For the conference, we are inviting proposals, technical and professional papers as well as posters and demos that discuss or depict applications in fields as following (but not limited to):

HEALTH

Medical, Biomedical and Health Informatics

• Electronic medical records (EMR) and electronic prescription

• Data preprocessing, cleansing, management and mining

• Data quality assessment and improvement

• Medical imaging

• Computer-aided detection, hypothesis generation and diagnosis

• Evidence-based medicine

• Evolutionary and longitudinal patient and disease models

• Clinical workflow

• Medication adherence and health monitoring

• Smart health and big data

Devices

• High-confidence medical devices

• Integration of medical devices with e-Health

• Medical device interoperability

• Wearable devices

• In/on/around-body sensors and actuators

• Biosensors at the micro/nano-scale

• Smart garments/textiles

• Wireless energy transfer

• Energy harvesting

Communications and Networking

• Communication/network infrastructures, architectures and protocols for e-Health

• Antennas and propagation

• Proximity-based communication, group communication and social networks

• Power-efficient communication

• Ultra wideband communication

• Delay-tolerant, fault-tolerant and reliable communication

• Cognitive communication for medical bands

• In-hospital networking, body area networking and cloud-integrated networking

• Software-defined networks and network management

• Nanoscale/molecular communications

• Network coding and error detection/correction

Signal/Data Processing and Systems

• Context awareness and situation awareness

• Image/video processing and computer/robot vision

• Internet of things, Ambient intelligence and pervasive computing

• Augmented reality and human-computer interaction

• Motion detection and activity recognition

• User modeling and personalization

• Robotics for e-Health

• Computing/storage infrastructures for e-Health such as clouds and virtualization

• Software, systems and performance engineering for e-Health

Services and Applications

• e-Health services/applications for physical and mental health; for example, in acute care, chronic care, mental health care, biomedical engineering, rehabilitation, prosthetics, elderly/nursing care, smart homes and hospitals, and rural/wilderness practice

• e-Health services/applications for sports and exercise; for example, in training prescription and feedback, concussion detection/monitoring, life-logging and fitness monitoring

• e-Health services/applications for public health; for example, disease prevention, pandemic preparedness, epidemiological interventions and smart cities

• e-Health services/applications for extreme environments; for example, in fire fighting, disaster response, evacuation assistance, medical triage, space travel/exploration, deep diving and deep sea exploration

• Quality of experience (QoE) with e-Health services/applications

• Security, privacy and trust for e-Health services/applications

• Emerging cloud-based services/applications including health clouds/grids

SMART ENVIRONMENT/CITIES

Theories and Models

• Artificial and Computational Intelligence

• Citizen engagement and smart governance

• Digital city and smart growth

• Environmental capital reduction

• Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction

• Reliability, Privacy and Trust

• Internet of Things, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing

• Virtual, Mixed and Augmented Reality

• Intelligent infrastructure

• Pedestrian and bicyclist safety; mobility systems

• Smart city theory, modeling and simulation

Technology, Methodologies and Tools

• Agent Technologies

• Connected Vehicle (CV) technologies

• Development Processes and Tools

• Internet of Things (IoT) and smart cities

• Networking and Communication

• Open data and big data analytics

• Sensors and Actuators

Applications

• Ambient Assisted Living

• Mobility Support

• Robotic Companions

• Energy Effiency

• Intelligent vehicle-to-infrastructure integration

• Support for Productive Collaborations

• Technology Supported Education

• Smart city for Special Needs

• Smart economy development

• Smart environment and policy development

• Smart Farming

• Smart health and emergency management

• Smart home and smart buildings

• Smart manufacturing and logistics

• Smart mobility and transportation

Systems and Infrastructures

• Architecture and Design

• Environmental monitoring technologies

• Intelligent and Smart Spaces

• Safety and security systems

• Smart integrated grids

• Smart traffic system operations

• System Architecture and Middleware for Intelligent Environments

Evaluation and Corpora

• Evaluation Paradigms and Campaigns

• Data Acquisition, Labelling and Data Sets

• User Studies and Trials

• Smart city Implementation

Internet of Things

• Applications for the Internet of Things

• Novel quality requirements and their enforcement mechanisms

• Cloud back-ends and resource management for IoT applications

• Reliability, security, timeliness, and robustness considerations in IoT systems

• IoT-motivated cyber-physical, Industrial Internet, and/or embedded system challenges

• Social computing and human-in-the-loop issues

• Sensing, control, and actuation in IoT architectures

• Novel protocols and network abstractions

• Data streaming architectures

• Analytic foundations and theory of the Internet of Things

• Privacy challenges

• Industrial deployment experiences, case studies, and lessons learned

• Evaluation and testbeds

Internet technologies and applications

• Ad-hoc networks

• Big data/Big connectivity

• Data-mining

• Distributed systems/High Performance Computing (HPC)

• e-Business/e-Commerce, e-Learning/e-Society

• Grid Computing

• Internet applications and Services

• Internet hardware and software with algorithms and optimization

• Internet technologies

• Music and audio

• Protocols and standards

• Robotics

• Simulation and Modelling

• Systems failure

• Traffic/Traffic policies/Traffic shaping

• Visualisation

• Wireless networks

ENERGY

Energy Efficiency and Assessment in Buildings/cities with Aplications

• Integration of renewable energy in buildings and cities

• Building retrofit and refurbishment

• Business development and energy services for sustainable buildings and cities

• Low energy architectures

• Energy efficient buildings

• Highly-efficient insulation

• HVAC systems in the building applications

• Novel sustainable building materials and techniques

• Passive heating and cooling

• Sustainable energy management in buildings

• Zero CO2 and energy plus buildings

• Heating and ventilating control systems for reduced energy use

• Building management systems

• Low energy building technology

• Low energy lighting systems

• High-output light LED lighting systems

• Passive solar heating systems.

• Life cycle analysis methodologies

• Tools and life cycle analysis

• Triple-bottom-line analysis

• Energy efficient lighting systems and regulation

• Environmental management systems

• Environmental impact assessment systems

• Environmental Sustainability and Development

Power engineering, materials and high efficiency power storage systems

• Battery systems

• Hybrid energy systems

• Advanced energy systems

• Advance electric regulation in energy systems

• Software systems for energy applications

• Case studies in energy engineering

• Energy efficient IT equipment and appliances

• Reversible fuel cells

• Flywheel systems

• Super-capacitors

• Thermo electricity

• Bio fuel

• Grätzel cells

• Fuel cell technology

• Bio-mass generation schemes

• Stirling cycle engines

• Bio-fuelled diesel generators

• Nanomaterials in energy applications

• Biomaterials in energy applications

• Electronic and magnetic materials

Renewable/clean energy sources and technologies with control and optimisation

• Photovoltaics

• Solar thermal

• Biomass

• Geothermal systems

• Micro-wind turbines

• Horizontal and vertical axis aero-generators

• On-site, off-grid, grid-supplemented generation systems

• Combined heat and power (CHP) and micro-CHP systems

• Sensors and instrumentation technology

• Virtual sensors

• Smart monitoring and control using intelligent systems

• High-efficiency switching systems

• Highly-efficient voltage conversion systems

• Novel high efficiency distribution systems and low voltage busses

Sustainable Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

• Green Information Technology (IT) performance

• Environmentally sustainable computing

• Energy-efficient systems

• Sustainable behaviour and ICT in homes and premises

• Sustainable practices in intelligent buildings

• Intelligent systems for sustainability

• Smart, sustainable, and Economy systems

• Processes and cloud computing

Policy perspective and governance on sustainability in energy and buildings

• Environmental policy

• Air pollution policy

• Water pollution policy

• Land management

• Waste management

• Biomass management

• Social aspects

• Green Manufacturing

• Governance of sustainability in energy and buildings

• Green economy and governance

• Green energy and environment

• Regional development

• Financial and regulatory mechanisms models and tools