[agents] Call for Papers: ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST) Special Issue on Urban Intelligence

[Bo An]

Call for Papers: ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
(ACM TIST) Special Issue on Urban Intelligence

The past decades saw the rapid development of cities and the boom of urban
population, but also the rise of many urban issues, such as traffic
congestion, energy shortage, and pollution. The situation is continuing: as
predicted by the United Nations, the world’s urban population will add
another 2.5 billion by 2050, amounting to 66% of the total population.
While the pressure is unprecedented, increasing volume and diversity of
data is at the same time being generated and collected with the help of new
technologies. This calls for the integration of advanced information and
computational technologies to develop intelligent solutions for urban
issues. Indeed, there has been a variety of research in the AI community
pioneering in applying AI and data science to the practice of urban
computing [1-2]. These include the development of smart communities, smart
home automation, intelligent transport systems, smart vehicle sharing
systems, data-driven routing systems, smart grids, and smart energy
solutions.

The objective of the special issue is to highlight leading work in urban
intelligence, to identify challenges, and to explore future topics in this
area.  We invite high quality submissions aiming at addressing urban issues
via intelligent systems and technologies. Topics of interest include but
not limited to:

·         Intelligent transport and traffic systems

·         Smart environment and resource management

·         Smart energy solutions and smart grids

·         Computational game theory for smart city

·         Smart city management and governmental policy-making

·         Smart sharing systems and sharing economy

·         Smart home automation

·         Data-driven urban planning and parametric urban design

·         Social interaction and human behavior in cities

·         Smart urban health care

[1] Zheng, Y., Capra, L., Wolfson, O. and Yang, H., 2014. Urban computing:
concepts, methodologies, and applications. ACM Transactions on Intelligent
Systems and Technology, 5(3), p.38.

[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/urban-computing/



*Submissions*

Online Submission (available in October 1, 2016):
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tist (please select “Special Issue: Urban
Intelligence” as the manuscript type)

Details of the journal and manuscript preparation are available on the
website: http://tist.acm.org/

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers.

*Important Dates*

·         Full Paper Submission Deadline: December 1, 2016

·         Review Notification: February 1, 2017

·         Final Manuscript: May 1, 2017

·         Publication Date: Summer/Fall, 2017

*Guest Editors*

·         Bo An (Nanyang Technological University, boan at ntu.edu.sg)

·         Nick Jennings (Imperial College, n.jennings at imperial.ac.uk)

·         Zhenhui Jessie Li (Pennsylvania State University,
jessieli at ist.psu.edu)