-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call for papers: ACM HotPlanet 2009 (co-located with MobiSys 2009) Datum: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:10:59 +0200 Von: Xiaoming Fu fu@CS.UNI-GOETTINGEN.DE Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" KUVS-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Organisation: University of Goettingen, Germany An: KUVS-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE

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ACM MobiSys'09 Workshop on Hot Topics of Planet-scale Mobility Measurements (HotPlanet), Krakow, Poland, June 22, 2009 http://www.hotplanetconf.net/

Important dates: Submission deadline: May 15, 2009 Authors notification: June 2, 2009 Camera ready: June 12, 2009 Registration deadline: June 12, 2009 Workshop date: June 22, 2009

Call for papers: It is well-known that successfully researching, designing and building mobile systems and algorithms requires access to large-scale mobility data. Unfortunately, the wireless and mobile research communities lack such data. For instance, the largest publicly available human contact traces contain only 100 very sparsely connected nodes, a limitation of the experimental setup. We believe that large-scale datasets are important, not only in communication network design, but also for fundamental study in other academic disciplines, e.g., epidemiology, urban planning, and social science. An analogy can be made to the field of complex networks research, which flourished since 1989 when the first large datasets from the Internet (and subsequently the World Wide Web) became available. To achieve similar improvements in mobile networking and other related fields, relevant large-scale datasets must be made available.

In this workshop, we wish to challenge the community to collect large-scale human mobility traces. We will highlight some of the issues in the hope that the community can help find solutions that can form the basis of practical experiments: the main aim is to raise these issues to gain community support to meet this challenge. Topics of interest include but are not restricted to:

* Motivating applications for large-scale human mobility data collection * Methods for collecting large-scale human mobility datasets * Existing applications of large-scale human mobility datasets, e.g. human dynamics characterisation and modeling * Reports of planet-scale infrastructure for data collection * Proposed business models to incentivise involvement of network operators in contributing data * Issues concerning privacy and anonymity of data collection * Regulatory and legal issues about data collection

The workshop proceedings will be archived in the ACM Digital Library.

Papers must be submitted in PDF format. All submissions must be in English, no more than 6 pages long, two columns (using the ACM templates), no characters smaller than 10 point fonts, and must fit properly on US "Letter"-sized paper (8.5x11 inches). Margins must be of 1 inch on all edges (top, bottom, left, and right) of each page.

Papers will be reviewed single blind.

HotPlanet'09 will support a couple of student traveling grants.

Further information please find in workshop webpage: http://www.hotplanetconf.net/