SEMINARIOS DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN INGENIERÍA INFORMÁTICA Y DE
TELECOMUNICACIÓN 2008-2009
Actividad de Formación Continua del Programa Oficial de Posgrado en Ingeniería
Informática y de Telecomunicación
Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad Autónoma de
Madrid
jueves, 27 de noviembre de 2008, 12:00
Salón de Grados, Escuela Politécnica Superior,
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Ubiquitous Computing for Intelligent Transport Systems: Where we are? Where we want to go?
Carlos Bento
Departamento de Engenharia Informática
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Abstract
In this seminar I will give a personal perspective on Ubiquitous Computing and on how it can drive the idea of Ubiquitous Cities. A presentation on the ways in which Ubiquitous Computing is meeting the current research on Intelligent Transport Systems will be presented and discussed.
A treatment on the contributions that Ubiquitous Computing can make for improved urban mobility in terms of usability, time efficiency, price efficiency and environmental sustainability will be addressed.
Demonstrations of current prototypes of Advanced Transportation Information Systems will be presented. Finally a list of promising research direction to make this vision happen will be enumerated.
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Carlos Bento
Carlos Bento has a position as Aggregated Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra. He is Director of the Ambient Intelligence Lab (AmILab) at Centro de Informática da Universidade de Coimbra (CISUC).
His current agenda includes coordination of the project CityMotion within the MITPortugal Program; teaching at the University of Coimbra and at the Master on Complex Transport Infrastructure Systems within MIT Portugal Program; and supervision of various PhD and Master students working on Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligent Transport Systems.
His main research interests are on Indoor Location and Tracking; Ubiquitous Computing for Urban Spaces; and Social Computing. He is always willing to hire bright and motivated students. He has a background on Artificial Intelligence and Case-based Reasoning.