SmaCE'25: 7th IEEE International Workshop on Smart Circular Economy Lucca, Italy, June 9-11, 2025 |
| Conference website | https://sites.google.com/view/smace-2025 |
| Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smace25 |
| Submission deadline | May 7, 2025 |
7th IEEE International Workshop on
Smart Circular Economy
Tuscany (Lucca), Italy,
June 9-11, 2025
https://sites.google.com/view/smace-2025/home
To be held in conjunction with the 21th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things
IEEE DCOSS-IoT https:/www.dcoss.org/
Scope
Circular Economy is a paradigm for sustainable growth that envisions the transformation of how modern societies design, produce and consume goods and services towards a regenerative economic cycle. Future and emerging technologies, such as 5G and 6G networks, Distributed Ledger Technologies, and crowdsourcing systems, along with innovative models and paradigms, such as the Internet of Things, Industry 5.0, and community networks, will play an important role in the transition to Circular Economy. The development of relevant international standards and policy-making initiatives, such as the European Green Deal, will also facilitate the transition.
Smart Circular Economy is an international workshop focusing on the role of ICT as an enabler for Circular Economy. This workshop brings together scientists, researchers, as well as relevant stakeholders from the industry and local communities to share and exchange their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research lying in the intersection of ICT and Circular Economy.
- SmaCE'25 accepted and presented papers will appear in IEEE Xplore and all major publication indexes (DBLP, Scopus, etc.).
- DCOSS-IoT 2025 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP).
Topics
IEEE SmaCE is an inter-disciplinary event accepting papers in the disciplines of Computer Science, Economics and Business. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Architectures for collecting and curating data generated by distributed, heterogeneous smart assets.
- Technology enablers for Circular Economy - Internet of Things, 5G, Software Defined Networks, Big Data, Analytics, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and other.
- Smart Infrastructure - Smart Grid, Utility Networks (water, gas, waste, etc.), Transport Networks and other.
- Crowdsensing, Internet of Things and Participatory Sensing, Crowdsourced Systems and Architectures
- The Blockchain and other Distributed Ledger Technologies for Smart Circular Economy -asset tracking, smart contracts, micro-transactions, etc.
- In-depth case studies illustrating Circular Economy performance and efficiency in terms of people, the planet and profit.
- Sharing economy and resale markets.
- Peer-to-peer and ad-hoc markets.
- Applications of Smart Circular Economy technologies in verticals such as healthcare, transportation, energy, citizen safety, and other.
- Interdependency between Digital and Physical Networks; e.g. communication and utility networks.
- Data-driven business models, Open Innovation, Co-creation and shared value creation
- RFID, NFC and other technologies for asset management
- Low-Power Networks - LoRa, SigFox, NB-IoT, IPv6-enabled IoT, Industrial IoT
- Smart services and service provisioning
- Requirements engineering for Circular Economy
- Security, Privacy and Trust for Smart Circular Economy
Proceedings
Accepted and presented papers will be published by IEEE and will be listed by all major academic indexes.
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: April 7, 2025 AoE
Acceptance Notification: May 4, 2025 AoE
Camera Ready Deadline: May 9, 2025 AoE
Early registration deadline: TBA
Workshop Date: Exact workshop date to be confirmed.
Organizing Committee
General Chair
Marios Angelopoulos, Bournemouth University, UK
Technical Program Co-Chairs
Giorgos Demetriou, Ecole des Ponts Business School, France
Vasileios Gerogiannis, University of Thessaly, Greece
Vasilis Katos, Bournemouth University, UK
David Langley, University of Groningen & TNO, the Netherlands
Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras, Greece
Publicity Chair
Anastasia Vayona, École des Ponts Business School, France
Technical Program Committee
TBC
How to Submit
Submissions will be made using the EasyChair server at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smace25
Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality papers reporting original research or other relevant to Circular Economy activities (such as industrial use-cases) that lie within the scope of the Workshop.
All papers will be reviewed and evaluated by members of SmaCE Programme Committee and will be evaluated based on their originality, merit, and relevance to the Workshop. A small number of papers will appear by invitation. Accepted papers must be presented at the Workshop in order to be published in the SmaCE’25 proceedings, which will be published by IEEE and will be listed by all major academic indexes such as Scopus and DBLP.
Note that the Workshop follows a single-blind review policy. The names and affiliations of all the authors must be presented in the submitted manuscript.
No-show papers submitted by authors who did not present the paper in-person will not be included in the workshop proceedings. No refund of the paid fees can be claimed by the no-show authors. Presentations by proxies are not allowed, unless explicitly approved by the organisers.
The manuscripts must be prepared in English (UK or US spelling), following the IEEE two-column Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings (available here) with a maximum length of eight (8) printed pages including text, figures, and references. Authors may add at most two (2) pages, but only for an appendix, i.e. these two pages contain supplementary material only. The additional two pages will incur overlength charges at 100USD/page.