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The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.


Global City Teams Challenge Updates

January 9th, 2018 / in Announcements, research horizons, Research News / by Helen Wright

Global City Teams Challenge logo

The 2018 kickoff conference for the GCTC – Smart and Secure Cities and Communities Challenge (SC3) is February 6-7, 2018 in Washington, DC. You can see preliminary agenda and speakers list here.

The goal of kickoff conference is to encourage smart community/city and Internet of Things (IoT) stakeholders to build teams to address shared issues in various sectors such as transportation, public safety, utility, wireless, city data, agriculture & rural, and data governance/exchange. 2018 round will encourage participating teams to have an additional focus on security and privacy as the first order concern, as well as all existing GCTC goals such as replicability, scalability, and sustainability.

Call for Papers: Third International Workshop on Science of Smart City Operations and Platforms Engineering (SCOPE) in partnership with Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) – SCOPE-GCTC

In its third year, GCTC is happy to partner with Vanderbilt University, University of Virginia, and DHS S&T to chair SCOPE-GCTC workshop co-located with CPS Week in Porto, Portugal. They encourage GCTC-SC3 community members to submit papers.

  • Workshop date: April 10, 2018
  • Workshop location: Porto, Portugal (Co-located with CPS Week)
  • Workshop and submission here

Important Dates:

  • Submission of papers: February 4, 2018
  • Author notification: February 25, 2018
  • Camera Ready: March 11, 2018

Papers should describe original work and be maximum 6 pages in length using the IEEE paper format. Submissions can fall under one or more of the following categories: (1) initial and promising research results, (2) smart cities case studies, (3) position statements with sufficient justification and rationale for the proposed idea(s).

For more information, see the GCTC website.

Global City Teams Challenge Updates

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