Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to contribute a chapter (CCA 5000 to 7000 words) for a Springer book, titled ‘Digital Twin Technologies and Smart Cities’. We welcome manuscripts focused (though not exclusively) on the following themes.

Themes:
1. Digital Twins in IoT and Industry 4.0 applications
2. Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart cities
3. IoT and Advances in Communications Technologies
4. Socio-Technical Paradigms for Smart cities
5. Digital Twins, FutureTransport, and Green Mobility for smart cities
6. Smart Cities: The Role of the Digital Twins in the Circular Economy
7. Asset management for Digital Manufacturing and Supply chain
8. Smart grid and Distributed Energy in smart cities
9. Ambient intelligent environment
10. Predictive Modelling, Optimisation and Data Visualisation
11. System of Systems and Interoperability
12. Systemic Resilience and Sustainability
13. IoT Security, Safety and Ethics

Important Dates:
150 word abstract including title, keywords and author(s) details Sunday 22nd July 2018
Abstract Decision and Notification Sunday 5th August 2018
Submission of Full Chapter Monday 3rd September 2018
Full Chapter Decision and Notification Monday 1st October 2018
Final Chapter Due Friday 26th October 2018
Publication Early 2019 - Exact Date TBC

All submissions will be blind reviewed by 2 reviewers or more. All chapter submissions must be made via: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/DTTSC2018

Submission Guidelines:

Submissions should be in accordance with the publisher’s manuscript preparation guidelines. The Springer’s author guidelines can be found in:

http://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/book-manuscript-guidelines

Images, Vector and Bitmap resolution requirements are outlined in:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/egjt12cl2rre89c/Images%2C%20Vector%20and%20Bitmap.pdf?dl=0

If you manuscript entails any MATLAB simulations, the guidelines are:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/q7tfmpxd4womw9n/MATLAB%C2%AE%20Guidelines.pdf?dl=0

The correct Springer's edited book chapter templates are available in:

https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/manuscript-preparation/5636

The Latex template can be directly downloaded from:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/n4wyiiuee1pnr27/svmultt1.zip?dl=0

If excerpts from copyrighted works (including websites) such as illustrations, tables, animations, or text quotations are included in your manuscript, please obtain permission from the copyright holder (usually the original publisher) for both the print and online format. A copy of the form can be found in:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pkcdmlrldsmfff4/Permission%20Request%20Form.doc?dl=0

Please contact Dr Amin Hosseinian-Far on amin.hosseinian-far@northampton.ac.uk, should you have any question or require further details. Thank you.

Best wishes,
The Editors
 Dr Maryam Farsi - Through-life Engineering Services Institute, Cranfield University, UK
 Dr Alireza Daneshkhah - School of Computing, Electronics and Maths, Coventry University, UK
 Professor Hamid Jahankhani – Department of Computing and Information Sciences, Northumbria University, London Campus, UK
 Dr Amin Hosseinian-Far – Department of Business Systems & Operations, The University of Northampton, UK