Presentation
Today, more than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas. United Nations’ projections suggest that urban growth will reach over 60% of the world’s population by 2030, when one in three people will be living in cities with more than half a million inhabitants. This process of increasing urbanization, while enabling better living conditions for people, it brings enormous challenges of urban planning to support a sustainable growth. As cities grow, more complex problems must be faced, such as management of collective spaces, air pollution, congestion, scalable provision of basic services (water, energy, sanitation, mobility), quality of life, and more. In order to enable the implementation of intelligent solutions for such problems, Urban Computing emerges as a process of acquisition, integration, and analysis of a large amount of heterogeneous data generated from different sources in urban spaces (portable devices, sensors, vehicles, humans). In this context, Urban Computing is an interdisciplinary area which connects information and communication technology, advanced management of huge volumes of data and several methods for analyzing collected data. To better plan the future of cities and improve the quality of life of its inhabitants, Urban Computing seeks to understand the nature of urban and social phenomena.
The III Workshop of Urban Computing (III CoUrb) aims to create a space for: (1) presentation and discussion of studies in the area; (2) collaboration between researchers from different areas that, given the interdisciplinary nature of Urban Computing, it is not limited to Computer Science. The III CoUrb will be held during the XXXVII Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC 2019), in the city of Gramado RS, Brazil. Authors are invited to submit full papers with results of their research.
Topics of interest
Topics of interest to the workshop include, but are not limited to:
- Architectures and Protocols for Urban Environments
- Data Analysis and Mining
- D2D and 5G Communication in Urban Environments
- Data Offloading
- eGovernance
- eHealth and mHealth
- Green Computing in Urban Environments
- Heterogeneous Data Management
- Human Mobility
- HumanComputer Interaction in Urban Spaces
- Improving Quality of Life in the City Using Mobile Services and Big Data
- Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Internet of Things
- Location Based Services
- Participatory / Opportunistic Sensing
- Recommendation Systems
- Reliability and Security in Urban Computing
- Smart Cities
- Social Computing
- Urban Data Visualization
- Urban Planning Using Big Data
- Urban Sensing Infrastructures
Submission Instructions
Paper submission will be through the JEMS system. Papers can be written in Portuguese or English, and submitted in PDF format only. Each paper is limited to 14 pages, including abstract, figures, diagrams, references and attachments. Papers must be formatted following the SBC template.
Submitted papers will be evaluated by peer reviewers from the CoUrb’s Technical Program Committee. Selected papers will be organized for presentation and publication in the proceedings of the event. At least one of the authors of each selected paper must register in the SBRC 2019 and III CoUrb, as well as attend the event to present the paper.
Publication and Presentation Format
All selected papers will be published as full papers in the proceedings of the III CoUrb. Depending on the number of selected papers and the typical duration of the Workshop (one day only), the paper presentation in the technical sessions may occur in two different formats: (1) regular oral presentation; and (2) short oral presentation plus poster presentation.
Best Paper Award
The Technical Program Committee will announce the best papers during the event, and the authors will be awarded with certificate and prize. Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a high impact journal (to be defined).
Important dates:
- Paper submission: 26/Mar/2019
- Paper notification: 11/Apr/2019
- Camera-ready: 14/Apr/2019
- Date: 06/May/2019
Program Technical Committee
- Alex Vieira (UFJF)
- Alexandre Ferreira (UNICAMP)
- Alexandre Graeml (UTFPR)
- Alfredo Goldman (USP)
- Aline Viana (Inria Saclay – França)
- Anelise Munaretto (UTFPR)
- Antonio Alfredo Ferreira Loureiro (UFMG)
- Artur Ziviani (LNCC)
- Carlos Mauricio Figueiredo (UEA)
- Cristiano Silva (UFSJ)
- Daniel Batista (USP)
- Denis Rosário (UFPA)
- Edmundo Madeira (UNICAMP)
- Eduardo Cerqueira (UFPA)
- Fabio Verdi (UFSCar)
- Felipe Domingos da Cunha (PUC Minas)
- Fernanda Sumika Souza (UFSJ)
- Genaina Rodrigues (UnB)
- Guilherme Maia (UFMG)
- Heitor Ramos (UFAL)
- Islene Garcia (UNICAMP)
- Jo Ueyama (USP)
- Jonice Oliveira (UFRJ)
- Jussara Almeida (UFMG)
- Keiko Fonseca (UTFPR)
- Leandro Balico (UFRR)
- Leonardo Botega (UNESP)
- Leyza Dorini (UTFPR)
- Linnyer Ruiz (UEM)
- Luanna Lopes Lobato (UFG)
- Luis Carlos De Bona (UFPR)
- Luiz Fernando Bittencourt (UNICAMP)
- Markus Endler (PUC-Rio)
- Maycon Peixoto (UFBA)
- Michele Nogueira (UFPR)
- Pedro Olmo Vaz de Melo (UFMG)
- Rafael Lopes Gomes (UECE)
- Robson De Grande (Broku)
- Rodolfo Meneguette (IFSP)
- Ronaldo Ferreira (UFMS)
- Sidney Lucena (UNIRIO)
- Silvana Rossetto (UFRJ)
- Thiago Genez (University of Bern)
- Valério Rosset (UNIFESP)
- Vinicius Mota (UFES)
Organization
- Leandro Villas (UNICAMP)
- Thiago Henrique Silva (UTFPR)
- Daniel Ludovico Guidoni (UFSJ)
- Bruno Yuji Lino Kimura (UNIFESP)
- Roberto Sadao Yokoyama (UTFPR)
Venue
The event will be held in conjunction with SBRC’19 at Gramado RS, Brazil!