There will be four main thematic tracks for submission:

• Technology and Infrastructure
• Energy and sustainability
• Governance and Digital Transformation
• Quality of life, health, education, and safety

All papers should be submitted through our online submission system www.ic2.scbamerica.com. Submission will close on March 31, 2024.

• Article registration: You must enter the title, authors, abstract and keywords.
• Submission of the full article: You must submit the article in PDF file format.

Articles submitted to IC²  are evaluated according to a double-blind review process. For this reason, when registering articles, it is necessary to submit the full article and parts of it in order to eliminate the identification of authors. 

In addition, the following rules must be followed:

• Citations to related work by the authors themselves should be written anonymously. For example, you should write “the work of Silva et al.” as opposed to “in our previous work”. Terms that could identify the authors should also be avoided, for example, “we”, “our”, “funding”, “University”, “github”, etc;
• The article submitted must not mention artifacts in repositories or websites that would allow the authors to be identified. Research artifacts must be made available anonymously. To anonymize repositories hosted on the GitHub platform, we suggest using the anonymous service (https://anonymous.4open.science/);
• If the article submitted is an evolution of a previous work, the reference to that work can be anonymized;
• Reviewers are not encouraged to search for references identifying the authors in other sources. Searches in digital libraries or existing artifacts do not invalidate the double-blind rules.

Questions about preparing articles according to the anonymization rules can be sent to the Program Committee Coordinators.

Articles that fall outside the topics of interest to the IC² Congress or that do not comply with the required formatting and anonymization rules will be disqualified and rejected without going through the review process.

If a simultaneous submission or prior publication in another forum (event or journal) of an article submitted to this Congress is identified and reported at any time, the article will be rejected.

Submitted articles will be reviewed for approval with regard to technical and methodological soundness (the extent to which the article’s contributions address its research questions, applying appropriate research methods), relevance (the extent to which the article’s contributions can impact the field of smart cities research), originality (whether the contributions are sufficiently innovative in relation to the state of the art) and presentation (quality of the article’s writing, including clear descriptions, correct use of language, absence of ambiguity, legible figures and tables and adherence to formatting instructions). In addition, reviewers will be able to comment on the transparency of the research based on the open research artifacts made available.

Articles that comply with the submission criteria will be approved or not without the opportunity to review the text. However, the reviewers will provide feedback on the evaluation so that the authors can improve their work.

Submission Deadline: March 31, 2024

Notification of Acceptance: April 20, 2024

Camera-Ready and PPT Submission: May 10, 2024

Conference Dates: May 14-15, 2024

The works will be evaluated according to their relevance, originality, technical suitability, and applicability.

The texts will also be analyzed for coherence and quality.