We encourage original
contributions with a broad range of methodological approaches, including
conceptual, qualitative and quantitative research. Please also consider
position papers and case studies for this special issue. All papers should
fit the journal scope (for more information, see
www.electronicmarkets.org/about-em/scope
<http://www.electronicmarkets.org/about-em/scope> /) and will undergo a
double-blind peer-review process. Submissions must be made via the journal’s
submission system and comply with the journal's formatting standards. The
preferred average article length is approximately 8,000 words, excluding
references. If you would like to discuss any aspect of this special issue,
you may either contact the guest editors or the Editorial Office.

 

Important deadline

* Submission Deadline: January 31, 2021

 

References

D’Onofrio S., Habenstein A., Portmann E. (2019). Ontological Design for
Cognitive Cities: The New Principle for Future Urban Management. Ahuja K.,
Khosla A. (eds.) Driving the Development, Management and Sustainability of
Cognitive Cities. IGI Global, Hershey, PA, USA.

Portmann E., Finger M. (2016). Towards Cognitive Cities: Advances in
Cognitive Computing and its Applications to the Governance of Large Urban
Systems. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, 63. Springer, Cham.

Portmann E., Seising R., Tabacchi M., Habenstein A. (2019). Designing
Cognitive Cities. Springer.

 

 

Best regards,

 

Rainer Alt, Hans-Dieter Zimmermann, Maxi Herzog and Dorothee Ulrich

 

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