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The 4th IEEE Smart World Congress (SmartWorld 2018) October 8-12, 2018 Guangzhou, China http://www.smart-world.org/2018/ http://www.smart-world.org/2018/
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: Apr. 25, 2018 (EXTENDED FIRM DEADLINE) Poster/Demo Submission Deadline: May 8, 2018 Author Notification Date: June 25, 2018 Camera-ready Deadline: Aug. 8, 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Keynote Speeches Section
You are welcome to attend 15+ Keynote Speeches offerred by world-renowned professors and industry leaders, which will be shared by the IEEE Smart World Congress 2018 and its six Co-Located Conferences (UIC, ATC, ScalCom, CBDCom, IoP, SCI) and their associated Symposiums/Workshops. Detailed information will be available at the conference website later.
Special Issues Section
Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in 20+ SCI & EI indexed special issues* (to be confirmed). Special issues will be shared by IEEE Smart World Congress 2018 and its six Co-Located Conferences (UIC, ATC, ScalCom, CBDCom, IoP, SCI) and their associated Symposiums/Workshops:
(1) IEEE Internet of Things Journal (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 7.596) http://ieee-iotj.org/
(2) Information Fusion - Elsevier (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 5.667) https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-fusion/ https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-fusion/
(3) Information Sciences - Elsevier (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 4.832) http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-sciences/ http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-sciences/
(4) Future Generation Computer Systems - Elsevier (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.997) http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/ http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/
(5) Journal of Network and Computer Applications - Elsevier (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.500) https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-network-and-computer-applicatio... https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-network-and-computer-applications/
(6) IEEE Access (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.244) http://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/
(7) Ad Hoc Networks - Elsevier (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.047) https://www.journals.elsevier.com/ad-hoc-networks/ https://www.journals.elsevier.com/ad-hoc-networks/
(8) Soft Computing - Springer (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.472) https://link.springer.com/journal/500 https://link.springer.com/journal/500
(9) Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing - Hindawi (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.899) https://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcmc/ https://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcmc/
(10) International Journal of Parallel Programming - Springer (SCI & EI Indexed, Impactor Factor: 1.156) https://link.springer.com/journal/10766 https://link.springer.com/journal/10766
(11) Journal of Computer Science and Technology - Springer (SCI & EI Indexed, Impactor Factor: 0.956) http://www.springer.com/computer/journal/11390 http://www.springer.com/computer/journal/11390
(12) Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments - IOS (SCI & EI Indexed, Impactor Factor: 0.809) https://www.iospress.nl/journal/journal-of-ambient-intelligence-and-smart-en... https://www.iospress.nl/journal/journal-of-ambient-intelligence-and-smart-environments/
(13) IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems - (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 0.411) http://www.ieice.org/eng/
(14) IEEE Cloud Computing - (EI Indexed) https://cloudcomputing.ieee.org/ https://cloudcomputing.ieee.org/
(15) Journal of Information Security and Applications - Elsevier (ESCI & EI Indexed) https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-information-security-and-applic... https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-information-security-and-applications/
(16) Future Internet - MDPI (ESCI & EI Indexed) http://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet http://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet
(17) International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE) - INDERSCIENCE (ESCI & EI Indexed) http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=IJCSE http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=IJCSE
(18) International Journal of Embedded Systems (IJES) - INDERSCIENCE (EI Indexed) http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=IJES http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=IJES
(19) International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN) - INDERSCIENCE (EI Indexed) http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijhpcn http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijhpcn
* More special issues will be added later.
Workshops and Special Sessions Section
Workshops/Special Sessions in conjunction with IEEE Smart World Congress 2018:
(1) The 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Smart City and Informatization (iSCI 2018) http://www.smart-world.org/2018/iSCI/ http://www.smart-world.org/2018/iSCI/
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Ubiquitous Intelligence for Smart World
The smart world is set to enhance everyday things with abilities of sensation, communication, computation and intelligence so that many tasks and processes could be simplified, more efficient and productive. It consists of numerous "smart things" that can be endowed with different levels/forms of computational intelligence and even capable of thinking. Research on smart world is an emerging research field covering many areas, essential problems and crucial issues in truly building the smart world that benefits humanity, and simultaneously safeguards the natural environment for sustainable development and evolution.
The 4th IEEE Smart World Congress originated from the 2005 Workshop on Ubiquitous Smart Worlds (USW, Taipei) and the 2005 Symposium on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Smart World (UISW, Nagasaki). SmartWorld 2018 in Guangzhou is the continuation after the success of SmartWorld 2017 in San Francisco, SmartWorld 2016 in Toulouse, and SmartWorld 2015 in Beijing. IEEE SmartWorld 2018 aims to provide a high-profile, leading-edge platform for researchers and engineers to exchange and explore state-of-art advances and innovations in graceful integrations of Cyber, Physical and Social Worlds with Ubiquitous Intelligence.
IEEE SmartWorld 2018 Topics - Smart Industry and Manufacture - Smart Agriculture and Aquaculture - Smart Materials and Fabric - Smart Environment and Ecosystems - Smart Earth/Space System - Smart Grid and Energy - Smart Logistics and Retail - Smart Building and Structure - Smart Roads and Transportation - Smart Vehicles and Networks - Smart Machines and Robots - Smart Home and Furniture - Smart Appliances and Goods - Smart Wearables and Implants - Smart Medicine and Healthcare - Smart Elderly/Kiddy Care - Smart Foods and Living - Smart Learning and Education - Smart Disaster Management - Smart Internet of Things - Smart Sensing, System and Service - Smart Computing & Communication
Six Co-located Conferences - The 15th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2018) - The 15th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC 2018) - The 18th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Scalable Computing & Communications (ScalCom 2018) - The 4th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Cloud and BigData Computing (CBDCom 2018) - The 4th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Internet of People (IoP 2018) - The 2nd IEEE Int'l Conf. on Smart City Innovations (SCI 2018)
IEEE SmartWorld 2018 Calls for - Papers that must be submitted electronically via the 2018 congress website - Workshop and Special Session Proposals in smart world related all aspects - Tutorial Proposals in addressing the emerging smart world areas - Smart AI City Competition Proposals for AI technological applications
IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: Apr. 25, 2018 (EXTENDED FIRM DEADLINE) Poster/Demo Submission Deadline: May 8, 2018 Author Notification Date: June 25, 2018 Camera-ready Deadline: Aug. 8, 2018
PAPER SUBMISSION A submission is limited to 8 pages for a main conference paper, 6 pages for a workshop or special session paper, 4 pages for a Work-in-Progress paper, and 2 pages for a poster or demo paper in the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Format (https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.htm... https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html) with Portable Document Format (.pdf). A submission can have at most 2 additional pages with the pages overlength charge if accepted. Please submit at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smartworld2018 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smartworld2018.
IMPORTANT TIP For regular paper submission that falls in any of those various topics and beyond, please choose one appropriate track among the following three tracks when submitting your paper in the EasyChair system:
Track 1. Smart World Theories and Models Track 2. Smart World Technologies Track 3. Smart World Systems
PAPER PUBLICATION Accepted conference papers will be published by IEEE CPS (IEEE-DL and EI indexed). At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present their work at the conference; otherwise the paper will not be included in the proceedings. Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers. Selected papers will be recommended to special issues. More details can be found via http://www.smart-world.org/2018/ http://www.smart-world.org/2018/.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GENERAL CHAIRS Guojun Wang, Guangzhou Univ., China Yew Soon Ong, Nanyang Tech. Univ., Singapore
PROGRAM CHAIRS Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham Univ., USA Frode Eika Sandnes, HiOA, Norway Ruixuan Li, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. and Tech., China
WORKSHOP CHAIRS Manuel Roveri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Seiichi Ozawa, Kobe University, Japan Qin Liu, Hunan University, China
TUTORIAL CHAIR Haibo He, University of Rhode Island, USA
SUMMIT CHAIR Zhong Chen, Peking University, China
COMPETITION CHAIR Jerry Gao, San Jose State University, USA
LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR Jianer Chen, Guangzhou University, China
HONORARY CHAIRS Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State Univ., USA Xin Yao, Southern Univ. of Sci. and Tech., China Cesare Alippi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
ADVISORY CHAIRS Vincenzo Piuri, Univ. of Milan, Italy Hussein Abbass, Univ. of New South Wales, Australia Hong Mei, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
STEERING CHAIRS Jianhua Ma, Hosei Univ., Japan Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada
POSTER AND DEMO CHAIRS Constantinos Kolias, George Mason University, USA Tao Peng, Guangzhou University, China Darpan Triboan, De Montfort University, UK
EXHIBITION CHAIR Dongqing Xie, Guangzhou University, China
INDUSTRY SESSION CHAIRS Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Zengguang Hou, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE CHAIRS Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Sancheng Peng, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China Georgios Kambourakis, University of the Aegean, Greece Aniello Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy
PUBLICITY CHAIRS Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Anna Kobusinska, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Chunsheng Zhu, University of British Columbia, Canada Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Xiaokang Wang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
COORDINATION CHAIRS Liming Chen, De Montfort University, UK Kevin I-Kai Wang, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
REGISTRATION CHAIRS Xiaofei Xing, Guangzhou University, China Pin Liu, Central South University, China
WEB CHAIR Dacheng Meng, Central South University, China
Contact
Please email inquiries concerning IEEE Smart World Congress 2018 to Conference Organizers: SmartWorld2018Guangzhou@googlegroups.com mailto:SmartWorld2018Guangzhou@googlegroups.com.
Prof. Guojun Wang, General Chair of IEEE Smart World Congress 2018 -- ******************************************************************* Dr. Guojun Wang, Pearl River Scholarship Distinguished Professor Director of Institute of Computer Networks, Vice Dean of School of Computer Science and Educational Software, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, P. R. China, 510006 Tel/Fax: +86-20-39366920 tel:+86%2020%203936%206920, Mobile: +86-13360581866 tel:+86%20133%206058%201866 Email: csgjwang@gzhu.edu.cn mailto:csgjwang@gzhu.edu.cn; csgjwang@gmail.com mailto:csgjwang@gmail.com http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/publications.html http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/%7Ecsgjwang/publications.html *******************************************************************