ARIC 2020: 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Advances in Resilient and Intelligent Cities Seattle, WA, United States, November 25, 2020 |
Conference website | https://urbands.github.io/aric2020/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aric2020 |
Submission deadline | September 25, 2020 |
Dear colleagues,
It is our pleasure to invite you to contribute to the 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Advances In Resilient and Intelligent Cities (ARIC 2020), which is scheduled to be held on Nov. 3, 2020 in Seattle, WA, USA.A smart city is forward-looking and progressive and has the potential to provide a higher-quality of life. A resilient city can preserve its characteristics, activities and bounce back to its previous stage in the face of an emergency while meeting the daily needs of its citizens.
The discussion about making a city intelligent and resilient is occurring on two parallel planes. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the difference between smart and resilient cities more than any other hazard events. For instance, the availability of real-time data and analytics, cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) have enabled the development of dashboards and platforms to help with decision-making during this pandemic. Nevertheless, these platforms and dashboards have not been useful in addressing the resilience of the impacted communities as evident from the economic stress that every country is facing around the world. The occurrence of other natural hazards like cyclone Amphan in India or flooding in Michigan due to dam failure during COVID-19 has also brought forth the disconnect between society and technology in this discussion about smart and resilient cities. The challenge now is not only to leverage high performance computing or augmented reality to help with decision making, but also the need to plan and design intelligent cities under the framework of resilience so that online and real-time knowledge discovery from dynamic data streams could be used in conjunction with static data sets to help practitioners and researchers with their policy decisions.
Following our success in ARIC 2019, the 3rd International Workshop on Advances on Resilient and Intelligent Cities (ARIC 2020) will bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to address the challenges of integrating computing, analytics, urban design, public health research/epidemiology, infrastructure resilience modeling, among others to build intelligent and resilient cities that can withstand the impacts of future pandemics and extreme events. This workshop will provide a platform to discuss research areas and issues in the context of smart and resilient cities by considering sensor technology, edge computing, interactive visualization and decision support systems, modeling and simulation, and policies in the context of COVID-19 and continuing extreme events to prepare for future events and build resilient cities.
Visit the workshop site for more details about this workshop: https://urbands.github.io/aric2020/
Visit the ACM SIGSPATIAL site for more details about the conference, registration and venue details: https://sigspatial2020.sigspatial.org/.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Full research paper (8-10 pages). These papers should present a specific problem or topic and discuss methodology and findings along with future research directions.
- Short paper or application demo paper (4 pages). These papers should demonstrate existing methods, toolkits, and best practices for building intelligent and resilient cities.
- Vision or statement paper (2 pages). These papers should be more situational in their coverage and focus on future directions while identifying gaps and challenges for designing intelligent cities under the resilient framework by addressing existing policy, sociological, and technological challenges.
Manuscripts must be submitted in PDF format using the ACM camera-ready templates available at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. This year the workshop will provide two student paper awards.
List of Topics
- Analytics integrating heterogenous spatio-temporal data for prediction, detection of anomalies and unusual patterns.
- Real-time analytics of dynamic and distributed data
- Edge and distributed computing and resilience assessment of cyber-physical systems
- Human dynamics in the Age of Smart/Intelligent Systems
- Spatial social network analytics in the built environment
- Theoretical and practical applications of Internet of Things in urban settings
- Optimization of sensor locations for urban resilience in the context of design and planning
- Urban mobility data management and visualization
- Using augmented reality, simulations and 3D-geovisualization for urban planning and decision making
- Development of urban digital twins for smart and resilient cities
- Deep learning technologies for urban systems planning and management
- Case studies of successful deployment of smart and resilient cities
- Policies and theoretical framework for successful deployment of intelligent and resilient cities
- Existing state-of-the-art and future directions in achieving both smart and resilient cities
Committees
Organizing Committee
- Bandana Kar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (karb@ornl.gov)
- Xinyue Ye, Texas A & M University (xinyue.ye@tamu.edu)
- Shima Mohebbi, George Mason University (smohebbi@gmu.edu)
- Guangtao Fu, University of Exeter (G.Fu@exter.ac.uk)
Program committee
- Qunying Huang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Xiao Huang, University of Arkansas
- Zhenlong Li, University of South Carolina
- Liping Yang, University of New Mexico
- Siyu Yu, Texas A & M University
- Yihong Yuan, Texas State University
- Fan Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Wenwen Zhang, Rutgers University
- Zhe Zhang, Texas A & M University
- Lei Zou, Texas A & M University
- Ian McRae, University of California, Berkeley
- Clio Andris, Georgia Tech. University
- Weisi Guo, University of Warwick, UK
- Bing She, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers
- TBD
Publication
ARIC 2020 proceedings will be published in ACM.
Venue
Because of COVID-19, the final format of the workshop is dependent on the Conference Organizers’ decision. For more information, please visit the ACM SIGSPATIAL Conference website: https://sigspatial2020.sigspatial.org/. Authors and participants will receive information about workshop format as well as the venue (if applicable) as soon as we have this information from the conference organizers.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to the organizers.