IEEE ICDM 2010 Contest: TomTom Traffic Prediction for Intelligent GPS Navigation

In this foreword, we summarize the IEEE ICDM 2010 Contest: “TomTom Traffic Prediction for Intelligent GPS Navigation”. The challenge was held between Jun 22, 2010 and Sep 7, 2010 as an interactive on-line competition, using the TunedIT platform (http://tunedit.org). We present the scope of the ICDM contest series in general, the scope of this year's contest, description of its tasks, statistics about participation, details about the TunedIT platform and the Traffic Simulation Framework. A detailed description of winning solutions is part of this proceeding series.