[agents] CFP iSCI 2019

[Scott Fowler]

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======================= iSCI 2019 =======================

The 7th International Conference on Smart City and Informatization (iSCI 2019)
November 12-15, 2019, Guangzhou, China
http://isci-conf.org/iSCI2019/ 

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Co-located Conference
- The 5th International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications (DependSys 2019)
http://www.dependsys.org/DependSys2019/
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Smart City and Informatization

The 7th International Conference on Smart City and Informatization (iSCI 2019) aims to provide a unique platform for multi-disciplinary researchers and teams, industry solution vendors, and government agencies to exchange innovative ideas, challenges, research results and solutions, as well as project experience reports and successful stories. 

iSCI 2019 topics include, but are not limited to the following:

Track 1: Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Sensing
  - Security Model and Architecture
  - Smart Sensing in IoT
  - Trustworthy Data Collection in IoT
  - Information Security in IoT
  - Ubiquitous Safety in IoT

Track 2: Urban Computing and Big Data
  - Data Collection and Data Mining for Smart City
  - Expression and Visualization of Urban Data
  - Urban Monitoring and Optimization
  - Intelligent Transport Systems
  - Urban Traffic Flow Prediction

Track 3: Sustainable Industry 4.0
  - Enterprise Manufacturing and Management Informatization
  - Green Industry and Sustainable Manufacturing
  - Resource Allocation Efficiency Promotion Technologies
  - Integration of Information and Industrialization
  - Energy Informatics

Track 4: Smart Society Informatization Technologies
  - E-Government for Smart City
  - E-Health for Smart City
  - E-Education for Smart City
  - E-Social Services for Smart City
  - Social Mobility Analysis and Social Life Informatization

Track 5: Cloud/Edge/Fog Computing for Smart City
  - Cloud Computing for Smart City
  - Collaborative Cloud and Edge Computing for Smart City
  - Collaborative Cloud and Fog Computing for Smart City
  - Future Computing with Multiple Clouds
  - Security and Privacy across Clouds

Track 6: Applications for Smart City Informatization
  - Structural Health Monitoring in Smart City
  - Smart Grids and Energy
  - Smart Water and Food Systems
  - Applications for Smart Community and Smart Pension
  - Applications for Smart Environment and Smart Economy

IMPORTANT DATES
Workshop Proposal Deadline: March 15, 2019
Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2019
Author Notification: July 15, 2019
Camera-Ready Paper Due: September 15, 2019
Conference Dates: November 12-15, 2019

PAPER SUBMISSION
All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isci2019) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 14 pages in Springer LNCS format (or up to 20 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work.

PAPER PUBLICATION
iSCI 2019 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published by Springer LNCS (EI Indexed). Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards.

General Chairs
Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China
Zhong Fan, Keele University, UK
Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA

Program Chairs
Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, University of Ottawa, Canada
Xuejia Lai,    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain

Program Vice Chairs

Track 1: Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Sensing
Wenjun Jiang, Hunan University, China
Parag Kulkarni, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Md. Abdur Razzaque, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Track 2: Urban Computing and Big Data
Sancheng Peng, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China
Konstantinos Kolias, University of Idaho, USA
Rukhsana Afroz Ruby, Shenzhen University, China

Track 3: Sustainable Industry 4.0
Weizhi Meng, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Shigeng Zhang, Central South University, China
Sikder M. Kamruzzaman, Ryerson University, Canada

Track 4: Smart Society Informatization Technologies
Fabio Narducci, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy
Yang Liu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Changqing Luo, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

Track 5: Cloud/Edge/Fog Computing for Smart City
Jianhua He, Aston University, UK
Wei Chang, Saint Joseph's University, USA
SK Hafizul Islam, Indian Institute of Information Technology Kalyani, India

Track 6: Applications for Smart City Informatization
Xuxun Liu, South China University of Technology, China
Vijoy Kumar, University College of Engineering Tindivanam, India
Shaohua Wan, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China

Workshop Chairs
Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, UK
Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan
Sabu M. Thampi, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management - Kerala, India

Local Organizing Committee Chair
Jianer Chen, Guangzhou University, China

Publicity Chairs
Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden
Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Publication Chairs
Tao Peng, Guangzhou University, China
Fang Qi, Central South University, China

Journal Special Issue Chairs
Georgios Kambourakis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Qin Liu, Hunan University, China
Tian Wang, Huaqiao University, China

Registration Chairs
Xiaofei Xing, Guangzhou University, China
Pin Liu, Central South University, China

Conference Secretariat
Wenyin Yang, Foshan University, China

Webmasters
Qifan Wang, Central South University, China
Jianxu Wang, Guangzhou University, China

Steering Committee
Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China (Chair)
Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia (Chair)
Michael Batty, University College London, UK
Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA
Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada
Jianer Chen, Guangzhou University, China
Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Zhong Fan, Keele University, UK
Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Song Guo, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK
Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, UK
Jiwu Huang, Shenzhen University, China
Weijia Jia, University of Macau, China
Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Kin K. Leung, Imperial College London, UK
Jie Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Japan
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain
Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
Maziar Nekovee, University of Sussex, UK
Vincenzo Piuri, The University of Milan, Italy
Depei Qian, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan
Sherman    Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada
Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Theo Tryfonas, University of Bristol, UK
Vijay Varadharajan, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Roy Want, Google Inc, USA
Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Jie Wu, Temple University, USA
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Jun Zhang, South China University of Technology, China
Qinghua Zheng, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Wanlei Zhou, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

CALL FOR PROPOSALS for SYMPOSIUMS, WORKSHOPS and SPECIAL SESSIONS
The iSCI 2019 Symposiums/Workshops/Special Sessions provide vibrant opportunities for academic researchers and industry practitioners to share their research experiences, original research achievements and practical development products on specific new challenges and emerging issues. The themes of the iSCI 2019 Workshops should be related to the scopes of the iSCI 2019 main conference, reflecting to advances in all aspects of security, privacy and anonymity of computing systems, communication networks and storage services.
For submission guidelines see http://isci-conf.org/iSCI2019/ 

ACCEPTED SYMPOSIUMS, WORKSHOPS and SPECIAL SESSIONS
(1) The 9th International Workshop on Assistive Engineering and Information Technology (AEIT 2019), November 12-15, 2019, Guangzhou, China
http://www.isci-conf.org/AEIT2019/

(2) The 3rd International Workshop on Cyberspace Security (IWCSS 2019), November 12-15, 2019, Guangzhou, China
http://www.isci-conf.org/IWCSS2019/

(3) The 2nd International Workshop on Blockchain and its Applications (Blockchain 2018), November 12-15, 2019, Guangzhou, China
http://www.isci-conf.org/Blockchain2019/

SPECIAL ISSUES
Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in 10+ SCI & EI indexed special issues*. Special issues will be shared by co-located conferences (iSCI 2019 and DependSys 2019) and associated symposiums, workshops and special sessions (AEIT, IWCSS, Blockchain, etc):

(1) IEEE Internet of Things Journal (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 5.863) (Pending)
http://ieee-iotj.org/

(2) IEEE Access (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.557)
http://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/

(3) ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM) (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.019)
https://tomm.acm.org/

(4) Future Generation Computer Systems - Elsevier (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 4.639)
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/

(5) Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, IOS Press (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.114)
http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/

(6) Journal of Systems Architecture - Elsevier (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 0.913)
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/

(7) MDPI Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.475)
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors

(8) MDPI Symmetry (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.256)
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/symmetry/

(9) International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE) - INDERSCIENCE (ESCI & EI Indexed)
http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=IJCSE

(10) Journal of High Speed Networks (JHSN), IOS Press (ESCI & EI Indexed)
https://www.iospress.nl/journal/journal-of-high-speed-networks/

* More special issues will be added later.

Contact

Please email inquiries concerning iSCI 2019 to Conference Organizers: iSCI2019 at googlegroups.com

Prof. Guojun Wang, General Chair of iSCI 2019
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Dr. Guojun Wang, Pearl River Scholarship Distinguished Professor
Director of Institute of Computer Networks,
Vice Dean of School of Computer Science and Cyber Engineering,
Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province,
P. R. China, 510006
Tel/Fax: +86-20-39366920, Mobile: +86-13360581866
Email: csgjwang at gzhu.edu.cn; csgjwang at gmail.com
http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/publications.html
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