[PlanetKR] Call For Papers - AAAI 2014 Semantic Cities Workshop

Sheila McIlraith sheila at cs.toronto.edu
Wed Mar 26 04:12:42 EST 2014


Call for Papers:

The AAAI 2014 Workshop on
    Semantic Cities: Beyond Open Data to Models, Standards and Reasoning
Québec City, Québec, Canada; July 27-31, 2014,

Web Site: http://research.ihost.com/semanticcities14/index.html

Submission Site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semcities14
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Description

Cities are realizing that opening access to their many data sources and 
using semantic models to provide a holistic view of this heterogeneous 
data can unleash economic growth, optimize their operational and strategic 
goals while addressing computational sustainability issues. We call the 
cities committed to a semantic infrastructure as a way to integrate, 
analyze and standardize access to their open data, "Semantic Cities".

A number of cities (e.g., London, Chicago, Washington D.C., Dublin) have 
made their data publicly available leveraging the technologies and 
principles from Open (Linked) Data and the Semantic Web, interconnecting 
heterogeneous data. These technologies, principles and good practices are 
maturing and are becoming a perfect playfield for research-grade, scalable 
and robust AI techniques.

This workshop aims to bring clarity and foster the communication among AI 
researchers, domain experts and city and local government officials. In 
that context, we want to:
1.Provide a forum for sharing best-practices and pragmatic concerns among 
both AI researchers and domain experts.
2.Draw the attention of the AI community to the research challenges and 
opportunities in semantic cities.
3.Foster the development of standard ontologies for city knowledge.
4.Discuss the multi-disciplinary and synergistic nature of the different 
sub-domains of semantic cities e.g., transportation, energy, water 
management, building, infrastructure, healthcare
5.Identify the technical and pragmatic challenges needed to mature the 
technologies behind Semantic Cities. E.g., since governments and citizens 
are involved, data security and privacy are key concerns that need to be 
addressed before others.
6.Elaborate a (semantic data) benchmark for testing AI techniques on 
semantic cities.

We encourage submissions that show the application of AI technologies to 
the publication and use of city open data, and how to create a 
computationally sustainable, economically viable information ecosystems. 
We want to include  work that either discusses the advancement of 
foundational technologies in Semantic Cities  (information and knowledge 
management, ontologies and inference models, data integration, etc.), or 
illustrates use cases, or addresses the unique characteristics of standard 
AI to solve sustainability problems, like optimization, reasoning, 
planning and learning.

We also encourage submissions from communities engaged in open data and 
corresponding standardization efforts, not necessarily within the AI 
community.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1.Semantic platforms to integrate, manage and publish government data
Provenance, access control and privacy-preserving issues in open data
Collaborative and evolving semantic models for cities. Challenges and 
lessons learned.
Semantic data integration and organization in cities: social media feeds, 
sensor data, simulation models and Internet of things in city models.
Big data and scaling out in Semantic cities. Managing big data using 
knowledge representation models
Knowledge acquisition, evolution and maintenance of city data
Challenges with managing and integrating real-time and historical city 
data

2.Process and standards for defining, publishing and sharing open city 
(government) data
Platforms and best practices for city data interoperability
Foundational and applied ontologies for semantic cities

3.Robust inference models for semantic cities
Large-scale / stream-based reasoning
Semantic event detection and classification
Spatio-temporal reasoning, analysis and visualization

4.City applications involving semantic model
Intelligent user interfaces and contextual user exploration of semantic 
data relating to cities
Use cases, including, but not limited to, transportation (traffic 
prediction, personal travel optimization, carpool and fleet scheduling), 
public safety (suspicious activity detection, disaster management), 
healthcare (disease diagnosis and prognosis, pandemic management), water 
management (flood prevision, quality monitoring, fault diagnosis), food 
(food traceability, carbon-footprint tracking), energy (smart grid, carbon 
footprint tracking, electricity consumption forecasting) and buildings 
(energy conservation, fault detections).

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Workshop Series

The workshop continues the workshop on semantic cities at AAAI 2012, IJCAI 
2013, whose attendees backgrounds included Knowledge Representation, AI 
Planning and scheduling, Multi-Agent Systems, Constraints Satisfiability 
and Search.

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Workshop Details

Workshop Format: The workshop will consist of papers, poster 
presentations, demonstrations, a panel, an invited talk, and discussion 
sessions, in a one full day schedule. The invited talk will invite a 
leading expert in the field to present their research and vision of future 
work. The panel will focus on connecting the AI researchers to the various 
challenges that the targeted domain brings. The schedule will follow the 
schedule of the 2012 and 2013 editions, all grouped by topic and type 
(invited talk, long, short and demonstration papers, panel).

Submission Guidelines: Papers must be formatted in AAAI two-column, 
camera-ready style. Regular research papers (submitted and final), which 
present a significant contribution, may be no longer than 7 pages, where 
page 7 must contain only references, and no other text whatsoever. Short 
papers (submitted and final), which describe a position on the topic of 
the workshop or a demonstration/tool, may be no longer than 4 pages, 
references included.

Submission site: Papers are to be submitted online at 
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semcities14. We request 
interested authors to login and submit abstracts as an expression of 
interest before the actual deadline.

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Important Dates

April 10, 2014: Paper Submission Deadline
May 1, 2014: Notification Decision
May 15, 2014: Camera Ready Due
July 27-28, 2014: Workshop date

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The Organizers

Co-Chairs:

Mark Fox (primary point of contact)
Enterprise Integration Laboratory
University of Toronto
Email: msf at eil dot utoronto dot ca

Freddy Lecue (primary point of contact)
IBM Research Smarter Cities Technology Centre, Dublin, Ireland
Email : freddy lecue at ie dot ibm dot com

Sheila McIlraith
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
Email: Sheila at cs dot Toronto dot edu

Biplav Srivastava
IBM Research, India
Email: sbiplav  at in dot ibm dot com

Rosario Uceda-Sosa
IBM T.J. Watson
Email: rosariou at us dot ibm dot com
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