The second edition of the International Conference on Smart City Challenges & Outcomes for Urban Transformation (SCOUT-2023) 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:

Technological infrastructure for smart cities support

• 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

“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

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)

Data management

• Cloud computing
• Fog/edge computing
• Analytics
• Visualization
• Gdpr
• Privacy
• Security
• Blockchain
• Participatory sensing
• Citizens as scientists

Responsible innovation

• Sustainability
• Accelerating decarbonisation
• Smart grid
• Energy efficiency
• Renewable energies
• Monitoring and verification of building performance
• Resilience
• Global warming governance

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

Disaster management

• Simulation
• Detection
• Prevention
• Emergency services support
• Large crowds’ guidance and support
• Environmental modelling

Smart city application platforms

• Methodologies to tackle real problems in cities
• Bottlenecks and enablers
• Practical problems
• Pilots
• Complex systems modelling