CALL FOR WORKSHOPS

General Information: IEEE SmartCity-2021 invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The aim is to provide researchers in focused areas the opportunity to present and discuss their work, as well as to offer a forum for interaction among a broader community of researchers related to the main topics of SmartCity-2021. The papers will be required to meet the same standards as the main conference papers and will be published in the conference proceedings, available on IEEE Xplore. The organizers of the workshop are encouraged to make a plan for post conference special issues in some high-quality international journals.

Proposal submission: Please send the workshop proposals (in PDF format) to Dr. Xiaokang Zhou (Email: zhou@biwako.shiga-u.ac.jp ) by 1 August 2021 with the following information:

1. Title and acronym of the workshop
2. General description of the workshop
3. Objectives, scope, and topics of the workshop
4. Names, contacts, and short profiles of the organizers
5. (optional) Plan for post conference special issue (Journal name, Contact of the guest editors, etc.)

General rules for the organizers: The organizers will be responsible for the advertisement and promotion of the workshop and the conference. The organizers and chairs of the workshop shall have full control on the call for papers, forming of program committees, review and selection of papers as well as planning the workshop program. Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI). At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register the paper at the conference. One complimentary registration will be given to the leading chair of each workshop with more than 15 registered papers.

Important Dates:

Main Contact:
Please contact Dr. Xiaokang Zhou at zhou@biwako.shiga-u.ac.jp for more details.