Call for Papers

Scope

It is expected that the world's population will reach 9.7 billion in 2050. By then, two-thirds of the population will live in urban environments. Critical social and ecological challenges that cities will face include urban violence, inequality, discrimination, unemployment, poverty, unsustainable energy and water use, epidemics, pollution, environmental degradation, and increased risks of natural disasters. The concept of smart cities, born in the early 2000s, attempts to provide solutions to these challenges by implementing information and communication technologies. The initial concept of smart cities focused on the modernization of megacities. However, most of the so-called smart cities are just cities with several smart projects. The most promising trend is the creation of smart micro-territories, defined as hi-tech small towns, districts or satellite towns near megacities. With the current availability of enormous amount of data, the challenge is to identify intelligent and adaptive ways of combining the information to create valuable knowledge. Sensorization has played a fundamental role in the collection of data, which, once analyzed in IoT and smart cities platforms, has allowed for the optimization of multiple decisions regarding governance and resource consumption optimization. SSCt2023 is the International Conference on Sustainable Smart Cities and Territories, an open symposium which brings together researchers and developers from academia and industry to present and discuss the latest scientific and technical advances in the fields of Smart Cities and Smart Territories. It will promote an environment for discussion on how techniques, methods, and tools help system designers to accomplish the transition from the current cities towards those we need in a changing world. Brand new ideas will be greatly appreciated as well as relevant revisions and actualizations of previously presented work, project summaries and PhD thesis. The SSCt2023 program will include keynote addresses, a main technical track, a workshop program and doctoral consortium.

Topics

The topics of interest for the SSCt2023 conference include, but are not limited to,

• Smart cities and smart territories successful cases and challenges;
• Smart homes and smart buildings;
• Smart infrastructures (network, 5G, grids, lighting, water and waste);
• Smart urban mobility and intelligent transportation systems;
• Smart health and emergency management (epidemy control);
• Smart environments;
• Smart travel and smart tourism;
• Smart manufacturing and smart logistics;
• New retail and smart commerce
• Smart urban governance;
• Eco-urbanism, urban resilience and climate change mitigation and adaptation;
• Energy and climate policy;
• Intelligent traffic control;
• Crowd behaviour capturing and modelling and crowd management;
• Human–machine interactions;
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning;
• Open data and big data analytics;
• Data security and safety, blockchain;
• Sensor‐driven analytics and services;
• Context-aware systems.

Special Issues

Authors of selected papers from SSCt2023 will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to special issue in different journals.

Format

Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.

The maximum length of the papers is 12 pages, including figures and references.

• Microsoft Word Format
• Microsoft Word 2003 Format
• LaTeX Format
• Overleaf template

Submission

All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the SSCt 2023 conference management system.

For a paper to appear in the proceedings, at least one of the authors must register for the conference by the camera-ready copy deadline. Papers must be presented by one of the authors at the conference live.

Publication

Accepted papers will be included in SSCt2023 Proceedings. At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include it in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by LNNS Springer Verlag.

** Indexing: The books of this series are submitted to DBLP, INSPEC, Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series, SCImago, SCOPUS, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, Google Scholar, Springerlink. **

Important dates

• Submission Deadline: 24th February, 2023 3rd March, 2023 24th March, 2023 (hard deadline)
• Notification: 29th March, 2023 12th April, 2023
• Camera Ready Copy: 24th April, 2023
• Conference dates: 21st-23rd June, 2023