The document discusses how commonsense knowledge can enhance various aspects of smart cities, including smart environment, government, living, mobility, people and economy. It provides examples of how commonsense is currently being used in areas like transportation routing optimization, legislation analysis and health monitoring. Further research opportunities are identified in applying commonsense to domains like data centers, autonomous vehicles, education systems and urban policymaking to advance the goals of smart cities.
2. Smart Cities
• A smart city is an urban area that uses different types of electronic
data collection sensors to supply information used to manage assets
and resources efficiently [Source: Wiki]
• Energy efficiency, ubiquitous information access, pollution control,
transparent government, good healthcare etc.
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6. Commonsense for Smart Government
• Ordinances: Laws passed &
enacted at local levels
• Mine Web-based ordinance data
to analyze issues addressed etc.
• Commonsense to select relevant
ordinances, interpret content,
map ordinance to dept. etc.
• Answer questions, e.g., Which
dept. was most active in a given
ordinance session?
• This contributes to Smart Govt.
A Local Law in relation to the date of submission by the Mayor of the
proposed executive budget and budget message, the date of submission by
the Borough Presidents of recommendations in response to the Mayor
executive budget, the date of publication of a report by the director of the
independent budget office analyzing he executive budget, the date by
which the Council hearings pertaining to the executive budget shall
conclude, the date by which if the expense budget has not been adopted,
the expense budget and tax rate adopted as modified for the current fiscal
year shall be deemed to have......
[Source: NYC Council Websites 2017; Du et al., 2017]
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9. Commonsense for Smart People
• 21st century education affected by technology
• Computer literacy is crucial
• Commonsense in relevant systems is helpful
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems: more interactive;
cater to different expertise levels
• Writing aids in multiple languages: address
collocations etc.
• This promotes inclusiveness & fosters global
education, enhancing Smart People
[Source: Long et al. 2011, Park et al. 2008, Koedinger et al., 2013]
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12. References
• Driggs-Campbell K., Shia V., Bajcsy R., “Decisions for autonomous vehicles: Integrating sensors, communication,
and control”, ACM HiCoNS 2014, pp. 59-60.
• Du, X., Liporace, D. and Varde, A., “Urban Legislation Assessment by Data Analytics with Smart City
Characteristics”, IEEE UEMCON 2017, To appear.
• Du, X., Emebo, O., Varde, A., Tandon, N., Nag Chowdhury, S. and Weikum, G. Air quality assessment from social
media and structured data: Pollutants and health impacts in urban planning, IEEE ICDE Health Data Mgmt. &
Mining Workshop 2016, pp. 54-59.
• Forsyth, T. “Public concerns about transboundary haze: a comparison of Indonesia, Singapore and
Malaysia.”, Global Environmental Change 2014, 25:76-86.
• Koedinger, K., Brunskill, E., Baker, R., McLaulin, E. and Stamper, J., New Potentials for Data-Driven Intelligent
Tutoring System Development and Optimization, AI Magazine 2013, 34(3): 27-28.
• Leef, G., Smart Economics: Commonsense Answers to 50 Questions about Government, Taxes, Business and
Households, Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) 2007.
• Long, P., Siemens, G., Penetrating the fog: Analytics in learning & education, Educause Review 2011, 46(5): 31-40.
• New York City Council - Legislation, Legistar.council.nyc.gov, 2017
• Park, T., Lank, E., Poupart, P. and Terry, M., Is the sky pure today - awkchecker: An assistive tool for detecting and
correcting collocation errors. ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2008, pp. 121–130.
• Pawlish, M., Varde, A., Robila, S. and Ranganathan, R., A call for energy efficiency in data centers, SIGMOD Record
2014, 43(1): 45-51.
• Persaud, P., Varde, A. and Robila, S., “Enhancing Autonomous Vehicles with Commonsense: Smart Mobility in
Smart Cities”, IEEE ICTAI Smart Cities Workshop 2017, To appear.
• Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), European Smart Cities, Tech. Rep., Vienna, Austria 2015. 12
13. Tutorial Summary
• Part 1: Acquiring Commonsense Knowledge
• What is commonsense
• Representing commonsense knowledge (CSK)
• Processes in acquisition of CSK
• Evaluation methods
• Part 2: Detecting and Correcting Odd Collocations in Text
• Meaning of collocations
• Treatment of odd collocations
• Linguistic classification approaches
• Tools for detection and correction
• Part 3: Applications and Open Issues
• Smart cities and their characteristics
• Role of commonsense to enhance smart city characteristics
• Specific applications with scope for further research 13