CDMW 2012 - City Data Management 2012 Workshop (CDMW 2012)

The workshop aims to provide a forum to discuss challenges and opportunities of city data management and to promote interaction among experts. In this regard, main objectives include: i) Positioning of the city data management topic among the other types of data management (e.g. enterprise, Web) by identifying the unique characteristics of city data (e.g. heterogeneity, openness, geospatially, privacy, data source etc.) and by listing the requirements for managing such data. ii) Showing how the particular challenges (e.g. urban planning, resource optimization, emergency evacuation, transportation planning) of cities can be addressed by the information contained within the vast amount of available heterogeneous city data. iii) Drawing a parallel between the topics of city data management and the topics of the major tracks of CIKM (e.g. DB, IR, KM) will be a third objective of the workshop. The main outcome will be to produce a roadmap and a community of researchers interested in this topic in order to guide further developments and technological progress towards smarter cities.
Veli Bicer (IBM Research - Smarter Cities Technology Centre, Dublin, Ireland)
Thanh Tran (Institute AIFB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany)
Opher Etzion (IBM Research - Haifa Lab, Haifa, Israel)
Fatma Ozcan (IBM Research - Almaden Lab, San Jose, CA, US)
http://km.aifb.kit.edu/ws/cdmw12/