CfP Semantic Web Journal - Special Issue on "The Role of Semantics in Smart Cities"

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Special issue on "The Role of Semantics in Smart Cities"
Semantic Web Journal
http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/call-papers-special-issue-role-semantics-smart-cities

Cities around the world aspire to provide superior quality of life to their
citizens. Furthermore, many are also seen as centers of unique
opportunities, like business, fashion, entertainment and governance, for
their citizens. Cities want to retain such pre-eminent positions or
re-position themselves for newer opportunities. But, resources needed to
reach and sustain such aspirations are decreasing while the expectations
continue to rise from an increasing population-base. A positive trend of
the Internet age is that more data than even before is open and accessible,
including from governments at all levels of jurisdiction, which enables
rigorous analysis.

The term smart cities refers to urbanized areas where citizens, public and
private organizations exchange contextualized information with the final
goal of having a better and more sustainable living environment [1]. In the
last years, we have witnessed an increase in the amount of systems and
applications oriented to make cities smarter, such as building management
systems, environmental sensors to determine air quality, applications for
public transportation services, or autonomous cars, among others. However,
the interaction among all the smart city actors and these heterogeneous
solutions still remains a challenge.

Extracting meaningful information from all the data generated in a smart
city is complex because of the heterogeneity of the data, the rate of data
generation, and the volume. Semantic technologies allow increasing
interoperability, easing data integration and providing support to
information retrieval and knowledge discovery tasks. This special issue
focuses on the application of semantic technologies in the context of smart
cities. We welcome original submissions that address (but are not
restricted to) the following areas:

* Semantics and open data for cities
* Ontologies for smart cities
* Smart city sensing
* Semantics on the Internet of Things
* Data, information and knowledge interoperability in smart cities
* RDF stream processing for smart city applications
* Stream reasoning for smart city applications
* Spatio-temporal reasoning in smart cities
* Crowdsourcing and semantics in smart cities
* Big data for smart cities
* Semantics and mobility
* Semantics and security
* Semantics in water / energy / building / traffic / citizen care management
* Semantics and eGovernment
* Semantics and geomarketing
* Semantic-based Web and mobile applications for Smart Cities
* Semantic event detection and classification in Smart Cities
* Semantic-based Cloud applications for Smart Cities
* Semantic for citizen-centric Smart cities
* Semantics for visualization in smart cities
* Scaling smart systems to the city
* Challenges with managing and integrating real-time and historical data in
smart cities
* Provenance, access control and privacy-preserving issues in smart cities
* Quantified self data analysis


SUBMISSIONS
Paper submission deadline: November 14, 2014

Submissions shall be made through the Semantic Web journal website at
http://www.semantic-web-journal.net. Prospective authors must take notice
of the submission guidelines posted at
http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors. Note that you need to request
an account on the website for submitting a paper. Please indicate in the
cover letter that it is for *Semantics in Smart Cities* special issue.

Submissions are possible in all standing paper type of the journal, see
http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors for descriptions: full research
papers, surveys, linked dataset descriptions, ontology descriptions,
application reports, and tool/systems reports.


GUEST EDITORS
Stéphane Roche, Center for Research in Geomatic, Université Laval
Freddy Lecue, IBM Research, Dublin Research Centre
Alejandro Llaves, Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de
Madrid
Oscar Corcho, Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid


GUEST EDITORIAL BOARD (to be completed)
Sven Schade, European Environmental Agency
Boris Villazón-Terrazas, iSOCO
Bernd Resch, University of Heidelberg
Carsten Keßler, City University of New York
John Goodwin, Ordnance Survey
Mathieu D'Aquin, Open University
Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, University of Leipzig
Raul Garcia-Castro, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Kerry Taylor, CSIRO
Dumitru Roman, SINTEF / University of Oslo
Kostis Kyzirakos, CWI Amsterdam
Werner Kuhn, UC Santa Barbara
Mir Abolfazl Mostafavi, Université Laval
Carlos Granell, Universitat Jaume I
Renee Sieber, McGill University
Christoph Stasch, University of Muenster
Alessandra Mileo, INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics

[1] Hype Cycle for Smart City Technologies and Solutions, 2012. Gartners
Inc.

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Alejandro Llaves

Ontology Engineering Group (OEG)

Facultad de Informática

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Avda. Montepríncipe s/n

Boadilla del Monte, 28660 Madrid, Spain


http://www.oeg-upm.net/index.php/phd/325-allaves


allaves@fi.upm.es