Re: [ontology-summit] IEEE Smart Cities Call for Papers

[Azamat Abdoullaev <ontopaedia@xxxxxxxxx>]

GOOD NEWS!

Finally Standard Ontology is reaching IEEE.

How the standard ontology is valuable for Smart and Green Cities, one could find here:

Smart Eco Life Strategy

http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/smart-cities-28497022

http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/future-cities-27402134 

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Mark Fox <msf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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

msf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx asun@xxxxxxxxx

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

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