Organized in the scope of the 9th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference 2023, 24-27 September 2023, Bucharest, Romania, https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2023/
Smart Cities and the IoT, together with sustainability and circular economy, form a significant part of the current research landscape, as regards large-scale systems and applications. Several challenges have emerged during the last few years when designing and applying these systems in domains like energy, sustainability and smart transportation, especially when discussing their cross-section. Recent advancements in fields like the digital twin have brought forth additional challenges and opportunities in the pervasive computing space, especially when having in mind the point of view of smart cities as “system of systems”. In most cases, a multi-disciplinary approach is required for designing and implementing systems for smart circular cities, and such aspects are at the core of this workshop.
The aim of this workshop is to collect works from academia and industry reporting original, previously unpublished research, addressing technologies, systems, applications and services in the Smart and Circular Cities domain. In addition, novel approaches combining advances in IoT, Edge and Cloud computing, circularity and sustainability, Industry 4.0 are also within the scope of this workshop.
Overall, the workshop aims to address the following topics:
Resilient smart and circular cities
Applications of AI for smart cities
Citizen science and education-related aspects related to smart cities and circular economy
Data management, open data and knowledge extraction in smart and circular cities
Digital Twins and their application in smart and circular cities and sustainability
Distributed Ledger Technologies and the smart city ecosystem
People-centric systems and crowdsensing solutions in smart cities
Smart Cities as a system of systems
Smart city pilots/applications and related studies
Smart City Governance issues
Smart City Safety, Security and Privacy issues
Standardization, interoperability, regulation and legal matters in the smart city framework
Studies on behavioral change aspects for sustainability
Tools and techniques for urban co-creation
IoT, edge/fog and cloud computing for smart and circular cities
Cybersecurity issues in Smart Cities
Autonomous vehicles in Smart Cities
We expect researchers, members of the industry and public entities, including municipalities, working on smart cities, the IoT, aspects of applied research on the circular economy, among other groups, will be interested to share their research and findings with the greater IEEE community.
The workshop is organized in collaboration with the recently established IEEE Special Technical Community (STC) on Smart and Circular Cities (https://smartcircularcity.isi.gr/, https://stc.computer.org/sacs/). The STC aims to address technologies, systems, applications, and services in the Smart and Circular Cities domain and become a strong committee in the field, enabling the IEEE Computer Society to become a leading authority in the field. We also welcome papers on novel applications or environments that have a strong Smart City component, especially if those novel applications and environments challenge existing ideas and design techniques.
Monday, September 25th, 2023, 13:30 – 15:00 Room: 3.1
#129 - "A Study on Indoor Noise Levels in a Set of School Buildings in Greece utilizing an IoT infrastructure", Georgios Mylonas, Lidia Pocero Fraile, Stelios Tsampas, Athanasios Kalogeras
#131 - "Metacities Excellence Hub: exploiting digital twins and metaverse technologies in South-Eastern Europe", Spyros Denazis, Tanya Politi, Evi Faliagka, Christos Antonopoulos, Eleni Christopoulou, Tanya Politi, Christos Tranoris, Didoe Prevedourou, Nikos Kostis, Ioanna Ioannou, Christophoros Christophorou, Iacovos Ioannou, Vasos Vassiliou, Vladimir Poulkov, Sotir Sotirov, Albena Dimitrova Mihovska
#130 - "NFC Based Digital Prescription for Improving Patient Care and Reduce Pharmacy Losses", Arpita Kalda, Sardar Vallabhbhai, Vivek Mangal, Gajendranath Chowdary
Monday, September 25th, 2023, 15:30 – 17:00 Room: 3.1
#140 - "Decision-Making in Construction Project Management: Integrating Smart City Concepts and Principles of Sustainable Development", Pedro Nunez-Cacho, Jaroslaw Gorecki
#141 - "Dimensionality Reduction on IoT Monitoring Data of Smart Building for Energy Consumption Forecasting" Konstantinos Koutras, Agorakis Bompotas, Athanasios Kalogeras, Christos Alexakos, Constantinos Halkiopoulos
#146 - "Vertical Federated Learning in Malware Detection for Smart Cities", Dimitrios Serpanos, Georgios Xenos
Contributions can be analytical, empirical, technological, methodological, or a combination of these. Papers reporting strong systems engineering contributions backed by solid and appropriate evaluations are strongly encouraged. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. Submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process handled by the Technical Program Committee. Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be considered.
A maximum of 6 pages including references is allowed, formatted in accordance with the conference guidelines. All submitted papers should be written in English and formatted according to the IEEE conference proceedings template.
All submissions will be made through the IEEE Smart Cities Conference submissions website.
The accepted papers will be published in the main conference's proceedings.
Paper submission: August 1, 2023
Notification: August 14, 2023
Camera Ready: August 25, 2023
Author Registration: August 31, 2023
Workshop Day: September 25, 2023
Athanasios Kalogeras, Industrial Systems Institute, "ATHENA" Research and Innovation Center, Greece
Luis Muñoz, University of Cantabria, Spain
Georgios Mylonas, Industrial Systems Institute, "ATHENA" Research and Innovation Center, Greece
Dimitrios Serpanos, Computer Technology Institute & Press "Diophantus" & University of Patras, Greece
Sobah Abbas Petersen, NTNU, Norway
Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, "La Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy
Luca Ferrarini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Stefano Forti, University of Pisa, Italy
Panagiotis Kokkinos, University of Peloponnese, Greece
Federica Paganelli, University of Pisa, Italy
Demetris Lekkas, University of the Aegean, Greece
Vesna Mandic, University of Kragujevac, Serbia
Vanja Asanović, University of Montenegro, Montenegro
WSACC22, Paphos, Cyprus