SCOPE
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SSCt2023 is the International Conference on Sustainable Smart Cities and Territories, an open symposium which brings together researchers and developers from academia and industry to present and discuss the latest scientific and technical advances in the fields of Smart Cities and Smart Territories. It will promote an environment for discussion on how techniques, methods, and tools help system designers to accomplish the transition from the current cities towards those we need in a changing world. Brand new ideas will be greatly appreciated as well as relevant revisions and actualizations of previously presented work, project summaries and PhD thesis. The SSCt2023 program will include keynote addresses, a main technical track, a workshop program and doctoral consortium.


TOPICS
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The topics of interest for the SSCt2023 conference include, but are not limited to,

- Smart cities and smart territories successful cases and challenges;
- Smart homes and smart buildings;
- Smart infrastructures (network, 5G, grids, lighting, water and waste);
- Smart urban mobility and intelligent transportation systems;
- Smart health and emergency management (epidemy control);
- Smart environments;
- Smart travel and smart tourism;
- Smart manufacturing and smart logistics;
- New retail and smart commerce
- Smart urban governance;
- Eco-urbanism, urban resilience and climate change mitigation and adaptation;
- Energy and climate policy;
- Intelligent traffic control;
- Crowd behaviour capturing and modelling and crowd management;
- Human–machine interactions;
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning;
- Open data and big data analytics;
- Data security and safety, blockchain;
- Sensor‐driven analytics and services;
- Context-aware systems.




SPEAKERS
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Dr. Yves Demazeau, Centre National de la RechercheScientifique (France)


Dr. Carlos Fernando da Silva Ramos, ISEP - Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (Portugal)


Dr. Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Senac Faculty of Ceará (Brazil) | Instituto de Telecomunicações (Portugal)




TUTORIALS
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Rafael Pastor Vargas, Dean of the Higher Technical School of Computer EngineeringNational University of Distance Education (Spain)




SPECIAL ISSUES
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Authors of selected papers from SSCt2023 will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to special issue in different journals.

∎ Authors of selected papers from SSCt2023 will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Issue "The Advances of Smart Services for the Creation of Adaptive Smart Areas in Sustainable Smart Cities" published in MDPI Electronics Journal (ISSN: 2079-9292, JCR (2021): 2.690 (Q3) - - Publindex: A2).

∎ Authors of selected papers from SSCt2023 will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Issue "Frontiers of Agents and Multiagent Systems" published in MDPI Sensors Journal (ISSN: 1424-8220, JCR (2021): 3.847 (Q2) - Publindex: A1).

∎ Authors of selected papers from SSCt2023 will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Issue "Edge Computing in IoT Networks Based on Artificial Intelligence" published in MDPI Sensors Journal (ISSN: 1424-8220, JCR (2021): 3.847 (Q2) - Publindex: A1).

∎ Authors of selected papers from SSCt2023 will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Issue published in ADCAIJ (ISSN: 2255-2863, JCI (2021): 0,05(Q4)).




LIST OF WORKSHOPS
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CCTE: International Workshop on Climate Change, Tourism and Education

ISAIAS: International Workshop on Intelligent Systems Applied In Adaptive Smart Areas




DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
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The SSCt2023 Doctoral Consortium (DC) will take place as part of SSCt2023 virtually. It is designed to nurture PhD candidates by providing them with opportunities to explore and obtain mutual feedback on their research, future work plans, and career objectives with senior researchers, practitioners, and peers. We invite submissions from students, as described below. Selected students will be asked to prepare and present an oral presentation at the DC. Additional social arrangements will be arranged to encourage further conversations with mentors and fellow students, in a teleconference setting.

We encourage participation from all PhD students, whether at the start or towards the end of their PhD candidacy. Participants need to clearly indicate their stage of PhD research. Those who are at the early to midpoint stage of their candidacy and who have not yet received substantial feedback from the greater research community will be paired with a mentor who will advise them on their research trajectory, writing and presentation. Those who are at a later stage in their research will have an opportunity to present their PhD work to date to a group of senior researchers for feedback and advice.

For this session, Master’s students are also invited to present ongoing or completed Master’s projects, which must be prepared with the LNNS template. If approved, they could be published in the Proceedings, in any case, they must be submitted in English and a maximum of 6 pages.




PUBLICATION
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Accepted papers will be included in SSCt2023 Proceedings. At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include it in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by LNNS Springer Verlag.


** Indexing: The books of this series are submitted to ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink **





COMMITTEE
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Local Committee


Luis Fernando Castillo Ossa (Chair), Universidad de Caldas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Manizales (Colombia)

Marcelo López Trujillo (Industrial Chair), Universidad de Caldas (Colombia)

Sandra Victoria Hurtado, Universidad de Caldas (Colombia)

Oscar Hernán Franco , Universidad de Caldas (Colombia)

Gustavo Isaza, Universidad de Caldas (Colombia)

Jeferson Arango Lopez, Universidad de Caldas (Colombia)


Partners Committee


Diego Fernando Ceballos (People Contact), Manizales (Colombia)

Jorge Alberto Jaramillo Garzon, BIOS

Juan Felipe Jaramillo, Secretaria TIC y Competitividad - Alcaldía de Manizales (Colombia)

Nicolas Llano, Representante Secretaría De Desarrollo, Empleo e innovación - Gobernación de Caldas (Colombia)

Santiago Ruiz Herrera, Decano de la Facultad de Ingeniería y Arquitectura Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Manizales (Colombia)

Omar Danilo Castrillón, Departamento Ingeniería Industrial UNAL Sede Manizales (Colombia)

Oscar Cardona, Universidad Autónoma de Manizales (Colombia)

Santiago Murillo, Universidad Autónoma de Manizales (Colombia)

Luis Carlos Correa, Universidad de Manizales (Colombia)

Johana Yepez, Secretaria TIC y Competitividad - Alcaldía de Manizales (Colombia)

Maria Idally Buitrago, Cámara y Comercio de Manizales (Colombia)


Workshop Chairs


Fernando de la Prieta, University of Salamanca (Spain)

Oscar Hernán Franco, Universidad de Caldas (Colombia)

Saber Trabelsi, Science Program, Texas A&M University (Qatar)


Doctoral Consortium Chairs


Sara Rodríguez, University of Salamanca (Spain)

Gustavo Adolfo Isaza, Universidad de Caldas (Colombia)

Omar Danilo Castrillón, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Manizales (Colombia)


Program Committee Chairs


Juan Manuel Corchado (Co-Chair), University of Salamanca (Spain)

Sigeru Omatu (Co-Chair), Hiroshima University (Japan)







FORMAT
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Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.

The maximum length of the papers is 12 pages, including figures and references.
Microsoft Word Format
Microsoft Word 2003 Format
LaTeX Format
Overleaf template



SUBMISSION
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All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the SSCt 2023 conference management system.

For a paper to appear in the proceedings, at least one of the authors must register for the conference by the camera-ready copy deadline. Papers must be presented by one of the authors at the conference live.




IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission Due: --24th February, 2023-- --3rd March, 2023-- 24th March, 2023 (hard deadline)
Workshops Deadline: --10th March, 2023-- 31st March, 2023 (hard deadline)
Doctoral and Master Consortium Deadline: --24th March, 2023-- 14th April, 2023
Notifications: --29th March, 2023-- 12th April, 2023
Notification Doctoral and Master Consortium: --12th April, 2023-- 19th April, 2023
Camera Ready: 24th April, 2023
Conference dates: 21st-23rd June, 2023




ORGANIZERS
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Universidad de Caldas (Colombia)

UCaldas Virtual (Colombia)

Universidad de Salamanca (Spain)

BISITE Reseach Group (Spain)

AIR Institute (Spain)

IoT Digital Innovation Hub (Spain)




SPONSORS
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PLATINUM

Gobierno de Caldas


GOLD

People Contact

Alcaldía de Manizales

Centro de Bioinformática y Biología Computacional de Colombia

Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Universidad Autónoma de Manizales

Universidad de Manizales

Visit Manizales

Cámara de Comercio de Manizales por Caldas