With the rapid development of information technology and computer science, the human society is becoming smarter. In the intelligent society, anything that can assist to solve the current challenges in business, industry, science, daily life etc., can refer to ‘Smart X’. Smart X includes smart city, smart home, smart grids, smart building, smart forest, smart geosciences, and smart computing, etc. Smart X can help human in various dimensions, e.g., better living with better resources, faster and better decision making, more precise future predicting, and quicker response making to challenges in surrounding environments and so on. However, how to implement Smart X? Today, smart techniques, together with the advances in big data and high-performance computing power, offer us big opportunities and transformative potential for intelligent decisions and predictive services. The major challenges we are facing involves extracting valuable knowledge from big data i.e. smart data for smart X, seeking artificial-intelligencetechnologies for smart X, devising virtual-realitytechnologies forsmart X, studying creative computing theories and techniques for Smart X, and designing dynamic and globally cooperative infrastructure built upon Smart X. Smart X also leads to a dramatic paradigm shift in our scientific research towards smart-driven computing.

The 2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart X (Smart X 2017) is an international forum for scientists, engineers, and practitionersto present their latest research and development results in all areas of Smart X, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality. We solicit submissions which invent new techniques, introduce new methodologies, propose new research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    Track I Smart Systems
    Smart information processing
    Smart transportation
    Data-driven smart city
    Health informatics in smart cities
    Internet of things in smart environments
    Social networking in smart environments
    Technologies and applications in smart forest
    Technologies and applications in smart grids
    Smart geosciences
    Smart multimedia services
    Smart spaces
    Big data and smart data applications
    Smart data mining
    Computing medicine
    Security, privacy and trust in smart systems

    Track II Artificial Intelligence Technologies
    Predictive analytic
    High performance computing
    Deep learning
    Deep reasoning
    Reinforcement learning
    Multimodal, multi-instance learning
    Brain-inspired computing
    Semantic technologies
    Knowledge graphs
    Handling uncertainty and incompleteness in big data
    Data intelligence
    Security, privacy and trust in big data

    Track III Virtual Reality Technologies
    Tracking and sensing
    Input devices for VR/AR/MR
    Advanced display technology
    Immersive projection technology
    Haptics, audio, and other non-visual interfaces
    Modeling and simulation
    Computer graphics techniques for VR/AR/MR
    Virtual humans and avatars
    Multi‐user and distributed VR/AR/MR
    VR systems and toolkits
    3D interaction for VR/AR/MR
    3D selection and 3D manipulation
    Locomotion and navigation in virtual environments
    User studies and evaluation
    Perception, presence, virtual embodiment, and cognition
    Teleoperation and telepresence
    Applications of VR/AR/MR