AI4SC 2026 Special Session

AI for Smart Cities: Intelligent Systems for Future Cities

📅 Date: Oct 29 - 31, 2026
📍 Location: Can Tho City, Vietnam

About this Session

This special session focuses on recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies and intelligent systems for future smart cities. As urban environments become increasingly connected, data-driven, and autonomous, AI is playing a key role in improving transportation, infrastructure management, public safety, sustainability, healthcare, and citizen services.

The session aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on AI-enabled solutions that support efficient, resilient, and human-centered urban environments. It encourages discussions on intelligent systems that integrate AI, IoT, edge computing, multimodal sensing, autonomous systems, and predictive analytics to address real-world smart city challenges.

By fostering interdisciplinary collaboration between academia and industry, this session seeks to advance innovative AI technologies that contribute to safer, smarter, and more sustainable cities of the future.

Topics of Interest

We welcome high-quality research papers, industrial case studies, and practical deployments on, but not limited to, the following topics:

AI for intelligent transportation & traffic management
Smart infrastructure monitoring & predictive maintenance
Autonomous systems and robotics for urban environments
Edge AI and distributed intelligence in smart cities
AI-powered IoT and sensor networks
Multimodal sensing and urban data fusion
AI for environmental monitoring and sustainability
Smart healthcare and assisted living technologies
AI for public safety and emergency response
Digital twins and virtual city environments
Federated learning & communication-efficient AI
AI for energy management and smart grids
Human-centered AI for urban services
Explainable, trustworthy, and ethical AI
AI for smart governance and citizen engagement
UAVs and autonomous vehicles for urban applications
Cyber-physical systems & intelligent urban computing
Predictive analytics for smart city operations

Important Dates

  • Paper Submission:
    June 1, 2026
    July 1, 2026Extended
  • Acceptance Notification:August 15, 2026
  • Camera-Ready Due:October 15, 2026
  • Conference Dates:October 29 - 31, 2026

Session Chairs

  • Huynh Kha Tu (Chair)
    Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
  • Le Duy Tan (Co-Chair)
    International University - VNU-HCM, Vietnam
  • Nguyen Duc Dung (Co-Chair)
    Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology - VNU-HCM, Vietnam
  • Huynh Tuong Nguyen (Co-Chair)
    Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
  • Nguyen Tan Viet Tuyen (Co-Chair)
    University of Southampton, United Kingdom