CFP: Smart City and Ubiquitous
Computing Applications Workshop
(co-located with WoWMoM 2013, Madrid 4-7 June 2013)
Call for Papers
As the world experiences unprecedented urban growth, decision
makers have become very alert calling
for urgent solutions to the resulting issues and newly
identified problems. Fortunately, the recent advances
in information and communication technologies may stimulate
new solutions towards the urbanization
problems. As a result, research and industrial efforts are
beginning to focus on work in that direction and
towards Smart Sustainable Cities; the aim is to integrate and
validate ICT technologies and services in
neighborhoods to make progress towards intelligent cities by
exploiting ubiquitous technologies.
In addition to technical developments, attention is given to
innovative service business models which include security,
safety and privacy issues. The need to improve our
understanding of cities, however, is pressed not only by the
social relevance of urban environments, but also by the
availability of new strategies for city-scale interventions
that are enabled by emerging technologies.
This workshop aims to showcase latest advances in Smart City
and Ubiquitous Computing applications which are the result of
research efforts that incorporate new technologies from the
areas of mobile communications, multimedia services, data
storage and handling and ubiquitous services.
The workshop covers (but is not limited to) the following
areas:
Urban Analysis and Modeling:
- data-driven analysis of economic activity, human behavior,
mobility patterns, resource consumption
- Designing new cities through evidence-based processes
- Parametric urban design tools to schematically define
mobility nodes, streets, buildings and location of resources
- Development of nested compact urban cells (walkable
neighborhoods)
- Urban energy, mobility, water, food, and waste simulator for
new, post-oil cities
- Typology of streetscapes, pathways, mobility nodes, and
responsive technology for cities
Mobility Networks:
- Multi-modal mobility recommendation engines
- New urban vehicles including electric scooters, automobiles,
bike-lane vehicles, etc.
- Autonomous vehicle technology and vehicle-pedestrian
interfaces
- Scheduling, charging and security technology for shared-use
vehicle systems
- Electronic parking systems
- Multimedia pervasive computing for smart cities
Electronic and Social Networks:
- New network-centric methods for managing reactive,
data-driven city systems
- Social, multimedia and ubiquitous computing for smart cities
- Urban-scale serious games to shape use of resources such as
shared-used mobility
- Systems tailored for more stable, fair, and socially
efficient services
Work and living places
- Personalized, transformable urban housing
- Variable-rate power, and flexible workspaces
- Time-shifted, shared space-on-demand for collaborative work
- Sensing and algorithms to understand fine-grained human
activity
- Responsive lighting, HVAC, health, energy conservation, and
communication in the home and work
Workshop Chairs
Anastasios D. Doulamis - Technical University of Crete, Greece
Lambros Lambrinos - Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
Important Dates
- Submission deadline: February 28, 2013
- Acceptance Notification: March 25, 2013
- Camera-Ready Deadline: April 8, 2013
The workshop is supported by the following on-going projects:
Experimedia, SoCIoS, e-Park, Poseidon
and more information can be found at: http://www.scuca2013.tuc.gr
