Our LTA research team has done UNiCEN proud by winning the top prize for the DataSpark Mobility Open-Task Challenge under the CIKM AnalytiCup 2017 at the CIKM2017 after 3 rounds of intense competition. The CIKM2017 is a premier forum for research on topics at the confluence of information retrieval, data management, and knowledge management. It brought together international and Singapore technology providers and seekers to explore technology and business collaboration opportunities through open innovation to materialize the “Smart Cities, Smart Nations” vision shared by many urban areas and the countries.

Using telco mobility data and publicly available taxi availability data, the team developed a solution which improves the quality of prediction of taxi demand for guiding taxi drivers. The solution has the potential to shorten driver empty cruising time, and in turn achieve better mobility-in-demand services.

Click here to view the winners for CIKM AnalytiCup 2017.

Another group of UNiCEN research team working on Conference Planning System also participated in the CIKM2017. The team was at conference to showcase the system and garner conference delegates to use our web-based application. By combining text mining and optimization techniques, the web-based application is able to help delegates to plan and optimise their schedule at CIKM conference.

All winners from DataSpark Mobility Open-Task Challenge category. Reseacher Aldy is interacting with the crowd.

Click here to view more photos captured during Int'l Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 2017.