[Caml-list] Smart Cities for the 21st Century, Technological Forecasting and Social Change (TSFC, IF: 2.625; deadline: end of Sep 2017)

[Caml-list] Smart Cities for the 21st Century, Technological Forecasting and Social Change (TSFC, IF: 2.625; deadline: end of Sep 2017)

[Chang V.I.]

Dear colleagues,

I have 1 CFP: Smart Cities for the 21st Century with Technological Forecasting and Social Change (TSFC; IF: 2.625; 5-year IF: 3.226) due at the end of Sep 2017. We are looking for very high-quality papers on related topics to smart cities. See https://www.journals.elsevier.com/technological-forecasting-and-social-change/call-for-papers/smart-cities-for-the-21st-century for details. Please submit on Elsevier's Evise system, choose SI:Smart_Cites_21stCent . Thanks.

Thanks and regards,

Victor

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Aims and scope

Smart cities have played a key role in transforming different areas of human life, involving with sectors such as transportation, health, energy, and education. Identifying and obtaining valuable information from large amounts of weather data can be extremely beneficial in terms of agricultural development. Governments have begun to embrace smart city ideas to improve the living standard of their citizens and to implement big data applications. Big data and analytics for the smart city can transform every sector of a nation’s economy. Surveillance and monitoring in the cities can be tracked in real-time. Any suspects of terror attacks and fraudulent activities can be detected and cities becomes intelligent to respond to any critical moments. Such transformation enables cities to adopt the learning principles and requirements of the applications of the smart cities by executing main smart environment characteristics, which include, sustainability, resilience, governance, improved quality of life, business opportunities, collaboration and intelligent management of natural resources and city facilities.

The main features of smart cities include a high degree of information integration, technology integration and a comprehensive application of information resources. The essential components of urban development for a smart city should include smart technology, smart industry, smart services, smart management and smart life. Latest trends such as analytics, social networks, predictive modeling, crime surveillance, disaster response and virtual reality can be incorporated into smart cities. For example, smart cities can better blend virtual reality for citizens to know and interact with each other more, so that their social networks can be blended with meeting people in the city and not just online. Smart cities can also predict citizens' items to buy and schedules based on their previous records of activities. There is a growing number of smart cities in Asia, Europe and America that have proven a better quality of life, more convenience and efficiency for citizens of cities. However, challenges such as security, privacy, data protection and technical integration can also pose interesting research questions.

Topics

Submissions could consist of theoretical and applied research in topics including, but not limited to:

New approaches, architectures, services and techniques to orchestrate smart cities
Data processing, analysis and management for smart cities
Technology fusion, data fusion and information fusion for smart cities
Virtual reality for smart cities
Weather analysis, forecasting, reporting and flood management for smart cities
Smart hospitals and health informatics for smart cities
Counter terror attacks and fraudulent activities and crime surveillance for smart cities
Cryptography, identity management, security and privacy for smart cities
Smart transport systems, driverless cars and smart services for smart cities
Smart home, IoT technologies and wireless senor networks for smart cities
Applications, business and social issues for smart cities
Sustainability, green energy and energy efficient services for smart cities
Mobile apps, mobile internet, smart cards and response to disaster for smart cities
Business intelligence, pricing models, quality of service and quality of experience for smart cities
Case studies, real solutions, designs and implementations of smart cities

Proposed schedule

Submission is Open - act now!
Submission Deadline (Full Paper): 30 September 2017 (A pre-screening process will be used)
Notification of Acceptance/Revisions: 15 January 2018
Final paper production deadline: 30 April 2018
Publication Date: expected by August/September 2018

All submissions will go through the journal’s standard peer-review process. For guidelines to prepare your manuscript and for manuscript submission, please visit https://www.elsevier.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change/0040-1625/guide-for-authors.

When submitting your manuscript, please choose the title of this special issue – “SI:Smart_Cites_21stCent “ to ensure that your submission will be considered for this special issue instead of being handled as a regular paper.

Guest Editors

Dr. Victor Chang (Lead)
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China
ic.victor.chang@gmail.com

Dr. Sugam Sharma
Iowa State University, USA
sugam.k.sharma@gmail.com

Dr. Chung-Sheng Li
Accenture, USA
csli@ieee.org

Recommended readings:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7558230/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00521-017-3000-1
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162517302949

[Caml-list] Smart Cities for the 21st Century, Technological Forecasting and Social Change (TSFC, IF: 2.625; deadline: end of Sep 2017)

[Chang V.I.]

Dear colleagues,

I have 1 CFP: Smart Cities for the 21st Century with Technological Forecasting and Social Change (TSFC; IF: 2.625; 5-year IF: 3.226) due at the end of Sep 2017. We are looking for very high-quality papers on related topics to smart cities. See https://www.journals.elsevier.com/technological-forecasting-and-social-change/call-for-papers/smart-cities-for-the-21st-century for details. Please submit on Elsevier's Evise system, choose SI:Smart_Cites_21stCent . Thanks.

Thanks and regards,

Victor

-----

Aims and scope

Smart cities have played a key role in transforming different areas of human life, involving with sectors such as transportation, health, energy, and education. Identifying and obtaining valuable information from large amounts of weather data can be extremely beneficial in terms of agricultural development. Governments have begun to embrace smart city ideas to improve the living standard of their citizens and to implement big data applications. Big data and analytics for the smart city can transform every sector of a nation’s economy. Surveillance and monitoring in the cities can be tracked in real-time. Any suspects of terror attacks and fraudulent activities can be detected and cities becomes intelligent to respond to any critical moments. Such transformation enables cities to adopt the learning principles and requirements of the applications of the smart cities by executing main smart environment characteristics, which include, sustainability, resilience, governance, improved quality of life, business opportunities, collaboration and intelligent management of natural resources and city facilities.

The main features of smart cities include a high degree of information integration, technology integration and a comprehensive application of information resources. The essential components of urban development for a smart city should include smart technology, smart industry, smart services, smart management and smart life. Latest trends such as analytics, social networks, predictive modeling, crime surveillance, disaster response and virtual reality can be incorporated into smart cities. For example, smart cities can better blend virtual reality for citizens to know and interact with each other more, so that their social networks can be blended with meeting people in the city and not just online. Smart cities can also predict citizens' items to buy and schedules based on their previous records of activities. There is a growing number of smart cities in Asia, Europe and America that have proven a better quality of life, more convenience and efficiency for citizens of cities. However, challenges such as security, privacy, data protection and technical integration can also pose interesting research questions.

Topics

Submissions could consist of theoretical and applied research in topics including, but not limited to:

New approaches, architectures, services and techniques to orchestrate smart cities
Data processing, analysis and management for smart cities
Technology fusion, data fusion and information fusion for smart cities
Virtual reality for smart cities
Weather analysis, forecasting, reporting and flood management for smart cities
Smart hospitals and health informatics for smart cities
Counter terror attacks and fraudulent activities and crime surveillance for smart cities
Cryptography, identity management, security and privacy for smart cities
Smart transport systems, driverless cars and smart services for smart cities
Smart home, IoT technologies and wireless senor networks for smart cities
Applications, business and social issues for smart cities
Sustainability, green energy and energy efficient services for smart cities
Mobile apps, mobile internet, smart cards and response to disaster for smart cities
Business intelligence, pricing models, quality of service and quality of experience for smart cities
Case studies, real solutions, designs and implementations of smart cities

Proposed schedule

Submission is Open - act now!
Submission Deadline (Full Paper): 30 September 2017 (A pre-screening process will be used)
Notification of Acceptance/Revisions: 15 January 2018
Final paper production deadline: 30 April 2018
Publication Date: expected by August/September 2018

All submissions will go through the journal’s standard peer-review process. For guidelines to prepare your manuscript and for manuscript submission, please visit https://www.elsevier.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change/0040-1625/guide-for-authors.

When submitting your manuscript, please choose the title of this special issue – “SI:Smart_Cites_21stCent “ to ensure that your submission will be considered for this special issue instead of being handled as a regular paper.

Guest Editors

Dr. Victor Chang (Lead)
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China
ic.victor.chang@gmail.com

Dr. Sugam Sharma
Iowa State University, USA
sugam.k.sharma@gmail.com

Dr. Chung-Sheng Li
Accenture, USA
csli@ieee.org

Recommended readings:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7558230/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00521-017-3000-1
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162517302949