Christian S. Jensen (Aalborg U., Denmark)

Keynote Title: Querying Of Geo-Textual Web Content: Concepts And Techniques

Location: Ballroom 3-4

(Joint Keynote with Mobisocial 2015 Workshop)

Session Chair: Wang-Chien Lee

Session Chair: Constantinos Pelechrinis

Location: Ballroom 3

• An Analysis of the Walking Environmental Factors Affecting the Stress of Pedestrians for Route Recommendation
  Hiroki Kitabayashi (Kyoto U., Japan), Xinpeng Zhang (Kyoto U., Japan), Yasuhito Asano (Kyoto U., Japan), Masatoshi Yoshikawa (Kyoto U., Japan)
• Top–k Query Based Dynamic Scheduling for IoT-Enabled Smart City Waste Collection
  Theodoros Anagnostopoulos (ITMO U., Russia), Arkady Zaslavsy (CSIRO, Australia & ITMO U., Russia), Alexey Medvedev (ITMO U., Russia), Sergei Khoruzhnicov (ITMO U., Russia)
• Sense Presence: Infrastructure-Less Occupancy Detection for Opportunistic Sensing Applications
  MD Abdullah Al Hafiz Khan (U. of Maryland - Baltimore County, USA), H. M. Sajjad Hossain (U. of Maryland - Baltimore County, USA), Nirmalya Roy (U. of Maryland - Baltimore County, USA)

Session Chair: Adam J. Lee

Location: Ballroom 3

• Exploring Institution-Based Mobility: Which Universities Attract Athletes from Distant and Diverse Locales?
  Clio Andris (Pennsylvania State U., USA), Zoe Andris (Kenyon College, USA)
• Differentially Private Real-Time Data Release over Infinite Trajectory Streams
  Yang Cao (Kyoto U., Japan), Masatoshi Yoshikawa (Kyoto U., Japan)
• BusMate: Understanding Mobility Behavior for Trajectory-Based Advertising
  Khaled Ammar (U. of Waterloo, Canada), Abdullah Elsayed (U. of Waterloo, Canada), Mohamed M. Sabri (U. of Waterloo, Canada), and Michael Terry (U. of Waterloo, Canada)

Session Chair: Demetris Zeinalipour

Location: Ballroom 3

Panel Title: Human Computing Mobility and Privacy: Fad or Reality?

Panel Moderators:

Adam Lee (U. of Pittsburgh, USA)
Konstantinos Pelechrinis (U. of Pittsburgh, USA)
Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti (U. of Cyprus, Cyprus)

Panel Participants:

Clio Andris (Pennsylvania State U., USA)
Takahiro Hara (Osaka U., Japan)
Marco Pistoia (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Mohamed Sarwat (Arizona State U., USA)
Karine Bennis Zeitouni (U. de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France)

Christian S. Jensen (Aalborg U., Denmark)

Keynote Title: Querying Of Geo-Textual Web Content: Concepts And Techniques

Location: Ballroom 3-4

(Joint Keynote with HuMoComP 2015 Workshop)

Session Chair: Wang-Chien Lee

Session Chair: Wang-Chien Lee

Location: Ballroom 4

• SST: Privacy Preserving for Semantic Trajectories
  Pin-I Han and Hsiao-Ping Tsai (National Chung Hsing U., Taiwan)
• Large-Scale Human Mobility Analysis Based on Mobile Phone and Social Media Communication: A Case-Study in Africa
  Thyago Mota (Colorado School of Mines, USA), Aarti Munjal (U. of Colorado, USA) and Tracy Camp (Colorado School of Mines, USA)
• Measuring the External Influence in Information Diffusion
  Jiang Li, Jiagui Xiong and Xiaojie Wang (Beijing U. of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Session Chair: De-Nian Yang

Location: Ballroom 4

• Rayzit: An Anonymous and Dynamic Crowd Messaging Architecture
  Constantinos Costa, Chrysovalantis Anastasiou, Georgios Chatzimilioudis, and Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti (U. of Cyprus)
• A Weighted Distance Similarity Model to Improve the Accuracy of Collaborative Recommender System
  Bing-Hao Huang and Bi-Ru Dai (National Taiwan U. of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
• Usage of Annotation Tags in the Problem of Mining Similar Users
  Oleksii Vedernikov (U. of Melbourne, Australia)

Session Chair: Hsiao-Ping Tsai

Location: Ballroom 4

• A Model of Relevant Common Author and Citation Authority Propagation for Citation Recommendation
  Bo-Yu Hsiao, Chih-Heng Chung, and Bi-Ru Dai (National Taiwan U. of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
• A Platform for Travel Planning by Using Google Maps
  Chu Chung-Hua and Huang Chenyang (National Taichung U. of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
• A Framework for Healthcare Everywhere: BMI Prediction Using Kinect and Data Mining Techniques on Mobiles
  Chih-Hua Tai and Daw-Tung Lin (National Taipei U., Taiwan)

Daniel P. Siewiorek, Carnegie Mellon U., USA

Keynote Title: Mobile Data Management in Large Healthcare Applications

Location: Ballroom 3-4

Session Chair: Christian Jensen, Aalborg U.

Session Chair: Sanjay Madria, Missouri S & T

Location: Ballroom 3

• SHAREK: A Scalable Dynamic Ride Sharing System
  Bin Cao (Zhejiang U. of Technology), Louai Alarabi (U. of Minnesota), Mohamed F. Mokbel (U. of Minnesota), Anas Basalamah (Umm Al-Qura U.)
• Vehicle Routing with User-Generated Trajectory Data
  Vaida Čeikutė (Vilnius U.), Christian S. Jensen (Aalborg U.)
• A Mixed Breadth-Depth First Search Strategy for Sequenced Group Trip Planning Queries
  Elham Ahmadi and Mario A. Nascimento (U. of Alberta)

Session Chair: TBA

Location: Ballroom 4

• Internet of Things: Challenges and State-of-the-Art Solutions in Internet-Scale Sensor Information Management and Mobile Analytics
  Arkady Zaslavsky (CSIRO) and Dimitrios Georgakopoulos (RMIT)

Session Chair: Marco Pistoia, IBM Research

Location: Ballroom 4

• Comparing Urban Sensing Applications Using Event and Network-Driven Mobile Phone Location Data
  Fabio Pinelli, Giusy Di Lorenzo, and Francesco Calabrese (IBM Research, Ireland)
• CommSense: Identify Social Relationship with Phone Contacts via Mining Communications (Invited Industrial Paper)
  Xuan Bao, Jun Yang, Zhixian Yan, Lu Luo, Yifei Jiang, Emmanuel Munguia Tapia, and Evan Welbourne (Samsung Research America)
• Mining Risk Factors in RFID Baggage Tracking Data
  Tanvir Ahmed (Aalborg U.), Toon Calders (U. Libre de Bruxelles) and Torben Bach Pedersen (Aalborg U.)

Session Chair: TBA

Location: Ballroom 4

• The Era of Big Spatial Data: Challenges and Opportunities
  Ahmed Eldawy and Mohamed F. Mokbel (U. of Minnesota)

Session Chair: James Joshi, Uni of Pittsburg

Location: Ballroom 3

• Radio Map Prefetching for Indoor Navigation in Intermittently Connected Wi-Fi Networks
  Andreas Konstantinidis (U. of Cyprus), George Nikolaides (U. of Cyprus), Georgios Chatzimilioudis (U. of Cyprus), Giannis Evagorou (Imperial College London), Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti (U. of Cyprus), and Panos K. Chrysanthis (U. of Pittsburgh)
• Sleep Well: A Sound Sleep Monitoring Framework for Community Scaling
  H M Sajjad Hossain, Nirmalya Roy, MD Abdullah Al Hafiz Khan (UMBC)
• RECATHON: A Middleware for Context-Aware Recommendation in Database Systems
  Mohamed Sarwat (Arizona State U.,) James L. Avery (IBM), and Mohamed F. Mokbel (U. of Minnesota)
• Processing Convex Hull Queries in MANETs
  Yuka Komai, Takahiro Hara, and Shojiro Nishio (Osaka U.)

Session Chairs: Takahiro Hara, Osaka U. and Adam Lee, U. of Pittsburgh

Location: Sterling's

• Scalable Mockup Experiments on Smartphones Using Smart Lab
  Georgios Larkou (U. of Cyprus), Marios Mintzis (U. College London), Panayiotis G. Andreou (U. of Cyprus), Andreas Konstantinidis (U. of Cyprus), and Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti (U. of Cyprus)
• Anyplace: A Crowdsourced Indoor Information Service
  Kyriakos Georgiou (U. of Cyprus), Timotheos Constambeys (U. of Cyprus), Christos Laoudias (U. of Cyprus), Lambros Petrou (Oxford U.), Georgios Chatzimilioudis (U. of Cyprus), and Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti (U. of Cyprus)
• PPTM: Privacy-Aware Participatory Traffic Monitoring Using Mobile Secure Probes
  Dai Hai Ton That, Iulian Sandu Popa, and Karine Zeitouni (U. of Versailles Saint-Quentin)
• iCOMOT — A Toolset for Managing IoT Cloud Systems
  Hong-Linh Truong, Georgiana Copil, Schahram Dustdar, Duc-Hung Le, Daniel Moldovan, and Stefan Nastic (Vienna U. of Technology)
• The PersonaCheck System for Personalizing M-Commerce Checkout Processes
  Argyris Constantinides (U. College London), Marios Belk (U. of Cyprus), Panagiotis Germanakos (SAP and U. of Cyprus) and George Samaras (U. of Cyprus)
• A Map-Matching Aware Framework For Road Network Compression
  Abdeltawab M. Hendawi (U. of Minnesota), Amruta Khot (U. of Washington, Tacoma), Aqeel Rustum (U. of Washington, Tacoma), Anas Basalamah (Umm Al Qura U.), Ankur Teredesai (U. of Washington, Tacoma), and Mohamed Ali (U. of Washington, Tacoma)
• A Prototype of an Augmented Reality Browser for Natural Environment Studies
  Hiroshi Honda, Masato Kasahara, Shu Li, and Kosuke Takano (Kanagawa Institute of Technology)
• Location and Time Optimizations for Traveling Clients
  John Tegtmeyer and Sanjay Madria (Missouri U. of Science and Technology)
• Aerial Vehicle Trajectory Design for Task Aggregation
  Amarender Reddy Mekala, Sanjay Madria (Missouri U. of Science and Technology, Rola, USA), and Mark Linderman (Missouri U. of Science and Technology, Rome, USA)
• Decentralized Collaborative Editing Platform (Prototype)
  Mumtaz Ahmad and Abdessamad Imine (INRIA Lorraine & LORIA)
• A Framework for Spatial Predictive Query Processing and Visualization
  Abdeltawab M. Hendawi (U. of Minnesota), Mohamed Ali (U. of Washington), and Mohamed F. Mokbel (U. of Minnesota)
• CourseMIRROR: Enhancing Large Classroom Instructor-Student Interactions via Mobile Interfaces and Natural Language Processing
  Xiangmin Fan (U. of Pittsburgh), Wencan Luo (U. of Pittsburgh), Muhsin Menekse (U. of Pittsburgh), Diane Litman (U. of Pittsburgh), and Jingtao Wang (U. of Pittsburgh)
• Safe Navigation in Urban Environments
  Esther Galbrun (Boston University), Konstantinos Pelechrinis (University of Pittsburgh) and Evimaria Terzi (Boston University)

The best demo award will be based on participants votes. There is a voting ballot provided with your registration package and you should return this to the demo chairs after the demo session on Tuesday. Demo chairs will count the votes and announce the best demo award together with the other conference awards.

Simonas Saltenis, Alborg U., Denmark

Keynote Title: Always fleeting: indexing moving objects

Location: Ballroom 3-4

Session Chair: Panos K. Chrysanthis, U. of Pittsburgh

Session Chair: Evi Pitoura, U. of Ioannina

Location: Ballroom 3

• Who Will Attend? — Predicting Event Attendance in Event-Based Social Network
  Xiaomei Zhang, Jing Zhao, and Guohong Cao (Pennsylvania State U.)
• Personalized Event Recommendations Using Social Networks
  Ioannis Boutsis, Stavroula Karanikolaou, and Vana Kalogeraki (Athens U. of Economics and Business)
• Socialite: A Flexible Framework for Social Internet of Things
  Ji Eun Kim, Adriano Maron, and Daniel Mosse (U. of Pittsburgh)

Session Chair: TBA

Location: Ballroom 4

• Mobile Data Management in Indoor Spaces
  Christos Laoudias and Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti (U. of Cyprus)

Session Chair: Anirban Mondal, Xerox Research

Location: Ballroom 4

• From Mobile Phone Data to Transport Network — Gaining Insight about Human Mobility
  Manoranjan Dash (A*Star), Kee Kiat Koo (A*Star), Thomas Holleczek (Singapore Telecommunications Limited), Ghim-Eng Yap (A*Star), Shonali Priyadarsini Krishnaswamy (Singapore Telecommunications Limited), and Amy Shi-Nash (Singapore Telecommunications Limited)
• Efficient Cloud-Based Real-Time Geo-Information Delivery for Mobile Users
  Guang Jin, Julia Deng, Tung Nguyen, Pan Gao (Intelligent Automation, Inc.), Mark T. Wooster, and Shoukat H. Qari (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• USapiens: A System for Urban Trajectory Data Analytics
  Marcos R. Vieira, Luciano Barbosa, Matthõas Kormaksson and Bianca Zadrozny (IBM Research Brazil)

Session Chair: Panos K. Chrysanthis, Uni of Pittsburgh

Location: Ballroom 4

• Managing Infrastructure-Based Vehicular Networks
  Cristiano M. Silva and Wagner Meira Jr. (U. Federal de São João Del-re)
• An Interactive Freight-Pooling Service for Efficient Last-Mile Delivery
  Panagiotis Liakos and Alex Delis (U. of Athenes)
• Content Replication in Mobile Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks
  Fabrício A. Silva and Antonio A. F. Loureiro (Federal U. of Minas Gerais)
• A Logic-Based Security Framework for Mobile Perimeter
  Mahesh Nath Maddumala and Vijay Kumar (U. of Missouri-Kansas City)
• IGOD — Identifying Geolocation of Cloud Datacenter Hosting Mobile User’s Data
  Chetan Jaiswal (U. of Missouri-Kansas City)
• A Risk Assessment Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks in a Sensor Cloud
  Amartya Sen and Sanjay Madria (Missouri U. of Science and Technology)

Session Chair: Alex Delis - U. of Athens

Location: Ballroom 3

• COMA: Road Network Compression for Map-Matching
  Abdeltawab M. Hendawi (U. of Washington, Tacoma), Amruta Khot (U. of Washington, Tacoma), Aqeel Rustum, Anas Basalamah (Umm Al Qura U.), Ankur Teredesai (U. of Washington, Tacoma), and Mohamed Ali (U. of Washington, Tacoma)
• Finding Important Locations: A Feature-based Approach
  Marco Pavan, Stefano Mizzaro, Ivan Scagnetto, and Andrea Beggiato (U. of Udine)
• Making Sense of Trajectory Data in Indoor Spaces
  Thor Prentow (Aarhus U.), Andreas Thom (U. of Münster), Henrik Blunck (Aarhus U.), and Jan Vahrenhold (U. of Münster)
• Efficient Computation of Group Optimal Sequenced Routes in Road Networks
  Samiha Samrose (BUET), Tanzima Hashem (BUET), Sukarna Barua, Mohammed Eunus Ali (BUET), Mohammad Hafiz Uddin (BUET), and Md. Iftekhar Mahmud (BUET)
• Group Processing of Simultaneous Shortest Path Queries in Road Networks
  Radi Muhammad Reza (BUET), Mohammed Eunus Ali (BUET), Tanzima Hashem (BUET)

Panel Moderators:

Evaggelia Pitoura (U. of Ioannina, Greece)
Panos K. Chrysanthis (U. of Pittsburgh, USA)

Location: Ballroom 4

Panel Members:

Christian S. Jensen (Aalborg University)
Adam Lee (University of Pittsburg)
Andy Pavlo (Carnegie-Mellon University )
Stephen Walkauskas (HP Vertica)

The abstract of panel moderators and members can be found here.

Phillip B. Gibbons, Intel Labs and Intel Science and Technology Center for Cloud Computing

Keynote Title: Living on the Edge…with only Clouds to fall back on

Location: Ballroom 3-4

Session Chair: Vladimir Zadorozhny, U. of Pittsburgh

Session Chair: Nirmalya Roy, UMBC

Location: Ballroom 3

• Scalable Spatial Crowdsourcing: A Study of Distributed Algorithms
  Abdullah Alfarrarjeh (U. of Southern California), Tobias Emrich (U. of Munich), and Cyrus Shahabi (U. of Southern California)
• SmartSource: A Mobile Q&A Middleware Powered by Crowdsourcing
  Ye Zhao (Google Inc), Chen-Chih Liao (National Tsing Hua U.), Ting-Yi Lin (National Tsing Hua U.), Jikai Yin (U. of California at Irvine), Ngoc Do (Arista Networks), Cheng-Hsin Hsu (National Tsing Hua U.), and Nalini Venkatasubramanian (U. of California at Irvine)
• Efficient and Scalable Spatial Retrieval of Resident Involvement Information in City Events
  Anirban Mondal, Tridib Mukherjee, Amandeep Chugh, Atul Singh, and Deepthi Chander (Xerox Research Center, India)

Session Chair: TBA

Location: Ballroom 4

• Spatial Predictive Queries
  Abdeltawab M. Hendawi and Mohamed Ali (U. of Minnesota)

Session Chair: Akady Zaslavsky, CSIRO

Location: Ballroom 4

• Interactive and Scalable Exploration of Big Spatial Data — A Data Management Perspective (Invited Industrial Paper)
  Mohamed Sarwat (Arizona State)
• Towards a Microblogs Data Management System (Invited Industrial Paper)
  Amr Magdy and Mohamed F. Mokbel (U. of Minnesota)
• Labyrinth: Visually Configurable Data-Leakage Detection in Mobile Applications (Invited Industrial Paper)
  Marco Pistoia (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Omer Tripp (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Paolina Centonze (Iona College), and Joseph W. Ligman (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)

Session Chairs: Takahiro Hara, Osaka U. and Adam Lee, U. of Pittsburgh

Location: Sterling's

List of Demos

Session Chair: Mohamed Mokbel, U. of Minnesota

Location: Ballroom 3

• How to Deal with Third Party Apps in a Privacy System - The PMP Gatekeeper
  Christoph Stach (U. of Stuttgart IPVS)
• Resource Allocation for Heterogeneous Traffic in LTE Virtual Networks
  Ayman Abdelhamid, Prashant Krishnamurthy, and David Tipper (U. of Pittsburgh)
• Predictive Caching Framework for Mobile Wireless Networks
  Sourav Dutta (MPI, Informatics, Germany), Ankur Narang (IBM Research), Souvik Bhattacherjee (UMBC), Ananda Swarup Das (IBM Research) and Dilip Krishnaswamy (IBM Research)
• Battery-Efficient Transportation Mode Detection on Mobile Devices
  Andreas Bloch (Zurich U. of Applied Sciences), Robert Erdin (Zurich U. of Applied Sciences), Sonja Meyer (Empa Swiss Federal Laboratorie), Thomas Keller (U. of Otago; Zurich U. of Applied Sciences), and Alexandre de Spindler (Zurich U. of Applied Sciences)
• On the Feasibility of Leveraging Smartphone Accelerometers to Detect Explosion Events
  Srinivas Chakravarthi Thandu, Pratool Bharathi, Levi Malott, and Sriram Chellappan (Missouri U. of Science & Technology)
• Leveraging Smartphone Advances for Continuous Location Privacy
  Wisam Eltarjaman, Prasad Annadata, Rinku Dewri, and Ramakrishna Thurimella (U. of Denver)

Session Chair: Nalini Venkatasubramanian, UC Irvine

Location: Ballroom 4

• Continuous Median Queries in Wireless Sensor Networks
  Khaled Ammar (U. of Waterloo) and Mario A. Nascimento (U. of Alberta)
• AARPA: Combining Mobile and Power-Line Sensing for Fine-Grained Appliance Usage and Energy Monitoring
  Nirmalya Roy (UMBC), Nilavra Pathak (UMBC), and Archan Misra (Singapore Management U.)