The last years have witnessed a permanent change of vision of cloud systems. Nowadays, the most important stakeholders such as private companies, public agencies, research communities and citizens rely on the cloud for a number of purposes, ranging from sharing hardware infrastructures to software, data, and sensing services.
The services designed for complex scenarios such as smart cities, agriculture 4.0 and the upcoming Industry 5.0, pave the path for a new era of highly distributed and cognitive clouds.
For instance, the complexity of human dynamics in a city can be better analysed by decentralising the infrastructure, analysing how the distributed infrastructure has to be evolved at runtime, integrating and opening the data and sharing the services.
The distributed and cognitive cloud paradigm is a key enabling technology, whereby applications and network functions are hosted in the cloud-to-thing continuum, and their placement can evolve depending on the context.
Despite such a rapid (re-)evolution of edge-cloud systems, the extremely heterogeneous smart city applications (sensing as a service, crowd sensing, etc.) makes the satisfaction of all the requirements a big challenge.
In this context, emergent paradigms like artificial intelligence (AI), privacy-enhancing technologies (PET), cybersecurity, blockchain (BC), and metaverse are key enablers for cloud-to-thing systems to shape the development of autonomic orchestration and networking.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
Application of distributed clouds to smart cities services.
Models for context-aware crowdsensing techniques at urban-level scale.
Human-enabled Edge Computing (HEC) paradigm.
Computing continuum for smart cities services.
Cognitives cloud for smart cities services.
Digital twins for smart cities services.
Edge data center deployment in urban environments.
ML- and AI-based approaches cloud/edge-based smart city applications.
AI-driven models, architectures, and frameworks for edge computing.
Experiences on the (re)use of open platforms for cloudintegrated smart cities services.
Design and evaluation tools for scalability and efficient resource allocation in smart cities.
Design and application of cloud/edge technologies to Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS).
Vehicular cloud architectures for provisioning of smart cities services.
Models and paradigms for the management of cloud/MEC services within/between data.
Data-driven approaches for smart transportation in urban areas.
Blockchain solutions for secure and reliable transactions between counterparts in data sharing/trading.
Security and privacy techniques to cloud/edge-based smart city applications.
Post-quantum security and privacy for smart city applications.
Important Dates
Submission: 15th April, 2023 Extended to 07th May, 2023 (FIRM)
Notification: 23rd May, 2023
Camera-ready: 1st June, 2023
Workshop Date: 09th July, 2023
Each deadline expires at 23:59:59 EEST
Papers must be submitted electronically through the workshop's management system, at: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30884
Authors are invited to submit original technical papers for publication in MoCS 2023. Manuscripts should be written in English and should not exceed 6 pages in the IEEE double-column proceedings format including tables, figures, references and appendices.
Authors can find the IEEE double-column conference proceedings template at the following link:
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Please read carefully the reviewers’ comments, which are intended to help you to improve your paper for final publication. The listed comments should be addressed, as acceptance is conditional on appropriate response to the requirements and comments. IEEE ISCC 2023 requires that the submitted manuscript is solely from the author’s own work and not from the work of others, unless explicit permission has been granted. This includes text, figures and tables. Information from published articles must always be cited explicitly. Proper citation is to give the credit to the work that is originally published, not to follow-up work or reviews. Citations should be given close to the information within the sentences or at the end of the sentence, not after several sentences or near the end of the paragraph. Even when citations are given, exact copying of a whole sentence or paragraphs should be indicated by quotation marks. Furthermore, reuse of part of a published figure or table requires a copyright permission from the publishers that hold the rights. All re-published figures and tables should explicitly indicate the original source.
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Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE ISCC Proceedings. Accepted and presented papers will be submitted for publication in IEEE Xplore®. If a paper is not presented at the conference, it will be removed from the web site and IEEE Xplore.
The paper must meet the submission guidelines and must be submitted to the PDF eXpress site to produce an IEEE Xplore compliant file.
Note: The final Camera-Ready file from PDF eXpress must be uploaded at the EDAS paper submission site.
Prepare IEEE Xplore compatible PDF using PDF eXpress.
Please use IEEE PDF eXpress to create and validate your final Camera-Ready version. IEEE ISCC 2023 Conference ID is 58397X.
IMPORTANT: Any changes made to a PDF after IEEE PDF eXpress conversion or PDF Checking may invalidate Xplore compatibility. All updates should be added to the document before a PDF is created.
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Before Creating a PDF
Remove copyright notice, headers, page numbers from your source document.
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Creating your PDF eXpress Account
Access the IEEE PDF eXpress site at https://ieee-pdf-express.org/
For New Users – Click “Create account” link.
Enter the following:
58397X for the Conference ID
your email address
your password
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Validate your paper
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Enter identifying text for the paper (title is recommended but not required)
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The Camera-Ready submission site is https://edas.info/N30577
This will let you approve the IEEE copyright notice for your paper and then upload the file produced by PDF eXpress.
Final Camera Ready Papers must be in English.
Note that you will actually update the existing manuscript previously submitted.
The list of authors for camera-ready paper must be the same as the list of authors for the review version.
Provide an abstract of fewer than 200 words.
Do NOT number the pages.
Author Bios are NOT needed.
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Make sure that the output has been formatted for printing on LETTER (8.5″ by 11″) size paper.
You may use IEEE Transactions Templates.
Authors accepted as Long Paper:
Long papers must be no longer than six (6) pages (no cover page) in double-column format with standard margins and at least a 10 point font (IEEE templates
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html).
This length includes everything: figures, tables, references, appendices and so forth. Please look at the sample paper in the above template page.) For long papers, an additional page may be included for a total of seven (7) pages (six (6) pages plus one (1) extra page with fee with additional cost), PROVIDED you have paid this extra-page fee during the registration.