Smart Cities, Environmental Science and Technology, and Sustainable Smart Manufacturing Possible Workshop Topics
- (Angel Island State Park, San Francisco/Bay Area, U.S.A. - Jeffrey M. Wang)
Smart Cities
- Smart city theory, modeling and simulation
- Smart city implementation
- Smart city deployments, test-beds and field trials
- Smart city artificial intelligence applications and trends
- Digital city and smart growth
- Smart economy development
- Smart campus
- Smart people
- Citizen engagement and smart governance
- City planning and management
- Smarter public safety and public safety solutions
- Smart city for special needs
- Smart city infrastructure
- Intelligent infrastructure
- Smart environments
- Smart structures technology
- Smart disaster management
- Smart urban crowd-sensing
- Urban computing
- A cyber-physical infrastructure for the “Smart City”
- Smart green infrastructure monitoring
- Urban micro-climate studies
- Urban/regional air pollution modelling
- Wireless and optical communications, network technologies, services and application
- Mobile computing and services for urban and public transport systems
- Mobile accessible pedestrian signals (MAPS) system
- Cellular networking in smart cities
- Crowdsourcing data collection
- Delay tolerant networks and systems for urban data collection
- Cloud computing, web, HPC/data center, cyber security, digital forensics
- Cloud computing and network infrastructure that supports smart cities
- Environment and urban monitoring
- Enabling wireless and mobile technologies for smart cities
- Fault tolerance, reliability and survivability in smart systems
- Human mobility modeling and analytics
- Mobile crowdsourcing for urban analytics
- QoS and QoE of smart city systems, applications, and services
- Sensing and IoT for smart cities
- Software-defined data center
- Software-defined power
- Computing, big data and analytics
- Open data and big data analytics
- Big data for urban informatics
- Spatial data mining and visual analytics
- Urban spatial analytics
- Predictive analytics and risk intelligence
- Smart security
- Safety and security systems
- Machine-to-Machine solutions
- Internet of Things (IoT) and smart cities
- Smart water management
- Smart waste management
- Transportation management
- Transportation economics
- Spatial econometrics
- Application of advanced microeconomic theories to intelligent transportation systems
- Statistical modeling of transportation and urban systems.
- Geospatial Technology
- GPS (Global Positioning Systems)
- GIS (Geographical Information Systems)
- New urban vehicles
- Charging and locking technology for shared-use vehicle systems
- Smart energy management
- Smart grid technologies and network communications, new green energy technologies and green buildings
- Smart integrated grids
- Smart healthcare and emergency management
- Smart environment
- Environmental monitoring technologies
- Smart Geographic Information Management
- Sustainable management
- Smart living
- Smart building and smart home
- Home/service robots
- Smart retail
- Supply chain and smart logistics
- Smart manufacturing
- Vertical farming (urban farming)
- Plant factory
- Smart agriculture
- Urban controlled environment agriculture
Smart Environments
- Artificial and computational intelligence
- Reliability, privacy and trust
- Networking and Communication
- Internet of things, ubiquitous and pervasive computing
- Sensors and actuators
- System architecture and middleware for intelligent environments
- Remote control of devices
- Device communications
- Sensory information acquisition/dissemination
- Enhanced services by intelligent devices
- Networking standards
- Predictive decision making capabilities
- Connected smart street lighting
Smart Mobility, Intelligent Transportation Systems
1. Safety
- Highway and railway safety
- Traffic safety analysis
- Smart traffic signalling technology
- Vehicle-to-Vehicle communications for safety (V2V)
- Truck V2V research
- Transit V2V research
- Connected vehicle safety pilot
- Vehicle-to-infrastructure communications for safety (V2I)
- Truck V2I research/smart roadside
- Transit V2I research
- Connected vehicle safety for rail
2. Mobility
- Smart mobility and transportation
- Transportation Informatics
- Intelligent transportation systems
- Electro mobility (E-mobility)
- Personal mobility in smart city
- Intelligent highway
- Transportation networks, logistics systems, and supply chains
- Urban freight transportation
- Sustainable transportation
- Multi-modal transportation systems
- Simulation and modelling of transportation systems
- Transportation network modeling and simulation
- Optimization in stochastic networks
- Transportation system analysis
- Transportation planning under both normal and emergency conditions
- Urban passenger transportation system
- Intelligent car-sharing service
- Urban infrastructure systems
- Urban and interurban multi-modal transportation planning
- Big data applications for multi-modal transportation databases
- Urban analysis and modeling
- Urban data analytics
- Public transit planning and operations
- Smart traffic system operations
- Real-time traffic sensing
- Data capture and management
- Geographic Information Systems for Transportation (GIS-T)
- Dynamic mobility applications
- Dynamic fleet management
- Traffic flow theory and operations
- Traffic control and operations
- Traffic monitoring and management
- Traffic simulation and forecasting
- Real-time traffic estimation and prediction
- Congestion pricing
- Statewide real-time traffic databases
- Mobile traffic sensors
- Distributed control systems
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Vehicle routing, scheduling and dispatching
- Air transportation
- Air traffic operations management and performance evaluation
- Airline, airport, and seaport efficiency modeling
3. Environment
- Electrified transportation systems
- Electric vehicles (EVs)
- Ultra low emission vehicles (ULEVs)
- Applications for the environment: real-Time information synthesis
- Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) Service in the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
- Vehicle-centric information and communication technology (vehicle ICT)
- Connected vehicle (CV) technologies
- Connected vehicle systems
- Intelligent vehicle-to-infrastructure integration
4. Road Weather
- Winter road maintenance
- Road weather connected vehicle applications
5. Policy
- Connected vehicle policy and technology
- Connected vehicle and Internet of mobility
- Transportation infrastructure investment decision making, planning, and policy
Automated and Intelligent Vehicle
1. Automated Vehicle
- Human factors evaluation of automated driving concepts
- Potential benefits and disbenefits of automated vehicles
- Design guidelines for automated vehicles
- Technical, policy, institutional, and regulatory barriers to deployment and possible solutions
- Needed standards and appropriate methods for development
2. Intelligent Vehicle and Mechatronics
- Advanced Vehicle Control Systems
- Unmanned surface vehicles
- Advanced driver assistance systems
- Assisted transportation
- Active safety systems: rollover prevention systems, collision avoidance systems
3. Sensor/Data Fusion and Nonlinear Estimation
- High precision localization for autonomous vehicles via multiple sensors, data fusion and novel wireless technologies
- High-precision vehicle positioning through data fusion (GPS + motion/vision sensors + 2D/3D digital map)
- Robust multi-target tracking and recognition (radar/laser/vision sensors)
- 60-degree environmental sensing (radar/laser /vision + WAVE/DSRC)
4. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Intelligent Vehicles
- WAVE/DSRC-based cooperative systems
- Cloud-based roadway information system
- Green Control Unit
- Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs)
- Connected Vehicle Models (Vehicle-to-Infrastructure, Vehicle-to-vehicle, Vehicle-to-the-Cloud, Vehicle-to-Pedestrian,Vehicle-to-Everything)
5. Intelligent/Electric Vehicle Systems
- Intelligent battery management system for electric vehicles
- Solar Posered A/C for Electric Vehicles
- EV motor/battery heat management
Supply Chain and Smart Logistics
1. Supply Chain
- Risk, resilience and continuity
- S&OP, forecasting, demand management
- Sales and operations planning (S&OP), forecasting, demand management
- Operational efficiency
- Supplier management and collaboration
- Internet of Things (IoT) and its impact on supply chain management
- Sustainable and innovative business
- Sustainable supply chains
- Supply chain networks
- Supply chain network risk management
- Supply chain resilience and security
- Port resilience and security
- Supply chain coordination
- Supply chain competition
- Sustainability in global supply networks
- Supply chain innovation in emerging markets
- Pricing in supply chains
- Big data and business analytics
- Optimized technology in the supply chain
- Inventory management and optimization
- Fulfillment capability and Flow optimization
- Warehouse performance assessment, design, management, automation
- Goods movement and logistics
- Intermodal freight transport system for optimal supply chain logistics
2. Infrastructure and Technology
- Freight logistics in smart city
- Logistics hubs and clusters
- Real-time logistics information system
- Access to transport networks, infrastructure and nodes
- Freight consolidation and transhipment
- Implementation of low emission technologies
- IT-technologies and solutions (for management and administration)
- Innovative vehicles, vessels and equipment
- ICT (e.g. routing, guidance), transport optimization
- The Internet-of-Things in logistics
3. Operations and Services
- Business to customer (B2C) solutions (e.g. e-commerce, last mile delivery)
- Innovative operational solutions
- Service quality and sustainability agreements/certification
- Transport management, fleet management
- Value added services, development of services
Sustainable Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0
- Micro- and Nano-Scale Manufacturing (microfluidic devices, nanopositioning systems, fuel cells, and electronics, etc.)
- Manufacturing Systems and Information
- Renewable Energy and Environmentally Benign Manufacturing
- Industry 4.0
- Smart factories
- Cyber-physical systems (sensors, etc.)
- the Internet of Things/The Industrial Internet
- Big data analytics
- Manufacturing systems and communication networks
- Manufacturing system control and automation
- Integrated manufacturing and logistics systems
- Internet of Things and smart manufacturing
- Robotics and automation
- Robotic systems for smart manufacturing: standards and assessment
- Mechatronics and robotics
- Collaborative robots (Cobots)
- Robot operating systems
- Additive manufacturing (AM)/direct digital manufacturing
- Micro-factory technology
- Knowledge based production management
- Computational intelligence in production management
- Intelligent manufacturing systems
- Intelligent human-machine system
- 3D machine vision
- Agile, flexible, reactive manufacturing systems
- Modelling of business and operational processes
- Social networks for manufacturing
- Virtual, Digital and smart factory
- Production planning and scheduling
- Globalization and production management
- Inventory management in large supply chains
- Simulation of large scale supply chains
- Social and cultural aspects of global supply chains
- Worldwide procurement, logistics and distribution management
- Sustainability and production management
- Energy efficiency in manufacturing
- Green manufacturing
- Reuse, remanufacture, disassembly and recycling
- Collaborative networks
- Collaborative tools in production and asset management
- Collaborative design
- Distributed systems and multi-agent technologies
- ICT for collaborative manufacturing
- Information systems for collaboration
- Innovation and collaborative networks
- Performance measurement and benchmarking
- Products and services personalisation
- Quality management for personalized products and services
Environment Science and Technology
1. Water Pollution and Water Quality Control
- Sustainable Water Supply
- Water Chemistry & Treatment Technology
- Physical-chemical Wastewater Treatment
- Nitrogen-Phosphorus Wastewater Treatment
- Municipal Wastewater Bio-treatment
- Industrial Wastewater Bio-treatment
- Adsorption/Desorption for Wastewater Treatment
- Watershed Management
- Nanotechnology Applications
2. Air Pollution and Air Quality Control
- Air Resource Management
- Catalyst and Adsorbent Preparation
- Micro-contamination (AMC) Control
- Aerosol
- Air Pollutant Monitoring
- Hazardous Gas Bio-filtration
- Catalysts for Reducing Emission
- Fuel Gas DeSOx, DeNOx, and Metal Removal
- Air Pollution Prevention and Management
3. Land (Soil, Waste Solid) Pollution and Remediation
- Contaminants in the Subsurface
- Natural Attenuation of Contaminants
- In-Situ Remediation
- Solid Waste Management
- On-site and Off-site Remediation
- Landfill
- Permeable Reactive Barriers
- Waste Fuel Site Remediation
- Waste Recycling
- Radioactive Waste and Land Pollution
- Phytoremediation of Orgaic Pollutants
- Polymer Waste Recycling and Management
4. Global Change
- Global Warming and its Impacts
- Carbon Emission Sources and Control
- Carbon Discharge Reduction
5. Modeling
- Environmental Simulation
- Water Quality Modeling
- Inverse Model and Pollution Estimation
6. Ecosystem Assessment and Restoration
- Ecosystem Assessment
- Nutrients and Functions of Ecosystems
- Restoration of Ecosystems
- Urban Ecology
7. GIS, Statistics, and Remote Sensing
- GIS for Environmental Assessment
- Data Management and Statistics
- Environmental Remote Sensing Applications
8. Wetlands
- Wetland Conservation
- Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment
9. Bio-Assessment and Toxicology
- Human Exposure
- Bio-response and Ecotoxicology
- Bioavailability and Bio-accumulation
- Microbial Degradation
- Detection and Decontamination of Dangerous Biological Agents
10. Organic Pollutants
- Characterization of Organic Pollutants
- Degradation of Persistent Organic Pollutants
11. Environmental Analysis and Measurements
- Field Measurement Technologies
- New Method Applications
- Environmental Monitoring
12. Society and the Environment
- Society and the Environment
- Environmental Ethics and Laws
- Environmental Education
13. Sustainable Development and Environmental Management
- Environmental Quality and Planning
- Environmental Policy and Management
14. Renewable Energy Development & Energy Conservation
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