<div dir="ltr">(with apologies for cross-postings)<br><br>Dear Colleagues,<br><br>IEEE ISC2 is the flagship Conference series of IEEE Smart Cities Initiative. Its 2020’s edition will be a fully virtual event and is especially welcoming Workshop and Tutorial proposals on topics related to Smart Cities, which might be a subject of interest to some people in this community and to some associates from your networks. <br><br>Many thanks in advance for considering this possibility. You can find more information on Workshop and Tutorial proposals on the Conference Website at (<a href="http://ieee-isc2.org">http://ieee-isc2.org</a>). Please, help us disseminate this CFP widely.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Rosaldo<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><br>
<div lang="HU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img width="839" height="418" id="m_5193997096452206440Kép_x0020_1" src="cid:172e646c579692e331" alt="Leírás: CFP Extended - Twitter.png"><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><u></u> <u></u></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">CALL FOR PAPERS <span style="color:red">(Please see below the updates)</span></span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">6th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference – IEEE ISC2 2020</span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">"Smart Cities Solutions for New Challenges, Including a Pandemic"</span></i><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Virtual Conference, September 28 – October 1, 2020</span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><u></u> <u></u></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Event Website:</span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0563c1"><a href="http://ieee-isc2.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563c1">http://ieee-isc2.org</span></a></span><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A PDF version of this CFP is available here:</span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2020/cfp/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0563c1">https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2020/cfp/</span></a><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The 6th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2020) will be held as a virtual conference, during September 28 – October 1, 2020. The worldwide governmental restrictions on travel, gatherings, and meetings, imposed to limit and slow the spread of the novel corona-virus, make it impossible to organize the conference in the traditional format. However, we are confident that the changes induced by the virus to our everyday lives, and the responses given to these new challenges by smart city researchers and practitioners, city policymakers and administrators, critical infrastructure operators and industry representatives, economists and sociologists will generate exciting and edifying presentations and discussions, both as part of our keynote addresses, panel debates, workshops or research talks. After all, one of the main reasons for cities becoming smart should be to safely and efficiently support us, citizens, in such difficult times. The theme of the conference this year will thus be: <b>Smart Cities Solutions for New Challenges, Including a Pandemic</b>.</span><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">IEEE ISC2 is the flagship conference sponsored by the IEEE Smart Cities Technical Community, a coalition of six IEEE technical societies and organizations. Besides contributions addressing the conference theme, authors are welcome to submit their original research results in traditional topics across broad application and functional domains, within the context of smart urban infrastructure systems. The technical areas include, but are not limited to:</span><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Community & Governance</span></b><u></u><u></u></p><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Citizen participation</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Healthcare</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Emergency management</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Smart environment & ecosystems</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Policy development</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mobility and transportation</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Digital city and smart growth</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sustainability and energy efficiency</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Education</span><u></u><u></u></li></ul><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Infrastructure & Technology</span></b><u></u><u></u></p><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Smart buildings and smart grids</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Transportation and traffic systems</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Smart city theory, modeling, and simulation</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Manufacturing and logistics</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Energy systems</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sensors and actuators</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Intelligent infrastructure</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Vehicle-to-infrastructure integration</span><u></u><u></u></li></ul><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Data, Privacy, & Security</span></b><u></u><u></u></p><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Computational intelligence</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Open data and big data analytics</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Internet of things (IoT)</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Pattern recognition</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(Cyber) security and regulations</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Networks and communications</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Data security and privacy</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Data collection and visualization</span><u></u><u></u></li></ul><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Submission guidelines:<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><u></u> <u></u></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Prospective authors are encouraged to contribute high-quality original full (8 pages max) or short (4 pages max) papers to this conference. All submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. The papers should be written in English and formatted according to the <a href="https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html" target="_blank"><b>IEEE-Manuscript Template</b></a>. Manuscripts in PDF format must be electronically submitted for peer-review via EDAS at <a href="https://ieeeisc22020.edas.info" target="_blank">https://ieeeisc22020.edas.info</a>. All accepted and presented papers will appear in the conference proceedings and in IEEE Xplore, the conference being a virtual event will have no effect on the publication of results.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Best papers to journals:</span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Exceptional quality papers will be recommended to several journals including IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, Springer Journal of Network and Systems Management for publication. Authors will be asked to extend and revise their papers according to the standards of journals, which will be subjected to the journals’ review process.</span><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Important dates:</span></b><u></u><u></u></p><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">Workshop and Tutorial Proposal Deadline – July 1 (EXTENDED)</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">Conference Paper Submission Deadline  – July 15  (EXTENDED) </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Workshop Paper Submission Deadline – July 30</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Conference Acceptance Notification – August 15</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Workshop Acceptance Notification – August 22</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Conference/Workshop Camera Ready Deadline – September 10</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Conference Dates – September 28 – October 1 </span><u></u><u></u></li></ul><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="786" style="width:393.0pt;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Organizing Committee: </span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">General Co-Chairs:</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Rolland Vida, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary<br>Victor Larios, University of Guadalajara, Mexico<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Executive Chair:</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Damir Novosel, Quanta Technology, USA<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">TPC Co-Chairs:</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Chiara Boccaletti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy<br>Loi Lei Lai, Guangdong University of Technology, China<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Guohui Zhang, University of Hawaii, USA <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Workshops Co-Chairs:</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada<br>Rosaldo Rossetti, University of Porto, Portugal<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tutorials Chair:</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Wei-Jen Lee, University of Texas at Arlington, USA<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Keynotes Co-Chairs:</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Shay Bahramirad, ComEd, USA<br>Yinhai Wang, University of Washington, USA<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Panels Co-Chairs:</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, University of La Rochelle, France<br>Amro Farid, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, USA<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Operations Chair:</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dan Toland, IEEE PES, USA<br><br><b><i><u></u><u></u></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Industry/Government/Municipalities Liaison Chair:</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Damir Novosel, Quanta Technology, USA<br><br><b><i><u></u><u></u></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Patronage Chair:</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mehdi Ganji, Wildan Energy Solutions, USA<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Publicity Co-Chairs:</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Larissa Paredes Muse, Brazilian Network for Smart & Human Cities, USA<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Simay Akar, EkoRE, Turkey<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jose L. Ayala, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain<br>Xiaojun Wu, University Jiangnan, China<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Publications Co-Chairs:</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Artur Ziviani, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), Brazil<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Chung Sing Lai, Brunel University London, UK<br>Soufiene Djahel, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Finance Chair:</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Emily Kean, ComEd, USA<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Web Chair:</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Nelio Cacho, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Web Master:</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Stefano Loss, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For more information, please visit the conference website: <a href="http://ieee-isc2.org/" target="_blank">http://ieee-isc2.org<span style="color:blue"><br></span></a></span><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red"> </span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">(Apologies if you received duplicate copies of this call for papers)</span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"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