WHPCSC 2019: Workshop on High Performance Computing for Smart Cities – WHPCSC 2019 It will be a workshop inside the SBAC Pad on Campo Grande at Hotel Deville Prime Campo Grande Campo Grande, MS, Brazil, October 15-18, 2019 |
Conference website | https://creating.city/proceedings/whpcsc2019/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=whpcsc2019 |
Submission deadline | August 31, 2019 |
The interaction between humans have shaped our world, giving birth to modern
societies, and cities. Machines are now a fundamental part of this development,
sharing space with citizens in our cities, consuming and producing information. This
new paradigm is being called the Smart Cities. The building blocks of a smart city are
technological devices capable of communicating, processing information and
becoming part of the decision-making, but this requires high-performance computing
capabilities. Besides promoting a decentralization of the current system, the new
cities open doors for different autonomous agents to optimize their own interests. In
this context, combinatorial optimization plays a fundamental role for more precise,
efficient and balanced decision making. In addition, interaction with citizens is not
overlooked, new tools contribute to a more transparent society by promoting a
participatory and developed economy. Transparency is also being explored through
peer-to-peer technologies and distributed ledgers such as blockchain, where
scalability currently poses big challenges to evolution of the systems. It is required
that such advances take place in a sustainable manner, due to limited existing
resources being harnessed, boosting the adoption of energy-efficient devices. This
universe of possibilities opens doors for researchers to devise distinct environments
of complex and multicriteria decisions.
Previous editions:
This workshop is strongly connected to four others on Smart City topic, organized
since 2017 by the Creating.City group (see https://creating.city/proceedings). The
HPC topic has always been a subject on past workshops, together with computational
intelligence, so a more directed name was chosen this time to attract more of the HPC
community.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Full papers following SBAC PAD templates described at http://sbac-pad.facom.ufms.br/call-for-papers-1.html
List of Topics
- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Applications of HPC to Smart Cities
• Citizens and HPC Solutions on Smart Cities
• Computational Intelligence on HPC devices
• HPC for Autonomous and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)
• HPC for Consensus and Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT)
• HPC for Decentralized Systems on Smart Cities
• HPC for Decision-making on Green Logistics
• HPC for Digital Signatures and Cryptography
• HPC for Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Internet-of-Value (IoV)
• HPC Systems and Analysis on Smart City scenarios
• Scalability on Decentralized Ledgers
• Smart Grid optimization using HPC
Committees
Program Committee
- Alexandre Sena (IME/UERJ, Brazil)
- Alexandre Nery (UFB, Brazil)
- Bruno Nazário (UFSJ, Brazil)
- Cristiana Bentes (Eng/UERJ, Brazil)
- Diego Brandao (CEFET-RJ, Brazil)
- Eyder Rios (UESPI, Brazil)
- Helena Ramalhinho Lourenço (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
- Leandro Marzulo (Google, USA)
- Luciano Porto (IME/UERJ, Brazil)
- Miguel Oliver (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
- Said Hanafi (UPHF, France)
Organizing committee
- Igor Machado Coelho (Professor at State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), igor.machado@gmail.com
- Luiz Satoru Ochi (Professor at Fluminense Federal University, Brazil), luiz.satoru@gmail.com
- Thays Aparecida de Oliveira (PhD student at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain), thaysoliveira7@gmail.com
- Vitor Nazário Coelho (Researcher at OptBlocks, Brazil), vncoelho@gmail.com
Venue
http://sbac-pad.facom.ufms.br/local/lodging/
Contact
Organizers