[EGOV LIST] Call for Papers: 1st Symposium on Data Driven Smart City Science and Transferability (DaSCiT) (DL: 30th Nov 2024)

[Maria A. Wimmer via eGov-list]

    Call for Papers: 1st Symposium on Data Driven Smart City Science and
    Transferability (DaSCiT)

/(Co-located with BTW25 in Bamberg)/

/3rd March 2025, Bamberg/

/URL: https://btw2025.gi.de/program/dascit-symposium
/

The concept of smart cities is rapidly evolving, with projects sprouting 
up globally. These initiatives seek to leverage technology and data to 
enhance urban living, optimize resource management, and improve the 
overall quality of life.  The effective use of data is central to smart 
city projects, enabling informed decision-making, real-time 
responsiveness, and strategic planning.

Despite advancements, cities face common hurdles such as data 
integration, privacy concerns, scalability, and ensuring equitable 
access to technology. Diverse projects demonstrate the innovative ways 
cities are becoming smarter, yet there is a pressing need to understand 
and replicate successful models. The broad spectrum of stakeholders is 
illustrated by smart cities with large financial resources as well as 
municipalities that focus on smaller digitalization projects. Companies, 
which can be industry leaders, as well as small and medium-sized 
businesses or start-ups working on innovative ideas also reflect the 
diversity. Together with researchers from different disciplines, this 
provides an important opportunity for collaboration, sharing insights 
and knowledge transfer.

The DaSCiT symposium aims to address common challenges, explore untapped 
potential for collaboration, and foster knowledge exchange in the realm 
of data-driven smart city initiatives.


      Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  * Open Services and Transferability
  * Added value generation
  * Citizen and Stakeholder Engagement
  * Public-private-civic Partnerships
  * Use Cases and Good Practice Examples
  * Urban Digital Twins:
      o Data Collection and Sensors
      o Data Streams
      o Data mining, intelligent systems and machine learning
      o Data transformation, integration, linkage and interoperability
      o Data preparation, cleaning, profiling, and visualization
  * Data Trust
  * Data Analytics
  * Data Governance


      Submission Guidelines

We welcome diverse formats for participation:

•    Full Research Papers
•    Experience Reports
•    Solution Presentations / Demonstrators (Abstract: 1 page)
•    Poster Presentations (Abstract: 1 page)

Contributions can be in English or German. Research papers should be 
10-15 pages long. This page limit includes text, figures, tables, and 
references. Experience reports are limited to 10 pages.

Paper submissions for this event must be made via Conftool 
<https://www.conftool.com/btw2025/>.

The contributions must correspond to the layout specifications of the 
conference proceedings (LNI style, see gi.de/service/publikationen/lni) 
<https://gi.de/service/publikationen/lni)>.

Submissions exceeding the page limit will be rejected without review. 
The accepted papers will be published in the Lecture Notes in 
Informatics (LNI) of the GI.

All contributions require a full registration.


      Important Dates

  * Submissions: 30.11.2024
  * Notification: 15.01.2025
  * Camera-Ready: 29.01.2025
  * Symposium: 03.03.2025


      Co-Chairs

  * Leonie Ackermann, Smart City Research Lab, University of Bamberg
  * Franz Schäfer, Smart City Team, City of Bamberg
  * Prof. Dr. Maria Wimmer, University of Koblenz