SmaCiT 2018 - Venice, Italy, Deadline extension to May 15, 2018

(Apologies for cross posts) 

Call for Contributions 

Special track - SmaCit: Smart and Connected Cities: Creating
People-centered City Government 

Chair and Coordinator: Leonidas Anthopoulos, Associate Professor,
University of Applied Science of Thessaly (TEI), Greece 

lanthopo@teilar.gr 

along with 

COLLA 2018, The Eighth International Conference on Advanced
Collaborative Networks, Systems and Applications
June 26, 2018 - Venice, Italy
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2018/COLLA18.html 

After scholars' requests, the deadline for paper submission has been
extended to May 15, 2018 (see the important dates) 

SmaCiT 2018 aims at attracting a significant international attention
with regard to smart city emerging topics. More specifically, the aim of
this special track is to trace how smart city evolves, mainly -but not
limited- with regard to smart government. This year track's objective
addresses the roles of data and the city government policies for
achieving people-centricity. 

In the era of cities, municipal leaders are making an important shift
regarding thinking of people as customers. This shift is based on a
private sector's perspective; this is not a simple task since it demands
a continuous service monitoring, assessment and improvement, which
normally is based on accurate data analysis and appears as a thinking
that makes government more personal and responsive. SmaCiT collected
papers will investigate the role of data in making this shift feasible. 

Prospective authors are invited to submit original papers on topics
including, but not limited to: 

Theoretical foundations on Smart City and Smart Government;
City government's data streams;
Case studies and practices of smart city data for government use;
Creative partnerships and creative industries in Smart City (Data
Economics);
Data for Smart City emerging topics (i.e., energy, water, waste,
transportation, etc.)
The role of government data for smart city applications development
(i.e., promotion push, start-ups, open data);
Big, open and Linked data models;
Practices in smart city data mining;
Avoid hijacks: Ensuring security and privacy in Smart City data streams;
Political implications of citizen-government interaction;
Citizen participation practices in smart cities. 

Important Datelines 

- Inform the Chair: As soon as you decided to contribute 

- Submission: May 15, 2018 
- Notification: May 30, 2018 
- Registration: June 5, 2018
- Camera ready: June 5, 2018 

Note: These deadlines are somewhat flexible, providing arrangements are
made ahead of time with the chair. 

Contribution Types
- Regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library] 
- Short papers (work in progress) [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] 

Paper Format 
- See: http://www.iaria.org/format.html 
- Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules:
http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html 

Publications 
- Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA
Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org 
- Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.:
http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html 
- Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital
Library: http://www.thinkmind.org 

Paper Submission 

https://www.iariasubmit.org/conferences/submit/newcontribution.php?event=COLLA+2018+Special


Please select Track Preference as SmaCit 

Registration 
- Each accepted paper needs at least one full registration, before the
camera-ready manuscript can be included in the proceedings. 
- Registration fees are available at
http://www.iaria.org/registration.html 

Contacts 

Chair: Leonidas Anthopoulos, lanthopo@teilar.gr 

COLLA logistics: steve@iaria.org