Smart cities (also smarter cities) use digital technologies to enhance performance and wellbeing, to reduce costs and resource consumption, and to engage more effectively and actively with its citizens. Developing a smart city to better support growing urban population is a global and complex challenge and involves interdisciplinary fields. Key ‘smart’ sectors include transportation, smart building, energy, health care, and water systems.

IEEE SmartCity-2026 is aiming to be a premier international conference in smart city. This conference is to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental or theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the area of smart city.

SmartCity-2026 will be held in Luoyang, China, a historic city renowned for its rich cultural heritage and as one of the ancient capitals of China. The city features world-famous landmarks such as the Longmen Grottoes and the White Horse Temple, offering an inspiring environment that blends tradition with modern innovation.

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers to SmartCity-2026. Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore, subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements. Authors of selected best papers will be invited to extend their work for special issues of prestigious journals planned in conjunction with the conference.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Track 1: Smart City Systems
Smart buildings
Smart transportation
Smart environment and economy
Energy-efficient smart grid systems
Smart grid system management
Citizen engagement and smart governance
Track 2: Data Processing Technology
Data representation and processing
Machine learning and deep learning
Graph neural networks
Semi-supervised and unsupervised learning
Statistical, mathematical, and probabilistic modeling and theories
Information retrieval
Data visualization
Track 3: Data Systems
Storage and file systems
High-performance access toolkits
Compiler and runtime support
Real-time data-intensive systems
Multi-/many-core platforms
Big data and cloud computing
Track 4: Data Applications
Business and financial applications
Industrial data applications
Bioinformatics applications
Healthcare and medical services
Applications in soil and water
HPC systems for data applications
Future data applications

Paper Submission
All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission website (https://edas.info/N35261) in PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. All submissions will undergo a single-blind peer-review process and will be evaluated on the basis of their technical quality, originality, significance, and relevance to the conference. Each paper is limited to 8 pages (or 10 pages with over-length charge) for a regular full paper, 6 pages (or 8 pages with over-length charge) for a full paper including figures and references using the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings manuscripts style.

Paper Publication
Papers accepted by IEEE SmartCity 2026 conference will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present their work at the conference; otherwise, the paper will not be included in the proceedings. All accepted papers will be submitted to IEEE Xplore and EI. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be invited for submission to a special issue.