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

[Gennady Andrienko]

*** sorry for repeated posting - by mistake I've sent yesterday a wrong version of the CFP ***

          BMDA’18 Call for papers
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International Workshop on Big Mobility Data Analytics (BMDA) 
co-located with EDBT/ICDT Conference, March 26, 2018 – Vienna, Austria
http://www.datastories.org/bmda18/

** Submissions due December 15, 2017 **
** Selected accepted papers will be considered for a special section at GeoInformatica (Springer) **


Workshop Description
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>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
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The program includes two keynote talks by:
- Prof. Dino Pedreschi, Co-leader of KDD Lab, ISTI-CNR & University of Pisa
  [Dino's homepage: http://kdd.isti.cnr.it/people/pedreschi-dino ]
- Dr. Andreas Metzger, Head of Adaptive Systems and Big Data Applications,
  Universität Duisburg-Essen [Andreas' homepage:
  https://sse.uni-due.de/en/team/researchers/dr-andreas-metzger/ ]


Paper Submission Procedure, Workshop Proceedings, Journal special section
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We invite papers discussing novel research and ideas without
substantial overlap with papers that have been published or 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 5000-8000
words (at most 8 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/]. 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 considered for a special section at
GeoInformatica (IF: 2.392); https://link.springer.com/journal/10707 .


Important dates
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Paper Submission: December 15, 2017 ** revised wrt. preliminary CFP **
Notification of Acceptance: January 19, 2018  ** revised wrt. preliminary CFP **
Camera Ready Paper Due: January 29, 2018
Workshop date: March 26, 2018


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

Supported by:
- EU Horizon 2020 project datAcron “Big Data Analytics for Time Critical Mobility Forecasting”
- EU Horizon 2020 project MaaS4EU “End-to-End Approach for Mobility-as-a-Service tools, business models, enabling framework and evidence for European seamless mobility”
- EU Horizon 2020 project Track’n’Know “Big Data for Mobility Tracking Knowledge Extraction in Urban Areas”
- EU Horizon 2020 project TT “Transforming Transport”
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