The purpose of the International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS) is to bring together researchers, designers, developers and practitioners coming from the area of energy engineering and ICT. The Conference is focused on the recent advances and applications in the field of Smart Cities, Green Information and Communication Technologies, Sustainability, Energy Aware Systems and Technologies.
The majority of the worldwide Countries are undergoing a deep transition, aiming at achieving a sustainable development and carbon neutrality by 2050. Such transition also includes the development of smart cities, also based on smart energy networks, combining several energy technologies for energy production, storage and utilization, and including a plurality of energy producers, users and prosumers (i.e., producers and users at the same time). In this framework, the integration of different disciplines (energy engineering, ICT, control systems, etc.) is crucial to design the cities of the future, including smart and efficient energy networks and transportation systems. Here, the optimal management of the renewable energy production will be pivotal to promote the penetration of such novel technology.
Simultaneously, Green Computing is nowadays one of the major challenges for most IT organizations that involve medium and large-scale distributed infrastructures like Grids, Clouds and Clusters. The conference will focus on solutions for all aspects of green computing such as energy efficiency, carbon footprint reduction and cooling management. The trade-offs between energy efficiency and performance have become key challenges that must be addressed in both, distributed and traditional performance-oriented infrastructures. Particularly relevant is the so-called Smart Grid technology, seeking to optimize distributed electricity generation, especially from renewable sources, and to promote the use of smart devices (including smart home and new vehicular energy approaches) that require further research on distributed communications, energy storage and integrations of various sources of energy.
Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of SMARTGREENS. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions.
Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial, workshop or special session are invited to contact the conference secretariat or visit the SMARTGREENS conference website.