WSACC23- Workshop on Smart and Circular Cities 

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The aim of this workshop is to collect works from academia and industry reporting original, previously unpublished research, addressing technologies, systems, applications and services in the Smart and Circular Cities domain.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:  

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.

Technical Program

Monday, September 25th, 2023, 13:30 – 15:00 Room: 3.1


Monday, September 25th, 2023, 15:30 – 17:00 Room: 3.1

Submission

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.

Important Dates

Paper submission: August 1, 2023

Notification: August 14, 2023

Camera Ready: August 25, 2023

Author Registration: August 31, 2023

Workshop Day: September 25, 2023

Workshop Chairs

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

Technical Program Committee

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

Previous versions of the WSACC workshop