Interdisciplinary thinking is a key success factor for any community. The I4CS program committee calls for contributions for the 18th Innovations Community Services dealing with theoretical, methodological, and technological aspects of the Internet Systems as well as business, governmental, and other applications. The selection of I4CS topics encompasses aspects of Internet Community Systems. The topics include, but are not limited to original work in the following areas:


Conference Topics
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Technology: Distributed Architectures and Frameworks
• Infrastructure & models for community services
• Data structures & management in community systems
• Community self-organization in ad-hoc environments
• Search, information retrieval & distributed ontologies
• Smart world models & big data analytics

Applications: Communities on the Move
• Social networks & open collaboration
• User generated content for business and social life
• Recommender solutions & context awareness
• Augmented reality & location-based gaming
• Intelligent transportation systems & services

Socialization: Ambient Work and Living
• eHealth challenges & ambient assisted living
• Intelligent transport systems & connected vehicles
• Smart energy & home control
• Internet of things & cyber physical systems
• Security, identity & privacy protection

I4CS solicits submissions of unpublished papers presenting research results, industrial experiences and applications, as well as detailed specifications of open problems.

All accepted contributions will be included in the proceedings of the I4CS 2018 in the series Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) by Springer.