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The International Symposium on Emerging Frontiers of Urban Computing and Smart Cities URBAN COMPUTING 2016 May 22 - 26, 2016 - Valencia, Spain |
This symposium is part of SMART 2016.
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| Call for Papers: |
City complexity, citizen mobility, diversity of citizen-oriented services and smart technologies represent new aspects in developing urban-related applications. While smart devices and methodologies are the basis for city environments, fundamentals on city navigation and generalization of Internet of Things, metering, data gathering, and urban computing raise challenging aspects.
URBAN COMPUTING 2016, The International Symposium on Emerging Frontiers of Urban Computing and Smart Cities, is dedicated to advances and challenges on the following urban computing and gathering city data.
Topics:
COMPUTING
- Navigating the Urban jungle with SmartPhones
- Crowdsourced data acquisition in the City
- Enhancing City quality of life through mobile services
- Urban computing and the Internet of Things
- User-data interaction (interfaces, tools, other “sense-making” applications for users to use, mesh or create data)
- Using data in heterogeneous environments (towards standard on system integration in Urban computing)
- Urban Computing and Smart Cities
METERING
- Metering infrastructure and Smart Cites
- Architectures and protocols for (wireless) smart metering
- Semantic sensing (Web sensors) for Urban information gathering
- Smart buildings and green-oriented sensing
- Smart grid and Urban energy distribution
- Urban utility metering (gas, water, electricity, etc.)
- Sensing urban mobility
- Reliability and security/trust in Urban metering
- Monitoring Big/Linked data metering
- Standards for Smart Urban metering
- Case studies
INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.
Publisher: XPS (Xpert Publishing Services)
Archived: ThinkMindTM Digital Library (free access)
Prints available at Curran Associates, Inc.
Articles will be submitted to appropriate indexes.
Important deadlines:
| Submission (full paper) |
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| Notification | March 5, 2016 |
| Registration | March 20, 2016 |
| Camera ready | April 12, 2016 |
Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received submissions will be acknowledged via an automated system.
Contribution types
- regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]
- short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]
- ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- posters: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
- presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
- demos: two pages [posted on www.iaria.org]
- doctoral forum submissions: [in the proceedings, digital library]
Proposals for:
- mini symposia: [in the proceedings, digital library]
- workshops: [in the proceedings, digital library]
- tutorials: [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
- panels: [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
Details on contributions and proposals.
FORMATS
Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received submissions will be acknowledged via an automated system.
Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11", not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here. Latex templates are also available.
Slides-based contributions can use the corporate/university format and style.
Your paper should also comply with the additional editorial rules.
Once you receive the notification of contribution acceptance, you will be provided by the publisher an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.
We would recommend that you should not use too many extra pages, even if you can afford the extra fees. No more than 2 contributions per event are recommended, as each contribution must be separately registered and paid for. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to ensure that the paper will be included in the conference proceedings and in the digital library, or posted on the www.iaria.org (for slide-based contributions).
| Committees: |
URBAN COMPUTING 2016 Advisory Committee
Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA
Amnon Dekel, The Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel
Yan Cimon, University Laval, Quebec-City, Canada
Roberto de Bonis, Telecom Italia, Italy
Jean-Claude Thill, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
URBAN COMPUTING 2016 Program Committee Members
Jie Bao, Microsoft Research, Beijing, China
Amitava Chatterjee, Jadavpur University, India
Yan Cimon, University Laval, Quebec-City, Canada
Klaus David, University of Kassel, Germany
Roberto de Bonis, Telecom Italia, Italy
Amnon Dekel, The Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel
Salvatore Distefano, Kazan Federal University, Russia / Università di Messina, Italy
Luigi Alfredo Grieco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Sergio Ilarri, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Michal Isaacson, MIT, USA
Kourosh Khoshelham, University of Melbourne, Australia
Thomas Liebig, Artificial Intelligence Unit - TU Dortmund, Germany
Tamer Nadeem, Old Dominion University, USA
Daniela Nicklas, University of Bamberg, Germany
Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA
Jean-Claude Thill, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Fabrice Valois, INSA Lyon, France
Baobing Wang, Facebook HQ, USA
Caixia Wang, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
Fusheng Wang, Stony Brook University, USA
Chaowei Phil Yang, NSF Spatiotemporal Innovation Center | Center of Intelligent Spatial Computing for Water/Energy Sciences | George Mason University, USA
Chau Yuen, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore
Junbo Zhang, Microsoft Research, Beijing, China
(to be completed)
| Publishing Information: |
conference contact: mp@iaria.org ISBN: 978-1-61208-4763 |
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| Submit a Paper: |
First, fill out the submission form with information about your paper. Please, fill it out only once for each paper, and do not resubmit it. Contact the address below if you run into any difficulties.
As the designated correspondence author, you will then receive a first e-mail message containing the paper ID. The information in the email will allow you to submit your paper.
If you have some problems send your paper via this e-mail (please report your paper ID in the text of your mail AND the name of the conference).
The conference staff will contact you only if the paper does not print properly or has other problems.
You can change information about your paper, submit brief corrections, view an email trail, and even edit your personal information by following the link in the initial confirmation email.
| Touristic Information: |
Touristic information is available from the hosting conference, SMART 2016.
| Hotels and Travel: |
Hotels and travel information is available from the hosting conference page, SMART 2016.
| Tutorials: |
Tutorials are available from the hosting conference page, SMART 2016.
| Preliminary Program: |
Preliminary program is available from the hosting conference page, SMART 2016.
| Camera Ready: |
The link below contains the details on how to upload the final version of your paper to the publisher. The upload should be done after registering your article via the Registration Form.
Publication Site for SMART 2016 and URBAN COMPUTING 2016
Publication details are in the Call for Papers, namely "Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11", not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost". The costs of additional pages are on the Registration Form.
If you have any questions about the paper upload process, please contact the proceedings production editor, Sandra.
| Registration Form: |
Each accepted paper needs at least one full registration, before the camera-ready manuscript can be included in the proceedings. The student rate is the lowest registration rate listed in the registration form.
One registration form covers the registration of the paper and the participation of one presenter. If an author has two (or more) accepted papers, each paper must be registered paid for with a separate form.
Every participant must register separately: if two co-authors attend, each of them has to register
Support letters for entry visa will only be issued to attendees who have successfully paid their registration fees in full.
Registration form:
The URBAN COMPUTING 2016 registration form can be found here.
Note: If you attend but do not have a paper to present, use paper number "guest" in the registration form.
Note: For any registration related questions, please contact annemarie@vicov.com or by fax at 1-302-397-2096
Support letters
It is solely the responsibility of the participants and their corporations/universities to obtain the necessary travel visa.
The association can only issue a support letter stating that a registered participant has an accepted paper and that the participant is expected to have an oral presentation.
For questions or requests related to entry visa support letters, please contact annemarie@vicov.com or by fax at 1-302-397-2096
Note: For a group registration rate at the conference hotel, you can use this form. The booking is done directly to the hotel by the attendee; hotel contact information is on the form. If this is not a suitable option, you can book any hotel you decide.
Attendance guidelines:
During IARIA events, photos and recordings may be made. By registering to and/or attending IARIA events, you consent to allow IARIA to make and distribute such material for informational, publicity, promotional and/or reporting purposes in print or electronic media.
Video recording of presentations by attendees are not allowed without written permission from IARIA and the on-site OK of the presenter.
Copyrighted presentation material may be photographed or copied for personal use only, not for reproduction or distribution. Material labeled confidential or proprietary may not be photographed or copied.
Presence:
If for unforeseen reasons physical presence at the conference location is not possible, proceedings will not be mailed as the articles are freely available from ThinkMind digital library, www.thinkmind.org
| Statistics: |
Statistics are available from the hosting conference page, SMART 2016.
| Photos: |
Photos are available from the hosting conference page, SMART 2016.
| Awards: |
Awards are available from the hosting conference page, SMART 2016.
