[agents] SCE 2017 CFP: The International Workshop on Smart Cities Systems Engineering (SCE 2017) , May 16-19, 2017, Madeira, Portugal

[Mohammad Alsmirat]

*The International Workshop on Smart Cities Systems Engineering (SCE 2017)*
http://emergingtechnet.org/SCE2017/

in conjunction with

*The 8th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and
TechnologyMay 16-19, 2017, Madeira, Portugal*


*Call for papers:*

Smart cities provide next generation engineering approaches for
urbanization. Smart cities aim to exploit the intellectual and social
capital as its core ingredient for urbanization, in addition to the
physical and ICT infrastructure. Smart cities are driven by several
interdependent trends. These include a pressing need for environmental
sustainability, and peoples’ increasing demands for personalisation,
mobility and higher quality of life. Technological developments such as
miniaturization of devices, internet of things (IoT), big data, and
decreasing costs of computational entities have also accelerated the smart
cities developments.
Smart cities encompass all aspects of modern day life, transportation,
healthcare, entertainment, work, businesses, social interactions,
governance, etc. It is therefore necessary to engineer smart cities as
complex systems of systems supported by a converged ubiquitous
infrastructure. A key challenge in the realization of smart cities is to
create an ecosystem of digital infrastructures that are able to work
together and enable dynamic real-time interactions between various smart
city subsystems.
With this background, this workshop invites submissions that propose state
of the art solutions for smart cities systems engineering. A particular
focus of the workshop are the studies that involve cloud computing, fog
computing, and mobile edge computing technologies. Original articles
including modelling and empirical studies and development, as well as
relevant surveys are welcome. The topics of interest of the workshop
include, but are not limited to:

* IoT based developments for smart cities engineering
* Big data technologies for smart cities
* Modelling and analysis of smart city technologies and systems
* Mobile applications for smart cities
* Analytics for smart cities
* Cloud computing based approaches for smart city engineering
* Fog and edge computing based approaches for smart city engineering
* Cloudlet based approaches for smart city engineering
* Studies focused on communication networks for smart cities
* Information management for smart cities
* Smart buildings, smart homes and smart energy grids
* Transportation, healthcare, and governance for smart cities
* Security and privacy of smart city systems

*Important dates:*

Submission Date: 5 Feb. 2017
Notification to Authors: 28 Feb. 2017
Camera Ready Submission: 13 Mach 2017

*Paper Submission:*

The submitted paper must be no longer than 6 pages formatted according to
the guidelines of Procedia Computer Science
<https://www.elsevier.com/journals/procedia-computer-science/1877-0509/guide-for-authors>
 , MS Word Template
<http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-17/templates/ANT17_PROCS_Template.doc>
, Latex
<http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-17/templates/ecrc-procs-template.zip>.
Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically using
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sce2017 in PDF format before the
deadline.

The submission processes will be managed by easychair.org. If you have used
this system before, you can use the same username and password. If this is
your first time using EasyChair, you will need to register for an account
by clicking "I have no EasyChair account" button. Upon completion of
registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are
ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to
the system by the submission due date.

All accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentations and will be
included in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the
open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. At least one author
of each accepted paper is required to register and attend the conference to
present the work..

*COMMITTEE:*

*General Co-Chairs:

  *Rashid Mehmood, King AbdulAziz University, KSA

  *Mohammad Alsmirat, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan.

*Technical Program Co-Chairs:

  *Lo'ai Tawalbah, UCSB, USA
  *Elhadj Benkhelifa, Staffordshire University, UK
*Publication Chair:
  *Ejaz Ahmed, University of Malaya, Malaysia
*Publicity Chair:
  *Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
*Web Chair:

  *Segun Adedugbe, Staffordshire University, UK

Please send any inquiry on SCE2017 to Mohammad Alsmirat:
masmirat at just.edu.jo.