Welcome to the 5th IEEE International Workshop on Pervasive Context-Aware Smart Cities and Intelligent Transport Systems (PerAwareCity) workshop, held in conjunction with the IEEE Percom 2020 in Austin, Texas, USA.

This workshop focuses on bringing together researchers and practitioners working on systems and applications in the Smart City domain. Since nearly 60% of the world population lives in urban areas, the majority of the planet's resources are consumed in cities. As a consequence, applications targeting urban areas can positively impact a significant fraction of the population. Context-aware applications in the smart city range from transportation, energy, safety to low-carbon living.

The ongoing advances in Pervasive Computing and Wireless Communication technology have delivered interesting hardware platforms that are suitable for city-scale infrastructure deployments and networking. Also, novel techniques using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are now available for intelligent (real time) analytics and decision making by processing streaming sensor data collected from the surrounding environment. Fleets of smart cars can be distributed computational and sensing resource along with increasingly large crowds of people equipped with sensor-rich mobile and wearable devices, which can facilitate wide-scale crowd-sensing and crowd-sourcing.

We are pleased to notify that this year we have accepted 6 highly exciting papers to be presented at the workshop. The accepted papers shall have significant contribution in city-scale smart system development. We are also looking forward to the keynote speech by Prof. Hirozumi Yamaguchi from the Mobile Computing Laboratory of the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at Osaka University, Japan. This year, we plan to introduce an open discussion forum for identifying novel issues and challenges associated with Pervasive Context-Aware Smart Cities and Intelligent Transport Systems.

The authors of the accepted papers have addressed various challenges to enable pervasive context-aware smart cities.

Yuan Lai from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will present his paper on Hyper-local Urban Contextual Awareness through Open Data Integration and provide an overview of a large-scale urban data collection in New York City. In their paper, Mr. Maskey et al. introduced BITS, a Blockchain based Intelligent Transportation System with Outlier Detection for Smart City. The system reveals malicious behavior in transportation systems based on anomaly detection in transportation data such as vehicle speed, deceleration, GPS coordinates, and a criminal record index. Mrs. Fatemeh Mirzaei et al. use Bluetooth low energy beacons in their case study about Accurate Self-Localization in Transit Stations. They present three scenarios to demonstrate that statistical fusion of bluetooth and GPS data can improve the localization accuracy in situations in which the GPS signal alone is unreliable. As this is often the case for urban places such as train stations or streets between high buildings this solution perfectly fits in the scope of the workshop. Dr. Srivastava et al. will present their approach to Building an Open, Multi-Sensor, Dataset of Water Pollution of Ganga Basin and Application to Assess Impact of Large Religious Gatherings. This contribution does not only contain exciting contributions but also sheds light on problems associated with increasing population density in urban areas. Dr. Montori et al. have worked on an approach to deliver IoT Smart Services through Collective Awareness, Mobile Crowdsensing and Open Data. The authors strive to use existing data and make it available to a larger group. They also implemented measures to allow data owners to easily share their data. Finally, Mr. Übelmesser et al. have compared Smart Cities Concepts to better understand stakeholders, driving forces, and goals during the digitalization process to smart cities. The paper also shows a path towards a unified smart energy city model for a sustainable transformation.

We welcome every attendee to the workshop and urge you to actively participate in all the networking and discussions for advancing smart city research and development.

Vaskar Raychoudhury, Janick Edinger, Md. Saiedur Rahaman

PerAwareCity 2020 Workshop Chairs

Organizing Committee
Workshop Co-chairs
	Mohammad Saiedur Rahaman (RMIT University, Australia)
	Vaskar Raychoudhury (Miami University, USA)
	Janick Edinger (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Program Chair
	Janick Edinger (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Publicity Chair
	Vaskar Raychoudhury (Miami University, USA)

Technical Program Committee

Christian Becker	Universität Mannheim	Germany
Sunyanan Choochotkaew	Osaka University	Japan
Janick Edinger	University of Mannheim	Germany
Niroshinie Fernando	Deakin University	Australia
Abdur Rahim Mohammad Forkan	Swinburne University of Technology	Australia
Ferdaus Kawsar	East Tennessee State University	USA
Sateesh Kumar Peddoju	Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee	India
Ashfaqur Rahman	CSIRO	Australia
Mohammad Saidur Rahman	RMIT University	Australia
Vaskar Raychoudhury	Miami University	USA
Mohammad Saiedur Rahaman	RMIT University	Australia
Hirozumi Yamaguchi	Osaka University	Japan
Keiichi Yasumoto	Nara Institute of Science and Technology	Japan