First International Workshop on Context-Aware Smart Cities and Intelligent Transport Systems

The First International Workshop on Context-Aware Smart Cities and Intelligent Transport Systems focuses on context-aware or data-driven smart cities and smart Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS).

This workshop is affiliated with IEEE PerCom 2016, held in Sydney (Australia),  March 14-18, 2016.

There have been tremendous emerging developments in sensor and context-driven and IoT-enabled (Internet of Things) smart cities and transportation, with applications for citizens, local authorities, communities, businesses,  and town planners.

Fleets of smart cars can be a distributed computational and sensing resource. Also, increasingly large crowds of people are being equipped with sensor-rich mobile and wearable devices, yielding Big Data arising from such environments, e.g., GPS data and social activity data, which can facilitate wide-scale crowdsensing and crowdsourcing, contributing towards data acquisition in smart city applications. With such data, both centralized analytics and decentralized analytics could play a key role in data sense-making and decision making. Also, such analysis can be combined with data from increasingly deployed fixed sensors or IoT infrastructure in the city.

Context-aware applications in the smart city are numerous, from transportation, energy, safety to low-carbon living. There are many context reasoning and data acquisition, analytics and knowledge management issues in ITS and smart cities, such as architectural and algorithmic issues, incentive mechanisms, energy-efficiency, data verification, cost-efficiency, urban data issues, data privacy and security, to name a few.

The outcome will be a collection of key papers in the area, providing a summary of current state-of-the-art as well as identifying directions for key research directions. We also hope to produce a post-workshop position paper providing a summary perspective and future directions for work in the area. A community of researchers and practitioners will also be created and nurtured via this workshop.