[agents] CFP Workshop on Social Computing and Urban Intelligence and Smarter Lives (*LAST CALL*)

[Fernando Koch]

Workshop on Social Computing and Urban Intelligence and Smarter Lives  (SMARTLIFE)
In conjunction with the 6th ASE International Conference on Social Computing, Stanford University, CA.

Full paper submission: April 1, 2014 (**LAST CALL**)

Submit through EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smartlife2014
Workshop web-site: http://www.scienceengineering.org/ase/conference/2014/socialcom/sanjose/website/workshop-1/
 
GENERAL CHAIRS
·         Dr. Fernando Koch, Director R&D, SAMSUNG Research Institute
·         Sergio Borger, Senior Manager, IBM Research – Brazil
·         Dr. Siome Goldenstein, Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, Brazil
 
STEERING COMMITTEE
·         Prof. Dr. Jean Paul Jacob, Research Emeritus, IBM Research - Almaden
·         Dr. Camille Crittenden, Deputy Director, CITRIS @ University of California, Berkeley
 
SUMMARY

SMARTLIFE aims to discuss computational models of innovative social computing to address social issues. These solutions will exploit the combination of mobile computing, ambient intelligence, social networks, and collective thinking to promote the participation of citizens and communities in urban environments, aiming at creative solutions for education, health, safety, mobility, and social connectedness. The thematic of this workshop is actual and relevant, focusing on the contemporary city as the catalyst and relay of significant social topics.
A basic premise of this workshop is to think of multi-disciplinary and investigative approaches involving Social Computing, Urban Intelligence, and Smarter Lives. These are technologies that promote citizen participation, community engagement, social network, and inclusion, addressing pressing social matters. We aim at ideas that get citizens participating and contributing to social issues, and provide services that help citizens to better interact with urban ecosystem. For instance, mobile solutions that allow for citizens annotate city issues from different domains (e.g. sustainability, maintenance, disease vectors, etc), providing geolocated reports with basic classification of “what” is the problem. The solution must also consider the human signals generated during the application interaction, which allows to “how” the issue is being reported. Finally, it must also consider the social impact of the reports, to analyze “what is the social influence” in the community.
The workshop intends to address the gap in the existing computing technology landscape and, moreover, aims to push the boundaries of existing technology by addressing a problem that is relatively new to the Social Computing and Urban Intelligence communities. The application domains include (not an exhaustive list): continuous healthcare, social computing in education, social connectedness, emergency coordination, coordination in large events, smarter transportation, and others.

IMPORTANT DATES
·         Paper submission deadline: April 1, 2014
·         Notification of acceptance: Apr 30, 2014
·         Poster submission deadline: May 2, 2014
·         Camera-ready copies due: May 7, 2014
·         Workshop Date: May 27, 2014
 
RESEARCH QUESTIONS

SMARTLIFE is of interest to an academic and industrial research community that uses and extends Social Computing in the domain of Urban Intelligence and Smarter Lives. The target questions revolve around topics like:
-          How to apply new technologies to create Social Applications/Services to promote Citizen Engagement and Urban Intelligence through Social Computing?
-          How Social Computing can be applied to promote citizen engagement and community participation?
-          How to apply Social Computing and/or Social Behavior Models to understand societal behavior and optimize Urban infrastructures to improve quality of living?
-          How to construct Social Computing models better equipped to perform in mobile service environment?
-          How to apply Social computing to support/guide collaborative teams in scenarios like Teamwork, Group Coordination, Group Interaction, and others?
-          How can we apply Social Computing to make team members follow agreed procedures (Incentives? Or more fundamental, by designing a new market?)
-          How to apply Social Computing to build an effective monitoring-recognition-intervention framework in mobile services?
-          How can we enable flexible, goal-driven and contextualized Social Computing applications (including intelligent execution, monitoring, management, and optimization of business processes)?
-          How to enable an effective communication infrastructure for Social Computing  (possibly including humans and agents)?
-          How to apply no intrusive technologies, such as Video Analysis, Gesture Recognition, and others to promote pervasive Social Computing?
-          How to incentivize the participation of individuals in Citizen Sensor and collaboration?
-          How to evaluate incentive plans for participation and collaboration in Citizen Sensor scenarios?
 
SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

Submission is done electronically at Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smartlife2014

Submissions should be formatted according to LNCS specification and submitted as a PDF file. Instructions and templates can be found at: www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
 
SMARTLIFE 2014 seeks three types of submissions:
·         Full paper of  8-12 pages.
·         Short paper of 4 pages (such as position and early result papers) are welcome with the option of extending it to a full paper for the post-proceedings.
·         Demo paper of 4 pages describing a demonstration. This work will then be presented in the demo session of the workshop.
 
Submissions will be peer-reviewed by, at least, three reviewers per paper. Selection criteria will include relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Some preference may also be given to papers which address emergent trends or important common themes, or which enhance balance of workshop topics.

We plan to publish selected papers through the ASE Public Scientific Digital Library.