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[Zegras, P. Christopher]

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InMotion '09 : A Workshop on Pervasive Technologies for Improved 
Mobility and Transportation

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In conjunction with Pervasive 2009
May 11, 2009 - Nara, Japan

http://inmotion09.dei.uc.pt


Submission Deadline: March 9, 2009



SCOPE

In recent years we see an increasing deployment of sensors and powerful
mobile processing devices in cities. Amongst others, it has allowed for 
new approaches in the study of the built environment including key
infrastructure systems. Recent research efforts harnessed these 
technologies for analyzing the patterns of different dynamic flows in 
the city such as environmental conditions, people movements, and events. 
While research efforts in pervasive computing have focused so far 
primarily on application areas such as health care, ambient assisted 
living, socializing, and gaming, the newly available information about 
urban dynamics provides a promising context for pervasive computing 
applications in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Research in 
ITS aims to enhance transportation infrastructure systems and services 
as well as the vehicle itself through information and communication 
systems. In recent years, ITS research has focused on riders and 
pedestrians as well.

This workshop will explore uses of pervasive computing in ITS and other
topics related to people's mobility. It will focus primarily on new 
methods for obtaining relevant real-time data, the provision of mobility
information, as well as data fusion.


We encourage submission of papers including, but not limited to the
following topics:
- Data gathering from pervasive networks (e.g. energy grids, sensor
networks, mobile phone and other wireless networks)
- Modeling and applications based on user generated content (blogs, txt,
images, as well as participatory and opportunistic sensing)
- Visualization and mapping
- Machine learning for mobility applications
- Dynamic routing algorithms for mobility
- Context aware navigation systems
- In-vehicle sensing systems
- Recognition and classification of transportation/mobility mode
- Environmental applications for ITS
- Interaction between vehicle and fixed infrastructure/mobile devices


PAPER SUBMISSION AND PARTICIPATION

Authors are requested to submit either a full paper (max. 5 pages) or a
position paper (max. 2 pages) in PDF, Springer LNCS format.

- Position papers may present work in progress, results found, ideas and
concepts for future research, as well as questions on topics relevant to 
the workshop.
- Full papers should present novel contributions relevant to the topic 
of the workshop and must not overlap strongly with other papers 
previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere. If a 
proceeding volume for Pervasive 2009 will be printed, it will include 
all full papers accepted to this workshop (otherwise papers will be 
published online).

Submissions should be made via the EDAS system at:
http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=7367&

All papers will be peer-reviewed by the workshop program committee.

At least one author for each paper accepted is expected to attend the
workshop.

Non-archival working notes will be produced containing the papers 
presented at the workshop. Selected papers from the workshop may be 
considered for expansion and inclusion in a special issue of a selected 
journal.

IMPORTANT DATES

•  March 9, 2009: Deadline for the submission of workshop position papers
•  March 25, 2009: Notification of acceptance
•  April 17, 2009: Deadline for preparing camera-ready copies
•  May 11, 2009: InMotion 2009 workshop at Pervasive 2009

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Carlos Bento, University of Coimbra
inmotion09 at dei.uc.pt

Assaf Biderman, MIT Senseable City Lab
inmotion09 at dei.uc.pt


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Andrew Campbell (Dartmouth College)
Assaf Biderman (MIT)
Carlos Bento (Univ of Coimbra)
Christopher Zegras (MIT)
Francisco C Pereira (Univ of Coimbra)
Frank van der Hoeven (TUDelft)
Jeffrey Hightower (Intel Seattle)
Kristian Kloeckl (Univ of Venice)
Mareike Kritzler (Univ of Munster)
Robin Chase, CEO GoLoco.com, founder and former CEO Zipcar
Stefan van der Spek (TUDelft)
Urbano Nunes (Univ of Coimbra)
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P. Christopher Zegras
Ford Career Development Asst. Professor, Urban Planning & Transportation
Dept. of Urban Studies & Planning | Massachusetts Institute of Tech.
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 10-403 | Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: 617 452 2433 | Fax: 617 258 8081 | czegras at mit.edu
http://web.mit.edu/czegras/www/Zegras.htm