ECCS’ 2013 Satellite on Smart Cities, Complexity and Urban Network: Urbannet
Venue & structure
Urbannet is a Satellite Workshop of the European Conference on Complex Systems ECCS 2013 hosted in Barcelona. The workshop will take place in the afternoon of Wed. September 18 and will encompass 3 invited talks of 40 minutes each and 5 contributed talks of 20 min each.
Workshop description
The concept of the ‘smart city’ emerged during the last decade as a fusion of ideas about how ICT might improve the functioning of cities, enhancing their efficiency and contributing to sustainable development and high quality of life. Currently the central role of ICT lies at the core of the concept, but the term ‘smart city’ goes beyond the idea of ICT-driven cities, embracing also the investment in human, social, and environmental capital.
Thanks to the pervasive access to information, citizens’ activities can be more easily monitored, but also affected and modified. ICT tools empower citizens to make more informed decisions (e.g. regarding their travel behavior, energy and resources consumption habits, etc.) and are leading to new forms of social relationships, as well as to the introduction of new activities such as e-shopping or telework. At the same time, the penetration of ICT is turning individuals into passive and/or active ‘sensors’ that produce, exchange and consume an increasing amount of information, generating a variety of heterogeneous data on citizens’ preferences and behavior. Such feedback loops between citizens and city planners and managers are therefore modifying urban dynamics, as well as opening new opportunities for understanding such dynamics and developing new approaches to the design and management of urban systems. The explosion of available data and the development of new forms of data analysis can inform the development of better urban theories and simulation models. Recent advances in areas such as spatial networks or agent-based computational modeling, and more generally the intrinsically holistic and eclectic approach advocated by complexity science, appear as a suitable theoretical framework for the integration of different modeling approaches into a comprehensive toolkit to address the many different questions related to smart cities.
Invited speakers
• Marc Barthélemy (Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA & CNRS)
• José Manuel Galán (Social Systems Engineering Centre INSISOC, Universidad de Burgos)
• Vittorio Loreto (Università Roma "La Sapienza" & ISI Foundation)
Call for papers
Submissions for contributed papers will be accepted by sending an extended abstract (max. 2 pages) in pdf to the following Easychair link (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=urbannet2013). The deadline for abstract submission is June 30.
Submissions will be evaluated and selected by the Program Committee members, based on the adherence to the workshop theme, originality and scientific quality. A non-exhaustive list of topics to which particular attention will be paid includes:
• Methods and tools for the exploitation of new sources of spatial and temporal data, both for real time management and for longer term strategic planning of urban networks (water, transport, energy, communications...).
• ICT-driven social and behavioral changes and their impact on location and activity patterns in cities.
• Modeling of the coupling between short-term and long-term urban dynamics.
• Interplay between between activity-travel patterns and social networks.
• Resilience of urban networks.
• Participatory sensing, social computing and collective awareness.
Once the selection process is completed, the authors of the accepted abstracts will be notified by e-mail. Please note that the participants must register in the ECCS general conference.
Scientific committee
• Kay Axhausen (ETH Zurich)
• Alain Barrat (CNRS & ISI Foundation)
• Marc Barthélemy (IPhT, CEA)
• Michael Batty (CASA,UCL)
• Enrique Frías (Telefónica Research)
• Luis Moyano (BBVA Research)
Organizing committee
• José J. Ramasco (IFISC, CSIC-UIB)
• Oliva García-Cantú (Nommon Solutions & Technologies)
• Alex Serret (Institut Municipal d’Informàtica - Ajuntament de Barcelona)
The workshop will be organized in the frame of the European project EUNOIA. The organization can be contacted through the email account [log in to unmask] More information at http://eunoia-project.eu/doc/Urbannet/
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