The First Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications (PURBA) - CALL FOR PAPERS

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FYI... may be of interest to some of you working with municipal open data

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


Submissions
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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.


Technical Program Committee
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Alexandre Gerber, AT&T Labs
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
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Francesco Calabrese, MIT, IBM Research
Santi Phithakkitnukoon, MIT, Newcastle University
Dominik Dahlem, MIT
Giusy Di Lorenzo, MIT, IBM Research

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