IEEE International Smart Cities Conference

ISC 2020


Computing Systems Remote Sensing



The 6th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2020) will be held as a virtual conference, during September 28 – October 1, 2020. The worldwide governmental restrictions on travel, gatherings, and meetings, imposed to limit and slow the spread of the novel corona-virus, make it impossible to organize the conference in the traditional format. However, we are confident that the changes induced by the virus to our everyday lives, and the responses given to these new challenges by smart city researchers and practitioners, city policymakers and administrators, critical infrastructure operators and industry representatives, economists and sociologists will generate exciting and edifying presentations and discussions, both as part of our keynote addresses, panel debates, workshops or research talks. After all, one of the main reasons for cities becoming smart should be to safely and efficiently support us, citizens, in such difficult times. The theme of the conference this year will thus be: Smart Cities Solutions for New Challenges, Including a Pandemic.
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 technical areas include, but are not limited to:
Community & Governance
Citizen participation
Healthcare
Emergency management
Smart environment & ecosystems
Policy development
Mobility and transportation
Digital city and smart growth
Sustainability and energy efficiency
Education
Infrastructure & Technology
Smart buildings and smart grids
Transportation and traffic systems
Smart city theory, modeling, and simulation
Manufacturing and logistics
Energy systems
Sensors and actuators
Intelligent infrastructure
Vehicle-to-infrastructure integration
Data, Privacy, & Security
Computational intelligence
Open data and big data analytics
Internet of things (IoT)
Pattern recognition
(Cyber) security and regulations
Networks and communications
Data security and privacy
Data collection and visualization
Submission guidelines:
Prospective authors are encouraged to contribute high-quality original full (8 pages max) or short (4 pages max) papers to this conference. All submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. The papers should be written in English and formatted according to IEEE Template. For detailed submission instructions visit the conference website at http://ieee-isc2.org. All accepted and presented papers will appear in the conference proceedings and in IEEE Xplore, the conference being a virtual event will have no effect on the publication of results.
Best papers to journals:
Exceptional quality papers will be recommended to several journals including IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, Springer Journal of Network and Systems Management for publication. Authors will be asked to extend and revise their papers according to the standards of journals, which will be subjected to the journals’ review process.
Important dates:
Workshop and Tutorial Proposal Deadline – June 15
Conference Paper Submission Deadline – July 1
Workshop Paper Submission Deadline – July 30
Conference Acceptance Notification – August 15
Workshop Acceptance Notification – August 22
Conference/Workshop Camera Ready Deadline – September 10
Conference Dates – September 28 – October 1