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Special Session on Internet of Things in Smart Cities Global Wireless Summit (GWS’13) Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA June 24 – 27, 2013   Recent studies have predicted that by 2050 seventy percent of the world population will live in urban areas, while more than a half of the world’s population already lives in cities. Different urban-environment stakeholders (technicians, city planners, politicians, researchers, etc.) are urged take measures aimed at guaranteeing the fulfilment of some key quality criteria related to the sustainability and efficiency in the city domain. From a pure engineering approach the city represents a unique ecosystem for testing and assessing new services and technologies, Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) in particular. The fact that cities represent a strategic meeting point between the citizens (urban society) and the technology provides us with an additional dimension that can be exploited for continuous crowd-sourced creativity scenarios. From the technology standpoint, fuelled by the recent emerging of a variety of enabling device technologies on the market, such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Near Field Communication (NFC) and embedded sensor and actuator nodes, the Internet of Things (IoT) has stepped out of its infancy and is at the verge of becoming the next major extension to the current fixed and mobile networking infrastructures and an integral part of the Smart City scenario. If such a scenario unfolds, it is not hard to conclude that the design of the IoT and its architecture will be strongly influenced by the requirements of the Future…

Call for Papers - 5th International Conference on Mobile Networks And Management MONAMI 2013 23-25 September 2013 Clarion Hotel Cork Cork, Ireland www.mon-ami.org   HIGHLIGHTS - The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organisation devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT - All accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world's largest scientific libraries - Proceedings will be submitted for indexing by Google Scholar, ISI, EI Compendex, Scopus and many more AIM AND SCOPE MONAMI 2013 aims at bringing together top researchers, academics and practitioners specializing in the area of Mobile Network Management, Service Management, Virtualization and Object Management. Multiaccess and resource management, mobility management, and network management have emerged as core topics in the design, deployment and operation of current and future networks. Yet, they are treated as separate, isolated domains with very little interaction between the experts in these fields and lack cross-pollination. Recently, new avant-garde techniques and solutions have emerged; besides, other novel techniques, such as virtualization and the cloud paradigm, have taken roots. All in all, these bring about new requirements and scientific challenges. MONAMI 2013 offers the opportunity to leading researchers, industry professionals and academics around the world to meet and discuss the latest advances in these areas and present results related to technologies for true plug-and-play networking, efficient use of all infrastructure investments, and access competition. The aim of the forum is to disseminate…

8th Summer School on Applications of IoT and Wireless Sensor Networks senZations'13 ==============================­­­============================­=­=­============= September 2 - September 6, 2013, Palic lake, Serbia http://www.senzations.net   Design and deploy your own IoT solutions in the beautiful environment of Palic Lake, run experiments on the SmartSantander framework and learn how to use WSN in environments like Donana natural reserve! Learn about the latest achievements in the field of IoT from the experts coming from the EU FP7 projects SmartSantander, Planet, IoT6 and SocIoTal! Join us, have fun, meet peers and experienced researchers, expand your network of contacts.   The senZations summer school has become an annual event on the agenda of young researchers in Europe. Covering a range of novel topics from wireless sensor networks to M2M to Internet of Things and their applications with support of excellent lecturers and senior researchers from academy and industry, the senZations have attracted more than 350 students during the past seven events. The aim of the summer school is to: * Provide access to the latest results, trends, activities and applications in the IoT domain * Run experiments on the SmartSantander facility or build your own live testbed deployment at Palic * Identify novel research opportunities, important challenges and research directions * Demonstrate existing prototypes and demos - and implement new ones! * Interact with experienced researchers and establish new contacts * Have fun and enjoy the beauty of the Serbian mountains while acquiring new skills and expertise   PROGRAM The summer school will last for…

URBAN COMPUTING & MODERN CITIES (UCMC 2013) Int. Workshop at the 4th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA 2013 - http://iisa2013.unipi.gr/) 10-12 July 2013, Piraeus, Greece http://collectivecitymemory.net/ucmc2013 http://iisa2013.unipi.gr/tci/256 Poster - http://collectivecitymemory.net/ucmc2013/files/2013/02/CFPPosterUCMC2013.pdf ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission due: Sunday, 24 March 2013 Author notification: Tuesday, 30 April 2013 Camera-ready due: Wednesday, 15 May 2013 Conference Dates: 10-12 July 2013 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AIM & SCOPE The diffusion of ubiquitous computing into modern cities and the massive use of mobile devices have shifted researchers vision to explore new ideas about the modern cities. Many paradigms are presented applying ubiquitous and pervasive computing to urban spaces focusing on developing city network infrastructures, optimising traffic and transportation flows, lowering energy consumption, etc. Numerous new services are provided to citizens enhancing their daily routine. However, a city is not just infrastructure and services; a city is the people, the place and their interactions. Urban computing lies on the intersection of architecture, social interaction and design of computer systems for use in urban areas. The focus of this workshop is on the future of modern cities exploiting urban computing. This workshop seeks to bring together researchers, practitioners and cities’ stakeholders to discuss and share their ideas and contributions in diffusing urban computing into modern cities and to present their visions and set future directions for transforming modern cities into smart cities. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following aspects: -Middleware for urban computing -Context-aware systems for urban space…

1st CFP - Sociable Smart City Int. Workshop @ IE'13 CALL FOR PAPERS ----------------------------------- SOCIABLE SMART CITY Int. Workshop at the Symposium on Smart Cities during the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments IE'13 (http://www.intenv.org/), July 16-19, 2013, Athens, Greece http://collectivecitymemory.net/sociable2013 Poster - http://collectivecitymemory.net/sociable2013/files/2013/02/CFPSociable2013.pdf ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission due: Sunday, 24 April 2013 Author notification: Tuesday, 15 May 2013 Camera-ready due: Wednesday, 30 May 2013 Conference Dates: 16-17 July 2013 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AIM & SCOPE The diffusion of ubiquitous computing into modern cities and the massive use of mobile devices have shifted researchers vision to explore ideas about the cities of tomorrow; terms as “smarter cities”, “iphone city”, “sentient city”, “digital cities” have emerged. There is a wealth of paradigms applying ubiquitous and pervasive computing to urban spaces focusing on developing city network infrastructures, optimising traffic and transportation flows, lowering energy consumption, etc. These works emphasise on providing new services to citizens and enhancing their daily routine. However, a city is not just infrastructure and services; all modern cities share the same infrastructure and offer similar facilities, still, each and every one has evolved a unique character, depicted in every neighborhood’s architecture and monuments. Cities are the people that inhabit them, their memories, stories, concerns and the culture that develops through their social interaction. As urban computing lies on the intersection of architecture, social interaction and design of computer systems for use in urban areas, it does not plan the city of the future but it allows people to interact…

GWS 2013 Call for Papers -- Special Session on Internet of Things in Smart Cities Special Session on Internet of Things in Smart Cities Global Wireless Summit (GWS’13) Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA June 24 – 27, 2013 Recent studies have predicted that by 2050 seventy percent of the world population will live in urban areas, while more than a half of the world’s population already lives in cities. Different urban-environment stakeholders (technicians, city planners, politicians, researchers, etc.) are urged take measures aimed at guaranteeing the fulfillment of some key quality criteria related to the sustainability and efficiency in the city domain. From a pure engineering approach the city represents a unique ecosystem for testing and assessing new services and technologies, Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) in particular. The fact that cities represent a strategic meeting point between the citizens (urban society) and the technology provides us with an additional dimension that can be exploited for continuous crowd-sourced creativity scenarios. From the technology standpoint, fuelled by the recent emerging of a variety of enabling device technologies on the market, such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Near Field Communication (NFC) and embedded sensor and actuator nodes, the Internet of Things (IoT) has stepped out of its infancy and is at the verge of becoming the next major extension to the current fixed and mobile networking infrastructures and an integral part of the Smart City scenario. If such a scenario unfolds, it is not hard to conclude that the design of the…

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eChallenges e-2013 - Call for Papers Deadline We would like to invite you to submit extended abstracts for eChallenges e2013 by 08 March 2012. Supported by the European Commission, the 23rd annual eChallenges e-2013 Conference & Exhibition takes place in Malahide, Dublin, Ireland from 09 - 11 October. Focused on Applied ICT addressing major Societal Challenges, and showcasing strategic keynote presentations, technical and policy papers, case studies and workshops, eChallenges brings together senior representatives from leading commercial, government and research organisations around the world to share knowledge and experience, lessons learnt, good practice and innovation. Please publish this Call for Papers on relevant sites and circulate it to relevant colleagues in research, government or business. Please also publish a link to www.eChallenges.org/2013 Please follow eChallenges e2013 on www.twitter.com/eChallenges and retweet the Call for Papers.   Core Thematic Priorities for eChallenges e-2013   Applied ICT addressing Societal Challenges - eHealth and mHealth - eGovernment, eParticipation & eDemocracy - eInclusion - Digital Libraries and Cultural Heritage - Technology Enhanced Learning and ICT Skills - Intelligent Content and Semantics - Sustainable Environment   Emerging Technologies & Infrastructures - Future Internet & Smart Cities - eInfrastructures & Smart Grid - Living Labs - Cloud Computing - Mobile Applications - RFID & Networked Enterprise - Security and Identity Management   More information is available at http://www.echallenges.org/e2013/default.asp?page=themes   We are now inviting extended abstracts (1,200 - 1,500 words) for technical papers, visionary papers, business and government case studies. Proposals to arrange 90 minute thematically focused workshop…

CityScripts: a social tool for SmartSantander experimenters The CityScripts prototype is aimed at experimenting with sensors and actuators in the city of Santander composing mash-ups integrating sensor data with social networks and other online data sources. An important aspect of this project is the provision of a personal workspace in which each user can compose public data from city sensors with personal data from his/her own personal devices and services including social profiles bringing a social dimension in the IoT paradigm. Let us to make a brief overview of the Cityscripts workspace and describe the steps to create a simple example using the data delivered by the real sensors placed in the Santander city. The CityScripts Workspace Main workspace sections are: 1 - Friends: a list of friends (at the moment limited to our twitter followings). Selecting a friend, it is possible to discover his/her shared things/services. 2- Sensors/Actuators palette: it shows the available Sensors/Actuators (things and services) that can be registered in the user workspace. In particular, two sensor categories have been realized ad-hoc for SmartSantander: Geographic Selection: enables the creation of a collection of sensors in a given region Abstract Region: enables the selection of sensors in a region and computes a single value for the whole region (i.e. the average temperature in a city). 3 - Added/Bookmarked Sensors: a list of added (using the palette) or bookmarked (from a friend profile page) Sensors in the workspace. They represent ready-to-use things. Each Sensor can be then connected to…

Global Wireless Summit 2013 (GWS-2013) makes history by bringing together three global and prominent conferences – Wireless VITAE, WPMC and WWSMC to address the latest developments in wireless. GWS-2013 takes place in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA and the theme is “Green and Secure Information Communication Technology”. The conference brings together academia, industry and standardization bodies working on green and secure communication. The conferences will explore activities, trends and future challenges towards ICT globalization including energy and security issues in existing and future wireless technologies such as cellular, short-range, sensors, radio access, vehicular communication and embedded ones. The conferences also focus on issues in cognitive and self-organizing networks, Internet of Things, nano sensors, positioning and localization, networks without borders, recent advances in information theory and its application, multimedia applications and services. GWS-2013-Call for Papers