CFP 4th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - SMARTGREENS 2015

CALL FOR PAPERS

4th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - SMARTGREENS 2015

Website: www.smartgreens.org

May 20 – 22, 2015

Lisbon, Portugal

 

Regular Papers

Paper Submission: December 16, 2014

Authors Notification: March 11, 2015

Camera Ready and Registration: March 25, 2015

 

Position Papers

Paper Submission: February 3, 2015

Authors Notification: March 12, 2015

Camera Ready and Registration: March 25, 2015

 

Workshops

Workshop Proposal: January 8, 2015

 

Doctoral Consortium

Paper Submission: March 13, 2015

Authors Notification: March 26, 2015

Camera Ready and Registration: April 8, 2015

 

Special Sessions

Special Session Proposal: January 21, 2015

 

Tutorials, Demos and Panel Proposals

March 20, 2015

 

Sponsored by:

INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

INSTICC is Member of:

WfMC – Workflow Management Coalition

OMG – Object Management Group

 

Logistics Partner:

SCITEVENTS – Science and Technology Events

 

In Cooperation with:

TAGC – IEEE TCSC Technical Area in Green Computing

GCC – IEEE Technical Committee on Green Communications & Computing

FOSG – Friends of the Supergrid

NESUS – Network for Sustainable Ultrascale Computing

The purpose of the 4th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS) is to bring together researchers, designers, developers and practitioners interested in the advances and applications in the field of Smart Grids, Green Information and Communication Technologies, Sustainability, Energy Aware Systems and Technologies.

KEYNOTE LECTURE

Álvaro Oliveira, Alfamicro, Portugal

 

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.

SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).

All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library.

The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Index) and Scopus. 

 

AWARDS

The awards will be announced and bestowed at the conference closing session.

Please check the website for further information: http://www.smartgreens.org/BestPaperAward.aspx

 

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

Markus Helfert, Dublin City University, Ireland

Karl-Heinz Krempels, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

 

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Cornel Klein, Siemens AG, Germany

Brian Donnellan, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland

 

CONFERENCE AREAS:

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

 

1. SMART CITIES

2. ENERGY-AWARE SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES

3. SUSTAINABLE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS

 

AREA 1: SMART CITIES 

 

·         Smart City Business Models

·         Human Smart Cities

·         Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management

·         e-Mobility

·         e-Work and e-Business Applications

·         Supporting the Ageing Population

·         User-Centred and Participatory Design of Services and Systems for Smart Cities

·         Innovation Labs, Experimental Test-Beds and Simulation Environments

·         Mechanisms for Motivating Behaviour Change

·         Internet-Enabled Infrastructures and Services

·         Service Innovation and Design to Support Smart Cities

·         Cloud Computing and Service Models for Smart City Solutions

·         Smart Sensor-Based Networks and Applications

·         Analytics for Smart Cities

·         IS Architecture Designs and Platforms for Smart Cities

·         Case Studies and Innovative Applications for Smart(er) Cities

·         Planning and Design Challenges for Smart Cities

·         Frameworks and models for Smart City Initiatives

 

AREA 2: ENERGY-AWARE SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES 

 

·         Architectures for Smart Grids 

·         Smart Grid Security and Reliability 

·         Load Balancing in Smart Grids 

·         Energy Management Systems (EMS) 

·         Economic Models of Energy Efficiency 

·         Energy Monitoring 

·         Renewable Energy Resources 

·         Greener Systems Planning and Design 

·         Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption 

·         Virtual Power Plants 

·         Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Applications 

·         Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies 

·         Energy Profiling and Measurement 

·         Harvesting Energy 

·         Energy-Aware Process Optimisation 

·         Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption 

·         Microgeneration 

·         Energy Storage 

 

AREA 3: SUSTAINABLE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS  

 

·         Wireless Systems and Neworks 

·         Security and Privacy 

·         Wearable Computing 

·         Green Data Centers 

·         Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat 

·         Ecological monitoring, analytics and visualization 

·         Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks 

·         Qos and Green Computing 

·         Integration of Smart Appliances 

·         Embedded Sensor Networks 

·         Pervasive Embedded Systems 

·         Smart Homes (Domotics) 

·         Educational Ecosystems 

·         Green Computing and Education 

·         Case Studies on Green Computing and Communications 

·         Interoperability 

·         Energy Efficient Network Hardware 

·         Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols 

·         Low power Communication Technologies 

·         Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools 

·         Virtualization Impact for Green Computing 

·         Green Computing Models, Methodologies and Paradigms 

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

http://www.smartgreens.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx

 

Please check further details at the conference website www.smartgreens.org