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