[Infovis] Workshop on Big Mobility Data Analytics (BMDA) at EDBT in Vienna AT, 26.03.2018

[Gennady Andrienko]

                BMDA'18 Call for papers

International Workshop on Big Mobility Data Analytics (BMDA),
co-located with EDBT/ICDT Conference, March 26, 2018 in Vienna, Austria
http://www.datastories.org/bmda18/

Workshop description:

>From spatial to spatio-temporal and, then, to mobility data. So,
what's next? Not perhaps, but for sure it is the mobility-aware
integrated Big Data analytics. The Big Mobility Data Analytics (BMDA)
workshop, co-located with 2018 joint EDBT/ICDT Conference, aims at
bringing together experts in the field from academia, industry and
research labs to discuss the lessons they have learned over the years,
to demonstrate what they have achieved so far, and to plan for the
future of "mobility".

The objective of BMDA workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners interested in scalable data-intensive applications that
manage and analyze big mobility data. The workshop will foster the
exchange of new ideas on multidisciplinary real-world problems,
discussion on proposals about innovative solutions, and identify
emerging opportunities for further research in the area of big
mobility data analytics, covering all layers of the Big Data Value
Analytics (BDVA) reference model, namely data management, data
processing, data analytics, and data visualization and user
interaction. The workshop intends to bridge the gap between
researchers and big data stakeholders, including experts from critical
domains, such as urban / maritime / aviation transportation, human
complex networks, etc.

We encourage submissions of papers that highlight the value of
mobility data processing, analyzing, and mining on topics that
include, but are not limited to the following:

-     Fundamentals of mobility data analytics
-     Big data platforms for mobility data analytics
-     Parallel / streaming data processing for mobility analytics
-     Predictive analytics using mobility data
-     Complex event detection for moving objects
-     Visual analytics on big mobility data
-     Mobility-as-a-Service
-     Interactive traffic analysis with GPS data
-     Urban / maritime / aviation traffic flow forecasting
-     Urban / maritime / aviation travel time prediction
-     Integration / interlinking of mobility with societal data
-     Geosocial networks
-     Philosophical / ethical / privacy issues on mobility data analytics

Keynote Speakers

The program will include two keynote talks, which will be given by:

-     Prof. Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa & KDD Lab
      [Dino's homepage: http://kdd.isti.cnr.it/people/pedreschi-dino]
-     Dr. Andreas Metzger, Head of Adaptive Systems and Big Data Applications
      [Andreas's homepage https://sse.uni-due.de/en/team/researchers/dr-andreas-metzger/]

All submitted papers will be peer reviewed by at least three
reviewers. If accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the
workshop to present the work. Selected accepted papers will be
recommended for submission to a special section of the GeoInformatica
journal (IF: 2.392); https://link.springer.com/journal/10707.

Proceedings and Paper Submission

We invite papers discussing novel research and ideas without
substantial overlap with papers that have been published or that are
simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with
proceedings. Submitted papers can be of two types:

- Regular Research Papers: these papers should report original
research results or significant case studies. They should be at most 6
pages long.

- Position Papers: these papers should report novel research
directions or identify challenging problems. They should be at most 4
pages long.

Submissions should be formatted using the EDBT/ICDT 2018 camera-ready
template and submitted through the workshop's submission system at
EasyChair [https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bmda18]. Following
the tradition of recent EDBT/ICDT workshops, all workshop papers will
be published online at CEUR [http://ceur-ws.org/].
        
Important dates:

Paper Submission: December 15, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: January 19, 2017
Camera Ready Paper Due: January 29, 2018
Workshop date: March 26, 2018

Workshop organizers:

Nikos Pelekis, University of Piraeus, npelekis at unipi.gr
Gennady Andrienko, Fraunhofer IAIS, gennady.andrienko at iais.fraunhofer.de
Alexander Artikis, University of Piraeus & NCSR Demokritos, a.artikis at unipi.gr
Fosca Giannotti, ISTI CNR Pisa, fosca.giannotti at isti.cnr.it
Akrivi Kiousi, Intrasoft International, akrivi.kiousi at intrasoft-intl.com
Themis Palpanas, Paris Descartes University, themis at mi.parisdescartes.fr
Yannis Theodoridis, University of Piraeus & Athena RIC, ytheod at unipi.gr

Program Committee:

Alevizos Elias, NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Baskiotis Nicolas, LIP6/UPMC, France
Chatzikokolakis Kostas, LIX, École Polytechnique, France
Georgiou Harris, University of Piraeus, Greece
Doulkeridis Christos, University of Piraeus, Greece
Janssens Davy, Hasselt University, Belgium
Karagiorgou Sophia, Intracom, Greece
Mokbel Mohamed, University of Minnesota, U.S.A.
Nanni Mirco, HISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
Patroumpas Kostas, IMIS, Athena Research Center, Greece
Raffaeta' Alessandra, Universita' Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy
Ray Cyril, Naval Academy Research Institute, France
Renso Chiara, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
Santipantakis Giorgos, University of Piraeus, Greece
Scarlatti David, Boeing Research and Technology Europe, Spain
Trasarti Roberto, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
Vouros George, University of Piraeus, Greece
Weibel Robert, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Zeinalipour-Yazti Demetrios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Zissis Dimitrios, University of the Aegean, Greece
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