Call for Papers
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
Special Issue on Selected Technologies and Applications in Smart City Computing
Developing smart city is the key to the next generation urbanization process for improving the efficiency, reliability, and security of a traditional city. The concept of smart city includes various aspects such as environmental sustainability, social sustainability, regional competitiveness, natural resources management, cybersecurity, and quality of life improvement. With the massive deployment of networked smart devices/sensors, unprecedentedly large amount of sensory data can be collected and processed by advanced computing paradigms which are the enabling techniques for smart city. For example, given historical environmental, population and economic information, salient modeling and analytics are needed to simulate the impact of potential city planning strategies, which will be critical for intelligent decision making. Analytics are also indispensable for discovering the underlying structure from retrieved data in order to design the optimal policies for real time automatic control in the cyberphysical smart city system. Furthermore, uncertainties and security concerns in the data collected from heterogeneous resources aggravate the problem, which makes smart city planning, operation, monitoring and control highly challenging.
The topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to:
•Advanced big data modeling and analytics for smart city planning, monitoring and control
•Social media, crowdsourcing and collaborative behavior management
•Outdoor/indoor geolocation and cartography continuity
•Design and implementation of embedded system for smart city applications
•Advanced control techniques in the smart city as a cyberphysical system
•Technologies in electrical vehicle, smart building and smart home
•Cybersecurity and privacy issues related to smart city
•Heterogeneous sensor network and cooperative sensing for smart city
•Renewable energy and smart energy management for smart city
•Design and synthesis of computing schemes and architectures for smart city
•Development of fault detection and diagnosis techniques for smart city
•Modeling and computing techniques for environmental and social issues in smart city
•Sustainable technologies for smart city
The submitted papers must be original and must not be under consideration in any other venue. All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three reviewers and selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. The editors will approve final decisions on accepted papers. Manuscripts must be prepared according to the following journal’s Author Guidelines. Prospective authors should submit full manuscripts with MS Word format or PDF format.
Important Dates
Paper Submissions: 1April, 2017
1st Round Notification: 31 June, 2017
Revision, 31July, 2017
Final version Submission: 31 August, 2017
Guest Editors:
Zheng Xu, The Third ResearchInstitute of the Ministry of Public Security & Tsinghua University, China
Neil Yen,The University of Aizu, Japan
VijayanSugumaran, Oakland University, USA
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