Smart Cities: Software Services and Cyber
Infrastructure
Call for Book Chapters
Introduction
This call for book
chapters is seeking chapter proposals for a handbook in Smart Cities to be
published by Springer in 2018.
Smart city is the
culmination of applying cutting-edge cyber-physical concepts to city resource
management scenarios such as water supply, energy distribution, transportation
management and public safety to streamline them for higher operational efficiencies.
This is made possible by the tremendous recent advancement in technologies such
as cloud computing, computer networking, and Internet of Things. In smart city
deployments, sensors and actuators that generate and consume massive volumes of
data under diverse formats and ontologies will be integrated into the overall
system. The data created by the participating devices need to be appropriately
classified and related so that duplication and conflicts can be minimized. To
handle the massive volumes of data in a timely manner and to prevent overloads
in the cloud infrastructure, newer edge computing paradigms need to be
developed.
Objectives of the Book
This book will be
targeted towards researchers, developers of smart city technologies, graduate students in the fields of communication systems, computer
science, and data science. It is
meant to provide a snapshot of the state-of-the-art at the time of its writing
in several key software services and cyber infrastructures as pertinent to
smart cities. We believe the book could accelerate the development of this area
by providing a coherent document that captures a collection of ongoing research
thrusts and deployment experiences in smart cities.
Topics of Interest
(not limited to)
¥ Enabling
wireless communication technologies for smart cities
¥ High-speed
networking infrastructure for smart cities
¥ Cloud
computing infrastructure for smart cities
¥ Edge
computing for smart cities
¥ Sensing
and Internet of Things infrastructure for smart cities
¥ Energy
aware or low energy systems and technologies
¥ Low
maintenance embedded systems and networks
¥ QoS of
smart city systems, applications, and services
¥ Service
innovation and design to support smart cities
¥ Management,
configuration and deployment of smart city infrastructure
¥ Application,
deployment, test-bed, and experiences in smart cities
¥ Big data
acquisition, preprocessing, data storage and management for urban informatics
¥ Data
privacy, security, and trust issues in smart cities
¥ Smart
data for social entrepreneurship and community engagement
¥ Sharing
economy in smart cities
¥ Mobile
crowdsourcing for urban analytics
Important Dates and
Proposal
The chapter proposal
should be 1-2 pages long. It should describe the topic of the chapter and
include the following information: the organization of the chapter and
anticipated number of pages. With the chapter proposal also submit a brief
biography of each author.
Proposal submission
deadline: July 17, 2017
Notification of
proposal acceptance: August 05, 2017
Full chapter draft
submission deadline: October 15, 2017
Chapter review to
authors: December 1, 2017
Final chapter
submission deadline: January 15, 2018
Full chapter draft submission
Chapters have to be
about 20-25 A4 pages length and will be reviewed by two/three reviewers to
ensure the quality of the book.
Final Manuscript Submission
Latex or word
templates will be provided for formatting the chapters.
For more details
regarding the book, please visit: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~maheswar/smart-cities.
Submission dates and author guides are available on this link.
Editors and Contact
Dr. Muthucumaru Maheswaran
School of Computer
Science
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
Dr. Elarbi Badidi
College of Information
Technology
United Arab Emirates
University
United Arab Emirates