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SMARTGREENS is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

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The purpose of the 8th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS) is to bring together researchers, designers, developers and practitioners interested in the advances and applications in the field of Smart Cities, Green Information and Communication Technologies, Sustainability, Energy Aware Systems and Technologies.

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 tradeoffs 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.

CONFERENCE AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. ENERGY-AWARE SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES
2. SUSTAINABLE COMPUTING AND SYSTEMS
3. SMART CITIES AND SMART BUILDINGS
4. DEMOS AND USE-CASES
5. SMART AND DIGITAL SERVICES


AREA 1: ENERGY-AWARE SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES


  • Architectures for Smart Grids
  • Economic Models of Energy Efficiency
  • Energy Monitoring
  • Renewable Energy Resources
  • Greener Systems Planning and Design
  • Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption
  • Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Applications
  • Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies
  • Energy Profiling and Measurement
  • Energy-Aware Process Optimisation
  • Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption
  • Microgeneration
  • Smart Energy Storage
  • Load Balancing in Smart Grids
  • Energy Management Systems (EMS)

AREA 2: SUSTAINABLE COMPUTING AND SYSTEMS


  • Wireless Systems and Networks
  • Green Computing Models, Methodologies and Paradigms
  • Wearable Computing
  • Green Data Centers
  • Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat
  • Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks
  • Qos and Green Computing
  • Integration of Smart Appliances
  • Smart Homes (Domotics)
  • Case Studies on Green Computing and Communications
  • Interoperability
  • Energy Efficient Network Hardware
  • Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols
  • Internet of Things
  • Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools
  • Security and Privacy

AREA 3: SMART CITIES AND SMART BUILDINGS


  • Case Studies, Business Models and Innovative Applications for Smart(Er) Cities
  • Safety, Security, and Privacy for Smart Cities
  • Human Smart Cities
  • Smart Buildings
  • Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management
  • eMobility and Smart Transport
  • Intelligent Buildings
  • Urban Monitoring and Optimization
  • User-Centred and Participatory Design of Services and Systems for Smart Cities
  • Innovation Labs, Experimental Test-Beds and Simulation Environments
  • Mechanisms for Motivating Behaviour Change
  • Internet-Enabled Infrastructures and Services
  • Service Innovation and Design to Support Smart Cities
  • Smart Sensor-Based Networks and Applications
  • Big Data and Urban Data Analytics
  • IS Architecture Designs and Platforms for Smart Cities
  • Case Studies and Innovative Applications for Smart(Er) Cities
  • Planning and Design Challenges for Smart Cities
  • Frameworks and Models for Smart City Initiatives

AREA 4: DEMOS AND USE-CASES


  • Technologies Demos Used in Smart Cities
  • Case Studies
  • Energy Management Systems
  • Visualization Tools
  • Optimization Approaches
  • eVehicles Demos
  • Smart Home Devices
  • Experiments
  • Software Tools

AREA 5: SMART AND DIGITAL SERVICES


  • Mobility Services
  • Socio-Technical Integration and Stakeholder Involvement
  • Research and Innovation in Creative Industries
  • Digital Entrepreneurship
  • Service Architectures
  • Digital Social Networks
  • Digital Service Innovation
  • Digital Transformation for Public Sectors
  • Data Services
  • Service Adoption and Technology Transfer
  • Service Design
  • Digitalized Manufacturing Systems
  • Living-Labs & Open-Innovation
  • Design-Enabled Innovation in Cities
  • Simulation of Business Models and Architectures

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Norbert StreitzFounder and Scientific Director, Smart Future Initiative, Germany
Rudolf GiffingerFB Urban and Regional Studies, Institute of Spatial Planning, TU Wien, Austria
Jeroen PloegLead Cooperative Driving, 2getthere, 2getthere B.V., Utrecht and Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.

Only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews.

Authors can submit their work in the form of a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas. All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on digital support.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper on our digital library is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).

All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library (consult SCITEPRESS Ethics of Publication)


It is planned to publish a short list of revised and extended versions of presented papers with Springer in a CCIS Series book
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by DBLP, Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index, EI, Microsoft Academic, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Semantic Scholar.

IMPORTANT DATES

Conference Date: 3 - 5 May, 2019

Paper Submission: January 4, 2019 (expired)
Authors Notification:
February 7, 2019 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration:
February 21, 2019 (expired)

Paper Submission: January 31, 2019 (expired)
Authors Notification:
February 28, 2019 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration:
March 14, 2019 (expired)

Late-Breaking

Paper Submission: February 21, 2019 (expired)
Authors Notification:
March 13, 2019 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration:
March 21, 2019 (expired)

Workshops
Workshop Proposal: December 26, 2018 (expired)

Special Sessions
Special Session Proposal: December 26, 2018 (expired)
Paper Submission: March 7, 2019 (expired)
Authors Notification: March 15, 2019 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration: March 25, 2019 (expired)

Tutorials
Tutorial Proposal: March 20, 2019 (expired)

Demos
Demo Proposal: March 20, 2019 (expired)

Panels
Panel Proposal: March 20, 2019 (expired)

European Project Spaces
Paper Submission: March 15, 2019 (expired)
Authors Notification: March 25, 2019 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration: July 25, 2019 (expired)

SECRETARIAT

SMARTGREENS Secretariat
Address: Avenida de S. Francisco Xavier, Lote 7 Cv. C
             2900-616 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +351 265 520 186
e-mail: smartgreens.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: https://smartgreens.scitevents.org

VENUE

The conference will be held at the Voutes Campus at the University of Crete, Crete, Greece.
The Voutes Campus is about 10km from Heraklion town centre, in the area of Vassiliki Vouton. All the Departments of the School of Sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science, Applied Mathematics, Computer Sciences, and Mathematics) are now housed in new buildings on the Voutes Campus, as well as the School of Medicine and the adjoining University General Hospital.


CONFERENCE CHAIR

Markus HelfertInnovation Value institute, Maynooth University, Ireland

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Cornel KleinCT RDA SSI, Siemens AG, Germany
Brian Donnellaninnovation value institute, Maynooth University, Ireland

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Javier M. Aguiar, ETSIT, Campus Miguel Delibes, Paseo de Belén 15, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
Carlos H. Antunes, DEEC - University of Coimbra / INESC Coimbra, Portugal
Mehdi Bagheri, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Simona Bernardi, Department of Computer Science and System Engineering, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Lasse Berntzen, School of Business, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway
Nik Bessis, Department of Computing, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom
Riccardo Bettati, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, United States
Lorenzo Bottaccioli, DAUIN, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Blanca Caminero, Computing Systems, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Lin Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Ken Christensen, Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida, United States
Calin H. Ciufudean, Computers, Automatics and Electronics, “Stefan cel Mare” University of Suceava, Romania
Georges Da Costa, IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, France
Wanyang Dai, Nanjing University, China
Cléver Ricardo G. de Farias, Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Venizelos Efthymiou, FOSS Reasearch Centre for Sustainable Energy, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Rania El-Gazzar, Department of Strategy and Finance, University College of Southeast Norway, Norway
Tullio Facchinetti, University of Pavia, Italy
Adrian Florea, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University "Lucian Blaga" of Sibiu, Romania
Hossam Gaber, energy systems and nuclear science, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada
Bela Genge, Informatics, University of Targu Mures, Romania
Christopher Gniady, Computer Science, University of Arizona, United States
Andre Gradvohl, School of Technology, State University of Campinas, Brazil
Adriana Grigorescu, Public Management, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania
Piyush Harsh, Institute of Applied Information Technology, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Muhammad Hasan, ETID, Texas A&M University, United States
Nikos Hatziargyriou, Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University, Greece
Kerry J. Hinton, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia
Hartmut Hinz, University of Applied Sciences Frankfurt, Germany
Seongsoo Hong, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea, Republic of
Iskandar Ishak, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Bo N. Jørgensen, Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller instituttet, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Jai Kang, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States
Stamatis Karnouskos, SAP, Germany
Essam E. Khalil, Mechanical, Cairo University, Egypt
Nicos Komninos, URENIO Research, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Sesil Koutra, Architecture and Urban Planning, Université de Mons (UMONS), Belgium
Mani Krishna, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States
Sisil Kumarawadu, Electrical Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Faa-Jeng Lin, Electrical Engineering, National Central University, Taiwan, Republic of China
Marco Listanti, DIET, University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
Michela Longo, Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Marcin Luckner, Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Zheng Ma, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Giovanni Maccani, School of Business, Maynooth University, Ireland
Rabi Mahapatra, Computer Science and Engg, Texas A&M University, United States
Annapaola Marconi, Smart Cities and Communities, Fondazione Bruno Kessler – FBK, Italy
Giaoutzi Maria, Dept of Geography and Regional Planning, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Daisuke Mashima, Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore
Jean-Marc Menaud, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France
Daniel Mosse, Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, United States
Elsa Negre, Paris-Dauphine University, France
Carlo A. Nucci, University of Bologna, Italy
Edoardo Patti, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Marco Pau, Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems, E.ON Energy Research Center - RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Cathryn Peoples, Ulster University, United Kingdom
Vitor Pires, Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal - Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal
Philip Pong, New Jersey Institute of Technology, United States
Evangelos Pournaras, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Gang Quan, ECE, Florida International University, United States
Ana Carolina Riekstin, R&D - Management Plane, Kaloom, Canada
Eva González Romera, Electrical, Electronics and Control Engineering, University of Extremadura, Spain
Enrique Romero-Cadaval, Dpt.Electrical, Electronic and Control Engineering, University of Extremadura, Spain
Javad M. Sardroud, Civil and Construction Engineering, Azad University Central Tehran Branch, Iran, Islamic Republic of
Huasong Shan, JD.com American Technologies Corporation, United States
Bo Sheng, Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Boston, United States
Nirmal K. Srivastava, Chemical Engineering, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, India
Norvald Stol, Department of telematics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway
Afshin Tafazzoli, Global Services, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, Spain
Paolo Tenti, Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy
Dimitrios Tsoumakos, Department of Informatics, Ionian University, Greece
Alexandr Vasenev, ESI (TNO), Netherlands
Silvano Vergura, st E. Orabona, 4, Polythechnic University of Bari, Italy
Sanjeewa Witharana, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany
Igor Wojnicki, EAIiIB, KIS, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Qiuwei Wu, Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Chau Yuen, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Yayun Zhou, CT RTC AUC MST-DE, Siemens AG, Germany
Sotirios Ziavras, ECE, New Jersey Institute of Technology, United States

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