The 23rd International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications – ICCSA 2023 – Athens, July 3 – 6, 2023

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The 23rd International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications

The 23rd International Conference on

“Smart, Safe and Health Cities”

SSHC_2023

in conjunction with

The 2023 International Conference on Computational
Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2023)

July 3rd – July 6th 2023

Athens, Greece
http://www.iccsa.org/

 

Description

The Covid-19 Pandemic and climate change repropose the issues of the relation between the built environment (BE) and quality of life, subjective well-being (SWB), Liveability and Health. In response to these new urban concerns, urban policies have focused on reorganising cities to improve strategies for achieving resilience, sustainability, inclusion and individuals’ quality of life. The C40 cities initiative, that include 100 major cities in several Countries, underlines the need for actions of urban regeneration as a central condition for a sustainable and just recovery. Strategies adopted in several cities, including Milan, Paris, Bogotà, Portland, Melbourne focus on a re-configuration of the built environment aimed at implementing smart and sustainable mobility solutions, expanding the ecological infrastructure, increasing the provision of basic services at the district scale, and transforming public and open spaces for multi-functional uses (C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, 2020; Miller, 2021). The emerging urban concepts proposed for the post-pandemic scenario converge on the idea of an adaptive transformation of the urban environment based on criteria of density, diversity, safety, proximity and digitalisation. These aspects can be summarised in the idea of the smart and healthy city. The latter can be defined as an urban concept that prefigures the integration of the dimensions of proximity and diversity of primary and secondary uses, localization and distribution of local services, density, digitalisation and usability of public and open spaces, as central aspects for constructing a city, for the post-pandemic scenario, that ensures quality of life, well-being, sustainability, and social inclusion.

Thus, the proposed workshop aims to investigate (but is not limited) the issue of the relation between built environment components and SWB, as a key aspect for the construction of smarter, safer, and healthier cities for the post-pandemic scenario.

The workshop will host contributions focusing on the theoretical and methodological approaches related to the construction of a smart, safe and healthy city for the post-pandemic scenario. More precisely, the pertinent topics will include: i) the conceptualisation of the post-pandemic city within the perspective of the smarter, safer, and healthier city; ii) the influence of physical components of the urban built environment on quality of life; iii) the role of public and open spaces to promote a liveable and sustainable urban environment; iv) the influence of urban characteristics on the perception of the built environment from the different categories of citizens; v) the analytic methods, tools and techniques to support urban decision process oriented to smart, safe and healthy cities; vi) strategies of urban planning within a perspective of sustainability, inclusion and cohesion.

Given the focus of the Conference on Computational Science issues, the workshop welcomes contributions on ICT and computational aspects, proposals, and applications from a wide variety of scholars on the above-mentioned issues.

Engineers, Geologists, Urban and Regional Planners, Landscape Architects, Geographers and Economic Geographers, Environmental Engineers, among others are welcome to contribute.

Keywords: Climate Change, Smart and Sustainable Cities, Smart governance, Urban Resilience, Participatory Mapping, Citizen Science, Open Data, Big Data, Sustainability, Urban and Regional Planning, Pollution in riverine and marine environments, Effects that climate change has on the waste management infrastructure, Challenges, and opportunities for innovation cities

Each paper will be independently reviewed by 3 programme committee members. Their individual scores will be evaluated by a small sub-committee and result in one of the following final decisions: accepted, or accepted on the condition that suggestions for improvement will be incorporated, or rejected. Notification of this decision will take place on May 2023.
Individuals and groups should submit complete papers (12 to 18 pages).
Accepted contributions will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volumes

 

Authors Guideline
Please adhere strictly to the formatting provided in the template to prepare your paper and refrain from modifying it. The submitted paper must be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules of LNCS. For formatting information, see the publisher’s web site (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper.

download the template

 

Submission
Papers should be submitted at: http://ess.iccsa.org/
Please don’t forget to select “Smart, Safe and Health Cities” – SSHC_2023)” workshop from the drop-down list of all workshops.

 

Proceedings
Papers accepted to “SSHC 2023” will be published in the ICCSA Conference proceedings, in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, with doi, indexed by WOS, Scopus and DBLP.

 

 

Important dates

April 20, 2023: Deadline for full paper submission
April 30, 2023: Notification of Acceptance
May 12, 2023: Submission deadline for the final version of the Proceeding Paper (hard deadline)
May 12, 2023: Registration ends (hard deadline).
July 3-6, 2023: ICCSA 2023 Conference in Athens, Greece

 

Organizers Information:

Chiara Garau, (University of Cagliari),
Gerardo Carpentieri, (University of Naples Federico II)
Floriana Zucaro, (University of Naples Federico II)
Aynaz Lotfata, (Chicago State University)
Alfonso Annunziata, (University of Cagliari)
Diego Altafini, (University of Pisa)

 

Scientific Committee:

Gerardo Carpentieri, University of Naples Federico II

Ilaria Delponte, University of Genoa, Italy

Chiara Garau, University of Cagliari, Italy

Claudia Loggia, School of Built Environment & Development Studies, University of kwaZulu-Natal

Aynaz Lotfata, Chicago State University

Beniamino Murgante, University of Basilicata, Italy

John Östh, Faculty of Technology, Art and Design, OsloMet, Oslo

Mariano Pernetti, University of Campania, Italy

Francesco Pinna, University of Cagliari, Italy

Alessandro Plaisant, University of Sassari, Italy

Silvia Rossetti, University of Parma, Italy

Francesco Scorza, University of Basilicata, Italy

Paola Zamperlin, University of Florence, Italy

Floriana Zucaro, University of Naples Federico II

Alfonso Annunziata, University of Cagliari

Diego Altafini, (University of Pisa)

 

 

 

 

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The 23rd International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications

The 23rd International Conference on

“Urban Space Accessibility and Mobilities”

USAM_2023

in conjunction with

The 2023 International Conference on Computational
Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2023)
July 3rd – July 6th 2023

Athens, Greece
http://www.iccsa.org/

 

Description

The purpose of the “USAM” workshop is to enhance discussions on the criteria and applications, methodologies and tools useful for identifying, evaluating, planning and designing inclusive, diverse and accessibility for all. Universal accessibility or ‘access for all’ is a key component of achieving sustainable development. Conventional transport and land use planning seek an improvement of accessibility without directly serving the real needs of individuals and groups. This leads to issues of transport disadvantage and mobility inequality that translates to lack of access or ability to access key functions and hampering development of social opportunities. These inequalities can manifest in fundamental forms such as lack of access to employment, education or services. Inequalities can also be more insidious such as perceived lack of safety by certain user groups due to their socio-demographic characteristics (age, gender, ethnicity and income levels) that prevent them from accessing parts of their cities and regions.

As transport networks have become increasingly complex and dynamic, intermodality and users specific schemes and policies are needed. The concept of universal accessibility is important for the realisation of urban space that is legitimate, vital and serves a wider demographic. This supports the realisation of Sustainable Development Goals 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities) and 5 (Gender equality). The workshop welcomes all interpretations of universal accessibility from exploration of the physical infrastructure,  psychological and cognitive accessibility and perceive and real safety of diverse user groups. The latest generation ITS technologies, such as innovative flexible services and real-time users’ information, Internet of Things, augmented reality, virtual reality and smart roads offers new paths of explorations. The widespread availability of user information and data is also another aspect to for further explorations.

Focusing on inclusive, diverse and universal accessibility, this workshop invites critical exploration (but not limited to) the following issues:

  1. Studying and recognizing the specificities and differences between the various user groups, identifying needs, opportunities and abilities and, challenging the ‘one size fits all’ approach of current transport policies;
  2. Analysis of spatial conditions necessary for design and creation of spaces, strategies and measures to promote universal accessibility;
  3. Tools and methods for integrated approaches for decision making to ensure spatial quality of public spaces, level of safety and security, contrasting urban degradation and how foster a comprehensive regeneration of urban spaces according to universal accessibility criteria;
  4. Supporting public system strategies in order to guarantee an optimal use of resources for the creation of overall present and future value in local communities;
  5. Promoting social inclusion and raising people’s well-being and autonomy also through the development of knowledge, methodologies, technological tools and advanced automation techniques.

Given the focus of the Conference on Computational Science issues, the workshop USAM welcomes contributions on ICT and computational aspects, proposals and applications from a wide variety of scholars on the issues proposed.

Engineers, Geologists, Urban and Regional Planners, Landscape Architects, Geographers and Economic Geographers, Environmental Engineers, among others are welcome to contribute.

Keywords: Accessibility, Mobilities, Safety, Urban space, Cities, Augmented reality, Virtual reality, Accessibility design, Cultural tourism accessibility, ITS, Innovative flexible services, Real-time information, Big-data.

Each paper will be independently reviewed by 3 programme committee members. Their individual scores will be evaluated by a small sub-committee and result in one of the following final decisions: accepted, or accepted on the condition that suggestions for improvement will be incorporated, or rejected. Notification of this decision will take place on May 2023.
Individuals and groups should submit complete papers (12 to 18 pages).
Accepted contributions will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volumes

 

Authors Guideline
Please adhere strictly to the formatting provided in the template to prepare your paper and refrain from modifying it. The submitted paper must be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules of LNCS. For formatting information, see the publisher’s web site (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper.

download the template

 

Submission
Papers should be submitted at: http://ess.iccsa.org/
Please don’t forget to select “Urban Space Accessibility and Mobilities” – USAM_2023)” workshop from the drop-down list of all workshops.

 

Proceedings
Papers accepted to “USAM 2023” will be published in the ICCSA Conference proceedings, in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, with doi, indexed by WOS, Scopus and DBLP.

 

 

Important dates

April 20, 2023: Deadline for full paper submission
April 30, 2023: Notification of Acceptance
May 12, 2023: Submission deadline for the final version of the Proceeding Paper (hard deadline)
May 12, 2023: Registration ends (hard deadline).
July 3-6, 2023: ICCSA 2023 Conference in Athens, Greece

 

Organizers Information:

Chiara Garau, (DICAAR, University of Cagliari)
Matteo Ignaccolo, (DICAR, University of Catania)
Michela Tiboni, (DICATAM, University of Brescia)
Francesco Pinna, (DICAAR, University of Cagliari)
Silvia Rossetti, (DIA, University of Parma)
Vincenza Torrisi, (DICAR, University of Catania),
Ilaria Delponte (University of Genoa)

 

Scientific Committee:

Mauro Coni, University of Cagliari, Italy

Martina Carra, University of Brescia, Italy

Barbara Caselli, University of Parma, Italy

Tanja Congiu, University of Sassari, Italy

Ilaria Delponte, University of Genoa, Italy

Chiara Garau, University of Cagliari, Italy

Matteo Ignaccolo, University of Catania, Italy

Francesca Maltinti, University of Cagliari, Italy

Beniamino Murgante, University of Basilicata, Italy

Enrica Papa, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom

Mariano Pernetti, University of Campania, Italy

Francesco Pinna, University of Cagliari, Italy

Alessandro Plaisant, University of Sassari, Italy

Silvia Rossetti, University of Parma, Italy

Francesco Scorza, University of Basilicata, Italy

Michela Tiboni, University of Brescia, Italy

Vincenza Torrisi, University of Catania, Italy

Paola Zamperlin, University of Florence, Italy

 

 

 

 

 

The 22nd International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications – ICCSA 2022 – Malaga, July 4 – 7, 2022

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The 22nd International Conference on

Psycho-social analysis of sustainable mobility in the pre- and post-pandemic phase

PSYCHE_2022

in conjunction with

The 2022 International Conference on Computational
Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2022)
July 4th – July 7th 2022

Malaga, Spain
http://www.iccsa.org/

 

Description

The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an upheaval in daily lifestyles and interpersonal dynamics, affecting the psychosocial well-being of the entire community. Health emergencies, such as the spread of epidemics, can cause significant stress and anxiety; this is even more understandable in light of the specific characteristics of the current pandemic and the restrictive measures deliberately adopted to deal with it.

COVID-19 has significantly affected urban mobility. Many people have reduced their travel due to local restrictions and have preferred to abandon public transport. The urban planning sector has felt the effects of the pandemic and has recognised the need of social distance in public transport. Road users tended to revert to use private vehicles for long distance travels, or they tended to use walking, cycling and micromobility for short distance trips. Cities and local authorities have organised themselves to create a range of interventions to rehabilitate or redesign walking, cycling and micromobility infrastructures in order to reduce car use and achieve sustainable mobility with zero-emission. In many countries, transport planners and policy makers have aimed to introduce a guideline for these sustainable travel modes. On the other hand, the pandemic period has not only changed daily travel behaviour but also has altered the travel demand for commercial needs. For instance, there has been an increase in e-commerce activities.

Regarding to these impacts of COVID-19 on the urban mobility, this workshop focuses on the psycho-social aspects of the pandemic, and possible outcomes on urban mobility for pre- and post-pandemic phases. The objective of this workshop is to bring researchers (scientific computing and applications in all fields of science, engineering, technology, economics, law and social sciences) as well as qualified professionals to present, compare and discuss their research progress, applications and achievements. This workshop stimulates the presentation of thoughtful insights by presenting original interdisciplinary research results and case studies on the relevant topic.

The current COVID-19 pandemic event is promoting actions aimed at defining a new sustainable and resilient mobility. Although significant progress has been made in the last decades, thanks to the adoption of shared mobility, the improvement of the electric power supply of vehicles and the promotion of walking and micro mobility for short distances electric mobility, challenges still remain on the nature of changes on mobility during the post COVID-19 era.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers from different scientific communities dealing with urban mobility, land uses and infrastructure from the engineering, psychological and social, economic and legal points of view in order to focus on the evolution of alternative transport modes that serve the goals of sustainable urban mobility.

The workshop focuses on the treatment of various case studies related to the trends of urban transport and mobility sector before, during and after the pandemic with particular attention to evaluation methods and developments.

Following topics are of interests to the workshop:

  • Sustainable and resilient mobility development (models and principles applied in illustrative case studies, including reports on local practices, international thematic experiences, innovations in regional and national legislation).
  • Analysis of the economic and social aspects of post COVID-19 transport
  • Urban planning, sustainability, infrastructural and social challenges (social inclusion, territorial cooperation, planning for resilient communities, land use changes, participatory planning processes, and urban environment)
  • Comparison before, during and post COVID-19 mobility scenarios
  • Post-pandemic transport supply and demand analysis

Given the focus of the Conference on Computational Science issues, the workshop PSYCHE welcomes contributions on ICT and computational aspects, proposals and applications from a wide variety of scholars on the issues proposed.

Engineers, Geologists, Urban and Regional Planners, Landscape Architects, Geographers and Economic Geographers, Environmental Engineers, among others are welcome to contribute.

Keywords: Configurative analysis, cities, urban morphology, urban dynamics, sustainability.

Each paper will be independently reviewed by 3 programme committee members. Their individual scores will be evaluated by a small sub-committee and result in one of the following final decisions: accepted, or accepted on the condition that suggestions for improvement will be incorporated, or rejected. Notification of this decision will take place on April 2022.
Individuals and groups should submit complete papers (10 to 16 pages).
Accepted contributions will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volumes

 

Authors Guideline
Please adhere strictly to the formatting provided in the template to prepare your paper and refrain from modifying it. The submitted paper must be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules of LNCS. For formatting information, see the publisher’s web site (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper.

download the template

 

Submission
Papers should be submitted at: http://ess.iccsa.org/
Please don’t forget to select “Psycho-social analysis of sustainable mobility in the pre- and post-pandemic phase” – PSYCHE_2022)” workshop from the drop-down list of all workshops.

 

Proceedings
Papers accepted to “PSYCHE 2022” will be published in the ICCSA Conference proceedings, in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, with doi, indexed by WOS, Scopus and DBLP.

 

Important dates

27 March 2022: Deadline for full paper submission
15 April 2022: Notification of acceptance
10 May 2022: Early-bird registration ends
10 May 2022: Deadline for Camera Ready Papers
4-7 July, 2022ICCSA 2022 Conference

 

Organizers Information:

Tiziana Campisi, (University of Enna KORE)
Socrates Basbas, (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Dilum Dissanayake, (Newcastle University, UK)
Nurten Akgün Tanbay, (Bursa Technical University, Turkey)
Elena Cocuzza, (DICAR, University of Catania)
Nazam Ali, (University of Management and Technology, Lahore – Pakistan)
Vincenza Torrisi, (DICAR, University of Catania)

 

Scientific Committee:

Tiziana Campisi, University of Enna Kore-Italy

Giovanni Tesoriere, University of Enna Kore-Italy

Socrates Basbas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki- Greece

Irena Ištoka Otković, University of Osijek-Croatia

Dilum Dissanayake, Newcastle University-UK

 

The 22nd International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications – ICCSA 2022 – Malaga, July 4 – 7, 2022

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The 22nd International Conference on

Configurational analysis for cities

CA CITIES_2022

in conjunction with

The 2022 International Conference on Computational
Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2022)
July 4th – July 7th 2022

Malaga, Spain
http://www.iccsa.org/

 

Description

Configurational analysis refers to a set of techniques departing from graph theory to investigate topological properties of spatial systems on various scales. It allows to link configurational analytical results to social, economic and cognitive factors of cities and people. Physical, social, economic and cognitive relationships are all intertwined and the configuration of a city allows to investigate these. It is a descriptive way of understanding how spatial networks work to facilitate movement patterns, co-presence and social capital.

In the context of various urban challenges, configurational analysis allows to analyse spatial and interrelated properties and can be useful for scenario development and scenario testing of the urban layout.

Configurational analysis complements accessibility approaches through the understanding of the centrality of streets, street segments or crossing of streets in connection to their functionality and located/embedded functions. As a result, we may obtain a comprehensive grasp of how urban systems work across scales. The configurational analysis has the extra benefit of being a systemic approach that allows to identify real-world challenges and investigate these in-depth. Spatial configurative approaches allow to evaluate the role that each space plays in the overall configuration of a system, as a whole or in its parts.

Configurative analysis connects to the discourse on sustainable cities, resilient cities, smart cities, healthy cities, or the 15-minute city. It allows to investigate current spatial systems and further develop and test spatial scenarios as guidelines into the future.

The CA CITIES 2022 workshop welcomes contributions from the fields of geography, urbanism, urban analytics, environmental engineers, computer sciences and related fields. Contributions are aimed at proposing novel insights into theory, method and case studies that allow to enhance the debate for following topics and themes:

 

Themes and topics of the workshop:

  • Configurational analysis for cities
  • Sustainable and successful cities
  • Resilient cities
  • Smart cities
  • Healthy cities
  • City of short distances
  • Growing and shrinking cities
  • Managing urban sprawl
  • Spatial cognition and wayfinding
  • Theory and method development

Given the focus of the Conference on Computational Science issues, the workshop TISC welcomes contributions on ICT and computational aspects, proposals and applications from a wide variety of scholars on the issues proposed.

Engineers, Geologists, Urban and Regional Planners, Landscape Architects, Geographers and Economic Geographers, Environmental Engineers, among others are welcome to contribute.

Keywords: Configurative analysis, cities, urban morphology, urban dynamics, sustainability.

Each paper will be independently reviewed by 3 programme committee members. Their individual scores will be evaluated by a small sub-committee and result in one of the following final decisions: accepted, or accepted on the condition that suggestions for improvement will be incorporated, or rejected. Notification of this decision will take place on April 2022.
Individuals and groups should submit complete papers (10 to 16 pages).
Accepted contributions will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volumes

 

Authors Guideline
Please adhere strictly to the formatting provided in the template to prepare your paper and refrain from modifying it. The submitted paper must be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules of LNCS. For formatting information, see the publisher’s web site (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper.

download the template

 

Submission
Papers should be submitted at: http://ess.iccsa.org/
Please don’t forget to select “Configurational analysis for cities” – CA CITIES_2022)” workshop from the drop-down list of all workshops.

 

Proceedings
Papers accepted to “CA CITIES 2022” will be published in the ICCSA Conference proceedings, in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, with doi, indexed by WOS, Scopus and DBLP.

 

Important dates

27 March 2022: Deadline for full paper submission
15 April 2022: Notification of acceptance
10 May 2022: Early-bird registration ends
10 May 2022: Deadline for Camera Ready Papers
4-7 July, 2022ICCSA 2022 Conference

 

Organizers Information:

Claudia Yamu, (Oslo Metropolitan University)
Valerio Cutini, (University of Pisa)
Beniamino Murgante, (University of Potenza)
Chiara Garau, (University of Cagliari)

 

Scientific Committee:

Valerio Cutini, University of Pisa, Italy

Chiara Garau, University of Cagliari, Italy

Daniele La Rosa, University of Catania, Italy

Beniamino Murgante, University of Basilicata, Italy

Enrica Papa, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom

Alessandro Plaisant, University of Sassari, Italy

Francesco Scorza, University of Basilicata, Italy

Anastasia Stratigea,  University of Athens – NTUA

Wendy Tan, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway; Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands

Claudia Yamu, Oslo Metropolitan University

Francesco Scorza, University of Basilicata, Italy

 

The 22nd International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications – ICCSA 2022 – Malaga, July 4 – 7, 2022

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The 22nd International Conference on

“Urban Space Accessibility and Mobilities

USAM_2022

in conjunction with

The 2022 International Conference on Computational
Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2022)
July 4th – July 7th 2022

Malaga, Spain
http://www.iccsa.org/

 

Description

The purpose of the “USAM” workshop is to enhance discussions on the criteria and applications, methodologies and tools useful for identifying, evaluating, planning and designing inclusive, diverse and accessibility for all. Universal accessibility or ‘access for all’ is a key component of achieving sustainable development. Conventional transport and land use planning seek an improvement of accessibility without directly serving the real needs of individuals and groups. This leads to issues of transport disadvantage and mobility inequality that translates to lack of access or ability to access key functions and hampering development of social opportunities. These inequalities can manifest in fundamental forms such as lack of access to employment, education or services. Inequalities can also be more insidious such as perceived lack of safety by certain user groups due to their socio-demographic characteristics (age, gender, ethnicity and income levels) that prevent them from accessing parts of their cities and regions.

As transport networks have become increasingly complex and dynamic, intermodality and users specific schemes and policies are needed. The concept of universal accessibility is important for the realisation of urban space that is legitimate, vital and serves a wider demographic. This supports the realisation of Sustainable Development Goals 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities) and 5 (Gender equality). The workshop welcomes all interpretations of universal accessibility from exploration of the physical infrastructure,  psychological and cognitive accessibility and perceive and real safety of diverse user groups. The latest generation ITS technologies, such as innovative flexible services and real-time users’ information, Internet of Things, augmented reality, virtual reality and smart roads offers new paths of explorations. The widespread availability of user information and data is also another aspect to for further explorations.

Focusing on inclusive, diverse and universal accessibility, this workshop invites critical exploration (but not limited to) the following issues:

  1. Studying and recognizing the specificities and differences between the various user groups, identifying needs, opportunities and abilities and, challenging the ‘one size fits all’ approach of current transport policies;
  2. Analysis of spatial conditions necessary for design and creation of spaces, strategies and measures to promote universal accessibility;
  3. Tools and methods for integrated approaches for decision making to ensure spatial quality of public spaces, level of safety and security, contrasting urban degradation and how foster a comprehensive regeneration of urban spaces according to universal accessibility criteria;
  4. Supporting public system strategies in order to guarantee an optimal use of resources for the creation of overall present and future value in local communities;
  5. Promoting social inclusion and raising people’s well-being and autonomy also through the development of knowledge, methodologies, technological tools and advanced automation techniques.

Given the focus of the Conference on Computational Science issues, the workshop USAM welcomes contributions on ICT and computational aspects, proposals and applications from a wide variety of scholars on the issues proposed.

Engineers, Geologists, Urban and Regional Planners, Landscape Architects, Geographers and Economic Geographers, Environmental Engineers, among others are welcome to contribute.

Keywords: Accessibility, Mobilities, Safety, Urban space, Cities, Augmented reality, Virtual reality, Accessibility design, Cultural tourism accessibility, ITS, Innovative flexible services, Real-time information, Big-data.

Each paper will be independently reviewed by 3 programme committee members. Their individual scores will be evaluated by a small sub-committee and result in one of the following final decisions: accepted, or accepted on the condition that suggestions for improvement will be incorporated, or rejected. Notification of this decision will take place on April 2022.
Individuals and groups should submit complete papers (10 to 16 pages).
Accepted contributions will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volumes

 

Authors Guideline
Please adhere strictly to the formatting provided in the template to prepare your paper and refrain from modifying it. The submitted paper must be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules of LNCS. For formatting information, see the publisher’s web site (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper.

download the template

 

Submission
Papers should be submitted at: http://ess.iccsa.org/
Please don’t forget to select “Urban Space Accessibility and Mobilities” – USAM_2022)” workshop from the drop-down list of all workshops.

 

Proceedings
Papers accepted to “USAM 2022” will be published in the ICCSA Conference proceedings, in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, with doi, indexed by WOS, Scopus and DBLP.

 

Important dates

27 March 2022: Deadline for full paper submission
15 April 2022: Notification of acceptance
10 May 2022: Early-bird registration ends
10 May 2022: Deadline for Camera Ready Papers
4-7 July, 2022ICCSA 2022 Conference

 

Organizers Information:

Chiara Garau, (DICAAR, University of Cagliari)
Matteo Ignaccolo, (DICAR, University of Catania)
Enrica Papa, (University of Westminster, United Kingdom)
Francesco Pinna, (DICAAR, University of Cagliari)
Silvia Rossetti, (DIA, University of Parma)
Wendy Tan, (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway; Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands)
Michela Tiboni, (DICATAM, University of Brescia);
Vincenza Torrisi, (DICAR, University of Catania)

 

Scientific Committee:

Anna Maria Colavitti, University of Cagliari

Barbara Caselli, University of Parma, Italy

Mauro Coni, University of Cagliari, Italy

Tanja Congiu, University of Sassari, Italy

Chiara Garau, University of Cagliari, Italy

Matteo Ignaccolo, University of Catania, Italy

Francesca Maltinti, University of Cagliari, Italy

Beniamino Murgante, University of Basilicata, Italy

Enrica Papa, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom

Mariano Pernetti, University of Campania, Italy

Francesco Pinna, University of Cagliari, Italy

Alessandro Plaisant, University of Sassari, Italy

Silvia Rossetti, University of Parma, Italy

Francesco Scorza, University of Basilicata, Italy

Wendy Tan, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway & Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands

Michela Tiboni, University of Brescia, Italy

Vincenza Torrisi, University of Catania, Italy

Claudia Yamu, University of Oslo Met

Paola Zamperlin, University of Pisa, Italy

Corrado Zoppi, University of Cagliari, Italy

 

The 21st International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications – ICCSA 2021 – Cagliari, September 13 – 16, 2021

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The 21st International Conference on

“Urban Space Accessibility and Safety”

USAS_2021

in conjunction with

The 2021 International Conference on Computational
Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2021)
September 13th – 16th 2021

Cagliari,
http://www.iccsa.org/

 

Description

The purpose of the “USAS” workshop is to collect papers on the criteria and applications, methodologies and tools useful to ensure the accessibility and safety of the urban space to all categories of users, with specific reference to the most disadvantaged people.

In fact, the concepts of “Accessibility and Safety” have assumed a fundamental importance for the use of urban space, becoming the basis of any good project and fundamental requirements in the implementation of good practices for using city’s places.

Talking about accessibility and safety implies referring to these concepts in its broadest sense, not only the physical ones, but also all their other forms, including psycho-cognitive accessibility and related safety.

Finally, the “accessibility and Safety” are based on the latest generation ITS technologies, such as innovative flexible services and real-time users’ information, augmented reality, virtual reality and smart roads.

Users’ information is also another aspect to derive the concept of accessibility and safety: transport networks have become increasingly complex and dynamic, intermodality is an indispensable new mobility paradigm and users need to be guided along their movements.

Accessibility also means demand segmentation: diversifying services, correlating different data sources and providing specific information with respect to different types of users and access devices.

Focusing on “accessibility and safety”, this workshop may critically explore (but is not limited) these relevant issues:

  1. Studying and recognizing the specificities and differences between the various categories of people with disabilities, identifying needs and, at the same time, widening the concept of disability to populations considered up to now as “able-bodied” (elderly, children, etc.);
  2. Analysis of the conditions for an independent life for people with disabilities, or for their self-determination, through the study of measures and strategies that give the possibility of living one’s life as or almost like any other person;
  3. Design and creation of spaces, strategies and measures to promote accessibility and safety;
  4. Highlighting how public spaces in cities favour quality and urban security, contrasting urban degradation and how foster a comprehensive regeneration of urban spaces according to accessibility and safety criteria;
  5. Supporting public system strategies in order to guarantee an optimal use of resources for the creation of overall present and future value in local communities;
  6. Promoting social inclusion and raising people well-being and autonomy also through the development of knowledge, methodologies, technological tools and advanced automation techniques.

Given the focus of the Conference on Computational Science issues, the workshop USAS welcomes contributions on ICT and computational aspects, proposals and applications from a wide variety of scholars on the issues proposed.

Engineers, Geologists, Urban and Regional Planners, Landscape Architects, Geographers and Economic Geographers, Environmental Engineers, among others are welcome to contribute.

 

Keywords: Accessibility, Safety, Urban space, Cities, Augmented reality, Virtual reality, Accessibility design, Cultural tourism accessibility, ITS, Innovative flexible services, Real-time information, Big-data.

 

Each paper will be independently reviewed by 3 programme committee members. Their individual scores will be evaluated by a small sub-committee and result in one of the following final decisions: accepted, or accepted on the condition that suggestions for improvement will be incorporated, or rejected. Notification of this decision will take place on April 2021.
Individuals and groups should submit complete papers (10 to 16 pages).
Accepted contributions will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volumes

 

Authors Guideline
Please adhere strictly to the formatting provided in the template to prepare your paper and refrain from modifying it. The submitted paper must be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules of LNCS. For formatting information, see the publisher’s web site (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper.

download the template

 

Submission
Papers should be submitted at: http://ess.iccsa.org/
Please don’t forget to select “Urban Space Accessibility and Safety” – USAS_2021)” workshop from the drop-down list of all workshops.

 

Proceedings
Papers accepted to “USAS 2021” will be published in the ICCSA Conference proceedings, in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, with doi, indexed by WOS, Scopus and DBLP.

 

Important dates

28 May 2021: Deadline for full paper submission
6 June 2021: Notification of acceptance
21 June 2021: Early-bird registration ends
28 June 2021: Deadline for Camera Ready Papers
13-16 September, 2021ICCSA 2021 Conference

 

Organizers Information:

Francesco Pinna, (DICAAR, University of Cagliari)
Chiara Garau, (DICAAR, University of Cagliari)
Claudia Yamu, (CASUS lab, University of Groningen)
Vincenza Torrisi, (DICAR, University of Catania)
Matteo Ignaccolo (DICAR, University of Catania)
Michela Tiboni (DICATAM, University of Brescia)
Silvia Rossetti (DIA, University of Parma)

 

Scientific Committee:

Anna Maria Colavitti, University of Cagliari

Mauro Coni, University of Cagliari, Italy

Tanja Congiu, University of Sassari, Italy

Chiara Garau, University of Cagliari, Italy

Matteo Ignaccolo, University of Catania, Italy

Francesca Maltinti, University of Cagliari, Italy

Beniamino Murgante, University of Basilicata, Italy

Enrica Papa, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom

Mariano Pernetti, University of Campania, Italy

Francesco Pinna, University of Cagliari, Italy

Alessandro Plaisant, University of Sassari, Italy

Silvia Rossetti, University of Parma, Italy

Francesco Scorza, University of Basilicata, Italy

Michela Tiboni, University of Brescia, Italy

Vincenza Torrisi, University of Catania, Italy

Claudia Yamu, University of Groningen

Paola Zamperlin, University of Florence, Italy

 

 

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