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CALL FOR PAPERS Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference LION 12, Kalamata, Greece, June 10-15, 2018 (http://www.caopt.com/LION12/index.php) *** Special Session on Computational Intelligence for Smart Cities *** Organizers: Enrique Alba, University of Malaga, Spain (http://www.lcc.uma.es/~eat/) Konstantinos Parsopoulos, University of Ioannina, Greece (http://www.cs.uoi.gr/~kostasp/) Description: Global urbanization is continuously reshaping our world. More than half of the world’s population is currently living in urban areas, with predictions adding 2.5 billion people to the cities over the next few decades. This transformation provides great opportunities for cultural and economic growth. However, it also comes along with a number of challenging problems such as overpopulation in metropolitan areas, cost of living, environmental pollution, and inadequate infrastructures, among others. Smart cities attempt to provide solutions to the continuously growing needs by integrating information technologies and interconnected devices in urban environments. This allows the collection and interpretation of huge amounts of data that are used for optimizing various aspects of the cities operation through the design and modeling of ad hoc solutions and systems. Smart transportation systems, smart buildings, smart communications and energy networks are some of the most active research areas in this domain. Computational intelligence has played a significant role in most complex systems existing till now, and they are also expected to have a prominent position in smart cities. Its constituent methodologies such as machine learning, data science, artificial neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, swarm intelligence, and fuzzy logic offer computationally efficient methodologies for modeling, analyzing, and optimizing smart cities systems. Indeed, computational intelligence is one important way to build to the “smart” part of the city. The interplay of such approaches with operations research and many other domains (civil engineering, urban planning, policy makers, companies etc.) can offer innovative and sustainable solutions to problems of high complexity. So far, computational intelligence methodologies reckons a large number of applications in smart cities, including smart transportation systems, smart logistics, smart energy grids, smart resources integration and pollution monitoring. The present special session welcomes works on any aspect of computational intelligence in smart cities environments, both theoretical and applied, including: <> Computational intelligence in smart transportations and logistics <> Computational intelligence in urban mobility and planning <> Computational intelligence in smart energy systems <> Computational intelligence in sustainability (environmental, social, economic) <> Computational intelligence in smart homes and Internet of Things <> Computational intelligence in smart healthcare systems <> Computational intelligence in governance <> Computational intelligence for people and good living <> Computational intelligence to tourism and entertainment in the city <> Computational intelligence in circular economy <> Cyberphysical systems and Internet of Things coupled with computational intelligence <> Computational intelligence for security, big data, open data, and software for cities Applications involving efficient learning and optimization methodologies for this type of problems are strongly encouraged. *** Important dates *** February 15, 2018: Paper submission February 28, 2018: Author Notification March 15, 2018: Camera ready June 10-15, 2018: Conference Proceedings: All accepted papers of LION12 will be published in a volume of the series on Lecture Notes in Computer Science from Springer after the conference. A Special Issue of the Springer journal Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AMAI) with refereed papers from the conference will also be organized. Best Paper Award: LION12 will have a Best Paper Award of EUR 1,000