Call for Papers

Coordinated Development to achieve harmony between humans and nature

• [TS1-A] Vision for Universal Village and UV Indices
  • Vision for Universal Village
  • UV Indices: Quantitative Indications of Cities’ Smartness, Efficiency, Safety, Environmental Qualities, and Inclusiveness
• [TS1-B] Development Status of Universal Village
  • Development status of current smart cities in different countries
  • Discussion of limitations and challenges

• [TS1-C] Evaluation of Smart City-Related Methods, Technologies, and Systems

  • Evaluation of current methods and technologies for smart city subsystems
    • Smart Home and Community
    • Smart Medicine and Healthcare
    • Intelligent Transportation, Urban Planning, and Crowd Management
    • Smart Energy Management
    • Smart City Infrastructure
    • Smart Response Systems for City Emergencies
    • Smart Environmental Protection
    • Smart Humanity
  • Analysis of smart cities’ impact factors and evaluation of current methods and technologies from these perspectives:
    • Information flow
    • Material cycle
    • Lifestyle: issues such as food waste
    • Community
  • Subsystem coordination and interaction analysis: Analysis of the mutual interactions among smart cities’ subsystems and evaluation of the system coordination of current methods and technologies

Seeking integrated, resilient, human-centered, sustainable and environment-friendly solutions under the concept of Universal Village

• [TS2-A] Systematic and Integrated Frameworks for UV Subsystems and Contributing Factors

• [TS2-B] Intelligent Modeling, Simulation, and System Analysis

• [TS3-A] Intelligent Transportation, Urban Planning, and Smart City Infrastructure
  • Interconnected transportation systems; intelligent road transportation management; safety enhancement based on the interaction among passengers, vehicles, event planners, and other stakeholders
  • Coordinated traffic control; smart parking; urban planning
  • Smart logistics and distribution services; last-mile delivery
  • Smart facilities; smart construction; smart lighting/heating/cooling/ventilation systems; smart sewerage and sanitation systems; smart water and waste management
  • Coordinated city infrastructure development and operational management; smart infrastructure lifecycle management; predictive analytics for identifying infrastructure vulnerability
• [TS3-B] Intelligent Vehicles, Mobility Support for Vulnerable Groups
  • Autonomous vehicles; drones; intelligent electrified vehicles; smart wheelchairs; robotic exoskeletons for vulnerable groups
  • Intelligent driving assistance systems; navigation and localization systems; vehicle hardware/software systems; vehicle on-board diagnostics; vehicular signal processing; smart cockpits
  • Human-oriented sensing and recognition for vulnerable road users and animals; intercommunication between passengers, vehicles, and traffic light
  • Connected vehicles; vehicle dynamics and control
  • Human factors; cognition and control;; driver monitoring;
  • Policies and regulations for intelligent vehicles
• [TS3-C] Crowd Management, Smart Response Systems for City Emergencies
  • System vulnerabilities identification; crisis prevention and city robustness reinforcement; crowd management
  • Emergency (natural disasters, crimes, accidents, etc.) prediction, detection and management; cyber-security; smart alerting and hierarchical information collection and distribution; active disaster response and recovery
• [TS3-D] Information Flow, Communication, Networks, and Security
  • Smart data acquisition; mobile sensing; crowdsourcing; the Internet of Things; seamless wireless networks; information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure
  • Information integration; information storage, sharing, circulation, and visualization; cloud service; blockchain; data repository
  • Solutions for security, safety, reliability and privacy issues

• [TS4-A] Renewable Energy and Smart Energy Management
  • Renewable energy capture and conversion, emerging technologies
    • Solar energy: photovoltaics, solar thermos
    • Wind energy: wind turbine materials and novel designs
    • Hydrogen energy: solar splitting water, fuel cells
    • Other energies: biomass, renewable natural gas, hydroelectric energy, blue energy
  • Energy storage devices and technologies (batteries, supercapacitors, and fuel cells)
  • Smart grids; transmission infrastructure; integrated energy management for high efficiency and zero-emission; theoretical simulations of renewable energy and its applications; smart meters; demand response management (DRM)
  • Resilient operations against disturbances, unexpected errors, accidents, physical and cyber-attacks, and natural disasters
• [TS4-B] Smart Materials and Devices
  • Smart materials for advanced electronic devices (sensors, actuators, transducers)
  • Smart materials for energy conversion (piezoelectric, magneto-elastic, thermoelectric, electrostriction)
  • Advanced intelligent devices and systems
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) for materials development

• [TS5-A] Smart Manufacturing
  • Cloud manufacturing
  • Cloud-edge collaboration in manufacturing
  • Additive manufacturing and robotics
  • Planning and scheduling of manufacturing tasks
  • Quality detection and control
  • Computer vision and other AI technologies in manufacturing
• [TS5-B] Smart Agriculture
  • Vertical farming; smart crop/soil management; climate-smart agriculture
  • Smart sensing, monitoring, IoT and decision-making in agriculture

• [TS6-A] Smart Ecological and Environmental Systems
  • Environmental protection: exhaust/wastewater/solid waste management; pollution control (air/water/soil; light/noise/radiation); effective microorganism technology; green roofs
  • Challenges and solutions for climate change; restoration and protection of ecosystems; ecological economics and strategies; ecological informatics and acoustics
• [TS6-B] Mobility Enabled Material Cycles, the Circular Economy, Trash and Scrap Collection, Processing, Reuse, and Recycling
  • Smart trash cans and their optimal placement; smart garbage trucks
  • Smart recycling; smart residential trash and industrial scrap collection and transportation; the circular economy; material reuse; second-hand markets;
  • Cultural and economic factors; development of innovative lifestyles, public awareness and community engagement
  • Crowdsourcing, data collection, and visualization for material cycles
  • Material cycles optimization: smart waste management; smart trash and scrap processing, reuse and recycling; smart platform development for coordinated information sharing among smart recycling, user feedback on products and smart manufacturing

• [TS7-A] Smart Homes and Community, Virtual Living
  • Smart appliances and devices; smart windows; intelligent deformation furniture; smart inventory management; smart home OS
  • Safety and security; self-adaptive home-emergency response systems
  • Smart life; fashion AI; home gardening and agriculture
  • Intelligent support for vulnerable groups; homeless care; domestic violence protection
  • Community support and virtual living during pandemics and other city emergencies
• [TS7-B] Mobility, Connectivity, and Innovative Lifestyles
  • Integrated and technology-driven solutions to improve the quality of life: quantified self devices and self-tracking technologies; smart textiles; VR/AR-based sports, entertainment and other activities; human-centered transportation, smart mobility and seamless transit systems; smart agents and human-computer interaction
  • New lifestyles to reduce energy consumption and emissions: shared mobility and other new lifestyles made possible by the sharing economy; virtual tours; working from home; electronic surveillance
  • Changing trends in cultures/technologies/lifestyles

• [TS8-A] Advanced Technologies for Healthcare Monitoring at Home, in Vehicles, and in Communities
  • Emerging types of wearable sensors, materials, and smart fabrics
  • Wearable device applications for medical diagnostics and screening
  • Flexible, stretchable, printed, and hybrid electronics
• [TS8-B] Smart Medicine and Smart Healthcare
  • Pervasive and non-invasive health-monitoring; telehealth; personalized healthcare and wellness management; smart diet and exercise; mental health
  • Intelligent nursery and senior care; assistive technologies for mobility-challenged residents
• [TS8-C] Public Health, Epidemic Prevention and Control
  • Alternative medicine; community/rural/urban health; epidemic control and personal hygiene; equity and ethical issues
  • Epidemic prediction and contact tracing
  • Coordinated operational management across all levels during emergencies; smart resource allocation; quarantine and isolation; smart medical waste processing
  • Crowdsourcing, data collection, and visualization

• [TS9-A] Urbanization and Smart Communities
  • Urbanization: impact and challenges; geographical, cultural, and political factors
  • Smart communities and neighborhoods; social media and support groups; community resource management; supporting infrastructure; data platforms and community clouds
• [TS9-B] Smart Government and Social Services
  • Smart government: smart administration, regulation, policy and law; participatory governance; smart resource allocation
  • Smart social services and social networks; smart education/training; civic engagement
• [TS9-C] Integrated Solutions for Smart Humanity
  • New legal, social, and ethical challenges posed by applications of AI; integrated solutions: quantified analysis for the safety and ethics of intelligent systems; the social responsibility of enterprises; establishing legal, regulatory and ethical frameworks for the development of AI
  • Integrated solutions to promote diversity, inclusiveness, fairness, and the preservation of cultural heritage
  • Ecological/environmental/humanistic/organizational psychology; persuasive technology
  • Adaptive development strategies for various geographic regions at different developmental phases and people of different ages with diverse technology and cultural backgrounds
• [TS9-D] Smart Design and Design Ethics
  • Evaluation of smart designs and their unintended consequences; emergent technologies for smart designs, simulation platform, and system optimization
  • Interaction between different smart systems; impact of smart design on lifestyles, communities, and the environment; major challenges and impact factors of smart system design
  • Coordinated design under the principles of usability, enjoyability, sustainability, inclusiveness, and cultural preservation; design ethics in the AI era
  • Intelligent electromechanical design; intelligent industrial design;  intelligent environmental design; intelligent architectural and infrastructure design; intelligent agent design; digital design; digital media art; visual media design; new media design; animation design; information and communication platform design; virtual environment design; design of logistics, crisis response, city services and applications; multidisciplinary design

• [TS10-A] Data Management and Processing
  • Data cleaning; data fusion and integration; data quality and integrity; data visualization; data mining; big data analytics
  • Human-centered/cognitive/mobile/cloud computing
  • Urban informatics; data-driven monitoring, analysis, prediction, planning and decision making; real-time big data services; smart city control centers; application benchmarking and city indices; knowledge management (KM)
• [TS10-B] Algorithm Development and Analysis
  • Signal processing and understanding (image/video/audio/speech/natural language); semantics interpretation; multimodal sensor fusion and city monitoring; diagnostic algorithms
  • AI, machine learning and interpretability; fairness, accountability, privacy, transparency, and ethics; deep-fake detection
  • Intelligent modeling, simulation, prediction, and optimization; system dynamics; system control

• [TS11-A] Future Lifestyles and Smart Communities: UV Intelligent Design for Vulnerable Groups
• [TS11-B] UV Data Science Competition: Algorithm Report Session

• [CF] UV City Forum
  • Reflections on urbanization and its unintended consequences
  • Current development status and challenges of smart cities; vision of future UV development
  • Collaboration among governments, academia, industries, and civil society
• [SF] UV Student Forum
  • UV student research, innovations, and discussions
  • UV philosophy and story sharing, technology news, social hot topics, and vision
    • Preserving cultural heritage in the process of urbanization
    • Bridging the generation gap and promoting understanding across diverse groups with the aid of UV technologies
    • Exploring future lifestyles for sustainable happiness
  • UV introduction video, talent shows and online games
  • UV entrepreneurship initiative and pitch competition
  • Future development of UV club and UV student forum
• [AF] UV Art Forum
  • Digital arts; Non-fungible tokens (NFTs); AI / VR / AR-enabled artifacts
  • Comfort art in the post-pandemic era

• [PC] UV Pitch Competition
  • Reflections on urbanization and its unintended consequences
  • Current development status and challenges of smart cities; vision of UV development
  • Collaboration among governments, academia, industries, and civil society
• [K12C] UV K-12 Challenge
  • Innovation Competition
  • Research Presentation
  • Talent Shows
  • Online Game
• [DSC] UV Data Science Competition

Solving problems in the real world and encouraging innovations from the young generation; finding a new way of life in the post-pandemic world

• • Machine Learning Challenges
  • Computer Vision Challenges

• [PE1] UV Posters
• [PE2] UV Exhibition: Art & Technologies that present the UV concept 

Organizations/Companies/Startups are welcome.

•  [WS-UV] UV Introduction

• [RMD] UV Roadmap Discussion
• [RTD] UV Round Table Discussion

We sincerely invite you to propose a discussion topic or to host a roundtable discussion!

• [PD1] Post-Pandemic Reflection
• [PD2] New Legal, Social, and Ethical Challenges Posed by Applications of AI
  • New legal, social, and ethical challenges posed by applications of AI; integrated solutions: quantified analysis for the safety and ethics of intelligent systems; the social responsibility of enterprises; establishing legal, regulatory and ethical frameworks for the development of AI
  • Lifestyle innovations enabled by emergent technologies: how to reach a balance between improving the quality of life, reducing energy consumption and emissions, and promoting harmony, inclusiveness, resilience, and sustainability

We sincerely invite you to apply to become a panelist!