International Conference on Connected Smart Cities 2015

The International Conference on Connected Smart Cities 2015 is dedicated to scientific ideas, research findings, and industrial practices for smart cities.

Key Topics

• New Business Concerns in Smart Cities
  • Innovative economic models emerged in smart cities
  • Emerging business models and services in smart cities
  • New market rules, legislation, incentive schemes, and tariffs for smart city services
  • Market sizing and business opportunities in smart cities
• Wireless Connectivity in Smart Cities
  • IoT technologies bridging the physical and virtual worlds
  • Architectures for the Internet of Things (IoT)
  • RFID and related technologies to deliver new and enhanced services in smart cities
  • Internet of Everything (connecting data, process and people)
  • Mobile broadband technologies (3G/4G/5G) to support connectivity in smart cities
  • End to End / Machine to Machine (M2M) communication for real-time data collection in smart cities
• User-Centric Smart Cities
  • Public trust, user acceptance, and citizen engagement in smart services
  • Identification and exploration of the needs of citizens
  • Socio-technical challenges and barriers affecting the development and deployment of smart solutions in the contexts of specific cities
  • Behaviour changes led by the daily usage of smart city services and facilities
• Data and Software Applications in Smart Cities
  • Real-time decision analysis/support systems for monitoring and managing smart cities
  • Cloud computing and cloud-based data sharing solutions for smart cities
  • Intelligent systems and machine learning approaches and algorithms for smart cities
  • Big data analytics (concepts, methods, techniques and tools)
  • Mobile computing and app interaction
  • Open data usage, applications and services
• Greenness and Sustainability of Smart Cities
  • Renewable energy models in smart cities
  • Green and sustainable requirements, features and strategies in smart cities
  • Methods and metrics to measure the greenness and environmental impacts of smart city development
  • Green computing and green IT solutions in smart cities
  • Possible environmental issues and rebound effects (or take-back effects) caused by the large-scale deployment of smart city applications
• Security, Privacy and Identity Issues in Smart Cities
  • Security and privacy requirements in smart city applications and services
  • New security, privacy and identify problems and risks in cloud-based and/or IoT applications of smart cities
  • Risk identification, assessment and mitigation strategies to handle security and privacy concerns
  • Technologies and methods to protect data security and user privacy and identify in smart cities
• Smart City as an Integrated Ecosystem
  • Connecting infrastructure, applications and people into cities
  • Approaches and techniques for integrating smart applications and services within the city
  • Integrated smart city solutions deployments, test-beds and field trials
  • Data sharing difficulties across an integrated smart city ecosystem
  • Successful or failure cases of smart cities
  • Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure the smartness of cities

Who should Attend

Academics and practitioners from computer science, information systems, urban studies, telecommunication engineering, business and economics.