NSF CPS PI Meeting Workshop Challenges and Opportunities for Bringing Smart Services to Underserved Urban Communities

NSF CPS PI Meeting Workshop
Challenges and Opportunities for Bringing Smart Services to Underserved Urban Communities
Tuesday, November 14 (8:30 AM to 10:45 AM)

A special case of smart and connected communities deserves attention from the CPS community, namely, underserved urban areas. With the growing trends of urbanization, gentrification, income inequality, and cumulative deprivations, in not only inner-cities and slums but also in some suburbs of mega-cities, it is increasingly harder to afford health care, food, housing, and transportation. From South LA to Chicago's South Side to Columbus' Linden to Atlanta's Westside, diverse and complex problems exist.

This workshop seeks to explore the potential and feasibility of leveraging CPS based smart community-centric services as an affordable way of helping address some of these problems. Recent developments, such as apps for requesting quick Uber-based delivery of naloxone or narcan to opioid overdose victims, are leading indicators for more broadly leveraging the cyber-physical plane to connect, compute, and respond to urban underserved needs. But these communities pose unique technical challenges and opportunities for advancing the state-of-the-art in CPS, not to mention the myriad societal challenges associated with addressing the digital divide that exists between the well-served and under-served communities.

The workshop seeks position papers (2 pages maximum including figures and citations) that cover any of the following topical areas:

• Edge computing as an emerging, leverage-able trend (vs. cloud computing)
• Affordable wide-area connectivity at the network edge
• Services operating with limited and intermittent connectivity to wide-area Internet
• Middleware challenges for a geo-distributed infrastructure comprising edge and cloud
• Social sensing
• Societal issues with respect to technology adoption
• Low cost CPS solutions for under-served communities

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Professor Umakishore Ramachandran, College of Computing, Georgia Tech, rama@cc.gatech.edu, (404) 894-5136

Professor Anish Arora, College of Computing Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Arora.9@osu.edu, (614) 264-8771

Accepted position papers will be posted to the CPS-VO website and the authors will have an opportunity to participate in the discussion round-table at the workshop.

Deadline for submission of position papers: Nov 3, 2017

Notification of acceptance: Nov 8, 2017