**SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 17, 2008**
CALL FOR PAPERS
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First International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science IWCTS 08 http://cts.cs.uic.edu/iwcts.htm
July 21, 2008, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
To be held in conjunction with: The Fifth International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2008)
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In the near future, vehicles, travelers, and the infrastructure will collectively have billions of sensors that can communicate with each other. This environment will enable numerous novel applications and order of magnitude improvement in the performance of existing applications. However, information technology (IT) has not had the dramatic impact on day-to-day transportation that it has had on other domains such as business and science. In terms of the real-time information available to most travelers, with the exception of car navigation systems, the transportation experience has not changed much in the last 30-40 years. During this same time, the miniaturization of computing devices and advances in wireless communication and sensor technology have been propagating computing from the stationary desktop to the mobile outdoors, and making it ubiquitous. Transportation systems, due to their distributed/mobile nature, can become the ultimate test-bed for this ubiquitous (i.e., embedded, highly-distributed, and sensor-laden) computing environment of unprecedented scale. Information technology is the foundation for implementing new strategies, particularly if they are to be made available in real-time to wireless devices such as cell phones and PDAs. A related development is the emergence of increasingly more sophisticated geospatial and spatio-temporal information management capabilities. These factors have the potential to revolutionize traveler services, and the provision and analysis of related information. In this revolution, travelers and sensors in the infrastructure and in vehicles will all produce a vast amount of data that could be interpreted and acted upon to produce a sea change in transportation.
The emerging discipline of computational transportation science (CTS) combines computer science and engineering with the modeling, planning, and economic aspects of transportation. The discipline goes beyond vehicular technology, and addresses pedestrian systems on hand-held devices, non-real-time issues such as data mining, as well as data management issues above the networking layer. CTS addresses issues of efficiency, equity, mobility, accessibility, and safety by taking advantage of ubiquitous computing.
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SCOPE OF THE SUBMISSION
The International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science invites submissions of original, previously unpublished papers on CTS issues. Position papers that report novel research directions or identify challenging problems are also invited. Papers incorporating one or more of the following themes are especially encouraged:
- Uncertain information distributed among moving travelers/vehicles and the infrastructure - Information in pedestrian, biking, and other non-motorized transportation applications - Ride- and car-sharing using social networks - Computation of costs of multi-modal traveling - Information regarding transfers to alternate modes of transportation - Data mining techniques for travel information - Dynamic shortest path computations using forecasts - Human-computer interfaces in intelligent transportation applications - Privacy and security issues in transportation information - Social and institutional information related to travel - Real-time negotiation among travelers - Mobile artificial-intelligence aspects related to transportation - Sensor information related to transportation
HOW TO SUBMIT A PAPER
Authors should prepare an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of their full paper. Papers must be in English and not exceed 6 pages double column in ACM SIG format (US Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. Position papers are limited 4 pages. All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the technical program committee. Authors are asked to register the titles and abstract of their papers in advance. To register or submit a paper, please visit http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwcts08 or see the workshop website for more details.
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IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: May 17, 2008 Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2008 Camera-ready submissions: June 8, 2008
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General Chairperson
Peter Nelson University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Program Chairperson
Ouri Wolfson University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Technical Program Committee
Amr El Abbadi University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Walid Aref Purdue University, USA
Claus Brenner Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany
Glenn Geers National Information Communications Technology Australia
Fosca Giannotti Institute of Information Science and Technologies, Italy
Le Gruenwald University of Oklahoma, USA
Christian Jensen Aalborg University, Denmark
Der-Horng Lee National University of Singapore
D. T. Lee Academica Sinica, Taiwan
Harvey Miller University of Utah, USA
Pitu Mirchandani University of Arizona, USA
Dino Pedreschi University of Pisa, Italy
Mahadev Satyanarayanan Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
Monika Sester University of Hannover, Germany
Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Pravin Varaiya University of California, Berkeley, USA
Chip White Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Stephan Winter The University of Melbourne, Australia
Bo Xu University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
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