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