2nd International Workshop on
Computational Transportation Science 2009 Call for Papers
November 3, 2009, Seattle, WA, USA�
http://iwcts09.cs.umn.edu/
In the near future, vehicles, travelers, and the infrastructure
will collectively have billions of sensors that can communicate
with each other. This environment will enable numerous novel
applications and order of magnitude improvement in the
performance of existing applications. However, information
technology (IT) has not had the dramatic impact on day-to-day
transportation that it has had on other domains such as business
and science. In terms of the real-time information available
to most travelers, with the exception of car navigation systems,
the transportation experience has not changed much in the last
30-40 years. During this same time, the miniaturization of
computing devices and advances in wireless communication and
sensor technology have been propagating computing from the
stationary desktop to the mobile outdoors, and making it
ubiquitous. Transportation systems, due to their distributed/mobile
nature, can become the ultimate test-bed for this 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
such as cell phones and PDAs. A related development is the
emergence of increasingly more sophisticated geospatial and
spatio-temporal information management capabilities. These
factors have the potential to revolutionize traveler services,
and the provision and analysis of related information. In this
revolution, travelers and sensors in the infrastructure and
in vehicles will all produce a vast amount of data that could
be interpreted and acted upon to produce a sea change in
transportation.
The emerging discipline of computational transportation science
(CTS) combines computer science and engineering with the modeling,
planning, and economic aspects of transportation. The discipline
goes beyond vehicular technology, and addresses pedestrian
systems on hand-held devices, non-real-time issues such as
data mining, as well as data management issues above the
networking layer. CTS applications will improve efficiency,
equity, mobility, accessibility, and safety by taking advantage
of ubiquitous computing.
SCOPE OF THE SUBMISSION
The International Workshop on Computational Transportation
Science invites submissions of original, previously unpublished
papers on CTS issues. Position papers that report novel
research directions or identify challenging problems are invited
from industry as well as academia. Papers incorporating one
or more of the following themes are especially encouraged:
* Uncertain information distributed among moving travellers/
vehicles and the infrastructure
* Information in pedestrian, biking, and other non-motorized
transportation applications
* Ride- and car-sharing using social networks
* Computation of costs of multi-modal travelling
* Information regarding transfers to alternate modes of transportation
* Data mining techniques for travel information
* Dynamic shortest path computations using forecasts
* Human-computer interfaces in intelligent transportation applications
* Privacy and security issues in transportation information
* Social and institutional information related to travel
* Real-time negotiation among travellers
* Mobile artificial-intelligence aspects related to transportation
* Sensor information related to transportation
* Wireless communication with travelers and vehicles
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 register or submit a paper, please visit
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/IWCTS09/
or see the workshop website for more details. Accepted papers
will be published in the conference proceedings and the ACM
digital library. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee
that their paper will be presented at the workshop.
Important Dates:
Paper submissions due: July 31, 2009
Notification to the authors: September 14, 2009
Camera ready papers due: September 28, 2009
ACM GIS 2009 Conference: November 4-6, 2009
IWCTS Workshop: November 3, 2009
General co-Chairs:
Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota, USA
Glenn Geers, NICTA, Australia
Program committee co-Chairs:
Sangho Kim. ESRI
Betsy George, Oracle
Steering Committee:
Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Program Committee:
to be determined
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