Call for Papers

IEEE ISC2 is the flagship conference sponsored by the IEEE Smart Cities Technical Community, a coalition of six IEEE technical societies and organizations. Besides contributions addressing the conference theme, authors are welcome to submit their original research results in traditional topics across broad application and functional domains, within the context of smart urban infrastructure systems.

The theme of the conference this year is “Community Smartification and towards ZERO emission Smart Cities for a Green New Era.”

The technical areas include, but are not limited to:

• Smart city theory, modeling and simulation
• Intelligent infrastructure
• Sensors and actuators
• Open data and big data analytics
• AI powered smart cities services
• Safety and security systems
• Smart healthcare
• Smart emergency management
• IoT and Smart X services

• Data security and privacy
• Connected Vehicle (CV) technologies
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
• Smart mobility and transportation
• Smart energy systems
• Smart buildings and Smart grid
• Digital city and smart growth
• Smart traffic system operations
• Environmental monitoring technologies

Submission Link for all Contributions

Paper Submission Guidelines

Prospective authors are invited to submit high quality original Full or Short papers via the Easy Chair submission site (link), by choosing the appropriate track. Full papers should describe novel research contributions with evaluation results and are limited to 7 pages. Short papers, limited in length to four (4) pages, should be more visionary in nature and are meant to discuss new challenges and visions, highlight early research results, and explore novel research directions.

All submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication, should be written in English and formatted according to IEEE Template. Each submitted paper will pass through the standard IEEE peer-review process and, if accepted and presented at the Conference, will appear in the conference proceedings and will be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore digital library. Paper contests will include a Conference Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award.

The conference organizers are currently negotiating a number of special issues with high-quality journals. More information is available here: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/journal-special-issues/ .

Please note that one AUTHOR Conference Registration covers up to TWO accepted papers.

Should you need further clarifications or have any inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us at: isc22022@easychair.org.

The IEEE International Smart Cities Conference 2022 program will be split into the following tracks:

Track 1: Smart Mobility

Topics of interest to the Smart Mobility track include (but are not limited to):

Autonomous vehicles: perception, localization, and mapping
Multi-sensor fusion and perception for Smart Transportation
Night vision perception in challenging environments
Scene understanding and 2D/3D object detection
Driver behavior monitoring and modelling
Multimodal transportation and Mobility as a Service (MaaS)
Advanced ICT infrastructure for Smart Transportation
Mixed-Autonomy Road Traffic Management
5G/6G enabled Vehicular Communications
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) enabled Smart Transportation
Communication technologies for connected and autonomous vehicles in Land, Water and Sky
Electric vehicles and transportation electrification
Simulation and modelling for Smart Transportation

Track 2: Smart Health and Wellbeing

Topics of interest to the Smart Health and Wellbeing track include (but are not limited to):

Smart devices and sensors for smart healthcare
Communications and protocols for smart healthcare
Smart healthcare realizations and platforms
Intelligent transportation systems for smart healthcare
Context-aware environments for healthcare
Artificial Intelligence for smart healthcare
Smart healthcare for the elderly
Scalability, performance, and reliability of smart healthcare applications
Pervasive wireless communications for assisted living
Standards for smart healthcare
Energy Efficiency in wireless health monitoring
Pervasive healthcare systems and services
Ethics, confidentiality, privacy, and data security for smart healthcare
Smart health data analytics and predictions
Smart health data dissemination within heterogeneous wireless devices
End-to-end QoS within heterogeneous smart devices for healthcare
Smart rehabilitation
Remote patient monitoring and custom services
Biomedical technologies and prosthetics

Track 3: Smart Infrastructure and Integrated Energy Systems

Topics of interest to the Smart Infrastructure and Integrated Energy Systems track include (but are not limited to):

Smart and Integrated grid
Clean energy generation, distribution and management (including solar, wind, thermal, bio, wave, hydro etc)
Integration of distributed energy resources
TSO-DSO network management and coordination
Local energy systems and networks (Energy communities, microgrids, virtual power plant etc)
Energy storage (thermal, electrical, hydrogen, others)
Advance metering infrastructure
Smart charging of electric vehicles plus V2G technologies
Demand-side response and energy flexibility
Multi-energy systems and sector coupling
Business models (including Aggregators)
Market design and governance (Retail, Wholesale; Cross-border; Ancillary services; Flexibility markets)
Smart waste management and circular economy
District heating and cooling

Track 4: Smart Services and IoT

Topics of interest to the Smart Services and IoT track include (but are not limited to):

5G/6G Networks for IoT and Smart Services
Edge-Fog-Cloud Computing Architecture for IoT and Smart Services
IoT and Robots Network Architectures, Frameworks, and Applications for Smart Cities
Information Fusion Technology for IoT at the Edg
Lightweight Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) for IoT
Lightweight Blockchain Technology for IoT
Load Balancing and Job Scheduling in IoT Environments
Location-based Smart Services
Microservices Architecture for IoT
Planning, construction, and operation of IoT and Smart Services for Smart Cities
Smart Campuses/Community Services
Smart Mobile Crowd Sensing at the Edge
Software and IoT Infrastructure of brand-new smart city
Trusted Platform Module (TMP) Design and Application for IoT
Trust, Security, and Privacy in IoT and Smart Environments
UAV for Smart Services for Delivery and Logistics
Ultra-Low-Power IoT Systems
Wearable/Portable Devices/Systems for IoT and Smart Services

Track 5: Smart Data and AI

Topics of interest to the Smart Data and AI track include (but are not limited to):

AI-based applications for smart cities
AI-based big data analysis for smart cities
AI-based cloud computing for smart cities
AI-based communications Security
AI-based protocols and services for smart cities
Big data analytics for smart cities
Big data analytics for Smart Cities Security
Big data-based prediction for smart cities
Big data clustering
Big data security and privacy for smart cities
Blockchain and distributed ledgers
Deep learning for big data
Distributed AI algorithms
Distributed reasoning for IoT
Edge AI
Ethical and legal implications of AI within a smart city
Federated learning
Interpretable Machine learning for smart cities
Machine learning for analysis of big data
Mathematics of big data
Natural language processing and entity extraction in linked open data
Optimization for smart cities
Predictive and pattern modelling on open linked data
Robotics systems and applications
Software as service (SaaS), utility computing, shared services
Tools of big data processing

Track 6 : Smart Security and Privacy

Topics of the Smart Security and Privacy for Smart Cities track would include (but not limited to):

Secure and resilient Human-in-the-loop 5G and Beyond architectures for smart cities
Privacy in human-intense 5G and Beyond communications in smart cities
Blockchain and distributed ledger-based solutions for smart city services
Resilient and secure human-intense network services
Threat modeling and defensive strategies for user-centric service and network management
User experience and perception in resilient SDN/NFV enabled systems for smart city applications
Citizen data confidentiality and privacy-preserving user-behavior analysis
User’ perception for interactive security and privacy mechanisms
SDN/NFV-based resilient smart city service orchestration
Secure multi-access and multi-radio Access Technologies and Orchestration
Big data analytics and machine learning for secure flexible mobile service steering
Privacy-aware advanced smart metering solutions
Economic implications and policies on security and privacy in smart cities and spaces
Security, privacy and resilience schemes for connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) and Internet of Things (IoTs)
Advanced security measures for smart utilities
smart-identification and personal security

Track 7: Empowering Citizens for Smart Communities and Cities

Topics of interest to the Empowering Citizens for Smart Communities and Cities include (but are not limited to):

Consumers’ empowerment,
Smart Energy Communities evolution and MS policy impact,
Smart RES Infrastructures adaptation (solar PV, storage, EV charging, other)
Shared renewable infrastructures (generation, storage, other shared services)
Regulation and policy
Future energy sharing, markets, peer-to-peer trading, community self-consumption, transactive energy
Citizen engagement in smart communities and cities,
Municipal government enabling models and solutions
Regional government enabling models and solutions
Social campaigns and social studies (related to societal acceptance
and environmental sustainability of energy infrastructures)
Adaptive consumer/user behaviour including energy communities
Urban/Rural planning for citizen-centric smart cities,
Smart Education,
- information dissemination
- services co-creation
Smart home, device control and home energy management system, integration with community services
Reaching carbon neutrality pathways towards home and community solutions
Business models, including cross sector and cross solutions (ie mobility)
Citizens science and energy communities
Grid interfacing demand flexibility services
Integrated smart communities from generation, to monitoring, to collective services

Track 8: ICT and Digitalization

Topics of interest to the ICT and Digitalization Track include (but are not limited to):

Data and Information Management (ICT technologies and platforms, open-source platforms, software etc)
Sustainable services, platforms for sustainable cities,
Smart city governance,
Sustainable urban development,
Sustainability models,
ICT applications for sustainable cities.
Protocols, standardisation and interoperability
ICT for Data Communication (Data acquisition, Smart Meter, Monitoring, AMR, smart devices etc)
Cybersecurity (vulnerabilities, failures, risks) and privacy
End-to-end architecture (integrating market, automation, control, data acquisition, digital twin, end-users)

Track 9: Digital Twins for Smarter Buildings

Topics of interest to the Digital Twins for Smarter Buildings Track include (but are not limited to):

Smart buildings,
Smart sensors,
Digital twins,
Building Information Modelling,
Smart Readiness Indicators,
Operational building rating,
Digital building logbooks,
GIS,
Building Management Systems.
EDGE computing for smart buildings and RES generation

Track 10: Observability in smart cities

Topics of interest to the Observability in smart cities include (but are not limited to):

Smart city platforms
IoT and robots monitoring in smart cities
Smart City KPI monitoring
Smart city data and AI-driven analytics
Smart city infrastructure
Observability with AI
Anomaly detection in smart city systems
Fault localization and root cause analysis
Predictive and proactive service management
Automation for remediation and mitigation
Security and compliance
Energy efficiency of smart city services
Continuous improvement for smart city services

Track 11: General Track

Topics of interest to the General Track include (but are not limited to):

Smart city theory, modeling and simulation
Intelligent infrastructure
Sensors and actuators
Smart economy development
Smart emergency management
Smart environment and policy development
Environmental capital reduction
Digital city and smart growth
Smart buildings
Smart city implementation
Smart city for special needs
Smart manufacturing and logistics
Environmental monitoring technologies
Smart energy solutions for water treatment, purification, desalination, food processing etc

Important Dates

Conference Paper Submission Deadline – May 15, 2022 May 31, 2022 14 June, 2022 AoE
Conference Acceptance Notification – July 15, 2022 AoE
Conference Camera-ready Deadline – August 08, 2022 AoE
Conference Dates – September 26-29, 2022