-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [MM-INTEREST] The First Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications (PURBA) - CALL FOR PAPERS Datum: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:33:25 +0000 Von: Francesco Calabrese fcalabre@MIT.EDU Antwort an: fcalabre@MIT.EDU An: MM-INTEREST@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PURBA 2011 - CALL FOR PAPERS

The First Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications (PURBA) In conjunction with Pervasive 2011 San Francisco | June 12-15, 2011

http://purba.mit.edu

Submission Deadline: February 4, 2011

Selected extended papers will be considered for possible fast track publication in the PERVASIVE AND MOBILE COMPUTING (PMC) journal published by Elsevier.

The IBM award is given to the best student paper presented at the PURBA 2011 workshop. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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 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 2011 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.

Important Dates ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission deadline: February 4, 2011 Paper acceptance notifications: March 11, 2011

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 by at least three reviewers and judged on originality, technical correctness, relevance, and quality of presentation by the Program Committee. All accepted submissions must be presented during the workshop.

Selected extended papers will be considered for possible fast track publication in the PERVASIVE AND MOBILE COMPUTING (PMC) journal published by Elsevier. Note, that extended papers must provide significant additional material compared to the workshop submission.

Award ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The IBM award is given to the best student paper presented at the PURBA 2011 workshop, to acknowledge and encourage excellence in research by students.

Eligibility for the award is restricted to papers whose primary author and presenter is a registered student at the time of paper submission.

THE PAPER MUST BE IDENTIFIED AS A STUDENT PAPER AT THE TIME OF SUBMISSION to be considered for the award.

The awardee will be presented with a certificate and a monetary award at the workshop.

Technical Program Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alexandre Gerber, AT&T Labs Carlo Ratti, MIT Carlos Bento, Universidade de Coimbra Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge Chandra Narayanaswami, IBM Research Daniele Quercia, University of Cambridge Deborah Estrin, UCLA Dino Pedreschi, Universita di Pisa Elizabeth Daly, IBM Research Fabien Girardin, Lift Lab Fosca Giannotti, CNR-Pisa Francisco Pereira, Universidade de Coimbra Hedda Rahel Schmidtke, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology John Krumm, Microsoft Research Jon Reades, UCL Licia Capra, UCL Marco Conti, CNR-Pisa Marco Veloso, Universidade de Coimbra Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology Massimo Colonna, Telecom Italia Markus Schlapfer, ETH Zurich Mauro Martino, Northeastern University Mike Batty, UCL Milind Naphade, IBM Research Mirco Musolesi, University of St. Andrews Olivier Verscheure, IBM Research Patrick Olivier, Newcastle University Ramon Caceres, AT&T Labs Rex Britter, MIT Rob Claxton, British Telecom Sandro Rambaldi, University of Bologna Sergio Savaresi, Politecnico di Milano Shin-ya Sato, NTT Network Innovation Labs Stephan Sigg, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Surapa Thiemjarus, SIIT, Thailand Teerayut Horanont, University of Tokyo Thomas Ploetz, Newcastle University Yoshihide Sekimoto, University of Tokyo Zbigniew Smoreda, Orange Labs

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