Internet of Things (IoT) is used to collect and exchange massive data. This technology promises an immense potential for improving the quality of life, healthcare, manufacturing, transportation, etc. The use of the IoT in smart buildings has a great importance and promising outcomes with a direct impact on our society. Researchers and industrial partners have achieved several applications where they have leveraged various enabling technologies for service enhancement. Many sectors in a smart city can benefit from an enhanced data collection and effective data analysis process done on the data gathered from these smart building devices that mainly consist of HVAC systems. However, the incremental number of connected IoT devices requests a scalable and robust network. Consequently, it raises the attack surfaces of devices as well as their connections, which make them more exposed to internal and external attacks. In this context, the challenging issue is how to construct a secure IoT network and preserving its resiliency.

SSCC2021 invites submissions discussing the employment of smart solutions and approaches in smart cities. Topics of either theoretical, empirical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:

Safety, Security, and Resilience
• Smart networks for smart cities
• Security management in smart cities
• Security in distributed systems
• Modeling, analysis and detection of IoT attacks
• Data mining for cybersecurity in smart cities
• Decentralized architecture for smart cities
• Consensus protocols and applications

IoT & AI
• IoT Indoor deployment
• IoT communication protocols in smart cities
• Digital twin and BIM in smart buildings
• Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Physical Energy Systems
• Optimization for IoT and smart cities
• Dynamic scheduling for IoT deployment
• Autonomous and Smart decisions

Edge and Cloud
• Cloud-Edge for IoT and smart cities
• Fog and Edge computing for smart cities
• Applications/services for Edge AI
• Software Platforms for Edge

Social aspects and applications
• Behavioral and Energy Consumption Analytics
• Indoor comfort
• Human factors and organizational resilience for distributed systems