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:

Room: Union Square 15/16 in Hilton San Francisco Union Square (Map)

Each full paper has 25 minutes in total for presentation (20min) and Q&A (5min).
Each short paper has 13 minutes in total for presentation (10min) and Q&A (3min).

8:00-8:10	Opening and Welcome
8:10-9:05	Keynote: (50 minutes +5 minutesQA) Urban Simulation and Visualization Paul Waddell, U.C. Berkeley
9:05-10:00	Session 1 (105min): Urban Traffic Session Chair: Yu Zheng, Mcirosoft Research
9:05-9:18	[Short] Byproducts of Urban Infrastructure Interfaces: Evidence from Parking Compliance Konstantinos Pelechrinis (University of Pittsburg)
9:18-9:31	[Short] 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)
9:31-9:44	[Short] 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)
9:44-9:57	[Short] 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)
10:00-10:30	Coffee break
10:30-12:00	Session 2 (90min): Urban Development Session chair: Alexandre Bayen, U.C. Berkeley
10:30-11:20	Invited Talk: (45+5 minutes) Urban Computing: Using Big Data to Sovle Urban Challenges Spearker: Yu Zheng, Research Manager at Microsoft Research
11:20-11:45	[Full] Reducing Inefficiencies in Taxi Systems Chenguang Zhu (Stanford University), Balaji Prabhakar (Standford University)
11:45-11:58	[Short] 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)
12:00-13:30	Lunch Provided at
13:30-15:30	Session 3 (60min): Mining Human Mobility Session chair: Zhenhui Li, Pen State University
13:30-14:20	Invited talk (45+5 minutes): Distributed Learning Dynamics Convergence in Routing Games Spearker: Alexandre Bayen, Professor at U.C. Berkeley
14:20-14:45	[Full] Personalised Recommendations for Modes of Transport: A Sequence-based Approach Gunjan Kumar, Gunjan Kumar, Houssem Jerbi, Michael O'Mahony Gunjan Kumar (University College Dublin, Ireland), Houssem Jerbi (University College Dublin, Ireland), Michael P. O’Mahony (University College Dublin, Ireland)
14:45-14:58	[Short] 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)
14:58-15:11	[Short] Exploring Foursquare-derived features for crime prediction in New York City Cristina Kadar (ETH Zurich), José Iria (Mobiliar), Irena Pletikosa Cvijikj (ETH Zurich)
15:11-15:24	[Short] On the Dominant Role of Returners’ Human Mobility Networks on Urban Energy Consumption Neda Mohammadi (Virginia Tech), John E Taylor (Virginia Tech)
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break (30min)
16:00-17:20	Session 4 (60-90min): Urban Energy Session chair:
16:00-16:40	Invited Talk: Toward Semantic Understanding of Mobility Data (45+5minutes) Spearker: Zhenhui (Jessie) Li, Assist. Professor, Penn State University
16:40-17:05	[Full] 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)
17:05-17:18	[Short] Disaggregating Appliance-Level Energy Consumption: A Probabilistic Framework Sabina Tomkins (University of California Santa Cruz), Lise Getoor (University of California Santa Cruz)
	Closing