International Workshop on Semantic Technology for Smarter Cities (STSC2013)

http://wasp.cs.vu.nl/stsc/stsc2013/

The notion of smarter cities has been introduced as a strategic device to encompass modern urban production factors in a common framework and to highlight the growing importance of Information and Communication Technologies, social and environmental capital in profiling the competitiveness of cities. Smart cities drive sustainable economic growth and prosperity for their citizens. Their leaders have the tools to analyze data for better decisions, anticipate problems to resolve them proactively and coordinate resources to operate effectively. That appeals for new technology for urban computing to deal with large scale, heterogeneous, noisy, dynamic, and inconsistent data.

The semantic technology provides an effect and efficient solution for the data interoperability in urban computing to build smart cities. This international workshop on Semantic Technology for Smart Cities (STSC) is designed to be a discussion forum for researchers who are interested in the research and development of semantic technology for applications in urban computing.

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Event Information
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The list of the covered topics includes but not limited to:

    Development of semantic applications in urban computing
    Semantic infrastructure for smart cities
    Intelligent transportation systems
    Geographic semantic data processing and reasoning
    Linking geographic data
    Traffic predication and route planning
    Semantic systems for road sign management
    Reasoning and processing with noisy and inconsistent data
    Scalable data processing for urban computing
    Decision support systems for urban computing
    Information services for smart cities

The workshop will take place during the 14th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE2013), October 13th-15th, Nanjing, China, as a full-day event.

Please note that for every accepted paper at least one of the authors must attend the workshop and must register for the workshop and the main conference. Submission of a paper is not required for attendance at the workshop. However, in the event that the workshop cannot accommodate all who would like to participate, those who have submitted a paper will be given priority.

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Important Dates
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July 18th, 2013, Submission of papers

August 18th, 2013, Notification of acceptance

Sept 10th, 2013, Camera-ready version due

Oct 13th, 2013, Workshop

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Organization
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Chairs

    Tony Lee, Saltlux Inc., Seoul, South Korea
    Jun Fang, School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
    Zhisheng Huang, Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Program Committee
(to be completed)

    Spyros Kotoulas, the Smarter Cities Technology Center, IBM Ireland
    Frank van Harmelen, Vrije University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
    Yi Huang, Siemens, Germany
    Haofen Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
    Zhiqiang Gao, Southeast University, China
    Alexey Cheptsov, High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany
    Jiancheng Weng, Beijing University of Technology, China
    Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
    Zengyu Duan, Tongji University, China
    Dongyuan Yang, Tongji University, China
    Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China
    Qinghua Liu, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, China
    Zhi Wang, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, China
    Tony Lee, Saltlux Inc., Seoul, South Korea
    Jun Fang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
    Zhisheng Huang, Vrije University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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Submissions
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The workshop invites full papers (up to 14 pages). Submissions should be formatted according to the Lecture Notes in Computer Science guidelines for proceedings available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0. Papers should be submitted in PDF format.

Furthermore papers need to be submitted electronically through the EasyChair system using the following link:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=stsc2013

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Proceedings
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The proceedings of the STSC2013 workshop will be published by Springer in its Lecturer Notes in Computer Science series. The proceedings will be published post conference.