KNOWMe: 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Mobility and Transportation Systems

Big News!

DEADLINE EXTENSION for the Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems on "Knowledge Discovery frobility Data for Intelligent Transportation Systems": 14h December 2017

About

The recent technological advances on telecommunications create a new reality on mobility sensing. Nowadays, we live in an era where ubiquitous digital devices are able to broadcast rich information about human mobility in real-time and at a high rate. Such fact exponentially increased the availability of large-scale mobility data which has been popularized in the media as the new currency, fueling the future vision of our smart cities that will transform our lives. The reality is that we just began to recognize significant research challenges across a spectrum of topics. Consequently, there is an increasing interest among different research communities (ranging from civil engineering to computer science) and industrial stakeholders on build knowledge discovery pipelines over such data sources. However, such availability also raise privacy issues that must be considered by both industrial and academic stakeholders on using these resources. This workshop intends to be a top-quality venue to bring together transdisciplinary researchers and practitioners working in the related topics from multiple areas such as Data Mining, Machine Learning, Numerical Optimization, Public Transport, Traffic Engineering, Multi-Agent Systems, Human-Computer Interaction and Telecommunications, among others. The ultimate goal of this venue is to evaluate not only the theoretical contribution of the methodology proposed in each research work, but also its potential deployment/impact as well as its advances with respect to the State-of-the-Art/State-of-the-Practice in the domains of the related applications. The venue will take place at ECML/PKDD 2017, the largest and most reputed Machine Learning/Data Mining conference in Europe. The accepted formats are regular papers or demonstrations of production-ready software on related topics (soft max. limi of 20 pages on Springer’s LNCS format for both). Both formats will only be presented orally at the workshop (i.e., no local proceedings). The review process is single-blind. Accepted regular papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems entitled Knowledge Discovery from Mobility Data for Intelligent Transportation Systems.

Topics of Interest

In order to better address the challenges in enabling insightful information in a heterogeneous city environment, we welcome topics grouped in three categories: The first category addresses the specific techniques in different areas of data mining and analytics that enable the discovery of patterns from heterogeneous city data. In the second category, we will focus on innovative techniques for using discovered patterns to enable missioncritical information to various city stakeholders via a seamless information access. Finally, the workshop aims to discuss the usage of the various techniques in particular application scenarios with the aim of revealing specific challenges of each application area. This workshop targets (but is not limited to) the following topics, grouped into these three categories:

• Different transportation modes and their interactions (road, rail, air and water-based);
• Intelligent and real-time public transport control and operational management;
• Transportation planning and management;
• Trajectory mining and related applications;
• Failures detection and preventive maintenance;
• Distributed and ubiquitous transport technologies and policies;
• Travel demand analysis and prediction;
• Advanced traveler information systems;
• Intelligent mobility models and policies for urban environments;
• Automatic assessment and/or evaluation on the transport reliability (planning, control and other related policies);
• Human mobility mining and pervasiveness applications;
• Privacy in collecting, storing and analyzing pervasive mobility/transportation data;
• Traffic control and demand forecasting for high-speed roadways;
• Pedestrians traffic analysis, prediction and safety issues;
• Social impact, land-use and trend analysis;
• Transit assignment and Activity-Choice models;
• Human Risk Factor Mining on Driving;

Organizers

• Luis Moreira-Matias, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany. Home page
• Roberto Trasarti, KDDLab CNR Pisa, Italy. Home page
• Rahul Nair, IBM Research Ireland. Home page

Workshop Program

KNOWMe Opening 14:00

• Welcome to KnowMe

Session 1: 14:05 - 15:40

• KeyNote Fosca Giannotti: Big Data for City Science: the power human mobility networks
• Vitor Cerqueira, Luis Moreira-Matias and Jihed Khiari: On Evaluating Floating Car Data Quality for Knowledge Discovery
• Piotr Szymański, Michał Żołnieruk, Piotr Oleszczyk, Igor Gisterek and Tomasz Kajdanowicz: Spatio-temporal profiling of public transport delays based on large scale vehicle positioning data from GPS in Wrocław

Coffee Break

Session 2: 16:00 - 18:00

• Georgia Aifadopoulou, Josep-Maria Salanova, Panagiotis Tzenos, Charalampos Bratsas, Kleanthis Koupidis, Aikaterini Chatzopoulou, Luigi Selmi and Christos Papadopoulos: Traffic patterns recognition through Big Data: case study in Thessaloniki (Demo)
• Chiara Boldrini, Raffaele Bruno and Haitaam Laarabi: Car sharing through the data analysis lens
• Evaldas Vaiciukynas, Matej Ulicny, Sepideh Pashami and Slawomir Nowaczyk: Low-dimensional Multi-task Representation of Bivariate Histogram Data from Truck On-board Sensors
• Boris Chidlovskii: Mining Smart Card Data for Travelers Mini Activities
• Mikko Rinne, Mehrdad Bagheri, Tuukka Tolvanen and Jaakko Hollmén: Automatic Recognition of Public Transport Trips from Mobile Device Sensor Data and Transport Infrastructure Information

Research papers got 20m for presentation + 5 minutes for discussion, Demo papers got 15m for presentation + 5 minutes for discussion

Program Committee

• Achille Fonzone, Transport Research Institute, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland
• Bernard Pfahringer, U. Waikato, New Zealand
• Boris Chidlovskii – Xerox Research Centre Europe, France
• Cristina Olaverri – Technikum Wien, Austria
• Carlos Ferreira - LIAAD INESC Porto LA
• Gaetano Fusco - U. La Sapienza, Rome
• Jihed Khiari - NEC Laboratories Europe
• Joao Gama – University of Porto, Portugal
• Joao Bartolo Gomes – DataRobot, Singapore
• Joao Mendes-Moreira - University of Porto, Portugal
• Joao Gomes - FI-UPM
• Feng Chen - U. Albany, USA
• Francisco Pereira - Technical University of Denmark, DTU, Denmark
• Francisco Camara - Technical University of Denmark
• Gennady Andrienko - Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
• Giulio Rossetti - ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
• Haris Koutsopoulos – Northeastern University, USA
• Hadi Fanaee - University of Oslo, Norway
• Jakub Marecek – IBM Research, Ireland
• James Bailey - U. Melbourne, Australia
• Marcela Munizaga - Universidad de Chile, Chile
• Marco Fiore – National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Torino, Italy
• Marco Gramaglia - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid / IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain
• Michael Mathioudakis – HIIT, Helsinki
• Mirco Nanni – ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
• Nigel Wilson – MIT, USA
• Oded Cats, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
• Rosaldo Rossetti – University of Porto, Portugal
• Thanh Lam Hoang - IBM Research, Ireland
• Zbigniew Smoreda – Orange Labs, Paris
• Zhao Xu - NEC Laboratories Europe

Submission

The accepted submission formats are (i) regular papers and (ii) demonstrations. All submissions should follow the Springer’s LNCS format with a maximum recommended length of 20 pages. The submission page is here (Easychair).

Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted at least one author commits to presenting the paper at the workshop.

Proceedings

The authors must provided a corrected/improved camera ready version of their papers by August 7th using the same Easychair submission platform (here).

Accepted paper may appear in one of the following publications:

Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems on "Knowledge Discovery frobility Data for Intelligent Transportation Systems": improved and extended version of the accepted paper should be submitted by December 14th, 2017. The format should be the one commonly used in this journal. The present reviews will be taken into account in this new submission.

Local proceedings book published by Springer LNCS: the authors may also consider the option of having ONLY local proceedings (without any additional review process) AND NOT submitting the Special Issue.

The authors of the submissions interested to do it so must communicate their intention per e-mail to knowme2017[at]easychair.org by August 7th (latest)