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CALL FOR PAPERS: 5th Workshop on Semantics for Smarter Cities Call For
Papers: http://blog.soton.ac.uk/s4sc/
collocated with the 13th International Semantic Web Conference – Riva del
Garda, Italy, 20 October, 2014.
**Best papers from the Workshop will be considered for publication in the
forthcoming Semantic Web Journal Special Issue on “The Role of Semantics in
Smart Cities”.**
Important Dates (All deadlines are Hawaii time)
**16.07.2014 – Extension of full paper submission deadline**
31.07.2014 – notification of acceptance
25.08.2014 – submission of camera ready version
20.10.2014 – Workshop date
CityPulse-sponsored 300 EUR Prize will be awarded to the Best Demonstration
paper or experiment.
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5th Workshop on Semantics for Smarter Cities Call For Papers
collocated with the 13th International Semantic Web Conference – Riva del
Garda, Italy, 20 October, 2014.
The world’s population is rapidly urbanizing. By 2005, the world’s
population had increased to 6.5 billion, with about 50% living in cities.
By 2025, UN projections show that the world population is expected to
exceed 9 billion with roughly 75% expected to live in cities. This rapid
urbanization is continuing to put tremendous pressure on traditional urban
infrastructures, such as roads, water, and energy, and on societal
institutions. This urbanization challenges require new approaches that will
transform modern cities to comfortable, economically successful, and
environmentally responsible habitats.
We are also seeing a rapid rise in the connection and usage of billions of
low-end and affordable smart devices to the Internet, i.e. the Internet of
Things, and witnessing the expansion of the Web into more areas of our
personal lives. These trends make possible a new generation of smart city
applications and services, with new smart city applications emerging as
more data from different sources (e.g. from utility services, transport
services, environmental data, and from social sensing) become available.
These smart city data are large in volume, multi-modal, vary in quality,
formats, and representation forms. These data need to be processed,
aggregated, and higher-level abstractions need to be created from these
data to make them suitable for the event processing and , knowledge
extraction methods that enable intelligent applications and services for
smart city platforms. Semantic Web technologies and Linked Data together
with data analytics solutions play a key role in providing
inter-operability, association analysis, information and knowledge
extractions, and reasoning about trust, privacy, provenance, and security
in smart city frameworks.
Scope and Objectives
This workshop will explore the interfaces between the Web, the Web of Data,
and the City Smart environment. It will further explore how the Web, and
the intelligences built on top of, and around the Web, can make the notion
of the Smart Connected City possible and realizable.
The workshop aims to gather researchers, city departments, service
providers, application developers, entrepreneurs, and citizens to present
and debate Semantic Web technologies, Linked Data and data analytics and
evaluations for smart city applications as well as impact of user
engagements and social networks. The workshop will also focus on related
standardization activities in W3C, IEEE and ETSI.
It continues on from the successful earlier workshops on the same theme at
AAAI 12 (http://research.ihost.com/semanticcities12/),
IJCAI 13 (http://research.ihost.com/semanticcities13/),
SemCity13 (http://aida.ii.uam.es/wims13/semcity.php), and
AAAI 14 (http://research.ihost.com/semanticcities14/).
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
1. Semantic platforms to integrate, manage and publish smart city data
Provenance, access control and privacy-preserving issues in open data
Collaborative and evolving semantic models for cities. Challenges and
lessons learned
Semantic data integration and organization in cities: social media feeds,
sensor data, simulation models and Internet of things in city models
Big data and scaling out in semantic cities. Managing big data using
knowledge representation models
Knowledge acquisition, evolution and maintenance of city data
Challenges with managing and integrating real-time and historical city
data.
2. Process and standards for defining, publishing and sharing open city
data
Platforms and best practices for city data inter-operability
Foundational and applied ontologies for semantic cities.
3. Robust inference models for semantic cities
Large-scale stream reasoning
Semantic event detection and classification
Spatio-temporal reasoning, analysis and visualization.
4. City applications involving semantic models
Intelligent user interfaces and contextual user exploration of semantic
data relating to cities
Use cases, including, but not limited to, transportation (traffic
prediction, personal travel optimization, carpool and fleet scheduling),
public
safety (suspicious activity detection, disaster management), healthcare
(disease diagnosis and prognosis, pandemic management), water management
(flood prevention, quality monitoring, fault diagnosis), food (food
traceability, carbon-footprint tracking), energy (smart grid, carbon
footprint tracking, electricity consumption forecasting) and buildings
(energy conservation, fault detections)
5. City as a Smart Utility
Internet of Things
Interaction paradigms in the Smart City
Smart City operating systems
Semantic Complex Event Processing
City services discovery
Service ranking, provenance, and data discovery
Submission Types and Publication
For providing a forum for sharing novel ideas, SSC’14 welcomes a broad
spectrum of contributions, including for example:
Full research papers
Position papers
Case studies
Descriptions of experiments
Evaluations
How to submit
Authors of accepted works are expected to attend the conference to present
their work. The maximum length of:
Short papers, up to 6 pages
Full Research papers, up to 16 pages
Position papers, up to 4 pages
Case Studies papers, up to 16 pages
Demo papers, and descriptions of experiments, including evaluation reports,
(up to 16 pages).
Submissions to the Demo track should describe what will be demonstrated
(this may include screenshots and sample script for the demo). Authors are
encouraged to include a link to where the demo (live or recorded video) can
be found. Authors are advised to make clear in their submission:
What is the research background and application context of the
demonstration?
What are the key technologies used, and how does the demonstrated system,
application or infrastructure relate to pre-existing work?
What will be the key concepts learnt by participants of the demonstration?
***CityPulse-sponsored Best Prize will be awarded to the Best Demonstration
paper or experiment.***
Submissions must be in PDF formatted in the style of the Springer
Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For
details of the LNCS style, see Springer’s Author Instructions.
Paper submissions to be made electronically through the EasyChair
submission system at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssc14
Important Dates (All deadlines are Hawaii time)
16.07.2014 – full paper submission deadline
31.07.2014 – notification of acceptance
25.08.2014 – submission of camera ready version
20.10.2014 – Workshop date
Organizing Committee
Payam Barnaghi, University of Surrey, UK
Jan Holler, Ericsson, Sweden
Biplav Srivastava, IBM Research, India
John Davies, BT, UK
John Breslin, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Tope Omitola, University of Southampton, UK
Advisors
Manfred Hauswirth, National University of Ireland, Ireland
Amit Sheth, Wright State University, USA
Mark Fox, University of Toronto, Canada
Ralf Tonjes, University of Applied Science Osnabrück, Germany
Programme Committee
Konstantinos Vandikas, Ericsson, Sweden
Andreas Emrich, DFKI, Germany
Benoit Christophe, Bell Labs – Nozay, France
Cosmin-Septimiu Nechifor, Siemens, Romania
Rosairo Usceda-Sosa, IBM
Mirko Presser, Alexandra Institute, Denmark
Alessandra Mileo, National University of Ireland in Galway, Ireland
Herwig Schreiner, Siemens, Austria
Vlasios Tsiatsis, Ericsson, Sweden
Pirabakaran Navaratnam, University of Surrey, UK
Sebastian Rios, University of Chile, Chile
Robert Schloss, IBM T.J. Watson, USA
Stefan Schulte, The University of Vienna, Austria
Alistair Duke, BT, UK
Freddy Lecue, IBM
Monika Solanki, Aston University, UK
Taha Osman, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Pramod Anantharam, Knoesis, Wright State University, USA
Spyros Kotoulas, IBM Research, Smarter Cities Technology Centre, Dublin,
Ireland
Jose Manuel Gomez Prez, iSOCO, Spain
John Goodwin, Ordnance Survey, UK
Received on Saturday, 5 July 2014 22:43:19 UTC