Intelligent Cars on Digital Roads – Frontiers in Machine Intelligence

Mobility is currently dominated by a number of powerful trends. Urbanization and de-carbonization are calling for new concepts. Autonomous driving, electromobility, car sharing and ride hailing business models, and digital information and communication technologies have begun to fundamentally change the landscape. Beyond sustainability, competition is increasingly focusing on all-encompassing service, maximized use of drive time, digital real-time economy and deep integration within the internet of things.
Here, artificial intelligence is finding some exciting and challenging application areas - under the hood and quite visibly at the surface, alike. Beyond industrialization of state-of-the-art sensor technologies, advances in machine learning and computer vision are behind all but most breakthroughs in autonomous driving. Means to organize personal mobility and intelligently deliver a wealth of digital services along the way are increasingly based on automated algorithms. And cognitive capabilities are promising to let the robots in our cars interact with humans in a natural, intuitive way.
At the same time, cities have started to organize procedures, let alone traffic management with the help of big data analytics and predictive alogrithms. And artificial intelligence is poised to touch almost every aspect of future societies.

The future of intelligent cars has just begun – help shape it during this exciting summer school.

This year, the summer school will particularly focus on emerging trends in artificial intelligence and the challenges and opportunities in applying it to urban mobility and urban living overall. We are soliciting original poster contributions on human centric interaction design, autonomous systems, next generation mobility and communications, urbanization and smart city solutions, emotion awareness and affective computing, machine learning for demand prediction and personalized recommender systems, data analytics for smart city traffic management, psychology of passengers, privacy, and consciousness, human mind and ethics of artificial intelligence, new business models and economic benefits driven by advances in artificial intelligence, societal challenges of automation and algorithmic control.

We are inviting international PhD students and young researchers with a keen interest in shaping the future of urban living and individual mobility to submit their poster. The BMW Summer School is encouraging multi-disciplinary discussion and hence is calling for contributions from all fields – from computer science to electrical engineering, from economics to legal, from architecture to sociology, from psychology to philosophy.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Posters describing original work, ideas, concepts in the area of urbanization and digital mobility with a praticular focus on applications of IoT, artificial intelligence, deep learning and advanced analytics, their benefits and challenges

List of Topics

• Trends in Artificial Intelligence
• Urbanization
• Smart City and Smart Urban Traffic Solutions
• Connected Urban Living
• Future Urban Living and Customer Ecosystems
• Economic Benefits of AI
• Societal Challenges and Opportunities of AI
• Human Centric Interaction Design
• Autonomous Aystems
• Next Generation Mobility and Communications
• Emotion Awareness and Affective Computing
• Machine Learning for Demand Prediction
• Personalized Recommender Systems
• Data Analytics for Smart City Traffic Management
• Psychology of Passengers
• Privacy
• Consciousness, Human Mind and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
• New Business Models
• Challenges and opportunities of automation and algorithmic control

Invited Speakers

The summer school will be kicked off with an invited keynote of Prof. Carlo Ratti, Head of MIT Senseable City Lab and founder of CRA Design & Innovation Office (Torino and New York).

Committees

Program Committee

• Prof. Ulrich Finger, EURECOM (chair)
• Prof. Andreas Herkersdorf, TUM (co-chair)
• Martin Arend, BMW Group (co-chair)
• Dr. Hannemor Keidel, TUM
• Prof. Jörg Ott, TUM
• Prof. Jérôme Härri, Eurecom
• Prof. Benoit Huet, Eurecom
• Prof. Raphaël Troncy, Eurecom
• Dr. Hans-Jörg Vögel, BMW Group

Organizing committee

• Dr. H.-J. Vögel, BMW Group (chair)
• Prof. Jérôme Härri, Eurecom
• Axel Honsdorf, BayFrance (co-chair)
• Paul Alibert, Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et du Développement International

Venue

The 2019 summer school will be held in the pitoresque mountain outdoor resort of Jäger von Fall, Lenggries, Germany.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to driveme2019{at}easychair.org

Sponsors

The conference is co-organized by Bayerisch-Französisches Hochschulzentrum BayFrance and sponsored by Deutsch-Französische Hochschule DFH and the BMW Group.