Workshops on Big Data and Urban Informatics: e-Infrastructure for Social Science Research on Sustainable Urban Systems

该项目将建立一个多学科研究社区，就如何利用大数据为城市信息学提供十年尺度的数据密集型研究问题。无处不在的传感、社交媒体、位置感知技术和城市基础设施中的大量传感器将导致大量的城市大数据。城市信息学是对大数据的设计和分析，旨在为改善城市决策和公民参与的社会科学研究创造下一代工具和服务。这些工具将使未来城市系统的设计、规划、管理和使用更加可持续、有效和公平。将围绕社会科学研究的“城市信息学电子基础设施（UIE）”进行组织。UIE将由三个部分组成：大数据资源、城市信息学分析工具（用于城市系统的社会科学研究）和新兴技术（用于促进研究人员使用电子基础设施）。通过从多学科的角度将这些组成部分交织在一起，将刺激对城市建模、数据挖掘和知识发现的数据密集型研究，以探索城市动态。鼓励基于agent的建模、大规模仿真和研究城市大数据带来的独特数据管理和多传感器传感器融合。城市传感方面的创新和基于社区的信息生成的新方向将激发有关参与式城市规划和社区参与模式的问题，以及关于交通、城市生态、绿色基础设施、土地开发和水利用方面的可持续选择的问题。该项目将支持关于这一主题的两个讲习班。讲习班的总体目标是介绍这些活动的进展，并促进对利用电子基础设施建立的研究和应用的讨论。

The project will establish a multi-disciplinary research community to generate decadal-scale data-intensive research questions on how Big Data can be leveraged for Urban Informatics. Pervasive sensing, social media, location-aware technologies and vast numbers of sensors in the urban infrastructure will lead to massive amounts of Big Data on cities. Urban Informatics is the design and analysis of Big Data to create the next generation of tools and services for improved social science research on urban decision-making and citizen engagement. These tools will enable urban systems of the future to be designed, planned, managed and used more sustainably, efficiently and equitably.The research community will be organized around creating an Urban Informatics e-Infrastructure (UIE) for social science research. The UIE will consist of three components--a Big Data resource, Urban Informatics Analysis Tools to enable social science research on urban systems and Emerging Technologies to facilitate the use of the e-infrastructure by researchers. By interweaving these components from a multi-disciplinary perspective, data-intensive research on urban modeling, data mining and knowledge discovery to explore urban dynamics will be stimulated. Agent-Based Modeling, large-scale simulations and research on unique data management and multi-sensor sensor fusion that arises with urban Big Data will be encouraged. Innovations in urban sensing and new directions in community-based information generation will inspire questions on participatory urban planning and models of community engagement as well as on sustainable choices regarding transportation, urban ecology, green infrastructure, land development and water use. The project will support two workshops on the topic. The overall goal of the workshops will be to present advances in such activities and to stimulate discussion on research and applications to be built using the e-infrastructure.