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Call for Papers
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The IEEE International Conference of Environmental Engineering (EE) Special
Track on Communications and Computing for Sustainable Development Goals
(ComCom4SDG), March 12-14, 2018 Milan, Italy
EE ComCom4SDG website: http://www.ieee-ccsna.org/comc
EE Conference website: http://2018.ieee-ee.org/
Extended abstracts deadline (at least 2 pages): January
15, 2018
Full paper submission deadline after the acceptance of extended abstracts (at
least 5 pages): April 15, 2018
SUBMISSION LINK: https://www.edas.info/newPaper
The IEEE International Environmental Engineering Conference is the flagship
conference of the IEEE Environmental Engineering Initiative (IEEE EEI), a
multidisciplinary joint effort across the whole IEEE directed to foster
knowledge dissemination and innovation in environmental engineering and to
promote a sustainable future for the environment.
The Communications and Computing (ComCom) technologies sectors are currently
focused on exploring different technological challenges, such as increasing the
speed, maximizing the available capacity, and in general improving the
performance of communications systems. However, little attention has been paid
so far to the role of ComCom towards sustainable development. For example, the
forthcoming 5G technology is mainly devoted to urban areas, while the
development of such technology in rural and low-income zones is not yet
considered. Additionally, more than two billions people still lack an Internet
connection, and relatively low number of initiatives are being put into place
to invert this trend.
This Special Track on Communications and Computing for Sustainable Development
Goals (ComCom4SDGs) dedicates itself to explore the role and impact of the
transformational power of ComCom for making our world more sustainable: saving
energy and material resources by creating more value from less physical input,
increasing quality of life for ever more people without Compromising future
generations ability to meet their needs. In this context, the United Nations
General Assembly have proposed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a list
of actions over the next fifteen years in areas of critical importance for the
humanity and the planet. The goal of the ComCom4SDG Special Track is to pursue
these goals in all areas from communications and computing perspectives. Papers
related to ComCom for SDGs in a broad sense such as SDGs by ComCom, SDGs in
ComCom and their overarching aspects, and especially papers developing SDGs,
are welcome.
Topics include (but are not limited to) the following goals:
- Sustainable backbone networks/cellular network or data centres
- Sustainable big data communications and networking
- New paradigms to improve the network sustainability: softwarization, Internet
of Things (IoT), device-to-device, cloud, fog and edge computing
- Networks elements and storage units powered by renewable sources
- Sustainable architectures and transmission technologies for increasing the
connectivity in rural regions
- Sustainable UAVs-services and network-services
- e-Health applications for rural zones and challenged networks
- e-Education applications for rural zones challenged networks
- Emergency services in rural zones
- Case-studies results from the application of networks and services for
improving the SDGs
- Measurement of sustainability including metrics and benchmarks in networks
and computing resources.
IMPORTANT DATES
Extended abstracts deadline (at least 2 pages): JANUARY 15, 2018
Acceptance/rejection: JANUARY 31, 2018
Registration and payment deadline: FEBRUARY 20,2018
The accepted papers will be included in the program only if at least one author
registers and pays the registration fee (IEEE member and non-member fees only
are acceptable to this purpose) - no exceptions.
Final manuscript deadline (at least 5 pages): APRIL 15, 2018
IMPORTANT NOTICE: An accepted paper will be included in the post-conference
proceedings only if it sufficiently expands the submitted extended abstract, if
at least one author registers and pays the due registration fee by the
deadline, and if one of the registered authors presents the paper in person.
Only papers included in the post-conference proceedings will be submitted for
possible inclusion in the IEEE Xplore digital library. If an author covers more
than one accepted paper with her/his registration to guarantee inclusion in the
proceedings, she/he must pay a surcharge of 50 US$ for each paper in excess of
one.
Special Track Co-Chairs:
Luca Chiaraviglio, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Filip Idzikowski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
William Liu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Steering Committee of this Special Track:
Jinsong Wu, University of Chile, Chile
Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada