SmartCities 2015 - First International Workshop on Smart Cities: People, Technology and Data

The First International Workshop on Smart Cities: People, Technology and Data will be organised as a workshop in conjunction with 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2015) September 7, 2015, in Osaka, JAPAN.
Cities are not machines, yet too many Smart City projects focus on efficiency and optimization and treat people as mindless users of technology. This workshop will focus on the complex interplay between technologies, data and citizens, exploring how citizens can be engaged to co-design Smart City services and how technology can be harnessed to meet their needs. By soliciting experiences papers from leading Smart City testbeds, and then encouraging detailed discussion by practitioners, we aim to develop guidelines and lessons that will grow the Smart City Community.
The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners both from academia and industries with the goal to discuss, identify and share experiences surrounding construction of smart city systems, city context analysis, its applications and actual deployment experiences. Cities are experiencing significant challenges such as efficient energy management, economic growth and development, security and quality of life of their citizens. The Ubicomp community, with it’s broad focus on both technologies and user centric issues, will ensure fruitful discussion on the future direction of the smart city research from the point of view of the intersection among people, technology and data.
We hope that the workshop will contribute to establish a research community in the smart city research area with a focus on people, technology and data. The expected outcomes are:
Survey of the state of the art of smart city technologies ? systems, middleware and data collection/analysis method.
Sharing knowledge and experiences of practical smart city projects/challenges. This includes the various ideas of people-centric applications and use cases.
The future direction of the smart city research from the point of view of the intersection among people, technology and data.
magnifyingglassTopics of the Workshop
The workshop is intended to be a forum to share the experiences about smart city technologies and it’s applications. The main topics of the workshop can be categorized as:
Smart City Systems, Middleware and Networking: Smart Cities offer unique problems for system researchers. A combination of highly distributed, loosely coupled and deeply heterogeneous infrastructure often operating as vertically integrated silos requires a system of systems approach. When coupled with a focus on participatory and user-in-the-loop citizen engagement, researchers are forced to re-examine key aspects of the system design. The workshop will explore technologies and deployment experiences aiming to offer lessons and best practices for future research.
Smart City Data Collection and Analysis: New types of data collection and analysis technologies/methodologies are required to create people/citizen-centric services. Specifically, not only existing participatory sensing and opportunistic sensing, but also other types of new sensing approaches will be discussed in this workshop. Such data can be characterized as spatio-temporal data with uncertain and incomplete observations. Then the challenge is to develop data analysis technologies including interpolation (predicting in space) and extrapolation (predicting in time), anomaly detection, effective data fusion and causal analysis across heterogeneous data collections.
Smart City Application and Field Experiences: Smart city applications need to be validated in real-world environments involving citizens in the entire application development chain: from the identification of use cases, technical requirements and citizens insights to the evaluation and validation of those applications by the citizens themselves. The workshop invites papers sharing results of smart city applications and experimentations performed in lab and at city scale, in particular with real user involvement. Not only technical validation, but also assessment results of non-technical aspects such as usage, social acceptance, privacy or ethics related issues are particularly encouraged. We also encourage work whose approach understands that cities are places where people live, enjoy and work and ICT is there to increase the quality of their life.