ICT is becoming increasingly pervasive to urban environments and providing the necessary basis for sustainability and resilience of the smart future cities. ICT as the prime enabler for smart cities transforms application specific data into useful information and knowledge. From the ICT perspective, the possibility of realisation of smart cities is being enabled by smarter hardware (smart phones, sensor nets, smart household appliances, etc.), which can organise in an ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) and thus become a major source of ever increasing user and environment specific data. Use of cloud computing can be considered as common platform as service for managing cross-departmental city data and providing necessary computation power to generate required integrated information intelligence for decision making and policy development.

ICT tools for a smart city often deal with different application domains e.g. land use, transport, energy, and rarely provide an integrated information perspective to deal with sustainability and socioeconomic growth of the city. Smart cities can benefit from such data (often open data) and information using Big, and often real-time cross-thematic, data collection, processing, integration and sharing through inter-operable services deployed in a Cloud environment. However, such information utilisation requires appropriate software tools, services and technologies to collect, store, analyse and visualise large amounts of data from the city environment, citizens and various departments and agencies at city scale to generate new knowledge and support decision making.

In the above context, the real value of smart city data is gained by new knowledge generation and by performing context based data processing and analytics using various data mining, machine learning or statistical methods. This becomes challenging when applied to large scale or real time data and hence requires appropriate tools and techniques to be applied in a Cloud environment to process and generate required information. In addition, privacy and security issues must be dealt to avoid sharing intrusive details of participants. This workshop invites original research papers providing insights into smart cities needs, processes and frameworks using Cloud based software technologies and applications.

This workshop will be suitable for academics, researchers, practitioners and other stakeholders who are engaged in business of smart cities i.e. either providing ICT services or smart solutions or city administrations who are interested in innovative ICT solutions to enable them to transform their internal administrative processes, manage urban environment and lifecycle of big data collected from cities and use it intelligently for urban governance and decision making.