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