UrbCom
8th International Workshop on Urban Computing
June 22 – 24, 2026 - Reykjavik, Iceland
Co-located with IEEE DCOSS 2026
Co-located with IEEE DCOSS 2026
08.30-09.00: Registration
09.00-10.00: Keynote (Ian Akyildiz, “From Digital Twins to Cognitive Twins: Closing the Metacognitive Loop in Distributed Sensor Networks”)
10.00-10.30: Coffee Break
10.30-13.00: Session 1 (“Federated and Edge Intelligence in Urban Systems”)
Chair: Wellington Lobato
-Amir Dodangeh, Eric Samikwa and Torsten Braun. “FedRAPS: Joint Client Selection and Adaptive Pruning for Resource-Aware Federated Learning”
-Cláudio Gustavo Santos Capanema, Fabricio Silva, Leandro Villas and Antonio Loureiro. “From Equality to Proportionality: Contribution-aware Proportional Fairness in MultiModel Federated Learning”
-Alfonso Esposito, Ivan Zyrianoff, Milena Mazza and Marco Di Felice. “LIFT: Client-Shared Latent Space for Federated Learning in Heterogeneous Environments”
-Gustavo Ccama Marron, Alvaro Henry Mamani-Aliaga and Rómulo W. C. Bustincio. “FedAdaptSparse: A Sparse Federated Learning Approach to Reduce Latency in Emotion Detection Systems”
-Antonio Borssato, Daniel Trindade, Giovanni Comarela, Eduardo Zambon, Vinícius Mota and Diego Roberto Colombo Dias. “Are federated and centralized models alike? A comparative study via XAI”
-João Vítor Freitas Scarlatelli, Vitória Símil Araújo, Nagib Alexandre Verly Borjaili, Vitor Dias Britto Militão, Yasmin Cassemiro Viegas, Felipe Domingos Da Cunha and Henrique Cota. “A Federated Learning Approach for Distributed Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis Using Brain MRI”
-Weld Lucas Cunha, Luis F. G. Gonzalez, Daniel L. Guidoni and Leandro A. Villas. “The Cost of Going Bigger: Performance–Efficiency Trade-offs in Federated Learning for Urban Computing”
-William Arcaya, Edgar Sarmiento Calisaya, Weld L. Cunha, Alvaro Henry Mamani-Aliaga and Rómulo Walter Condori Bustincio. “CA-SparseFL: Context-Aware Sparse Federated Learning for Energy-Efficient Urban Air-Quality Intelligence”
13.00-14.00: Lunch
14.00-16.00: Session 2 (“Urban Data, Simulation, and Mobility Planning”)
Chair: Allan Souza
-Miguel Barreto, Carnot Braun, Bruno Biggato, Eduardo Martinho, Allan M. de Souza and Leandro Villas. “Counterfactual-based Recommendations for Driving Efficiency in Fleet Operations”
-Wellington Lobato, Guilherme Maia, Milton Marcelini and Leandro A. Villas. “Double DQN for Traffic Signal Control in a Realistic Scenario: Evaluation with Inductive Loop Detector Data from Campinas-SP”
-Carolina Idehama, Alexandre Amorim, Rodrigo Minetto and Thiago Silva. “Classifying Urban Venue Popularity Patterns: A Cross-Country Study of Time Series Methods”
-Neemias Buceli da Silva, Rodrigo Minetto, Daniel Silver and Thiago Silva. “Stable Behavior, Limited Variation: Persona Validity in LLM Agents for Urban Sentiment Perception”
-Luis Fernando Castilho Maschi, Edivaldo Pastori Pastori, Geraldo Pereira Rocha Filho, Roger Kreutz Immich, Rafael Lopes Gomes and Rodolfo Ipolito Meneguette. “V-SUMM: VehicularNode Data Summarization to Reduce Communication Overhead in VANETs”
-Edgar S. Oliveira, Clayson Celes, Bruno Santos, Paulo Rettore and Rodolfo Meneguette. “Characterizing Global Container Shipping: A Data-Driven Approach to Maritime Logistics”
-Marcela Almeida, Liziane Jorge and Vinicius Mota. “Beyond dashboards: Promoting urban data visualization for citizens”
-Leonor Carvalho, Diogo Gonçalves, Miguel Roque Soares, Waldir Moreira and Vítor Grade Tavares. “Luxor: A Perpetual Batteryless Sensing Device Targeting Real-world Long-life Applications”
-Harun Mohamed Huka, Ibrahim Tamim and Manar Jammal. “Stochastic Demand Generation and Predictive Rebalancing for Shared Autonomous Fleets”
16.00-16.30: Coffee Break
16.30-18.10: Session 3 (“Privacy, Security, and Urban Sensing Applications”)
Chair: Rodolfo Meneguette
-Nathanael Lascoux, Saadi Boudjit, Samia Bouzefrane and Jean-Marc Montenot. “Towards Location Privacy Protection in the Internet of Drones: Lessons from VANETs”
-Guilherme Brotto, Iran Ribeiro, Giovanni Comarela, Idilio Drago, Diego Roberto Colombo Dias and Vinicius Mota. “FlowMIA: Membership Inference Attack on Generative Network Flow Models”
-Arshia Mortazavinezhad, Mehmet Yağci, Khalil El-Khatib and Glenn Harvel. “Enhancing the Security of LoRaWAN-Based Radiation Detection Systems Using Hardware Security Module”
-Gabriel Lucas Santos Moura and Felipe Domingos Da Cunha. “Deep Learning-Based Convolutional Neural Networks for Oral Lesion Diagnosis: A Comparative Study”
-Truong Giang Vu, Li Yang and Richard Pazzi. “Neural Architecture Search for Traffic Prediction: A Survey of Methods, Challenges, and Future Directions”
-Carnot Braun, Gabriel U. Talasso, Joahannes B. D. da Costa, Leandro A. Villas and Allan M. de Souza. “A Hybrid Agent-based Navigation System with Semantic Reasoning”
-Karina Flor Condori Bustincio, Eloisa Lizeth Paredes Cayllahua and Rómulo Walter Condori Bustincio. “From Friction to Dropout: Visual Multi-Agent Simulation of Adaptive Socratic Friction in Smart Urban Furniture”
-Rihards Krišlauks, Teodors Eglītis and Andris Vāravs. “Location-Aware Online Multi-Camera Vehicle Tracking”
18.10-18.30: Final Remarks and Closing