Smart cities are the result of the increasingly urgent need to orient our lives towards sustainability. Therefore, these cities use infrastructure, innovation, and technology to improve the quality of life of their citizens. Being a strategic issue that brings new challenges, the organizers invite the academic community to participate in the VII Ibero-American Congress of Smart Cities (ICSC-CITIES 2024). The congress will be a discussion forum to create synergies among different research groups to favor the development of Smart Cities. Authors are invited to register and submit manuscripts and contribute to knowledge development and integration in different scenarios.
ICSC-CITIES 2024 will occur on November 12 - 14, 2024, at Tecnológico de Costa Rica (TEC) in San Carlos, Costa Rica.

All manuscripts must be original and not been simultaneously submitted to or in consideration for another journal or conference. Manuscripts written in Spanish, Portuguese, or English are considered for presentation in the congress. The maximum length is 15 pages, and the maximum file size is 5 MB. Authors should consult authors’ guidelines by Springer and use the proceedings templates (LNCS/CCIS), either for Latex or for Word, to prepare the manuscripts.

All accepted articles will be published in the proceedings book of the congress (with ISBN). In addition, the Program Committee will select the best-accepted articles (written in English) for submission to Springer, a prestigious publisher that has published selected articles at Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (citescore 1.0 Scopus; SJR 0.19 - Q4 Computer Science)^* in the previous editions of the conference.
In addition, authors of selected articles will be invited to extend their contribution to be submitted for publication in special issues of the following journals^*:

• Renewable Energy Focus (Elsevier) indexed in JCR with I.F. 4.8-Q3 Energy & Fuels; citescore 8.2 in Scopus and SJR 1.06-Q2 Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,
• Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering (AIMS Press) indexed in JCR with I.F. 2.6–Q3 Mathematical & Computational Biology; citescore 3.9 in Scopus and SJR 0.45-Q2 Agricultural and Biological Sciences,
• Revista Facultad de Ingenieria (Universidad de Antioquia) indexed in JCR with I.F. 1.0-Q4 Engineering, Multidisciplinary; citescore 1.8 in Scopus and SJR 0.24-Q3 Engineering,
• Programming and Computer Software (Springer) indexed in JCR with I.F. 0.7-Q4 Computer Science, Software Engineering; citescore 1.7 in Scopus and SJR 0.23-Q4 Software,
• SN Computer Science (Springer) indexed in Scopus with 4.3 citescore and SJR 0.6-Q2 Computational Theory and Mathematics,
• Journal of Smart Cities and Society (IOS Press) indexed in Baidu, CLOCKSS, DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, and Google Scholar,
• Renewable Energies (Sage) recently created, open-access journal.

Publications of selected articles will be free of charge. At least 40% of original content is required in the extended version.

^*Impact factors and JCR classifications & SJR and Scopus classifications updated to 2022. Every journal has its editorial rules that would be followed to submit the article extension.