-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Call for Papers: The first international workshop on Vehicular Traffic Management for Smart Cities (VTM 2012) Datum: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:18:33 +0100 Von: Soufiene Djahel sdjahel@gmail.com An: tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu

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CALL FOR PAPERS

VTM 2012 First International Workshop on Vehicular Traffic Management for Smart Cities

November 20, 2012, Dublin, Ireland http://www.wireless-days.org/vtm.html

IEEE and IFIP Technical Co-sponsorship

Workshop proceedings will be included in IEEE Xplore

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Important Dates: ================

Submission deadline: August 25, 2012 Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2012 Camera-ready version: October 20, 2012

VTM 2012 is part of Dublin Wireless Week (November 19-23) and is co-located with the 2012 Wireless Days conference

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Scope: ======

The rapid growth of the number of cars on the roads has created a plethora of challenges for road traffic management authorities such as, traffic congestion, increasing number of accidents, air pollution, etc. Over the last years, researchers from both industry and academia were focusing their efforts on exploiting the advances in sensing and communication technologies to make the existing road traffic management systems more efficient. Their main goal is to improve the traveler's safety, shorten the travel time and reduce the environmental impact. Road traffic management for smart cities involves monitoring the actual traffic situation in real-time (including volumes, speeds, incidents, etc.) and then controlling or influencing the flow using that information in order to reduce traffic congestion, deal efficiently with incidents and provide accurate and reliable traffic information and prediction to both drivers and authorities. This workshop aims at bringing together researchers, scientists and engineers from various research communities, as well as practitioners and administrators who face the challenges of traffic management in smart cities. They are all welcome to present their latest research findings, ideas, simulation tools and applications at the 2012 VTM workshop.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Vehicular traffic management - V2V and V2I protocols for smart cities - Data collection techniques in urban environment - Data acquisition for traffic management (techniques, algorithms, data types, etc.) - Data integration in traffic management systems (semantics, interoperability, linked data, etc.) - Traffic data maintenance (privacy, provenance, security, etc.) - Distributed simulations for large scale urban environments - Vehicular routing protocols and road traffic prediction mechanisms - Wireless Sensor Networks, Wireless mesh Networks and VANETs applications for traffic management in smart cities - Mobility and vehicular traffic measurement, modeling, and simulation - Security and QoS issues for ITS applications - V2X feasibility over LTE Networks - M2M communication for data collection in road environment - Mobile applications for intelligent traffic management - Vehicular Sensor Networks (VSNs) applications for road traffic management - Decision making tools for road traffic management

Main Sponsor:

Lero, The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre

Papers Submission: ==================

Submissions should be original and limited to 6 double-column pages and should follow IEEE paper templates. Papers are to be submitted electronically on the EDAS web site of the workshop in PDF format.

http://edas.info/N13137

General Chairs ========================================================= Georgios Theodoropoulos, IBM Research, Ireland Siobhan Clarke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland T. Russell Hsing, Peking University, China, and Jiao Tung University, Taiwan

TPC Chairs: ============================

Soufiene Djahel, University College Dublin, Ireland Piotr Szczechowiak , Telcordia/Ericsson, Poland Anthony Ventresque, University College Dublin, Ireland

Organizing Committee: ==================== John Fitzpatrick, University College Dublin, Ireland Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée and ENSIIE, France Hamid Nafaa, University College Dublin, Ireland John Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland Liam Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland

Tentative list of TPC members: =============

Zonghua Zhang, Institute Telecom Lille1, France Yassine Hadjadj Aoul, IRISA, France Mélanie Bouroche, TCD, Ireland Krzysztof Weso?owski, PUT, Poland Mourad Amad, University of Bejaia, Algeria Onur Altintas, Toyota ITC, Japan Dalil Moad, City Passenger, France Mohamed Hamdi, Sup'Com, Tunisia Ghalem Boudour, LIG-CNRS, France Yacine Ghamri Doudane, ENSIIE, France Raquel Morera, Verizon, USA Lyes Khoukhi, University of Troyes, France Oscar Lazaro, Innovalia, Spain Nabil Nouri Abdelkader, University of Djelfa, Algeria T. Russell Hsing, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Saïd Gharout, Orange Labs, France Djamel Djenouri, CERIST Research Center, Algeria Xiang Cheng, Peking University, China Toyotaro Suzumura, IBM Research - Tokyo/Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Elvis Sze-Yeung Liu, University of Birmingham, UK Intesab Hussain, LIPADE, France Mikael Asplund, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Francesco Calabrese, Smarter Urban Dynamics, IBM Research, Ireland

See http://www.wireless-days.org/vtm.html