6th Special Session on Innovative Business Models and Applications for Smart Cities

This special session calls professionals, academics and researchers to send their work in the field of innovative business models, marketing strategies and IT applications for development of smart cities. Due to urban population growth and rapid urbanization all over the world, it is essentially important to build harmony among the spatial, social, economic and environmental aspects of a city and their citizens. This synergy can be established with development of smart cities with the following aims: making life easier for the citizens by developing smart environments (smart buildings, smart classrooms, smart offices, smart shopping malls, smart manufacture, etc.); making savings in energy consumption using smart grids; reducing environmental pollution (reduction in fuel consumption and emission of harmful gases, smart recycling of waste, reduction of noise pollution); providing more efficient transportation systems; increasing GDP and per capita income; optimizing investments in the smart infrastructure; providing real time services and quick access to government and its policies; enabling healthier, enabling citizen participation, improve democracy and access to culture, and better quality of life in general. Smartness of a smart city is usually based on its six components: smart environment, smart quality of life, smart economy, smart mobility, smart utility services and smart e-government. The main aim of this work session is development of innovative business models for each of these components of the smart city with focus on using:

1. technologies (Internet of Things, mobile technologies, web technologies, cloud computing and big data, blockchain technologies, artificial intelligence, machine learning, virtual reality, augmented reality) for the development of services and applications for the smart cities, and
2. marketing strategies for the raising awareness and promoting new services and applications in the smart city.