Important Dates

• Paper submission
• June 10, 2014 (PCT 11:59:59PM)
• Notification of acceptance
• June 28, 2014
• Camera-ready copies due
• July 10, 2014
• Workshop date
• August 24, 2014

Chairs

• Program Chair

• Yu Zheng

• Microsoft Research, China

• General Co-Chairs
• Steven E. Koonin
• New York University
• Ouri E. Wolfson
• University of Illinois at Chicago

• Charlie Catlett

  University of Chicago

  Jiawei Han

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

   

  UrbComp 2012

  UrbComp 2013

News

• Venue: 29W Auditorium, Bloomberg Headquarters, 731 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10022 (direction from Sheraton)
• Invited Speakers

       Charlie Catlett, Urban Center for Computation and Data

       Steven E. Koonin, Center of Urban Science and Progress    

      Ouri E. Wolfson , University of Illinois at Chicago

      Yu Zheng, Microsoft Research, China

• Notification Sent. June 28, 2014.
• Submission deadline has been extended to June 10, 2014!
• Sending Call For Papers.
• Website launched (April 17, 2014)

Aims and Scope

Urbanization’s rapid progress has led to many big cities, which have modernized people’s lives but also engendered big challenges, such as air pollution, increased energy consumption and traffic congestion. Tackling these challenges can seem nearly impossible years ago given the complex and dynamic settings of cities. Nowadays, sensing technologies and large-scale computing infrastructures have produced a variety of big data in urban spaces, e.g. human mobility, air quality, traffic patterns, and geographical data. The big data implies rich knowledge about a city and can help tackle these challenges when used correctly.

Urban computing [1] is a process of acquisition, integration, and analysis of big and heterogeneous data generated by a diversity of sources in urban spaces, such as sensors, devices, vehicles, buildings, and human, to tackle the major issues that cities face, e.g. air pollution, increased energy consumption and traffic congestion. Urban computing connects unobtrusive and ubiquitous sensing technologies, advanced data management and analytics models, and novel visualization methods, to create win-win-win solutions that improve urban environment, human life quality, and city operation systems. Urban computing also helps us understand the nature of urban phenomena and even predict the future of cities.

Some representative projects and literatures can be found from this website.

[1] Yu Zheng, Licia Capra, Ouri Wolfson, Hai Yang. Urban Computing: concepts, methodologies, and applications. ACM Trans. on Intelligent Systems and Technology. 2014 

This workshop provides the professionals, researchers, and practitioners who are interested in sensing/mining/understanding urban data with a platform where they can discuss and share the state-of-the-art of urban computing development and applications, present their ideas and contributions, and set future directions in emerging innovative research for urban computing.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following aspects :

• Urban informatics: acquisition, aggregation, and analysis of  big data

• City-wide traffic modeling, visualization, analysis, and prediction

• City-wide human mobility modeling, visualization, and understanding

• Urban computing for urban planning and city configuration evaluation

• Urban environment/pollution/energy consumption monitoring and data analysis

• City-wide intelligent transportation systems

• Anomaly detection and event discovery in a city

• Social behavior modeling, understanding, and patterns mining in urban spaces

• Discover regions of interests and regions of different functions

• Mining public transportation data, such as ticketing data in bus and subway systems, road pricing data, and taxi data

• City-wide mobile social applications in urban areas

• Location-based social networks enabling urban computing scenarios

• Smart recommendations in urban spaces

• Intelligent delivery services in cities

• Mining data from the Internet of Things in urban areas