Call For Papers
Special Session: Towards Standard Ontologies for City Knowledge, First IEEE Int’l Smart Cities Conference, Guadalajarah Mexico, October 25-28, 2015.
Description: Two important initiatives are converging at this time: Open Government and Smart Cities. The goal of Open Government is to make government more open and democratic by providing citizens and corporations access to information about their cities and how they operate. Consequently, cities around the world are pursuing an “Open Data” policy. The goal of Smart Cities is to identify ways in which scarce resources can be more effectively deployed to meet the needs of its constituents. Both rely on the ability to represent and reason about city data.
The problem is that there are no standards for the representation of city knowledge, in particular the open data sources that are offered to citizens and application developers. Cities are publishing thousands of datasets in a variety of domains and formats with spreadsheets being the dominant format. The vast majority of the data sources are published in their home language, not necessarily in English, often without definitions or metadata, let alone in a machine-readable form. Secondly, if the data are published using a syntax such as RDF, the choice of vocabulary (tags) is often unique to the organization that published it and may not even be standard within a city, a region or a country. If the dual dreams of Open Government and Smart Cities are to be realized, then we have to address the problem of defining standard vocabularies and ontologies for representing metadata and city data in a wide range of domains. To this end, hybrid approaches that combine top down processes supported by standardization bodies and bottom-up approaches that emerge from particular initiatives, cities and citizens should contribute towards the definition of these terminologies, within the environment of the semantic web where contributions are being made globally and no single standard will prevail.
Suggested Topics: • Ontologies for City Services, including: • Emergency Services • Social Services • Health • Recreation • Shelter and Housing • Water and Waste Management • Transportation • Ontologies for City Indicators, including: • Quality of Life • Sustainability • Urban Metabolism • Environment • Energy flows, consumption, production • Energy management • Ontologies for City Knowledge • Building and construction and architecture • City anatomy, topology, organization • Processes for ontology standardization • Repositories and registries for storing vocabularies • Multilingualism in City ontologies • Trust, privacy and security in City ontologies and datasets • Applications using city ontologies
Organizers: Mark S. Fox Asunción Gómez Pérez University of Toronto Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Technical Program Committee: Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Chris Petit, University of New South Wales Robert Rallo, University of Rovira and Virgili Biplav Srivastava, IBM Research, New Delhi Raúl García-Castro, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2015 Notification of acceptance: July 20, 2015 Camera Ready Submission: August 24, 2015 |