The ICSCC'18 – 1st International Conference on Smart Cities and Communities aims on bringing together researchers from various disciplines in order to discuss and contribute to shape a new scientific and cultural paradigm for African cities and communities.

Major topics of the conference are :
Smart Cities and Smart Communities
IoT and sustainability
Cloud Computing and big Data for Urban informatics
Application Scenarios and Real-world Deployments for Smart Cities in Africa IoT
Applications for Smart Rural Communities

We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to ICSCC’18. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity.

The 1st International Conference on Smart City and communities 2018 (ICSCC 2018) will include a highly selective program of technical papers, accompanied by panel discussions and keynote presentations. We welcome high quality papers that describe original and unpublished research papers addressing the real issues, challenges and needs in building smart cities for now and future on the following technical areas of (but not limited to) smart cities and communities.
Smart mobility
Smart Home and Community
E-health Systems
Social Simulation and societal issues
Environment and Urban Monitoring
Green Network and Energy Efficiency
Smart Electronic Systems for Security
Civic engagement (government, health-care, sports, etc.)
Big Data for Urban Informatics
QoS and QoE of Smart City Systems, Applications and Services
Smart Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems
Entrepreneurship and new business models
Smart University and Smart Education
Application Scenarios and Real-world Deployments for Smart Cities
Smart City Governance
Energy sustainability
Internet of Things (IoT) and platforms for Smart Cities
Cloud Computing and Network Infrastructure for Smart Cities
Social Computing and Networks for Smart Cities
Embedded Computing and Networks for Smart Cities
Renewable energy sources

Prospective authors are invited to contribute high-quality original papers via the EDAS submission site. All submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. The papers should be written in English and formatted according to IEEE conference template.

To encourage authors to submit their best work to the conference and to reduce unnecessary burden on the reviewers, we limit each individual to submit as author or co-author on no more than 3 papers. Authors of co-authored submissions are jointly responsible for respecting this policy. In case of violations, only the first three submissions (in order of submission number) will be sent for review.

Conference content will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.

Paper contests will include a Conference Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award.

The following type of submissions will be considered:

Technical paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Conference themes. These papers should not exceed 10 pages.

Experience report: Experience reports that show practical implementation experience, including case studies, focused on a specific topic of the conference. These papers should not exceed 4 pages.

Posters: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion. Submissions comprise an extended abstract of not more than two pages, excluding references, but including all text, appendices, and figures and an A0 (841 mm width x 1189 mm height) size poster.

Submitted papers must be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors’ identification. Therefore, the authors’ names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publication form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system.

All papers will be subjected to a “double-blind review” by at least three members of the Program Committee.

The best poster submissions will be invited to give short presentations in a session during the main conference.