[Announcements] Deadline extended: AwareCities’16: The First IEEE PerCom Workshop on Context-Aware Smart Cities and Intelligent Transport Systems

[Flora Salim]

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP]

AwareCities’16: The First International Workshop on Context-Aware Smart
Cities and Intelligent Transport Systems

http://www.awarecities.org

[This workshop is affiliated with 14th IEEE International Conference on
Pervasive Computing and Communications (Percom 2016), held in Sydney
(Australia),  March 14-18, 2016.]

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 11th DECEMBER 2015.


C A L L  F O R  P A P E R S

The workshop focuses on context-aware or data-driven smart cities and smart
Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). There have been tremendous emerging
developments in sensor and

context-driven and IoT-enabled (Internet of Things) smart cities and
transportation, with applications for citizens, local authorities and town
planners. Fleets of smart cars

can be a distributed computational and sensing resource. An increasingly
large crowds of people are being equipped with sensor-rich mobile and
wearable devices, yielding Big

Data arising from such environments, e.g., GPS data and social activity
data, which can facilitate wide-scale crowdsensing and crowdsourcing,
contributing towards data

acquisition in smart city applications. With such data, both centralized
analytics and decentralized analytics could play a key role in data
sense-making and decision making.

Also, such analysis can be combined with data from increasingly deployed
fixed sensors or IoT infrastructure in the city. Context-aware applications
in the smart city are

numerous, from transportation, energy, safety to low-carbon living. There
are many context reasoning and data acquisition, analytics and knowledge
management issues in ITS and

smart cities, such as architectural and algorithmic issues, incentive
mechanisms, energy-efficiency, data verification, cost-efficiency, urban
data issues, data privacy,

visualization, and security, to name a few. The workshop aims to bring
together interested researchers and practitioners.


Topics
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Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
-techniques for real-time urban awareness
-algorithms for mobile analytics
-context-aware computing in ITS and smart cities
-activity recognition for ITS and smart cities
-data-driven ITS
-concepts of aware cities
-urban Internet of Things
-crowdsourcing for mobile data acquisition and analytics
-incentive management for smart city participatory apps
-smart city applications using Big Data
-ITS applications using Big Data
-real-time analytics with ITS and smart city data
-issues for on-mobile analytics and data stream processing
-centralized analytics and Cloud approaches for mobile context data
-privacy and security issues and algorithm in data acquisition and analytics
-spatial data management and analytics for ITS and smart cities
-data and situation visualization for smart cities
-human-machine synergies for awareness in ITS and smart cities
-mobile social networks in smart cities
-urban social network applications such as transportation, health, and
planning
-ontologies and knowledge based techniques for information systems relevant
to places and smart city querying and descriptions

The workshop aims to bring together researchers, industry practitioners and
the community interested in context reasoning, information, knowledge and
analytics within the

context of pervasive computing for smart cities and ITS.


Important Dates
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Workshops Paper due:               December 11, 2015
Workshops Paper notification:      January 2, 2016
Workshops camera ready:            January 15, 2016
Author registration due:           January 15, 2016


Submissions
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We invite submissions of regular papers of up to 6 pages.
All papers included in the PerCom 2016 Workshops will appear in the
conference proceedings published by IEEE.

Manuscripts must be formatted in accordance with the IEEE Computer Society
author guidelines. The IEEE LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates, as well as
related information, can be found at the IEEE Computer Society website.

Submission link at EDAS [https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21135].


Registrations
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There will be no separate registration for workshops, but one single
registration will cover both conference and workshops participation. It is
mandatory that at least one

author will register and will participate to illustrate the paper during
technical sessions of workshops.

Organizing Committee
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General Chairs:
Seng W. Loke (La Trobe University, Australia)
Flora Salim (RMIT University, Australia)
Stephan Winter (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Program Chairs:
Arkady Zaslavsky (CSIRO/Data61, Australia)
Anirban Mondal (Xerox Research Center India, Bangalore, India)
Wenny Rahayu (La Trobe University, Australia)


Program Committee
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Leonid Antsfeld (Xerox Research Center Europe, France)
Arnab Basu (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India)
Athman Bouguettaya (RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia)
Chao Chen (Chongqing University, Chongqing, China)
Xin Chen (HERE)
Niroshinie Fernando (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Bin Guo (Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China)
John Krumm (Microsoft Research, US)
Sanjay Kumar Madria (Missouri University of Science and Technology, US)
Yashar Moshfeghi (University of Glasgow, UK)
Timos Sellis (RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia)
Ashish Sureka (ABB India Corporate Research Center, India)
Fuzheng Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Yu Zheng (Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China)
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