Dear Colleague,

We would like to cordially invite you to contribute a book chapter to a forthcoming book entitled "Smart Cities: Foundations and Principles" which will be published by Wiley (https://smartcitiesbook.wordpress.com/).

Motivated by growing global needs to create more comfortable urban spaces as world urbanization continues to grow as the global population is expected to double by 2050, Smart Cities are emerging as a priority for research and development across the world. Smart cities open up significant opportunities in several areas, such as economic growth, health, wellness, energy efficiency, and transportation, to promote the sustainable development of cities. However, smart cities pose many research challenges spanning multiple disciplines. Fundamental research is needed to achieve effective integration of networked computing systems, physical devices, data sources, and infrastructure to have a major impact on quality of life within the city.
We are pleased to announce a peer-reviewed book on smart cities particularly to understand the foundations and principles spanning multiple disciplines for addressing the challenges posted by this emerging concept, and promote collaborations among engineers, social scientists, and educators, for the development of smart cities.

Call for Chapters
Chapter Proposal Submission by September 15, 2015.

Submission Procedure:
Please email your abstract (max. 500 words) by September 15, 2015 to smartcities.wiley@gmail.com and indicate the specific chapter where your work best fits or propose your own topic relevant to smart cities.

The list of chapters is available at: https://smartcitiesbook.wordpress.com/chapters/. Any other topics relevant to smart cities are welcome too.

Please provide the following points in your proposals/abstracts:
1. Title of the contribution,
2. Title of the chapter (of the tentative TOC) if the contribution refers to one of them,
3. Name of author, co-authors, institution, email-address,
4. Content/mission of the proposed article.

Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by the given deadline about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines.

Full Book Chapter:
Complete chapters are required to be submitted to smartcities.wiley@gmail.com. Author could use LaTex or any word processing tools (MS Word, OpenDocument, etc.) while preparing the chapters. A book chapter is required to be 18 to 25 pages (8,000 to 10,000 words).

Please provide the following points in your contribution:
1. Chapter title,
2. Author information (of all authors: title, first name, last name, organization, address, city, zip code, country, email address),
3. Abstract (100-150 words),
4. 5-10 keywords,
5. Text body,
6. Bibliography.

Important Dates:
Author Confirmation and Abstract Submission: September 15, 2015
Abstract Review and Suggestions Returned: September 30, 2015
Full Chapter Submission by: December 31, 2015
Full Chapter Review and Suggestions Returned: March 1, 2016
Final Chapter Submission: May 1, 2016
Anticipated Publication Date: July 1, 2016

Editors:
Houbing Song, West Virginia University, USA (Houbing.Song@mail.wvu.edu)
Ravi Srinivasan, University of Florida, USA (sravi@ufl.edu)
Tamim Sookoor, G2, Inc., USA (tamim.sookoor@g2-inc.com)
Sabina Jeschke, RWTH Aachen University, Germany (sabina.jeschke@ima-zlw-ifu.rwth-aachen.de)