CMAS-City 2015 - IEEE ISM Workshop on Cloud-based Media Applications and Services for Smart Cities (CMAS-City2015)

Smart Cities is the vision of augmented environment with instrumented, inter-connected and intelligent urban ‘Systems of Systems’ to generate actionable information intelligence for better decision making and planning. It aims to improve the quality of life of citizens by providing smart transportation, energy, public safety, education, asset management, social and other services. Multimedia plays an indispensable role with the ever increasing presence of multimodal sensors in smart cities infrastructure; collaboration among different organizations; and media sharing among socially connected people. Consequently, huge volume of smart city data such as sensor media, social media, M2M data, IoT data, open data, and mobile phone data are at stake to be effectively useful and usable by citizens, city government, and businesses.The processing and analysis of these media data requires rich pool of resources,on-demand resource provision, and scalable infrastructure that are fundamental to the emerging cloud computing solutions. With virtually unlimited resource availability and utilization when needed, multimedia computing over the cloud provides opportunities for the development of new breed of multimedia applications and services to fulfill the requirements of smart city residents.
Despite the many opportunities media cloud computing can offer, there are several challenges that are the talk of the research community and the core focus of this workshop. Some of these challenges include: How to realize rich and real-time media cloud applications for smart cities? How to guarantee cloud-based media applications to be always-on and massively scalable? What are the best strategies for dynamic resource allocation in media cloud environment to support smart city services? What are the efficient mechanisms for cloud-based secure data exchange policies? How to best integrate different systems of systems on media cloud platform to provide support for smart city residents? In general, this workshop seeks original research papers providing insights into smart city needs, processes, services and frameworks using Cloud-based software solutions.The topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following:
- Multimedia cloud computing for smart cities
- Cloud-based real-time media applications for smart cities
- Cloud-based data distribution services for smart cities
- Cloud-based virtual reality applications for smart cities
- Sensor-cloud for multimedia processing in smart cities
- Cloud-based situation awareness for smart cities
- Mobile media cloud computing for smart cities
- Cloud-based systems-of-systems for smart cities
- Multimedia big data analytic on smart city cloud
- Multimedia IoT Cloud services for smart cities
- Security and privacy of Media cloud services in smart cities
- Cloud-based service recommendation in smart cities
- Cloud-based publish-subscribe system for smart cities
- QoE/QoS in cloud-based media services for smart cities
- Performance modeling of cloud-based services in smart cities
- Cloud-based Real-time monitoring and management in smart cities
- Cloud-based media service framework for smart cities
- Saas, PaaS and IaaS for smart city applications and services