WAISC 2022

Topics

The workshop provides a forum for exchanging ideas on smart cities and digital twins in the context of AI. The topics include, but are not limited to the following areas:

• What constitutes a digital twin for a smart city, and how can this information be represented adequately in order to allow the application of AI while at the same time protecting the rights and interests of citizens and society?
• Is a digital twin in a smart city just a simulation or a semantic data space? What are online and offline properties of smart city applications?
• What are successful implementations of digital twins for smart cities, esp. with a focus on AI?
• How can aspects of transparency and explainability be supported?
• Which organizational structures are required to design, build, and use a digital twin for smart cities?
• How do citizens interact with smart city applications? What is required to ensure their broad acceptance?

The list above is by no means exhaustive, as the aim is to foster the debate around all aspects of the suggested theme.

Organization

All participants are invited to submit an extended abstract for a short presentation in the workshop. We welcome presentations of new, state-of-the art papers, contributions reporting author's former results or crtical and comparative studies concerning smart cities and digital twins. Submissions are not only limited to unpublished research, but also include demos of working implementations, planned projects and research questions the authors wish to pursue in the future or mini-tutorials on relevant technologies. Regardless of the form of the contribution, authors are encouraged to submit abstracts about scenarios where the use of a digital twin was fruitful and led to new insights but also experiences where they believe that technological or conceptual advances are required such that digital twins can be applied to their full potential.

All accepted submissions will be grouped into related topic blocks, during which each participant presents their contribution in a 10 minute presentation. Each block is concluded by a panel talk, summarizing common findings, experiences and problems encountered in this topic block.

Authors are kindly requested to write the abstract in English. Each participant is allowed to present one paper only. The collected abstracts will be published online prior to the workshop.

The WAISC is also open to people who would like to attend without submitting an abstract as discussion of the topic will play a major role. The workshop language is English.

Call For Participation

Smart cities are a collective term for the use of information technology in urban context. As a subfield, Digital twins for cities is a promising topic with unexplored potential. Both topics are influenced by different spheres of AI: acquisition and evaluation of big data, semantic technologies, agent-based modeling/distributed simulation, but also the human-computer interaction challenges that arise from the work with digital twins. As such, both topics are deeply nested in the context of the KI2022 conference. In this workshop, we aim to examine the different angles, challenges and technologies from which the smart city concept can benefit from AI and digital twins. We call for extended abstracts on past works and experience, demonstrations of implemented systems and presentations of novel research questions and ideas to promote a joint discussion on how the use of digital twins for smart cities can be advanced by means of AI to address future challenges.