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------------------------------------------------------------ PURBA 2012 - CALL FOR PAPERS The Second Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications (PURBA) In conjunction with Pervasive 2012 Newcastle, UK | June 18-22, 2012 http://www.ibm.com/ie/dublinresearchlab/purba

Submission Deadline: March 2, 2012 ------------------------------------------------------------

Over the past decade, the development of digital networks and operations has produced an unprecedented wealth of information. Handheld electronics, location devices, telecommunications networks, and a wide assortment of tags and sensors are constantly producing a rich stream of data reflecting various aspects of urban life. For urban planners and designers, these accumulations of digital traces are valuable sources of data in capturing the pulse of the city in an astonishing degree of temporal and spatial detail. Yet this condition of the hybrid city – which operates simultaneously in the digital and physical realms – also poses difficult questions about privacy, scale, and design, among many others. These questions must be addressed as we move toward achieving an augmented, fine-grained understanding of how the city functions – socially, economically and yes, even psychologically. This workshop is the second in this series building upon the successful PURBA 2011 workshop. It aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss and explore the research challenges and opportunities in applying the pervasive computing paradigm to urban spaces. We are seeking multi-disciplinary contributions that reveal interesting aspects about urban life and exploit the digital traces to create novel urban applications that benefit citizens, urban planners, and policy makers. The PURBA-2012 Workshop fosters discussions covering topics such as (but not limited to): • Pervasive computing applications for urban planning and design • Mining of data collected from urban networks e.g. transportation, energy • Urban mobility and geo-localization • Multi-source urban information integration • Real-time urban information processing • City-related knowledge infrastructure and computational models • Case studies and applications of mixed urban sensing and mining • Analysis of social networks in urban space • Middleware for mobile urban computing • Context-aware systems for urban space • Smart cities • Intelligent transportation system • Urban application demos and visualizations • Wireless sensor networks, mobile devices, and social network sensing • Security, privacy, reputation, and trust issues in urban computing • Impact of pervasive technologies in urban space e.g. social, economical, and psychological.

Submissions ------------------------------------------------------------ All contributions must be submitted as PDF files. The workshop accepts manuscripts in LNCS format (up to 8 pages). Visionary and position papers are encouraged. All contributions must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. All submitted papers will be reviewed and judged on originality, technical correctness, relevance, and quality of presentation by the Program Committee. All accepted submissions must be presented during the workshop.

Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------ Paper submission deadline: March 9, 2012 Paper acceptance notifications: April 2, 2012

Technical Program Committee ------------------------------------------------------------ Aaron Quigley, St. Andrews University Alexander Varshavsky, AT&T Labs Anand Ranganathan, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Carlo Ratti, MIT Carlos Bento, Universidade de Coimbra Daniele Quercia, University of Cambridge Daqing Zhang, TELECOM & Management SudParis DeDe Paul, AT&T Labs Research Dino Pedreschi, Universita di Pisa Elizabeth Daly, IBM Research Enrique Frias-Martinez, Telefonica Research Francisco Pereira, MIT Licia Capra, University College London Marco Conti, CNR-Pisa Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology Martin Brynskov, Aarhus University Massimo Colonna, Telecom Italia Mirco Musolesi, University of Birmingham Neal Lathia, University College London Patrick Olivier, Newcastle University Ramón Cáceres, AT&T Labs Research Sandro Rambaldi, University of Bologna Shin-ya Sato, NTT Network Innovation Labs Stephan Sigg, NII, Japan Teerayut Horanont, University of Tokyo Yoshihide Sekimoto, University of Tokyo Zbigniew Smoreda, Orange Labs

Organizing Committee ------------------------------------------------------------ Francesco Calabrese, IBM Research Santi Phithakkitnukoon, Newcastle University Dominik Dahlem, MIT, IBM Research Giusy Di Lorenzo, IBM Research

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