Introduction

Smart Cities are the result of the increasingly urgent need to orient our lives towards sustainability. Therefore, these cities use infrastructure, innovation and technology to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions, in order to improve the quality of life of their citizens.

Being a strategic issue that brings new challenges, the organizers request participation in the I Ibero-American Congress of Smart Cities (ICSC-CITIES 2018), which will be a discussion forum that will create synergies among different research groups to favor the development of Smart Cities, and contribute to their knowledge and integration in different scenarios, their possible development and the strategies to address them.

ICSC-CITIES 2018 will take place on September 26-27, 2018 in the Auditorium of Duques de Soria University Campus (Soria, Spain), with the sponsorship of the Ibero-American Program of Science and Technology for Development (CYTED).

Articles written in English submitted to the conference will be considered for publication in the conference proceedings at Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). In addition, authors of selected articles will be invited to expand their contribution for publication in a Special Issue of the Journal of the University of Antioquia (indexed in Scopus Q3 and Web of Science ESCI), to be published with IEEE ColCom.

Subject areas of papers

The organizers invite all the companies, administrations, academics and professionals in the sector to submit their paper proposals to the I Ibero-American Conference on Smart Cities before the 1st of July 2018. The proposals for the conference should be based on the subject areas that have been defined by the Conference’s Committee of Experts:

• Energetic Efficiency and Sustainability
• Infrastructures, Energy and the Environment
• Mobility and IoT
• Governance and Citizenship

Financing Sponsors

The I Ibero-American Conference on Smart Cities is organized by the CITIES network, financed as part of the Ibero-American Program for Science and Technology Development.

Technical Sponsors