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1st Workshop on
Understanding the City with Urban Informatics (UCUI 2015)
in conjunction with CIKM 2015

Call for participation in Urban Informatics Data Challenge

https://sites.google.com/site/ucui2015/
23 October 2015, Melbourne, Australia
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IMPORTANT DATES

Data challenge participation papers due: 28 September 2015
Notification of acceptance: 5 October 2015
Camera-ready date: 12 October 2015
Workshop date: 23rd October 2015


OVERVIEW

As part of the workshop, we are providing access to newly published
datasets relating to the iMCD project of the University of Glasgow's
Urban Big Data Centre. This represents a unique opportunity to
facilitate the comparison of approaches across a number of
heterogeneous datasets, which were simultaneously collected over a
fixed period of time, from various resources, including the
Internet-based visual (Flickr) and textual (Twitter and News) media
collections as well as environmental data about Glasgow. Authors may
submit papers that use either one or many of these datasets,
potentially supplemented by their own datasets.

DESCRIBE THE CHALLENGE:

Using the provided datasets, we are setting up a challenge to do two
tasks: (I) Post-hoc Event Detection and (II) Open Task.

The Post-hoc Event Detection task is to predict the events that are
occurring in Glasgow city within the first two weeks of June 2015.
Participants should consider the first week of June as a training data
and the second week as a testing data for this task.

For the Open Task, participants are free to perform any task desired
with the data, provided that they cite the workshop. The authors can
also report what they have done in a UCUI data challenge paper.

The workshop organisers will choose the best papers for presentation
during the workshop.

DATASETS FOR THE CHALLENGE:

The dataset collected for the UCUI’15 Urban Informatics data challenge
can be downloaded from
https://www.dropbox.com/s/90iijatfr0jw1ch/UCUI_DataChallenge_Data.tar.bz2?dl=0.
This dataset consists of data collected from four data sources namely
(1) Social Media, (2) News, (3) Environmental Data, and (4) Flickr as
well as a Readme.txt file with all required information about the
data.


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We welcome data challenge papers as follows:

Data challenge papers should not exceed 2 pages (including references
and figures) and be formatted in the standard ACM conference format,
with a two-column layout and must be submitted electronically in
printable PDF format through the Easy Chair submission page:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucui2015. All submitted papers
must be original and previously unpublished.

The participation papers will not be peer-reviewed. The workshop
organisers will examine the quality of the submissions. The
participation papers will be published on the workshop website and the
authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their papers at
the workshop.

The deadline for data challenge papers is September 28.


ORGANIZERS

* Yashar Moshfeghi (University of Glasgow)
* Iadh Ounis (University of Glasgow)
* Craig Macdonald (University of Glasgow)
* Joemon M. Jose (University of Glasgow)
* Peter Triantafillou (University of Glasgow)
* Mark Livingston (University of Glasgow)
* Piyushimita Thakuriah (University of Glasgow)


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