in conjunction with the 5th IEEE Conference on Smart Computing (SmartComp)
June 12, 2019
Washington D.C., US
Description
A smart city represents an improvement of today’s cities both functionally and structurally, that strategically utilizes many smart factors, such as information and communications technology (ICT), to increase the city’s sustainable growth and strengthen city functions, while ensuring citizens’ quality of life and health. Cities can be viewed as a microcosm of “objects” with which citizens interact daily: street furniture, public buildings, transportation, monuments, public lighting and much more. Moreover, a continuous monitoring of a city’s status occurs through sensors and processors applied within the real-world infrastructure.
The Internet of Things (IoT) concept imagines all these objects being “smart”, connected to the Internet, and able to communicate with each other and with the external environment, interacting and sharing data and information. Each object in the IoT can be both the collector and distributor of information regarding mobility, energy consumption, air pollution as well as potentially offering cultural and tourist information. As a consequence, cyber and real worlds are strongly linked in a smart city. New services can be deployed when needed and evaluation mechanisms will be set up to assess the health and success of a smart city.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together innovative developments in areas related to sensors and smart cities, including but not limited to:
- computing and sensing infrastructures
- cost (of node, energy, development, deployment, maintenance)
- communication (security, resilience, low energy)
- adaptability (to environment, energy, faults)
- data processing (on nodes, distributed, aggregation, discovery, big data)
- distributed data collection and storage in Smart Cities
- self-learning (pattern discovery, prediction, auto-configuration)
- deployment (cost, error prevention, localization)
- maintenance (troubleshooting, recurrent costs)
- applications (both new and enjoying new life)
- smart users experience
- trust and privacy
- crowdsourcing, crowdsensing, participatory sensing
- cognition and awareness
- cyber-physical systems
- smart tourism
Technical Program
08:00AM – 08:30AM Registration
08:30AM – 09:00AM Opening Remarks
09:00AM – 10:00AM Keynote
“Connecting Dots for Health and Security” – Prof. WenZhan Song
10:00AM – 10:30AM Coffee Break
10:30AM – 12:00AM Technical Session 1
Manuel Mazzara, Ilya Afanasyev, Smruti Ranjan Sarangi, Salvatore Distefano, Vivek Kumar and Muhammad Ahmad – “ A Reference Architecture for Smart and Software-defined Buildings“
Antonio Arena, Alessio Bianchini, Pericle Perazzo, Carlo Vallati and Gianluca Dini – “BRUSCHETTA: An IoT Blockchain-Based Framework for Certifying Extra Virgin Olive Oil Supply Chain“
Giuseppe Tricomi, Giovanni Merlino, Francesco Longo, Salvatore Distefano and Antonio Puliafito – “Software-Defined City Infrastructure: a Control Plane for Rewireable Smart Cities“
12:00PM – 13:00PM Lunch
13:00PM – 14:00PM Technical Session 2
Marco Ferdinandi, Mario Molinara, Gianni Cerro, Luigi Ferrigno, Claudio Marrocco, Pino Di Meo, Carmine Bourelly, Roberto Simmarano and Alessandro Bria – “A novel embedded smart system for contaminants detection and recognition in water“
Riccardo Di Pietro, Domenico Giacomo Campanile and Salvatore Distefano – “Virtual Study Partner: A Cognitive Training Tool in Education”
14:00PM – 15:00PM Discussion and Networking Session
15:00PM – 15:30PM Coffee Break
15:30PM – 17:00PM Panel
“How to build Smart and Connected Communities: Challenges and Approaches” Panel Organizer: Dr. Gurdip Singh Panelists: TBD
Submission Guidelines
Paper submissions should be no longer than 6 pages with a font size of 10 using the IEEE conference template. Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF files. All submitted papers will be subject to single blind peer reviews by Technical Program Committee members and other experts in the field. All presented papers in the conference will be published in the proceedings of the conference and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Authors are requested to first register their submissions and submit their manuscripts in PDF format via EasyChair (please, select the “Workshop on Sensors and Smart Cities” track during submission process). Note that at least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the workshop to present the paper. Failure to present the paper at the workshop will result in the withdrawal of the paper from the Proceedings.
Important dates
Paper Submission: 10 March 2019 extended to 24 March 2019 (firm deadline)
Acceptance Notification: 10 April 2019 extended to 16 April 2019
Camera-ready submission: 28 April 2019
Organizing Committee
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Dario Bruneo, University of Messina, Italy
Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy
Publicity Chair:
Fabrizio De Vita, University of Messina, Italy
Technical Program Committee:
Arianna Brutti, ENEA, Italy
Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
Michele Colajanni, University of Modena, Italy
Riccardo Di Pietro, University of Catania, Italy
Essia Hamouda Elhafsi, California State University San Bernardino, USA
Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France
Antonio Jara, HES-SO & HOP Ubiquitous, Switzerland
Olivera Kotevska, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Luca Ferretti, University of Modena, Italy
Francesco Longo, University of Messina, Italy
Mirco Marchetti, University of Modena, Italy
Giovanni Merlino, University of Messina, Italy
Roberto Morabito, Ericsson, Finland
Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Riccardo Petrolo, KMLE, Italy
Carlo Puliafito, University of Pisa, Italy
Jovan Radak, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Francesca Righetti, University of Pisa, Italy
Op Vyas, Indian Institute of Information Technology- Allahabad, India