8th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2022): First Call for Papers

Call for Papers

IEEE ISC2 is the flagship conference sponsored by the IEEE Smart Cities Technical Community, a coalition of six IEEE technical societies and organizations. Besides contributions addressing the conference theme, authors are welcome to submit their original research results in traditional topics across broad application and functional domains, within the context of smart urban infrastructure systems.

The theme of the conference this year is “Community Smartification and towards ZERO emission Smart Cities for a Green New Era.”

The technical areas include, but are not limited to:

 • Smart city theory, modeling and simulation

• Intelligent infrastructure
• Sensors and actuators
• Open data and big data analytics
• AI powered smart cities services
• Safety and security systems
• Smart healthcare
• Smart emergency management
• IoT and Smart X services

• Data security and privacy
• Connected Vehicle (CV) technologies
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
• Smart mobility and transportation
• Smart energy systems
• Smart buildings and Smart grid
• Digital city and smart growth
• Smart traffic system operations
• Environmental monitoring technologies

Paper Submission Guidelines

Prospective authors are invited to submit high quality original Full or Short papers via the Easy Chair submission site (link), by choosing the appropriate track. Full papers should describe novel research contributions with evaluation results and are limited to 7 pages. Short papers, limited in length to four (4) pages, should be more visionary in nature and are meant to discuss new challenges and visions, highlight early research results, and explore novel research directions.

All submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication, should be written in English and formatted according to IEEE Template. Each submitted paper will pass through the standard IEEE peer-review process and, if accepted and presented at the Conference, will appear in the conference proceedings and will be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore digital library. Paper contests will include a Conference Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award.

The conference organizers are currently negotiating a number of special issues with high-quality journals. More information will be available on the conference website.

Please note that one AUTHOR Conference Registration covers up to TWO accepted papers.

Should you need further clarifications or have any inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us at: isc22022@easychair.org.

The IEEE International Smart Cities Conference 2022 program will be split into the following tracks:

Track 1: Smart Mobility

Track 2: Smart Health and Wellbeing

Track 3: Smart Infrastructure and Integrated Energy Systems

Track 4: Smart Services and IoT

Track 5: Smart Data and AI

Track 6 : Smart Security and Privacy

Track 7: Empowering Citizens for Smart Communities and Cities

Track 8: ICT and Digitalization

Track 9: Digital Twins for Smarter Buildings

Track 10: Observability in smart cities

Track 11: General Track

Important Dates

Conference Paper Submission Deadline – May 15, 2022
Conference Acceptance Notification – July 15, 2022
Conference Camera-ready Deadline – July 31, 2022
Conference Dates – September 26-29, 2022