Smart Cities & Smart Health in Amsterdam & Beijing

Title: Amsterdam Data Science Meetup on Smart Cities & Smart Health in Amsterdam & Beijing
Date: Thursday 20 September 2018
Location: Agora 1, VU Main Building
Times: 1000-1600
Registration: https://www.meetup.com/Amsterdam-Data-Science/events/254612194/

Overview: Amsterdam Data Science researchers have an active collaboration with Beijing University of Technology on a number of specific themes including smart cities and smart health. As part of this active collaboration, on Thursday 20 September we welcome experts from Beijing to present their research to the ADS Meetup community and to discuss future collaborations and ideas.

Note: The event is free to attend and will be in English. It is also fine if you would like to join for part of the event only.

09:45 Coffee, snack and walk-in

Chair: Zhisheng Huang, VU

10:00-10:05
Welcome by Frans Snijders, Director of VU International Office

10:05-10:30
"Data Science in Service of City Liveability"
Stevan Rudinac, UvA

10:30-10:55
Safia Akkus, Amsterdam Municipality

10:55-11:20
"Key Technologies and Integrated Application of Green Smart Village"
Shaofu Lin, Director of Beijing Institute of Smart City

10 minute coffee break

11:30-11:55
"AI for Smart Health"
Mark Hoogendoorn, VU

11:55-12:20
"Spatial Economics on Amsterdam North-South Line"
Jan Rouwendal, VU

12:20-13:00 Networking over lunch

13:00-13:25
"Optimization of Bus Lines and Network Based on Perception of Individual Trip Characteristics"
Jiancheng Weng, Beijing University of Technology

13:25-13:50
"Use of Spatially Explicit Information in the Analysis of Urban Development and Travel Behavior"
Eric Koomen, VU

13:50-14:15
"Knowledge Graphs for eGovernment & Smart Cities"
Wouter Beek, VU & Triply

Abstract: Recent years have seen an increase in the use of Knowledge Graphs worldwide: Google and Reuters, Siri and Alexa, Elsevier and Airbnb are all using Knowledge Graphs. In this presentation we will take a look at recent uses of Knowledge Graphs by the Dutch government. The Dutch Cadastre agency now publishes the base registries for house and land ownership as a Knowledge Graph. The Dutch Bureau of Statistics publishes statistical information about cities and neighborhoods as a knowledge graph. And also the Chamber of Commerce, the Royal Cultural Heritage organization, and the Organization for Entrepreneurs all publish their data as knowledge graphs. We will explain this recent surge in Knowledge Graph use and will highlight the benefits of the use of Knowledge Graphs for eGovernment and Smart Cities.

10 minute coffee break

14:25-14:50
"Vectorial Dimension Reduction for Tensors Based on Bayesian Inference in Smart Health"
Fujiao Ju, Beijing University of Technology

14:50-15:15
"Big Data on Amsterdam North-South Line"
Elenna Dugundji, CWI

15:15-15:20
Further questions and wrap-up

15:20-16:00
Drinks and snacks
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