Prof. Robert Laurini

Honorary President of "Universitaires Sans Frontières/Academics Without Borders"

Email: Roberto (dot) Laurini (at) gmail (dot) com

 

"Using artificial intelligence for urban planning"

 The objective of this keynote address is to give a rapid survey concerning the potentialities of artificial intelligence for urban planning. Two aspects will be overall presented, Knowledge Management and Deep Learning. In knowledge management, some geographic ontologies will be detailed by stressing the importance of topological relations, geographic knowledge networks and rule-based systems with applications in urban and environmental planning. Then under the umbrella of feedforward-based reasoning, some developments will be presented in technological and sociological watching. Lastly, potentialities of machine learning and especially deep learning (and GeoAI) will be given for urban planning. I conclude that using AI in urban planning is still in its infancy with some barriers to overcome such as the performing representation of space and time, and the cross-fertilization between artificial intelligence and human collective intelligence.

Bio-sketch

Dr. Robert Laurini (aka Roberto), presently professor emeritus at the Knowledge Systems Institute, after being distinguished professor at INSA-Lyon, University of Lyon, France, is a well-known specialist in GIS. He was among the first (86-87) to teach GIS at the University of Maryland, USA, at the IUAV University of Venice, Italy, and at several other universities especially in Latin America. He speaks French, English, Italian and Spanish. He has supervised or co-supervised more than 40 PhD's in GIS. His present interests are geographic knowledge, territorial intelligence and artificial intelligence for Smart Cities.

He is honorary president of the Urban Data Management Society whose goal was to promote information systems in municipality, and now in smart cities. He authored or co-authored more than 10 books and more than 250 papers in those domains. He is also the founder of the NGO «Academics Without Borders» which is a network of academic consultants working for the modernization of higher education institutions in developing countries (www.univ-sf.org).

See www.laurini.net/robert/ for more details.