Smart Cities are innovative, conceptual, city-wide technology-human-infrastructure integration platforms promoting information and sensing technology utilization, citizen engagement, quality of life, manufacturing efficiency, economic development, and environmental sustainability. The IoT opens new opportunities for the development of efficient and low cost applications that aim to improve the quality of live in cities.The Special Session organizing committee is inviting original and innovative contributions in smart city research and advanced implementations and deployments. Please submit articles conveying new developments in theory, analytics, numerical simulation and modeling, experimentation, advanced deployment and case studies, results of laboratory or field operational tests, and other related creative endeavours.