[EGOV LIST] CFP WebAndTheCity: 9th International Smart City Workshop – The Web and Smart Cities

[Marijn Janssen - TBM]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

WebAndTheCity: 9th International Smart City Workshop – The Web and Smart Cities
In conjunction with The Web Conference (WWW’23): 33rd World Wide Web International Conference, Austin, Texas, April 30 - May 4, 2023
http://webandthecity.home.blog/

Important Dates
•            Submissions due: Feb. 06, 2023 (23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone)
•            Notification of Acceptance: March 06, 2023
•            Camera-ready version due: March 31, 2023
•            Workshop authors’ early registration: March 31, 2023
•            Workshop day: May 1, 2023

Workshop Objective
This is the 9th edition of the workshop series with the label “Web Applications and Smart Cities” (previous name: AW4City), which started back in Florence in 2015 and kept on taking place every year in conjunction with the WWW conference series. Last year the workshop was in Lyon, France during The Web Conference 2022. The workshop series aim to investigate the role of the Web and of Web applications in smart city growth.
This year, the workshop focuses on the role of the web in social coherence.
In the era of cities and under the UN 2030 Agenda for sustainable growth, cities appear to play a crucial role in securing humanity against social threats and generating sustainable and circular cities. In this regard, cities attempt to secure social sustainability and coherence (e.g., deal with affordable energy, poverty, hunger, equal opportunities in education, jobs, and health, etc.) and enhance their performance to become friendlier and able to host their increasing populations. Additionally, new types of business appear (e.g., for smart energy), while the co-existence of autonomous things and people generate another challenge that cities have started phasing. Τhis workshop aims to demonstrate how web applications Apps can Web intelligence serve communities.
WebAndTheCity aims at gathering researchers from the fields of SC that are related to this year’s conference topics, to think about the obstacles that hurdle the leveraging of understanding and capturing of SC trends with regard to the WWW role (web-based, Apps, platforms and web intelligence).

Theoretical concepts, empirical evidence and selected case studies from leading scholars and practitioners in the field showing the “big picture” of smart cities and urban areas will be examined in this workshop.
WebAndTheCity is timely since SC must deal with emerging social threats. Nevertheless, communities have not been supported by the SC during emerging social crises (i.e., access to affordable energy, shelters etc.), while the SC does not seem to play a central role in circular economic growth. This skepticism can be added to the existing criticism that represents an ambiguous urban utopia, which is supported by the partnership of local governments with big technological vendors. Articles can deliver ideas for intelligent sensing, crowdsourcing, and risk analysis with the Web, which can provide a clearer view of SC role against social emergencies, while innovative applications can strengthen the community’s coherence (e.g., access to affordable energy with smart energy efficiency; communication about social threats with transparency etc.).
We target researchers from both industry and academia to join forces in this exciting area. We intend to discuss the recent and significant developments in the general areas of smart cities and web applications and to promote cross-fertilization of techniques. In particular, we aim at identifying trends and respective applications in smart cities; the potential impact of smart city in web applications; techniques from end-to-end solutions’ or apps’ development that will enable researchers to understand the dynamic phenomena in smart cities, as well as specify important directions for the research communities. Standards for web applications’ development in smart cities is interesting for several areas such as sustainability, crisis management, marketing, security, and interoperability. To address the above mentioned aspects, we solicit the following topics (but not limited to):
•            Enhance community living with the web (services, Apps and intelligence);
•            Apps and services that support community engagement in governance, circularity, climate change adaptation, mobility, sharing, crowd-sourcing etc.;
•            Smart City platforms (e.g. consultation; openness; parking; traffic management; environment etc.);
•            Smart and Self evolving services (e.g. self-threat analysis; self-responsive government services etc.);
•            Practices of Web applications, Apps and AI in smart cities;
•            Theoretical foundations on Smart City applications and standards;
•            Creative partnerships, creative industries and industry 4.0 in Smart City with a focus on application development and AI (Internet Economics and Monetization);
•            Pervasive Web for Smart City emerging topics (i.e., user behavior analytics, energy, water, waste, transportation etc.)
•            The role of city stakeholders for smart city applications development and standardization (i.e., promotion push, start-ups, open data);
•            Web Infrastructure and AI service standardization;
•            The role of standards on smart city data mining;
•            Smart city information quality and evolution in social content;
•            Ensuring security and privacy in Smart Environment: the role of web applications and Apps.

Submission
We welcome full research papers, research in progress, and discussion papers. Full papers should be up to 12 pages long (maximum 8 pages for the main paper content + maximum 2 pages for appendixes + maximum 2 pages for references).
Discussion papers may be short (up to 6 pages), but should clearly and distinctly address one or more issues pertinent to Smart City research including research methods and quality as well as focus of studies. Papers should be designed to support in-depth discussions of one of these issues during the workshop. Although it is a half-day event, the workshop papers will be clustered and each session will discuss a small set of papers focusing on similar or related issues.
Accepted refereed papers, must be presented at the conference by an author who is registered to attend. Please be aware that The Web Conference's organizers will require at least one registration per paper published in either the main Proceedings or in the Companion volume. At the time of submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate the already registered person for that publication. We strongly encourage at least one author of every paper to register by the early-bird deadline so that session chairs can make plans for its presentation.
Please submit your papers via the Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/submissions?a=29997269) and via e-mail (in .doc/docx and .pdf format) to: lanthopo at uth.gr with the subject: “WebAndTheCity 2023 proposal”
Details of the programme will be made available online.
Although it is a half-day event, the workshop papers will be clustered and each session will discuss a small set of papers focusing on similar or related issues.

Submission Guidelines
The accepted papers will be included in the companion volume of The Web Conference's proceeding, which will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library.

All submitted papers must be:
written in English;
contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses;
be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) with a font size no smaller than 9pt;
be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size. Files in Postscript (ps) or any other format will not be accepted. Authors should submit a .doc/.docx too to the workshop’s chairs.
Occupy no more than 12 pages (maximum 8 pages for the main paper content + maximum 2 pages for appendixes + maximum 2 pages for references)
It is the authors responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format.
Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review.
All submissions must be entered into the reviewing system and they will follow a blind peer-review process by the workshop co-chairs and at least one external reviewer. More details regarding WWW2023 conference can be found on https://www2023.thewebconf.org/
Extended version of accepted articles are possible to be selected and included in a special issue with relevant theme of MDPI Sustainability (like https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/WebIntelligence_SmartMobility), International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR), ACM DGov or IET Smart Cities.
Accepted refereed papers, must be presented at the conference by an author who is registered to attend. Please be aware that the WWW 2023 organizers will require at least one registration per paper published in either the main Proceedings or in the Companion volume. At the time of submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate the already registered person for that publication. We strongly encourage at least one author of every paper to register by the early-bird deadline so that session chairs can make plans for its presentation.
Please submit your papers via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/submissions?a=29997269) and via e-mail (in .doc/docx and .pdf format) to: lanthopo at uth.gr with the subject: WebAndTheCity 2023 proposal”
Details of the programme will be made available online.

For any questions, please contact the Workshop chairs:
•            Leonidas ANTHOPOULOS, Professor, University of Thessaly, Greece, lanthopo at uth.gr
•            Marijn JANSSEN, Professor, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, M.F.W.H.A.Janssen at tudelft.nl
•            Vishanth WEERAKKODY, Professor, University of Bradford, United Kingdom, v.weerakkody at bradford.ac.uk

Program Committee Members (tentative)
• Toru Ishida, Department of Social Informatics, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
• Sofia Toufic Shwayri, Independent Scholar, U.S.A.
• Nicolas Douay, MCF Paris 7 / UMR Geographie-Cites / LabEx DynamiTe
• Beth Coleman, University of Waterloo, Director of City as Platform
• Arthur Riel, The World Bank, Washington, U.S.A.
• Cristina Maria Bueti, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
• Christopher G. Reddick, The University of Texas at San Antonio, U.S.A.
• Markus Rittenbruch, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
• Flora Salim, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
• Stephen Cohen, Microsoft, USA
• Soon Ae Chun, City University New York (CUNY)
• Amel Attour, Universite Cote d’Azur, CNRS, GREDEG, Nice
• Alois Paulin, HVF Ludwigsburg, Germany
• Zohreh Pourzolfaghar, Maynooth University, Ireland
• Marianna Cavada, Lancaster University, U.K.


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