Program

Leaning Tower of Pisa

Workshop Program

Monday, March 16, 2026

9:20 - 9:30

Opening

9:30 - 10:30

Keynote

Trends in Space Technologies for Expanding the Potential of Terrestrial Pervasive Computing

Sumio Morioka (Interstellar Technologies Inc. / The University of Osaka)

10:30 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 12:30

Intelligent Transportation Systems and Traffic Analytics

Integrating Learnable Spatial Embeddings into Transformers for Traffic Flow Forecasting

Kibrom Desta Araya (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Norman Bereczki and Vilmos Simon (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); Ismail Arai (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

Deep Neural Network Based Roadwork Detection for Autonomous Driving

Sebastian Wullrich and Nicolai Steinke (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany); Daniel Goehring (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

Passenger Flow Estimation for Urban Rail: Meta-Learning Approach with Mobile Network Data

Tomohiro Mimura (NTT DOCOMO, Inc., Japan & Kyoto University, Japan)

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:30

V2X Networks and Satellite Swarms

Stationarity-Aware QoS Prediction for Platooning in V2X Networks

Garima Mishra and Hemant Kumar Rath (Tata Consultancy Services, India); Sai Bhavadeesh Yarlagadda (Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, India)

AoI Optimization in 5G NR-V2X Sidelink through Propagation-Aware Dynamic Congestion Control

Ryo Iwaki (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Alexey Rolich (University of Rome Sapienza, Italy); Jin Nakazato (Tokyo University of Science, Japan); Mert Yildiz (University of Rome Sapienza, Italy); Manabu Tsukada (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Andrea Baiocchi (University of Roma Sapienza, Italy)

Toward Massive Satellite Swarms: A Simulation Framework for Precision Formation Flying

Tatsuya Amano (The University of Osaka, Japan); Akihito Hiromori (Osaka University, Japan); Hirozumi Yamaguchi (The University of Osaka, Japan); Sumio Morioka (Interstellar Technologies Inc., Japan)

15:30 - 16:00

Break

16:00 - 17:00

Security, Trust and Safety in Vehicular Systems

Evaluating the Robustness of RL-based Autonomous Intersection Control to Data Integrity Attacks

Árpád Huszák (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); Alireza Aghabagherloo, Takahito Yoshizawa and Bart Preneel (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Multimodal Data Integration for Intelligent Vehicular Safety in Smart Cities

Natalia Selini Hadjidimitriou (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy); Marco Mamei (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy)

17:00 - 17:10

Closing