2015 Proceeding
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It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 1st Workshop on Understanding the City with Urban Informatics -- UCUI'15. This workshop aims to provide a multidisciplinary forum which brings together researchers in Big Data (BD), Information Retrieval (IR), Data Mining, and Urban Studies, to explore novel solutions to the numerous theoretical, practical and ethical challenges arising in this context. These include difficulties in collecting city data, creating data management infrastructures, and providing new effective and efficient information access techniques, to as many users as possible in the context of a smart city.
Our call has attracted nine papers. The program committee, which is formed of 14 experienced researchers, accepted six papers for presentation in the workshop, i.e. three technical papers, and three position papers. These papers represent the ideas and opinions of the authors who are trying to stimulate debate. In addition, two keynotes helped us frame the problem, and create a common understanding of the challenges. Finally, as part of the workshop, we introduced our newly published datasets relating to the iMCD project of the University of Glasgow's Urban Big Data Centre and participants to our Urban Informatics Data Challenge presented their works.
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Using an Online Spatial Analytics Workbench for Understanding Changing Housing Markets across Australian Cities
We live in an era of unprecedented global population growth where cities are expected to accommodate a significant proportion of this growth. In the context of Australia we have Sydney and Melbourne each approaching a population of 8 million people and ...
Towards the Internet of Cities: A Research Roadmap for Next-Generation Smart Cities
In this paper we outline the long-term vision for an Internet of Cities infrastructure, an interdisciplinary effort towards creating the scientific underpinnings for designing, developing, and managing next-generation smart city applications. Due to the ...
Identification of (near) Real-time Traffic Congestion in the Cities of Australia through Twitter
Transport congestion is an increasing problem especially for larger cities. Typically traffic conditions are monitored in Australia by state and/or federal authorities using expensive electronic devices/sensors on roads or through CCTV cameras. However ...
Enabling Smart Transit with Real-time Trip Planning
While state-of-the-practice transit trip planners - which mainly rely on static schedules of public transport - are efficient in finding optimal routes, we argue that users may not satisfy with the recommended routes as the estimated travel times are ...
Urban Informatics beyond Data: Media Architecture, Placemaking, and Citizen Action
Since 2006, we have been conducting urban informatics research that we define as "the study, design, and practice of urban experiences across different urban contexts that are created by new opportunities of real-time, ubiquitous technology and the ...
Visualization Oriented Spatiotemporal Urban Data Management and Retrieval
Urban planners and policy makers often rely on data visualization and spatial data mapping tools to perceive the overall urban trends. The accumulation of historical and real-time urban data from many government and private organizations provides the ...
Towards the Semantic Interpretation of Personal Health Messages from Social Media
Recent attempts have been made to utilise social media platforms, such as Twitter, to provide early warning and monitoring of health threats in populations (i.e. Internet bio-surveillance). It has been shown in the literature that a system based on ...
Spatial Justice: Towards an Ethics of Spatial Equity
'Regeneration of place that has socially just outcomes' is taken as the broad definition of 'spatial justice' in this position paper, based on a longitudinal case study of North Kensington from 1976 to 2012.
The research topic of 'spatial justice in ...
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- Proceedings of the ACM First International Workshop on Understanding the City with Urban Informatics
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Acceptance Rates
| Year | Submitted | Accepted | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| UCUI '15 | 9 | 6 | 67% |
| Overall | 9 | 6 | 67% |