11 Feb
2014
11 Feb
'14
3:56 p.m.
ABJ30 Members and Friends,
Our Joint Subcommittee - CT&S has the following announcement:
CALL FOR PAPERS ON BIG DATA AND URBAN INFORMATICS
WORKSHOP ON BIG DATA AND URBAN INFORMATICS WITH SUPPORT FROM NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION,
11-12 AUGUST 2014, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, USA
Big Data has opened up several opportunities to obtain new insights on cities. We invite
papers at the intersection of the urban social sciences and the data sciences to be
presented in an NSF-sponsored workshop to be held on Aug 11-12, 2014, in the University of
Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. We hope that the workshop will generate
discussions in this emerging area of research, with the goal of long-term
community-building on the topic. Travel funds will be available for presenters.
We welcome papers that discuss research results as well as idea pieces of work in progress
which highlight research needs and data limitations. Workshop papers will be published in
an online workshop proceeding. Selected papers will be published, after additional
peer-review, in an edited book.
The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers with an interest in the use
of Big Data for urban analysis. The focus will be on understanding of urban systems, and
related examples of urban applications, methods and tools. We are seeking papers that
clearly create or use such novel sources of information for urban and regional analysis.
Urban and regional analysis spans a broad range of areas. A far from complete list of
areas include transportation, environment, public health, land-use, housing, economic
development, labor markets, criminal justice, population demographics, urban ecology,
energy, community development and public participation.
We invite original research, including position papers, on theoretical developments and
applications demonstrating the use of urban Big Data, and the next-generation of Big Data
services, tools and technologies for urban informatics. We are interested in papers that
use Big Data in one or more of the following five themes:
1) Theoretical developments and knowledge discovery in urban systems;
2) Planning and operational uses of urban Big Data;
3) Urban Big Data measurement, analysis and methodological questions;
4) Information management for urban informatics;
5) Institutional issues, organizations, networks and infomediaries in urban Big
Data.
Travel funds of up to $700 will be available for a single presenter per paper, on a
reimbursement basis. Student presenters will be able to compete for an additional limited
pool of funds, for upto an additional $250 per student presenter.
Dates: Extended abstracts of 750-1000 words are due April 1, 2014. Full papers for
accepted presenters will be due July 15, 2014.
For more information on the workshop, please visit
http://urbanbigdata.uic.edu/workshop-2014/call-for-papers/
For additional information, please contact Prof. Nebiyou Tilahun at
ntilahun@uic.edu<mailto:ntilahun@uic.edu>
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Piyushimita Thakuriah (Vonu), PhD
Director, Urban Big Data Centre
Halcrow Chair of Transport
Professor, Urban Studies & Affiliated Professor, School of Engineering
University of Glasgow, UK
URL: http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/vonuthakuriah/
Urban Transport Research Group:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/urbantransportationresearch/
Email:
Piyushimita.Thakuriah@glasgow.ac.uk<mailto:Piyushimita.Thakuriah@glasgow.ac.uk> *
Phone: +44-141-330-4079<tel:%2B44-141-330-4079>
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA
Journal)
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Chair, Geography and Planning Department
Director, Lewis Mumford Center
Associate Professor
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