[DMANET] CFP: The Second International Workshop on Vehicular Traffic Management for Smart Cities (VTM 2014)

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The Second International Workshop on Vehicular Traffic Management for Smart
Cities (VTM 2014) (http://csserver.ucd.ie/~sdjahel/VTM2014/VTM.html)
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To be held in conjunction with The 2014 IEEE 79th Vehicular Technology
Conference (VTC2014-Spring), 18-21 May 2014, Seoul, Korea
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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The rapid growth of the number of cars on the roads has created a
plethora of
challenges for road traffic management authorities such as, traffic
congestion, increasing number of accidents, air pollution, etc. Over the
last
decade, researchers from both industry and academia have focused their
efforts
on exploiting advances in sensing and communication technologies to make
the
existing road Traffic Management Systems (TMSs) more efficient.
Their main goal is to improve the traveler's safety, shorten the travel
time
and reduce the environmental impact.

Road traffic management for smart cities involves monitoring the actual
traffic situation in real-time (including volumes, speeds, incidents, etc.)
and then controlling or influencing the flow using that information in
order
to reduce traffic congestion, deal efficiently with incidents and provide
accurate and reliable traffic information and prediction to both drivers
and
authorities. Moreover, it is foreseen that future smart cities will provide
faster and secure emergency service delivery by granting proper traffic
privileges to emergency vehicles.

This workshop seeks to bring together researchers, scientists and engineers
from various research communities, as well as practitioners and
administrators
who face the challenges of traffic management in smart cities. They are all
welcome to present and discuss their latest research findings, ideas,
simulation tools and applications at the 2014 VTM workshop.

Topics of Interest
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Vehicular traffic management
• Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) protocols
for smart cities
• Data sensing and gathering techniques in urban environments
• Mobile sensing (privacy, trust management and security issues)
• Data fusion and integration for traffic management systems
(techniques, algorithms, data types, etc.)
• Distributed simulations for large scale urban environments
• Route planning protocols and road traffic prediction mechanisms
• Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) and VANETs
applied to traffic management systems in smart cities
• Mobility and vehicular traffic measurement, modeling, and simulation
• Security and QoS issues for ITS applications
• V2X feasibility over LTE networks
• M2M communication for data collection in road environment
• Mobile applications for intelligent traffic management
• Deployment issues for smart infrastructure in urban areas
• Vehicular Sensor Networks (VSNs) applications for road traffic management
• Decision making tools for road traffic management
• Electric vehicles

All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the VTM2014
workshop and made available through IEEE Xplore.


Important Dates
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Submission deadline ------ 10 February 2014
Acceptance notification ------ 15 March 2014
Camera-ready version ------ 24 March 2014

Keynote speakers
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Prof. Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, L3i Lab, University of La Rochelle, France
A second keynote speaker will be confirmed later.


Submission guidelines
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The VTM2014 workshop follows the formatting guidelines of IEEE
VTC2014-Spring.
Submissions should be original and limited to 6 double-column pages in IEEE
paper templates. All submissions should be written in English using
10-point
font. Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in PDF format through
Track Chair conference system
(http://vtc2014spring-wk.trackchair.com/track/1237/submit ). Please contact
Dr. Soufiene Djahel (soufiene.djahel at ucd dot ie), Prof. Damien Magoni
(magoni at labri dot fr) or Dr. Philip Perry (philip.perry at ucd dot
ie) if
you have any questions about submitting your manuscripts.

General co-Chairs
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Soufiene Djahel
University College Dublin, Ireland

Falko Dressler
University of Innsbruck, Austria

John Murphy
University College Dublin, Ireland

TPC co-Chairs
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Damien Magoni
University of Bordeaux 1, France

Philip Perry
University College Dublin, Ireland

Publicity Chair
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Rahim Kacimi
Paul Sabatier University, France

TPC members
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Wei Wei, Xi'an Jiao Tong University, China

Imad Jawhar, United Arab Emirates University, UAE

Amit Pande, University of California Davis, USA

Mélanie Bouroche, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Celimuge Wu, University of Electro-communications, Japan

Yassine Hadjadj Aoul, IRISA, France

Abdelmalik Bachir, Imperial College London, UK

Dalil Moad, City Passenger, France

Mohamed Hamdi, Sup'Com, Tunisia

Sidi-Mohammed Senouci, University of Bourgogne, France

Ramona Trestian, Middlesex University, UK

Marco Slot, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Lyes Khoukhi, University of Troyes, France

Stefan Joerer, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Saïd Gharout, Orange Labs, France

Djamel Djenouri, CERIST Research Center, Algeria

Xiang Cheng, Peking University, China

Ali Hamieh, University of Versailles, France

Hassine Moungla, University Paris Descartes, France

Intesab Hussain, University Paris Descartes, France

Mikael Asplund, Linköping University, Sweden

Razvan Stanica, INSA de Lyon, France

Nafaâ Jabeur, German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech), Oman

Huaqun Guo, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore

Ahcene Bendjoudi, CERIST Research Center, Algeria

Mostepha-redouane khouadjia, INRIA-SACLAY/LRI, France

Gabriel-Miro Muntean, Dublin City University, Ireland

Cyril Cassagnes, NSC, USMA, West Point, USA

Rahim Kacimi, Paul Sabatier University, France

Fen Zhou, Avignon University, France

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