[AISWorld] [CFP] CityLab Workshop - collocated with ICWSM - 10 days left for the submission deadline

[Konstantinos Pelechrinis]

 C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S


The CityLab Workshop

(collocated with the 10th Intl. Conference on Web Social Media)



    17 May, 2016, Cologne, Germany


            http://citylab16.sis.pitt.edu


============ Updated information for Urban Beers ============


AIMS & TOPICS OF INTEREST:


This workshop aims into bringing together researchers and practitioners to
discuss and explore the research challenges and opportunities in applying
the web, the mobile, the pervasive and the social computing paradigm to
understand cities and, crucially, engage their citizens in an effort to
reclaim urban space for improving their quality of life. Our goal is to
create a better understanding of cities and a living lab for understanding
both technological and social phenomena. The interdisciplinary focus aims
into attracting and welcomes diverse researchers from social sciences and
information systems.


We are seeking multi-disciplinary contributions that reveal interesting
aspects about urban life and exploit the digital traces to create novel
citizen centric applications that benefit not only citizens, but also urban
planners and policy makers. This is especially important with many cities
now signing up for opportunities to participate in Living Labs or Smarter
Cities pilot programs, the need to discuss and evaluate where these
projects are going is highly topical at this time. Though the concept of
“smart cities” is widely popular, there is still no consensus on how to
pursue this goal. The workshop topics include, but are not limited to, the
following:




   - Improving understanding of the city through mining social media
   (including location-based services) in the urban context
   - Open data platforms
   - Urban crowdsourcing
   - Civic sensing technologies
   - Intelligent urban services
   - Use of social media to engage citizens, for example through
   gamification
   - Disaster recovery and coordination using social media
   - Modeling of human mobility
   - Use of social media to engage citizens
   - Visualization and interfaces to facilitate the exploration of urban
   data
   - Privacy and ethical concerns
   - Internet of Things (IoT) for cities
   - Mobilizing the community through social media
   - Pervasive applications for user interaction and data collection
   - Enabling citizen and NGO initiatives through social media
   - Digital Fabrication tools for adaptable cities



IMPORTANT DATES


Abstract Registration:              February 27, 2016

Notification of Acceptance:      March 11, 2016

Camera-ready Version Due:    March 17, 2016

Workshop Date:          May 17, 2016


URBAN BEERS


The workshop will include an "Urban Beers" session, which will bring
together the local community with the global network of researchers that
will participate in the workshop and allow for a productive idea exchange.
We welcome urban enthusiasts from all horizons (e.g., startups, academia,
local government) to share their stories and free beers. It will start with
a quick presentation from the local stakeholders as well as an 1-minute
madness-type presentation from the workshop authors and any other
participant that would like to do so. Let's share our ideas on all aspects
of technologically-enhanced urban life, related to its economics,
governance, sustainability and design! If you are interested in presenting
to the ``Urban Beers'' session of the workshop, please send your
presentation title and a brief intro about yourself to Kostas and Daniele.
To simply participate at the event, please visit the meetup page:
http://www.meetup.com/Koln-Urban-Beers-Meetup/events/228453439/ while more
details can be found here:
http://urbanbeers.tumblr.com/post/138278391005/urbanbeers-is-coming-to-cologne-on-may-17th



SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS


We solicit 6-pages research papers that will present original, previously
unpublished, research. All of the submissions should be in PDF format and
conform to the AAAI formatting guidelines.  All of the submissions will be
handled electronically. Each paper will be reviewed by several members of
the  program committee.



WORKSHOP CHAIRS


* Daniele Quercia

Bell Labs

Cambridge, UK

E-mail: quercia at acm.org


* Konstantinos Pelechrinis

School of Information Sciences

University of Pittsburgh, USA

E-mail: kpele at pitt.edu



PROGRAM COMMITTEE (PRELIMINARY)



   - Clio Andris (Penn State)
   - Francesco Calabrese (IBM Research)
   - Licia Capra (University College London)
   - Justin Cranshaw (Microsoft Research)
   - Theodoros Damoulas (University of Warwick)
   - Rosta Farzan (University of Pittsburgh)
   - Alison Heppenstall (University of Leeds)
   - Renaud Lambiotte (University of Namur)
   - Ed Manley (University College London)
   - Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge)
   - Mirco Musolesi (University College London)
   - Anastasios Noulas (Lancaster University)
   - Kerstin Sailer (University College London)
   - Raz Schwartz (Facebook)
   - Alex Singleton (University of Liverpool)
   - Max Sklar (Foursquare)





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Konstantinos Pelechrinis
Assistant Professor
School of Information Sciences
University of Pittsburgh
Web: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~kpele
Tel  : (412) 624 9417
Fax : (412) 624 2788
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