IEEE UV2024: The 7th International Conference on Universal Village Virtual Cambridge, MA, United States, October 19-22, 2024

Conference website	https://universalvillage.org/
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeuv2024

List of Topics

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. 

Part I: Technical Sessions (Submit Short or Regular Papers)

• [TS1] Session 1. UV Vision, Development, and Evalation
  • Coordinated Development to achieve harmony between humans and nature
  • [TS1-A] Vision for Universal Village and UV Indices
    • Vision for Universal Village
    • UV Indices: Quantitative Indications of Cities’ Smartness, Efficiency, Safety, Environmental Qualities, and Inclusiveness
  • [TS1-B] Development Status of Universal Village
    • Development status of current smart cities in different countries
    • Discussion of limitations and challenges
  • [TS1-C] UV Indices, UV Incentive Mechanisms, and Evaluation of UV Subsystems - Methods, Technologies, and Systems
    • UV Indices: Quantitative Indications of Cities' Smartness, Efficiency, Safety, Environmental Qualities, and Inclusiveness
    • Incentive Mechanisms for the Development of UV-Oriented Systems
    • Evaluation of current methods and technologies for UV subsystems
      • Smart Home and Community
      • Smart Medicine and Healthcare
      • Intelligent Transportation, Urban Planning, and Crowd Management
      • Smart Energy Management
      • Smart City Infrastructure
      • Smart Response Systems for City Emergencies
      • Smart Environmental Protection
      • Smart Humanity
    • Analysis of impact factors for different UV subsystems: 
      • Information flow
      • Material cycle
      • Lifestyle: issues such as food waste
      • Community
    • Subsystem coordination and interaction analysis: Analysis of the mutual interactions among smart cities’ subsystems and evaluation of the system coordination of current methods and technologies
• [TS2] Session 2. UV Framework Design, Modeling, and System Integration

  • Seeking integrated, resilient, human-centered, sustainable and environment-friendly solutions under the concept of Universal Village

  • [TS2-A] Systematic and Integrated Frameworks for UV Subsystems and Contributing Factors
  • [TS2-B] Intelligent Modeling, Simulation, and System Analysis
• [TS3] Session 3. Mobility, Planning, Management, and Infrastructure Innovations for Safety, Efficiency, and Connectivity
  • [TS3-A] Intelligent Transportation, Urban Planning, and Smart City Infrastructure
    • Interconnected transportation systems; intelligent road transportation management; safety enhancement based on the interaction among passengers, vehicles, event planners, and other stakeholders
    • Coordinated traffic control; smart parking; urban planning
    • Smart logistics and distribution services; last-mile delivery
    • Smart facilities; smart construction; smart lighting/heating/cooling/ventilation systems; smart sewerage and sanitation systems; smart water and waste management
    • Coordinated city infrastructure development and operational management; smart infrastructure lifecycle management; predictive analytics for identifying infrastructure vulnerability
  • [TS3-B] Intelligent Vehicles, Mobility Support for Vulnerable Groups
    • Autonomous vehicles; drones; intelligent electrified vehicles; smart wheelchairs; robotic exoskeletons for vulnerable groups
    • Intelligent driving assistance systems; navigation and localization systems; vehicle hardware/software systems; vehicle on-board diagnostics; vehicular signal processing; smart cockpits
    • Human-oriented sensing and recognition for vulnerable road users and animals; intercommunication among passengers, vehicles, and traffic lights
    • Connected vehicles; vehicle dynamics and control
    • Human factors; cognition and control; driver monitoring
    • Policies and regulations for intelligent vehicles
  • [TS3-C] Crowd Management, Smart Response Systems for City Emergencies
    • System vulnerabilities identification; crisis prevention and city robustness reinforcement; crowd management
    • Emergency (natural disasters, crimes, accidents, etc.) prediction, detection and management; cyber-security; smart alerting and hierarchical information collection and distribution; active disaster response and recovery
  • [TS3-D] Information Flow, Communication, Networks, and Security
    • Smart data acquisition; mobile sensing; crowdsourcing; the Internet of Things; seamless wireless networks; information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure
    • Information integration; information storage, sharing, circulation, and visualization; cloud service; blockchain; data repository
    • Solutions for security, safety, reliability and privacy issues
• [TS4] Session 4. Energy and Material Innovations for Efficiency, Safety, and Sustainability
  • [TS4-A] Renewable Energy and Smart Energy Management
    • Renewable energy capture and conversion, emerging technologies
      • Solar energy: photovoltaics, solar thermos
      • Wind energy: wind turbine materials and novel designs
      • Hydrogen energy: solar splitting water, fuel cells
      • Other energies: biomass, renewable natural gas, hydroelectric energy, blue energy
    • Energy storage devices and technologies (batteries, supercapacitors, and fuel cells)
    • Smart grids; transmission infrastructure; integrated energy management for high efficiency and zero-emission; theoretical simulations of renewable energy and its applications; smart meters; demand response management (DRM)
    • Resilient operations against disturbances, unexpected errors, accidents, physical and cyber-attacks, and natural disasters
  • [TS4-B] Smart Materials and Devices
    • Smart materials for advanced electronic devices (sensors, actuators, transducers)
    • Smart materials for energy conversion (piezoelectric, magneto-elastic, thermoelectric, electrostriction)
    • Advanced intelligent devices and systems
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI) for materials development
• [TS5] Session 5. Manufacturing and Agriculture Innovations for Efficiency, Safety, and Sustainability
  • Smart Manufacturing
    • Cloud manufacturing
    • Cloud-edge collaboration in manufacturing
    • Additive manufacturing and robotics
    • Planning and scheduling of manufacturing tasks
    • Quality detection and control
    • Large Language Models (LLMs) for manufacturing
    • Computer Vision and other AI technologies in manufacturing
• [TS6] Session 6. Agriculture Innovations for Efficiency, Safety, and Sustainability
  • Smart Agriculture
    • Vertical farming; smart crop/soil/pest management; precision irrigation; smart livestock farming; climate-smart agriculture
    • Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), robotics, and automated machinery for agriculture
    • Smart sensing and monitoring, Internet of Things, big data analysis, predictive analytics (crops/disease/wheather) and decision-making in agriculture
• [TS7] Session 7. Environmental Innovations for Harmony between Humans and Nature
  • [TS7-A] Smart Environmental Protection; Smart Ecological Systems
    • Environmental protection: exhaust/wastewater/solid waste management; pollution control (air/water/soil; light/noise/radiation); effective microorganism technology; green roofs
    • Challenges and solutions for climate change; restoration and protection of ecosystems; ecological economics and strategies; ecological informatics and acoustics
  • [TS7-B] Mobility-enabled Material Cycles; the Circular Economy, Trash and Scrap Collection, Processing, Reuse, and Recycling
    • Smart trash cans and their optimal placement; smart garbage trucks
    • Smart recycling; smart residential trash and industrial scrap collection and transportation; the circular economy; material reuse; second-hand markets
    • Cultural and economic factors; development of innovative lifestyles, public awareness and community engagement
    • Crowdsourcing, data collection, and visualization for material cycles
    • Material cycles optimization: smart waste management; smart trash and scrap processing, reuse and recycling; smart platform development for coordinated information sharing among smart recycling, user feedback on products and smart manufacturing
• [TS8] Session 8. Lifestyle Innovations for Mobility, Connectivity, Efficiency, and Happiness
  • [TS8-A] Smart Homes and Community, Virtual Living
    • Smart appliances and devices; smart windows; intelligent deformation furniture; smart inventory management; smart home OS
    • Safety and security; self-adaptive home-emergency response systems
    • Smart life; fashion AI; home gardening and agriculture
    • Intelligent support for vulnerable groups; homeless care; domestic violence protection
    • Community support and virtual living during pandemics and other city emergencies
  • [TS8-B] Mobility, Connectivity, and Innovative Lifestyles
    • Integrated and technology-driven solutions to improve the quality of life: quantified self devices and self-tracking technologies; smart textiles; VR/AR-based sports, entertainment and other activities; human-centered transportation, smart mobility and seamless transit systems; smart agents and human-computer interaction
    • New lifestyles to reduce energy consumption and emissions: shared mobility and other new lifestyles made possible by the sharing economy; virtual tours; working from home; electronic surveillance
    • Changing trends in cultures/technologies/lifestyles
• [TS9] Session 9. Healthcare Innovation for Safety and Well-being
  • [TS9-A] AI-assisted Healthcare Monitoring
    • AI for healthcare data acquisition, processing, and analysis
    • Machine learning algorithms for ultrasound/MRI/CT imaging analysis
    • AI for healthcare date security and privacy considerations
  • [TS9-B] Smart Medicine and Smart Healthcare
    • Healthcare system integration and interoperability; AI for healthcare logistics; Internet of Medical Things (IoMT); AI-powered hospital triage platforms; rootics and automation in healthcare
    • AI for medical diagnostics and screening; predictive modeling; telemedicine and virtual consultations; personalized medicine; 3D printing in medicine; wearable devices; pervasive and non-invasive health-monitoring
    • Intelligent nurseries and senior care; assistive technologies for vulnerable groups; virtual care and mobile health
    • Personalized healthcare and wellness management; smart diets and exercise; mental health; integrated medicine
  • [TS9-C] Public Health, Epidemic Prevention and Control
    • Alternative medicine; somatic science; community/rural/urban health; palliative care and hospice care; epidemic control and personal hygiene; equity and ethical issues
    • Epidemic prediction and contact tracking
    • Coordinated operational management across all levels during emergencies; smart resource allocation; quarantine and isolation; smart medical waste processing
    • Crowdsourcing, data collection, and visualization
• [TS10] Session 10. Human-centered Social Innovations for Diversity, Inclusiveness, Fairness, and the Preservation of Cultural Heritage
  • [TS10-A] Urbanization and Smart Communities
    • Urbanization: impact and challenges; geographical, cultural, and political factors
    • Smart communities and neighborhoods; social media and support groups; community resource management; supporting infrastructure; data platforms and community clouds
  • [TS10-B] Smart Government and Social Services
    • Smart government: smart administration, regulation, policy and law; participatory governance; smart resource allocation
    • Smart social services and social networks; smart education/training; civic engagement
  • [TS10-C] Integrated Solutions for Smart Humanity
    • New legal, social, and ethical challenges posed by applications of AI; integrated solutions: quantified analysis for the safety and ethics of intelligent systems; the social responsibility of enterprises; establishing legal, regulatory and ethical frameworks for the development of AI
    • Integrated solutions to promote diversity, inclusiveness, fairness, and the preservation of cultural heritage
    • Ecological/environmental/humanistic/organizational psychology; persuasive technology
    • Adaptive development strategies for various geographic regions at different developmental phases and people of different ages with diverse technology and cultural backgrounds
  • [TS10-D] Smart Design and Design Ethics
    • Evaluation of smart designs and their unintended consequences; emergent technologies for smart designs, simulation platform, and system optimization
    • Interaction between different smart systems; impact of smart design on lifestyles, communities, and the environment; major challenges and impact factors of smart system design
    • Coordinated design under the principles of usability, enjoyability, sustainability, inclusiveness, and cultural preservation; design ethics in the AI era
    • Intelligent electromechanical design; Intelligent industrial design; Intelligent environmental design; Intelligent architectural and infrastructure design; Intelligent agent design; digital design; digital media art; visual media design; new media design; animation design; information and communication platform design; virtual environment design; design of logistics, crisis response, city services and applications; multidisciplinary design
• [TS11] Session 11. Data Management and Algorithm Development
  • [TS11-A] Data Management and Processing
    • Data cleaning; data fusion and integration; data quality and integrity; data visualization; data mining; big data analytics
    • Human-centered/cognitive/mobile/cloud computing
    • Urban informatics; data-driven monitoring, analysis, prediction, planning and decision making; real-time big data services; smart city control centers; application benchmarking and city indices; knowledge management (KM)
  • [TS11-B] Algorithm Development and Analysis
    • Signal processing and understanding (image/video/audio/speech/natural language); semantics interpretation; multimodal sensor fusion and city monitoring; diagnostic algorithms
    • AI, machine learning and interpretability; fairness, accountability, privacy, transparency, and ethics; deep-fake detection
    • Intelligent modeling, simulation, prediction, and optimization; system dynamics; system control
• [TS12] Session 12. Special Sessions
  • [TS12-A] Advance in Distributed Energy System: Design, Simulation and Operation
  • [TS12-B] Universal Village: Go Underground
    • Cutting-edge digital tools and artificial intelligence in underground space and broader civil engineering
    • Carbon emission reduction, renewable energy in subsurface engineering for the sustainability to Universal Village
    • Big data mining, synthetic data and data analytics for underground structures and Universal Village
    • Advances in architecture, urban planning and other socioeconomical sciences and technologies specifically tailored for underground universal village society and etc.
  • [TS12-C] Future Lifestyles and Smart Communities: UV Intelligent Design for Vulnerable Groups
  • [TS12-D] AI-Driven Sports Training, Exercise, and Fitness
  • A special session consists of a presentation session of 3 to 6 or more papers on a specific topic. We invite senior scientists who have a special interest in a topic that is not mentioned in the regular technical sessions above to propose and organize a special session on this topic

Part II: Forums/Competitions/Poster&Exhibition/Workshop (Submit Abstracts, Slide Decks Presentation, Posters, or Design Proposals)

• UV Forums
  • [CF] UV City Forum
    • Reflections on urbanization and its unintended consequences
    • Current development status and challenges of smart cities; vision of future UV development
    • Collaboration among governments, academia, industries, and civil society
  • [SF] UV Student Forum
    • UV student research, innovations, and discussions
    • UV Philosophy and Story-sharing, Technology News, Social Hot Topics, and Vision
      • Preserving cultural heritage in the process of urbanization
      • Bridging the generation gap and promoting understanding across diverse groups with the aid of UV technologies
      • Exploring future lifestyles for sustainable happiness
    • UV Introduction video, Talent Shows and Online Games
    • UV Entrepreneurship Initiative and Pitch Competition
    • Future Development of UV Club and UV Student Forum
  • [AF] UV Art Forum
    • Digital arts; Non-fungible tokens (NFTs); AI / VR / AR-enabled artifacts
    • Comfort art in the post-pandemic era
• UV Competitions
• Solving problems in the real world and encouraging innovations from the young generation; finding a new way of life in the post-pandemic world
  • [DSC] UV Data Science Competition
    • Machine Learning Challenges
    • Computer Vision Challenges
  • [MC] UV Modeling Competition
  • [PC] UV Pitch Competition
    • Reflections on urbanization and its unintended consequences
    • Current development status and challenges of smart cities; vision of UV development
    • Collaboration among governments, academia, industries, and civil society
  • [K12C] UV K-12 Challenge
    • Innovation Competition
    • Research Presentation
    • Talent Shows
    • Online Game
• UV Poster Session and Exhibition
  • [PE1] UV Posters
  • [PE2] UV Exhibition: Art & Technologies that present the UV concept

  • Organizations/Companies/Startups are welcome.

• UV Workshop
  • [WS-UV] UV Introduction

Part III: Interactive Programs (Submit Abstracts and Slide Decks Presentation)

• UV Roadmap & Round Table Discussion
  • [RMD] UV Roadmap Discussion
  • [RTD] UV Round Table Discussion

  • We sincerely invite you to propose a discussion topic or to host a roundtable discussion!

• UV Panel Discussion
  • [PD1] Post-Pandemic Reflection
  • [PD2] New Legal, Social, and Ethical Challenges Posed by Applications of AI
    • New legal, social, and ethical challenges posed by applications of AI; integrated solutions: quantified analysis for the safety and ethics of intelligent systems; the social responsibility of enterprises; establishing legal, regulatory and ethical frameworks for the development of AI
    • Lifestyle innovations enabled by emergent technologies: how to reach a balance between improving the quality of life, reducing energy consumption and emissions, and promoting harmony, inclusiveness, resilience, and sustainability

  • We sincerely invite you to apply to become a panelist!

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. 

The deadline for all submissions has been extended to September 15, 2024.

• INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS[TS1 – TS12], [SF(OPTIONAL)]
  • Authors must submit SHORT PAPERS (3-4 pages) or REGULAR PAPERS (5-8 pages) electronically as single PDF files in US Letter size (not A4) for all TECHNICAL SESSIONS.
  • Authors must use the IEEE conference template, two-column template, as shown in the links below:
  • Microsoft Word format: https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/conferences/conference-template-letter.docx
  • LaTeX format: https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/pubs/conference-latex-template_10-17-19.zip
  • LaTeX Instructions: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/IEEEtran_HOWTO.pdf
  • Please follow the IEEE standards and ensure that all fonts are embedded. Please also remove running headers/footers, page numbering, and blue underlining for URLs and email addresses. Detailed Guidelines: https://standards.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-standards/standards/web/documents/other/embeddedfonts.pdf
  • Authors of accepted papers (or at least one of the authors) are expected to register and to present their work at IEEE UV2024. Papers that have been accepted and presented will be published in the conference proceedings and IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The best papers will receive the IEEE UV2024 Best Paper Awards.
• IMPORTANT DATES FOR PAPER SESSIONS:
  • Paper submissions due                         September 15, 2024
  • Notification of paper acceptance            September 25, 2024
  • Final manuscripts due                          October 05, 2024

 

• INSTRUCTIONS FOR FORUM and UV COMPETITION SUBMISSIONS [CF, SF, AF, DSC, MC, PC, K12C]
  • All applicants of Forum and Competition sessions must submit a one-page abstract (100-300 words) and five-to-twenty-page presentation PowerPoint/PDF slides. 
  • All applicants of the Data Science Competition and the Modeling Competition must also submit their papers and other supporting documents (e.g. codes and video clips) to showcase their results.
  • Authors of accepted submissions (or at least one of the authors) are expected to register for IEEE UV2024 and to present their work at IEEE UV2024.
  • Papers in Competition sessions that have been accepted and presented at IEEE UV2024 will be published in the conference proceedings and IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
• IMPORTANT DATES FOR PAPER SESSIONS:
  • Abstracts and competition materials due              September 15, 2024
  • Notification of acceptance                                   September 25, 2024
  • Final competition materials due                           October 05, 2024

 

• INSTRUCTIONS FOR UV PANEL, FORUM AND WORKSHOP SUBMISSIONS[PD1, PD2, WS-UV]
  • All applicants can submit abstracts and presentation slide decks for the UV PANEL discussion and the UV WORKSHOP session. Please submit a one-page abstract (100-300 words) and five-to-twenty-page PowerPoint/PDF slide decks.
  • Authors of accepted abstracts (or at least one of the authors) are expected to register and to present at IEEE UV2024. 
• IMPORTANT DATES FOR PAPER SESSIONS:
  • Abstract and presentation materials submissions due              September 15, 2024
  • Notification of acceptance                                                     September 25, 2024
  • Final presentation materials due                                            October 05, 2024

 

• INSTRUCTIONS FOR UV POSTER & EXHIBITION SUBMISSIONS[PE1, PE2]
  • All applicants can submit posters for the UV POSTER session and the UV EXHIBITION session. Please submit your poster in PDF format with a one-page abstract (100-300 words) and a one-page PowerPoint/PDF poster. The preferred poster size is 18 inch x 24 inch (46 cm x 61 cm). Please ensure that the size of your poster does not exceed the poster board dimensions: 18 inch x 24 inch.
  • Authors of accepted posters (or at least one of the authors) are expected to register and to prepare a one-to-two-minute oral presentation at IEEE UV2024. All posters MUST be displayed throughout the conference.
• IMPORTANT DATES FOR PAPER SESSIONS:
  • Abstract & Poster submissions due                 September 15, 2024
  • Notification of poster acceptance                    September 25, 2024
  • Final poster due                                            October 05, 2024

 

• IMPORTANT DATES AT A GLANCE
  • Submissions start                                                                                              February 15, 2024
  • Paper/Abstract/Competition Materials /Presentation/Poster submissions due           September 15, 2024
  • Notification of acceptance                                                                                  September 25, 2024
  • Final manuscripts due                                                                                        October 05, 2024

Publication

IEEE UV 2024 proceedings will be published in IEEE Xplore Digital Library

UV Publications are a collection of our preeminent contributors' ourstanding achievements such as references, books, academic papers, and research reports. UV Publications currently include seventeen different categories of extensive international research. Every UV work is published by IEEE(the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), the world's largest technical professional organization of advanced technology.

We look forward to bringing UV Publications to all creative and talented researchers, professors, and students in the world for sharing ideas, publishing their work, and eventrually changing the world. With this goal in mind, we hope for your active participation.

Previous publications have been published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

Venue

The conference will be held virtural / main venue in Boston, USA

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to uv.conf.contact@universal-village.org

Sponsors

IEEE Intelligent Transportation System Society (ITSS)