Information Access in Smart Cities i-ASC 2014

  • i-ASC 2014 Workshop in conjunction with ECIR 2014, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 13th April 2014
  • i-ASC 2014 Workshop in conjunction with ECIR 2014, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 13th April 2014

DETAILED PROGRAMME

08:00 - 09:00 Registration

( Session 1: 09:00 - 10:25 ) - Chair: Charles L. A. Clarke


09:00 - 09:10 Welcome

Searching Smart Cities

09:10 - 09:55 Keynote 1: Content, Connection and Context: From Data to Insight in Smarter Cities
Dr. Pól Mac Aonghusa, Senior Research Manager at Smarter Cities Technology Centre, IBM Dublin Research Laboratory [slides]

09:55 - 10:10 From Smart Cities to Smart Neighborhoods: Detecting Local Events from Social Media
Yang Li and Alan Smeaton (Dublin City University, Ireland)[slides]

10:10 - 10:25 Modeling the Web of Things from an IR approach
Cristyan Manta-Caro (District University of Bogota Francisco Jose de Caldas, Columbia) and Juan M. Fernández-Luna (University of Granada, Spain) [slides]



10:25 - 10:45 Coffee break


( Session 2: 10:45 - 12:35) - Chair: Iadh Ounis


City Data

10:45 - 11:30 Keynote 2: Smart Cities, Smart Citizens and the case for the CitySDK
Frank Kresin, Research Director at Waag Society [slides]

11:30 - 11:45 The Influence of Indoor Spatial Context on User Information Behaviours
Yongli Ren (RMIT University, Australia), Martin Tomko (The University of Melbourne, Australia), Kevin Ong, Yuntian Brian Bai and Mark Sanderson (RMIT University, Australia) [slides]

11:45 - 12:00 On Mining Mobile Users Monitoring Logs
Dmitry Namiot (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Federation) [slides]

Context & Recommendation

12:00 - 12:35 Invited contribution: Mining digital footprints for smart tourism
Dr. Raffaele Perego, Head of HPC Lab, ISTI CNR, Pisa, Italy [slides]



12:35 - 13:45 Lunch


( Session 3: 13:45 - 15:05) - Chair: M-Dyaa Albakour


13:45 - 14:00 Challenges in Recommending Venues within Smart Cities
Romain Deveaud, M-Dyaa Albakour, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom) [slides]

14:00 - 14:15 Smarter Cities, Safer Travels: Integrating Contextual Suggestion
Adriel Dean-Hall and Jack Thomas (University of Waterloo, Canada) [slides]

HCI & Applications in Smart Cities

14:15 - 14:50 Invited Contribution: Tourists in Smart Cities: Data mining for hidden treasures
Professor Jon Oberlander, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK [slides]

14:50 - 15:05 "Search-the-City" – A versatile dashboard for searching and displaying Environment and User Generated Content in the context of the future Smart City
Athanasios Moralis, George Perreas, Anastasios Glaros and Dimitrios Dres (Telesto Technologies, Greece)



15:05 - 15:30 Coffee break


( Session 4: 15:30 - 17:30) - Chair: Craig Macdonald


15:30 - 16:15 Panel discussion

16:15 - 17:00 Breakout session (one group per theme) to address issues raised by panel

17:00 - 17:30 Report from the breakout


disclaimer: the program is subject to (minor) change due to last-minute circumstances