[Ieee_vis] IEEE CG&A Special Issue on Smart City Visualisation—Call for Papers

[Laramee R.S.]

Submission Deadline: 1 January 2018
Publication date: September/October 2018

Across the globe, rapid growth and urbanization are placing increasing 
pressure on cities and governances to make the most efficient use of 
their resources. Some estimates predict that 70 percent of the world’s 
population will live in a city or suburb by 2050. One way to address 
this challenge is to integrate digital technology into a city’s 
resources, assets, and infrastructure. Community services and assets 
that could benefit from such innovation include local governance 
departments, information systems, educational institutions, libraries, 
transportation systems, hospitals, energy suppliers, water supply 
networks, waste management, and law enforcement.

A smart city attempts to use urban informatics and technology to 
improve or maximize the efficiency of its services and resources. 
Digital technology enables city officials to communicate with the 
community and monitor the city’s infrastructure to manage local 
events, oversee the city’s evolution, and hopefully enable a better 
quality of life. 

Sensors devices and monitoring systems can enable urban officials 
and management to collect, process, and analyze relevant data in 
order to tackle inefficiencies. With rapid advances in big data 
storage technologies and decreasing hardware costs, our ability 
to collect and store this data is unprecedented. Nevertheless, 
a large gap still remains between our ability to generate and 
store large collections of complex, time-dependent smart city 
data and our ability to derive useful information and knowledge 
from it.

For this special issue, we are soliciting papers that describe 
interactive visualization, visual analytics, and personal, public, 
and commercial visual computing applications that attempt to meet 
the data-centered challenges posed by smart cities. More specifically, 
we are looking for contributions on the following topics:

•	Data in digital cities
•	Sensible city networks or infrastructure
•	Case studies in smart cities
•	Indoor, urban, and rural communications
•	Smart and assisted housing
•	Pervasive urban applications
•	Crowdsourcing applications
•	Smart transport networks, or transportation
•	Citizen motion analytics or urban mobility
•	Smart energy
•	Smart health informatics
•	Smart devices
•	Smart city finance
•	Urban knowledge economy
•	Smart city emergency response
•	Smart city planning
•	Smart architecture or buildings

Guest Editors
Please direct any correspondence before submission to the guest editors:

•	Robert S. Laramee (r.s.laramee at swansea.ac.uk), Swansea University
•	Cagatay Turkay (turkay.1 at city.ac.uk), City University of London
•	Alark Joshi (apjoshi at cs.usfca.edu), University of San Francisco

See also:
https://www.computer.org/cga/2017/05/09/special-issue-on-visualization-for-smart-city-applications-call-for-papers/

Submission Guidelines
Non-department articles submitted to IEEE CG&A should not exceed 8,000 
words, including the main text, abstract, keywords, bibliography, biographies, 
and table text, where a page is approximately 800 words. Articles should 
include no more than 10 figures or images. Each 1/4 page figure, image, 
and table counts for approx. 200 words. Note that all tables, images, 
and illustrations must be appropriately scaled and legible; larger elements 
should be accounted for accordingly with respect to word count. Please 
limit the number of references to the most relevant and ensure to delineate 
your work from relevant past articles in CG&A. Furthermore, avoid an 
excessive number of references to published work that might only be 
marginally relevant. Consider instead providing such pertinent background 
material in sidebars for non-expert readers. Visit the CG&A style and 
length guidelines at www.computer.org/web/peer-review/magazines. We 
also strongly encourage you to submit multimedia (videos, podcasts, 
and so on) to enhance your article. Visit the CG&A supplemental guidelines at www.computer.org/web/peer-review/magazines.

Please submit your paper using the online manuscript submission service 
at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee. When uploading your paper, 
select the appropriate special issue title under the category “Manuscript
Type.” Also, include complete contact information for all authors. If you 
have any questions about submitting your article, contact the peer 
review coordinator at cga-ma at computer.org.



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