The third edition of the International Conference on Smart City Challenges & Outcomes for Urban Transformation (SCOUT-2024) provide a platform for the academicians/ researchers and policy makers to come up with alternative ways of fulfilling the specific needs & products or service in making the city life better and bringing transformation through disruptive technologies and to bring out state-of-art solutions. The conference covers the following topics, but not limited to:
- Sensing, actuation, sensor networks
- Interfaces
- Artificial intelligence
- Big data and machine learning
- Internet of things (iot)
- Embedded systems
- Radio frequency identification (rfid)
- Near field communication (nfc)
- Ubiquitous computing
- Pervasive computing
- Cyber-physical systems (cps)
- Virtual reality
- Augmented reality
- Robotics
- Context awareness
- Autonomic computing
- Decision support systems
- Knowledge creation
I. Technological infrastructure for smart cities support
II. “Smart-city” sub-systems
- Smart campus
- Smart homes
- Ambient assisted living
- Smart hospitals
- E-health
- M-health
- Telemedicine
- Smart transport
- Smart shopping
- Smart industry
- Smart farming
- Smart water management
III. Urban mobility
- Automated and connected urban systems
- Accessibility
- Interconnected public spaces
- Smart parking
- Smart mobility
- Electric vehicles
- Autonomous vehicles
- Intelligent transportation systems
- Mobile ad hoc networks (manets)
- Vehicular ad hoc networks (vanets)
- Vehicle-to-everything (v2x)
IV. Data management
- Cloud computing
- Fog/edge computing
- Analytics
- Visualization
- Gdpr
- Privacy
- Security
- Blockchain
- Participatory sensing
- Citizens as scientists
V. Responsible innovation
- Sustainability
- Accelerating decarbonisation
- Smart grid
- Energy efficiency
- Renewable energies
- Monitoring and verification of building performance
- Resilience
- Global warming governance
VI. E-government
- City logistics
- Optimization and decision-making support
- Open government
- Smart partnerships
- Smart services
- Citizen engagement and participation
- Social inclusion
- Co-production
- Citizen centricity
- Quadruple helix of innovation
- Citizen involvement and innovative governance
VII. Disaster management
- Simulation
- Detection
- Prevention
- Emergency services support
- Large crowds’ guidance and support
- Environmental modelling
VIII. Smart city application platforms
- Methodologies to tackle real problems in cities
- Bottlenecks and enablers
- Practical problems
- Pilots
- Complex systems modelling