CALL FOR PAPERS

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The 4th IEEE Smart World Congress (SmartWorld 2018) October 8-12, 2018 Guangzhou, China http://www.smart-world.org/2018/

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IMPORTANT DATES Workshop Proposal Due: Feb. 8, 2018 Paper Submission Deadline: Apr. 8, 2018 Author Notification Date: June 25, 2018 Camera-ready Deadline: Aug. 8, 2018

Accepted conference papers will be published by IEEE (IEEE-DL and EI indexed) in Conference Proceedings. Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers. Selected papers will be recommended to prestige journal special issues.

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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

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

EXHIBITION CHAIR Dongqing Xie, Guangzhou University, China

INDUSTRY SESSION CHAIR Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE CHAIR Sancheng Peng, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China

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