Call for papers: Smart Living and Communications for the Next Generations Networks (submission deadline: 1 June 2024)
Call for papers: Technological and Innovative Advances for Smart Cities (submission deadline: 1 December 2024)

Aims & Scope

The Journal of Smart Cities and Society focuses on the already existing and well-known concept of smart cities which amalgamate smart infrastructures with human’s needs through services at a community level. “Smart Cities” is an emerging concept which has been gaining momentum as the technology available becomes more sophisticated and provides continuous stimuli to solve some of the growing concerns due to demographical growth.

There are already various “smart” areas of technology quite consolidated and making their way into business and society. These smarter systems are supported by various areas in computer science, for example sensor networks and context-aware software, which facilitate delivering more specific services to humans in more specific daily life contexts and are better aligned to their individual preferences. This has not been a sudden revolution, but rather another stage in technological evolution. With areas such as artificial intelligence maturing and basic infrastructures including increasingly capable communication networks looming in the technical horizon there are strong signals that this trend will only continue. Then it seems quite a natural progression for society in general, and for our technical communities as well, to move from the various current “smart” silos, such as smart homes, smart cars, smart transportation, smart food grow, smart health, to be interconnected through an overall area which focuses on the multiple combinations and on their cooperation to achieve benefits for society none of those single areas can achieve in isolation.

Hence there are strong motivations for their emergence and consolidation and on the other hand given the combination and complexity of resources required, is a topic which will require a long and patient discussion. Design, experimentation, community involvement, cultural adaptations into different parts of the planet, and much more will be required to create services which work effectively in the real world.  
Another interesting dimension of this area is that it is essentially a multi-disciplinary endeavour. Technology acts in this area as a bonding element for each of the services which it underpins, so many other groups of professionals are required in order to create meaningful services. Although this area has computer science and sensing at its core, it also requires interventions from various branches of engineering, architecture, social sciences, environmental sciences, emergency services, city planners, and many more, ultimately citizens themselves (as they are the best to indicate which services they need). Hence this area is a fascinating opportunity for society to grow in a more organic way with a more democratized and decentralized way of using progress for common good.

The journal will consider submissions from various disciplines addressing the following (non-exhaustive list of) areas:

Technological infrastructure for smart cities support: sensing, actuation, sensor networks, interfaces, artificial intelligence, big data and machine learning, Internet of things (IoT), embedded systems, radio frequency identification (RFID), near field communication (NFC), ubiquitous computing, pervasive computing, cyber-physical systems (CPS), virtual reality, augmented reality, robotics, context awareness, autonomic computing, decision support systems, knowledge creation, human-computer interaction.

“Smart” sub-systems: smart campus, smart homes, ambient assisted living, smart hospitals, e-health, m-health, telemedicine, smart transport, smart shopping, smart industry, smart farming, smart water management, smart waste management.

Urban mobility: automated and connected urban systems, accessibility, interconnected public spaces, smart parking, smart mobility, electric vehicles, autonomous vehicles, intelligent transportation systems, mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), vehicle-to-everything (V2X).

Data management: cloud computing, fog/edge computing, analytics, visualization, GDPR, privacy, security, blockchain, participatory sensing, citizens as scientists.

Responsible innovation: sustainability, accelerating decarbonisation, smart grid, energy efficiency, renewable energies, monitoring and verification of building performance, resilience, global warming governance (mitigation, energy systems, environmental justice, adaption).

E-government: city logistics, optimization and decision-making support, open government, smart partnerships, smart services, citizen engagement and participation, social inclusion, co-production, citizen centricity, quadruple helix of innovation, citizen involvement and innovative governance.

Disaster management: simulation, detection, prevention, emergency services support, large crowds guidance and support, environmental modelling.

Smart city application platforms: methodologies to tackle real problems in cities, bottlenecks and enablers, practical problems, pilots, complex systems modelling.

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Juan Carlos Augusto
Department of Computer Science
Faculty of Science and Technology
Middlesex University
London, United Kingdom
Email: J.Augusto@mdx.ac.uk

Editorial Board

Attila Adamkó
University of Debrecen
Debrecen, Hungary

Christos Anagnostopoulos
University of Glasgow
Glasgow, UK

Ross A. Astoria
University of Wisconsin – Parkside
Kenosha, WI, USA

Patrick-Benjamin Bök
Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences
Kamp-Lintfort, Germany

Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar
University of Granada
Granada, Spain

Sunil Choenni
Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security
The Hague, The Netherlands

Janick Edinger
University of Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany

Bilal Farooq
Ryerson University
Toronto, Canada

Jerry Gao
San Jose State University
San Jose, CA, USA

Song Guo
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong, China

Peggy James
University of Wisconsin – Parkside
Kenosha, WI, USA

Anton Kamenskih
Perm National Research Polytechnic University
Perm, Russia

Sameer Kishore
Middlesex University Dubai
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dac-Nhuong Le
Haiphong University
Haiphong , Vietnam

Francesco Leotta
Sapienza University of Rome
Rome, Italy

Ruizhi Liao
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shenzhen, China

Wathiq Mansoor
University of Dubai
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Enrique Frias Martinez
Universidad Camilo Jose Cela
Madrid, Spain

Paula Rodriguez Müller
KU Leuven
Leuven, Belgium

Dmitry Namiot
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Moscow, Russia

Slawomir Nowaczyk
Halmstad University
Halmstad, Sweden

Angela Orebaugh
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA, USA

Manuele Kirsch Pinheiro
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University
Paris, France

Andrew Roberts
Central Queensland University
Melbourne, Australia

Raul Aquino Santos
University of Colima
Colima, Mexico

Edna Iliana Tamariz – Flores
Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla
Puebla, Mexico

Goran Vojković
University of Zagreb
Zagreb, Croatia

Sira Yongchareon
Auckland University of Technology
Auckland, New Zealand

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Proposals
The Editor-in-Chief welcomes proposals for thematic issues, book reviews, and news items of interest to the research community. The Journal of Smart Cities and Society is an international journal and welcomes submissions from every country.

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Conflict of interest
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REFERENCES

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Templates of references in ACM style:

[1] Journal Article: A. Author Surname, Title, Publication Title Volume Number(Issue Number) (Year Published), Page Numbers. doi: doi Number
[2] Book Article: A. Author Surname, Title, in: Book Article, Publisher, Year Published, pp. Page Numbers. doi: doi Number
[3] Book: A. Author Surname, editors, Title, City: Publisher, Edition, Year Published.
[4] Conference Article: A. Author Surname, Title, in: Conference Proceedings, Publisher, Year Published, Page Numbers. doi: doi Number.
[5] Online Page: Name. City: Publisher, Year. Accessed on Access Date. Available from: Link.

Examples of references in ACM style:

[1] M.E. Rose, M.B. Huerbin, J. Melick, D.W. Marion, A.M. Palmer, J.K. Schiding, et al., Regulation of interstitial excitatory amino acid concentrations after cortical contusion injury. Brain Res. 935(12) (2002), 406. doi: 10.1016/s0006-8993(02)02445-9.
[2] P.S. Meltzer, A. Kallioniemi and J.M. Trent, Chromosome alterations in human solid tumors, in:  The genetic basis of human cancer, McGrawHill, 2002, p. 93113. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385071-3.00004-6.
[3] R. Berkow and A.J. Fletcher, editors, The Merck manual of diagnosis and therapy, Rahway: Merck Research Laboratories, 16th ed., 1992.
[4] S. Andler, Predicate path expressions, in: Proceedings of the 6th. ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL '79), ACM Inc., 1979, pp. 226-236. doi: 10.1145/567752.567774.

[5] Canadian Cancer Society. Toronto: The Society, 2006. Accessed on 12 May 2006. Available from: www.cancer.ca/.

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Peer Review Policy

The Journal of Smart Cities and Society is a peer-reviewed journal. Articles submitted to the journal undergo a single-blind peer review process. This means that the identity of the authors is known to the reviewers but the identity of the reviewers is not communicated to the authors. Please visit our reviewer guidelines for further information about how to conduct a review.

After automatic plagiarism screening through iThenticate, all submitted manuscripts are subjected to initial appraisal by the Editor-in-Chief and, if found suitable for further consideration, to rigorous peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. Reasons to reject a paper in the pre-screening process could for example be that the work does not fall within the aims and scope, the writing is of poor quality, the instructions to authors were not followed or the presented work is not novel.

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As a standard policy, decisions are based on three reviews, in some specific circumstances a minimum of two reviews may be deemed sufficient to make a decision on a paper. The Editor-in-Chief strives to ensure a typical turnaround time of 3 months.

Reviewers are asked to judge a paper on at least:

  • Logical, concise ordering of ideas
  • Use of sound research methods
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