Call for chapters for edited book on "Building on smart cities skills and competences"

["Panos FITSILIS" <fitsilis [ at ] uth [ dot ] gr>]

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on smart cities skills and competences" που θα εκδοθεί από την Springer
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Καθηγητής Δρ. Πάνος Φιτσιλής

Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας, Τμήμα Διοίκησης Επιχειρήσεων, Λάρισα (
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CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission Deadline: April 15, 2021


Building on smart cities skills and competences
A book edited by

Prof. Panos Fitsilis, University of Thessaly, Greece(
<mailto:fitsilis [ at ] uth [ dot ] gr> fitsilis [ at ] uth [ dot ] gr)



Introduction
This book aims to provide insights on 21st century required skills and in
workplaces such as smart cities. It is widely accepted that skills required
for students and current employees, to master the rapidly changing, digital
society are diverse and associated with deeper learning, analytic reasoning,
problem solving, and teamwork. These skills differ from traditional skills
offered today from universities or vocational training providers, that in
most cases are focusing on technical skills. So, this book will emphasize on
the balance between learning skills, technical skills and domain specific
skills.  Special emphasis is given to innovative software development models
such as agile software development and DevOps.



The objective of the book

We have selected to present the required skills and competencies of 21st
century, in the context of smart cities, since in this domain various
technologies are integrated for offering valuable to the citizens services,
it involves the management of diverse stakeholders and it covers many
different needs e.g. smart urban transport networks, smart water supply and
waste disposal facilities and more efficient ways to conserve energy.
Further, it includes skills and competencies for more interactive city
management, for increased safety and resilience and finally of meeting the
needs of citizens and businesses.

Additionally, it provides an introduction on the main skills and
competencies trends for the 21st century and the main European/international
frameworks and initiatives towards to this direction. For example, it
demonstrates how innovative software development skills such as DevOps are
related to the development of smart cities.

Currently most of the available books and journals in this area are focusing
on smart cities technological challenges leaving outside the human factor
that is always a major success or failure factor.  Market research at the
European level shows that in most cases municipality staff is not well
trained and, in many cases, not able to support modern smart ecosystems.

Building on this fact, this edited book will present different facets on how
to train or to upskill municipalities' workforce or how to educate the next
generation of public servants or staff in general and how to design an
educational/training curriculum.

Additionally, smart cities' market size is expected to grow to USD 820.7
billion by 2025. This estimation is expected to increase even further since
new needs for public safety have been introduced with the COVID-19 pandemic.




Target Audience

The target audience of this book will be composed of professionals and
researchers working in the field of smart cities. Moreover, the book will
provide insights and support executives concerned with the management of
expertise, knowledge, information, and organizational development in smart
cities work communities and environments.



Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Future trends for required competencies and skills

*	21st century skills and competencies
*	Job market insights for emerging markets
*	International and European skills initiatives
*	New professions for developing and sustaining smart environments

Deep Learning Skills

*	Critical thinking skills
*	Acquisition of entrepreneurial skills
*	Innovation and creativity methods and techniques
*	Teamworking and virtual teamworking
*	Strategic thinking in the 21st century

Innovative ways to develop software for smart cities

*	DevOps  approach and its practices
*	DevOps culture and challenges
*	Continuous Integration and Continuous Development Pipelines
*	Agile software development for smart cities
*	Lean development models for software development

Learning how to develop smart cities

*	Understanding smart cities frameworks
*	Developing competencies of smart cities infrastructures
*	Building smart cities models
*	Service delivery in smart cities
*	Learning to engage citizens
*	Skills and competencies for smart cities
*	Developing resilient smart cities
*	Preserving privacy and security in smart cities



Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before April 15,
2021, a chapter proposal of 1,000 words clearly presenting the concerns and
the contents of his or her proposed chapter. The proposal should be
submitted to the book editor ( <mailto:fitsilis [ at ] uth [ dot ] gr> fitsilis [ at ] uth [ dot ] gr).
Authors will be notified by April 30, 2021 about the status of their
proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be
submitted by July 30, 2021. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a
single-blind review basis by 2 or more reviewers. Contributors may also be
requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted
to this book publication, Building on smart cities skills and competencies.
All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial
process.

All chapters must  be  prepared  in  accordance  with  the  submission
guidelines  for contributed books available at
https://www.springer.com/de/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/your-public
ation-journey and  must  not  exceed 6000 words,  including  bibliography
and  any  appendix. They should be submitted through SMARTCITYCOMP21 web
page at  <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smartcitycomp21>
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smartcitycomp21



Important Dates

April 15, 2021: Proposal Submission Deadline.

April 30, 2021: Notification of Acceptance

July 30, 2021: Full Chapter Submission

September 30, 2021: Review Results Returned

October 15, 2021: Final Acceptance Notification

December 12, 2021: Final Chapter Submission



Proposals only should be submitted to book editor ( <mailto:fitsilis [ at ] uth [ dot ] gr>
fitsilis [ at ] uth [ dot ] gr)

Full chapters submission through SMARTCITYCOMP21 web page at
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smartcitycomp21>
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smartcitycomp21.



Editorial Advisory Board Members:

Prof. Leonidas Anthopoulos, University of Thessaly (
<mailto:lanthopo [ at ] uth [ dot ] gr> lanthopo [ at ] uth [ dot ] gr)

Dr. Okan Geray, Smart Dubai ( <mailto:Okan [ dot ] Geray [ at ] smartdubai [ dot ] ae>
Okan [ dot ] Geray [ at ] smartdubai [ dot ] ae)

Prof. Vassilios Gerogiannis, University of Thessaly (
<mailto:vgerogian [ at ] uth [ dot ] gr> vgerogian [ at ] uth [ dot ] gr)

Prof. Achilles Kameas, Hellenic Open University ( <mailto:kameas [ at ] eap [ dot ] gr>
kameas [ at ] eap [ dot ] gr)

Prof. Angelika Kokkinaki, University of Nicosia, (
<mailto:kokkinaki [ dot ] a [ at ] unic [ dot ] ac [ dot ] cy> kokkinaki [ dot ] a [ at ] unic [ dot ] ac [ dot ] cy)

Adjunct Professor Ilpo Laitinen, City of Helsinki, Finland (
<mailto:Ilpo [ dot ] Laitinen [ at ] hel [ dot ] fi> Ilpo [ dot ] Laitinen [ at ] hel [ dot ] fi)

Associate Prof. Agostino Marengo, University of Bari (
<mailto:agostino [ dot ] marengo [ at ] osel [ dot ] it> agostino [ dot ] marengo [ at ] osel [ dot ] it)

Prof. Anastasia Stratigea, National Technical University of Athens, (
<mailto:stratige [ at ] central [ dot ] ntua [ dot ] gr> stratige [ at ] central [ dot ] ntua [ dot ] gr)

Inquiries and chapter proposal can be forwarded to
Prof. Panos Fitsilis, University of Thessaly, Greece
<mailto:fitsilis [ at ] uth [ dot ] gr> fitsilis [ at ] uth [ dot ] gr



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