HuMoComP 2015

Aims:This is the third of a successful series of workshops that aims to act as a bridge between human mobility, privacy, security and mobile data management.
Human mobility computing aims to acquire more insights about human daily life, including the activities, behaviors, habits, preferences and lifestyles by integrating a variety of heterogeneous data sources and by applying a range of techniques in multiple disciplines. In the past few years, the data capturing aspects of human mobility became widely available in the real world, e.g., mobile phone records, GPS traces of vehicles and pedestrians, ticketing logs of public transportation, geo-tagged Web objects, as well as records from roadside sensor networks. As a result, we have a better chance to develop effective strategies and build intelligent systems that play critical roles in areas like public health, traffic engineering, urban planning and economic forecasting.

Detailed movement data does not only provide valuable information, but it often poses a threat to the privacy and security of users and companies, who are behind the digital location and trajectory data. Movement data can reveal the exact location of a user in real time to third parties, which is a violation of user privacy by per se. But it is not only the user location that is revealed by location traces; studying the movement patterns of a user can reveal sensitive information as the location of her home, where she works, religious preferences and even indicate health problems. To counter privacy and security risks, a series of technologies for protecting user privacy and security have been developed including data anonymization methods, protocols for securely posing location based queries and cryptographic methods for exchanging location information in location based social networks.

The HuMoComP workshop is an integration of the workshop on Human Mobility Computing and the workshop on Privacy and Security for Moving Objects, both of which were organized for the first time during IEEE MDM 2013 in Milan, Italy (June 2013).

Discussion: The workshop will be organized in a manner that fosters interaction and exchange of ideas among the participants. Besides regular papers, we will also consider vision, retrospective and work-in-progress papers that have the potential to stimulate debate on existing solutions or open challenges. We additionally plan to accept a limited number of demonstration papers where researchers and technologists will have the opportunity to describe an innovative system or tool in the area of data management for mobile and wireless access. We discourage the submission of incremental papers. This year's program is also expected to feature a keynote speech and a panel discussion on newly-emerging or controversial topics.

The topics of interest are related to the full spectrum of mobile data management topics pertinent to human mobility and privacy/security, particularly:

Human Mobility Computing Topics:

• Activity and behavior mining from human mobility data
• Big-data processing of human mobility data
• Data quality and uncertainty issues study on human mobility data
• Delay-tolerant and opportunistic human mobility networks
• Discovery of human mobility patterns
• Efficient indexing and processing for large-scale trajectories
• Human mobility data compression
• Human mobility computing in the Cloud
• Human mobility testbeds
• Human mobility social and crowdsourcing applications
• Integration of heterogeneous human mobility data sources
• Intelligent POI recommendation systems
• Indoor human mobility applications and systems
• Impacts of external incidents on human mobility
• Mobility aware protocols
• Participatory sensing and wearable systems
• Platforms and applications for sensing and acquiring human mobility data
• Privacy issues in human mobility data
• Real-time analysis for streaming trajectory data
• Semantic annotation and tagging for human moving trajectories
• Social behaviour analysis on location-based social networks
• Theoretic and/or empirical modelling of human mobility data

Privacy and Security Topics:

• Privacy-preserving analysis/mining of movement and location data
• Privacy-preserving publishing of movement and location data
• Anonymity in location-based services
• Information hiding in geospatial data
• Interdisciplinary approaches and studies for location data(e.g., law, economy, sociology, etc. )
• Privacy policies in location based social networks
• Secure and private protocols for exchanging location information
• Systems for anonymous provision of location based services
• Security and privacy metrics for location data and location based services
• Utility and quality metrics for anonymized spatial data
• Quality of service metrics for anonymous location-based services
• Surveys of attacks against location based data, services and social networks
• Experience papers from real-world privacy solutions for movement data
• Presence-based access control
• Privacy personalization based on context
• Case studies/real world applications of context-aware privacy and security

HuMoComP 2015

Manuscripts in the following categories will be considered for publication in the IEEE Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Human Mobility Computing:

+ Regular papers (max. 6 pages): The submission should describe significant theoretical and/or experimental contributions to the area of human mobility and mobile data management.

+ Demo papers (max. 3 pages): The submission should describe the architecture, implementation and usage of innovative tools or systems that fit the context of the workshop. The presentation of demo papers will be conducted in a designated session during the workshop (in the form of short presentations).

+ All of the submissions should be in PDF format and conform to the IEEE MDM'15 proceedings format. Submitted papers must not have been published or currently be under consideration for publication at another venue.

+ All of the submissions will be handled electronically. Each paper will be reviewed by several members of the program committee. Detailed submission information will be posted on the website of the workshop.

+ The workshop proceedings will be published in the IEEE MDM proceedings (volume 2) and electronic versions of the papers will be included in the IEEE DL, DiSC'09 and DBLP.

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