The 5th International Workshop on Urban Computing (UrbComp 2016)

August 14, 2016, San Francisco, California, USA

Held in conjunction with the 22th ACM SIGKDD 2016

Union Square 15/16, Hilton Hotel, San Francisco, USA

Important Dates

Paper submission
May 30, 2016 (extended)
Notification of acceptance
July 5, 2016 (extended)
Camera-ready copies due
July 12, 2016
Workshop date
August 14, 2016

Chairs

Program Co-Chairs
Yu Zheng
Microsoft Research, China
Zhenhui (Jessie) Li
Pen State University

General Co-Chairs
Alexandre Bayen
U.C. Berkeley
Ouri E. Wolfson
University of Illinois at Chicago
Qiang Yang

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Claudio T. Silva

New York University, USA

Past Rounds:

Full Papers

Reducing Inefficiencies in Taxi Systems
Chenguang Zhu (Stanford University), Balaji Prabhakar (Standford University)

CityBES: A Web-based Platform to Support City-Scale Building Energy Efficiency
Tianzhen Hong (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Yixing Chen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Sang Hoon Lee (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Mary Ann Piette (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Personalised Recommendations for Modes of Transport: A Sequence-based Approach
Gunjan Kumar (University College Dublin, Ireland), Houssem Jerbi (University College Dublin, Ireland), Michael P. O’Mahony (University College Dublin, Ireland)

Short Papers

Byproducts of Urban Infrastructure Interfaces: Evidence from Parking Compliance
Konstantinos Pelechrinis (University of Pittsburg)

Recognizing Cities from Google Street View - Computer Vision Analysis of Urban Visual Identity
Lezhi Li (Harvard University), Kang Qi Ian Lee (MIT), Jingwen Wei (MIT)

On the Dominant Role of Returners’ Human Mobility Networks on Urban Energy Consumption
Neda Mohammadi (Virginia Tech), John E Taylor (Virginia Tech)

Robustness and Resilience of cities around the world
Sofiane Abbar (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University), Tahar Zanouda (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University), Javier Borge Holthoefer (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)

Monitoring Manhattan's traffic from 5 cameras?
Siheng Chen (Carnegie Mellon University), Yaoqing Yang (Carnegie Mellon University), Jelena Kovacevic (Carnegie Mellon University), Christos Faloutsos (Carnegie Mellon University)

Estimating Evacuation Hotspots using GPS data: What happened after the large earthquakes in Kumamoto, Japan?
Takahiro Yabe (University of Tokyo), Kota Tsubouchi (Yahoo! Japan Research), Akihito Sudo (University of Tokyo), Yoshihide Sekimoto (University of Tokyo)

An Active Learning Framework Incorporating User Input For Mining Urban Data
Nikolaos Zygouras (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), Nikolaos E Panagiotou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), Nikos Zacheilas, Ioannis Boutsis (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece), Vana Kalogeraki (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece), Dimitrios Gunopulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)

Exploring Foursquare-derived features for crime prediction in New York City
Cristina Kadar (ETH Zurich), José Iria (Mobiliar), Irena Pletikosa Cvijikj (ETH Zurich)

Disaggregating Appliance-Level Energy Consumption: A Probabilistic Framework
Sabina Tomkins (University of California Santa Cruz), Lise Getoor (University of California Santa Cruz)