[DMANET] IWCTS 2012 - 2nd Call for papers

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* 5th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science
* November 6, 2012, Redondo Beach, CA, USA
*http://www.ctscience.org
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* Held in conjunction with the 20th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on
* Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2012),
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* November 6-9 2012 — Redondo Beach, CA, USA
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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

The 5th International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science intends
to bring together communities interested in the computation, knowledge discovery
and technology policy aspects of surface transportation systems. The organizers
of IWCTS welcome papers from researchers in computer science, urban and regional
planning, civil engineering, geography, geoinformatics and related disciplines
for consideration for presentation and discussion at the one-day workshop, and
for publication in the conference proceedings.

BACKGROUND

Trends in sensing, communication and urbanization generate significant research
questions relating to computation, knowledge discovery and technology policy for
intelligent transportation systems. Transportation systems, due to their
distributed/mobile nature, can become the ultimate test-bed for a ubiquitous
(i.e., embedded, highly-distributed, and sensor-laden) computing environment of
unprecedented scale. Information technology is the foundation for implementing
new strategies, particularly if they are to be made available in real-time to
wireless devices in vehicles or in the hands of people. Contributing are
increasingly more sophisticated geospatial and spatio-temporal information
management capabilities. Human factors, technology adoption and use, and user
feedback and user-centered design are areas of technology policy central to the
success of this ubiquitous computing environment.

The emerging discipline of Computational Transportation Science (the science
behind Intelligent Transportation Systems) combines computer science and
engineering with the modeling, planning, and economic aspects of transportation
planning and engineering to leverage developments in the above domains. By
taking advantage of ubiquitous computing, Computational Transportation Science
applications can help create more efficient, equitable, livable and sustainable
transportation systems and communities.

SCOPE OF SUBMISSIONS

The International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science invites
submissions of original, previously unpublished papers contributing to
Computational Transportation Science. Position papers that report novel research
directions or identify challenging problems are also invited. Papers
incorporating one or more of the following themes are especially encouraged:
* Collaborative transport, including collaborative multi-modal transport
* Integrated public transport planning
* Computational and artificial intelligence aspects of assisted driving,
collaborative transport or multi-modal transport, including cost optimization,
delay management and disposition
* Sensing, crowdsourcing and participatory sensing in transport
* Uncertain information in collaborative transport and assisted traveling
* Simulation of traffic, passenger flows, assisted driving or collaborative
transport
* Travel information, including recommender systems and user feedback systems
* Social media applications in travel
* Human factors including adaptive driving, travel behaviour, persuasive technology
* Data mining and statistical learning for travel information
* Dynamic shortest path computations using forecasts
* Human-computer interfaces in intelligent transportation applications
* Privacy and security in transportation information
* Social and institutional information related to travel
* Novel applications targeted to health, mobility, livability and sustainability

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Authors should prepare an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of their full paper. Papers
must be in English and not exceed 6 pages double column in ACM SIG format (US
Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. Position
papers are limited 4 pages. Each submission should start with: the title,
abstract, and names, contact information of authors, type of the submission
(research paper or position paper). Authors are asked to register the titles and
abstract of their papers in advance. To submit a paper, please visit
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/IWCTS2012/

Accepted papers will be published in the ACM digital library. Authors of
accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop.

IMPORTANT DATES

* Paper submissions due: August 10, 2012
* Notification to the authors: September 10, 2012
* Camera ready papers due: September 23, 2012
* IWCTS Workshop: November 6, 2012
* ACM GIS 2012 Conference: November 7-9, 2012

REGISTRATION

Registration for the IWCTS 2012 will be handled through the ACM GIS conference
website. Please visit the conference site to register, and for additional
information on nearby accommodation.

Workshop Chairs

Stephan Winter, University of Melbourne, Australia
Matthias Mueller-Hannemann, University of Halle, Germany

Publicity Chair

Steve Liang, University of Calgary, Canada

Steering Committee

Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Bhaduri Budhendra, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA

Program Committee Members

Alex Bayen, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Barak Fishbain, University of Southern California
Glenn Geers, NICTA& University of New South Wales, Australia
Leo Kroon, Erasmus University, The Netherlands
Bart Kuijpers, Hasselt University, Belgium
Patrick Laube, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Harvey Miller, University of Utah, USA
Monika Sester, University of Hannover, Germany
Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota, USA
Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah, University of Illinois at Chicago
Goce Trajcevski, Northwestern University, USA
Peter Vortisch, KIT Karlsruhe, Germany
Renato Werneck, Microsoft Research


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