iASC 2014 - International Workshop on Information Access in Smart Cities (iASC)

Information Access in Smart Cities (iASC): Modern cities are becoming smart where a digital knowledge infrastructure is deployed by local authorities (e.g. City councils and municipalities) to better serve the information needs of their citizens, and to ensure sustainability and efficient use of power and resources. This knowledge infrastructure consists of a wide range of systems from low-level physical sensors to advanced sensing devices through social sensors. This proposed workshop will be a venue for research on digesting the city’s data streams and knowledge databases in order to serve the information needs of citizens and support decision making for local authorities. Possible use cases include helping tourists to find interesting places to go or activities to do while visiting a city, or assisting journalists in reporting local incidents. Indeed, this workshop will foster the development of new information access and retrieval models that can harness effectively and efficiently the large number of heterogeneous big data streams in a city to provide a new generation of information services.
By: M-Dyaa Albakour (University of Glasgow), Craig Macdonald (University of Glasgow), Iadh Ounis (University of Glasgow), Charles L. A. Clarke (University of Waterloo), Veli Bicer (IBM Research)