
Article at The Conversation
A group of Dagstuhl participants wrote an article at The Conversation - Canada - about the (non) anonymity of location data collected in Canada for monitoring pandemic. Here is the link https://theconversation.com/ottawas-use-of-our-location-data-raises-big-surveillance-and-privacy-concerns-175316

Dagstuhl Seminar: “Mobility Data Analysis: from Technical to Ethical”
The objective of the Dagstuhl Seminar "Mobility Data Analysis: from Technical to Ethical" was to start a deep interacting discussion between Mobility Data Analysis researchers and Ethics experts to link these two fields with the objective of creating the foundations of a new Mobility Data Ethics research field. Due to the COVID critical situation the meeting has be held online from January 9 to January 12, 2022. The program included three tutorials: - Location privacy: an overview by Sébastien Gambs (Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada) - Mobility data analysis: ethical issues by Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta, Canada) - Connected vehicles and mobility data - work done by the EDPB by Peter Kraus (European Data Protection Board, Brussels, Belgium) Twenty-five participants from the mobility and ethics world - inspired by the three…

Paper “MAT-Index: An index for fast multiple aspect trajectory similarity measuring” published at Transactions in GIS
Paper entitled "MAT-Index: An index for fast multiple aspect trajectory similarity measuring" by UFSC and CNR researchersAna Paula Ramos de Souza, Chiara Renso, Raffaele Perego and Vania Bogorny has been published at Transactions in GIS. Paper is available at Zenodo repository: https://zenodo.org/record/5902276#.Ye_8SVjMIkh

Paper entitled “Dependency Rules Modeling for Multiple Aspects Trajectories ” by UFSC and CNR presented at ER21
Paper "Dependency Rule Modelling for Multiple Aspects Trajecories" jointly developed by UFSC and CNR from Ronaldo dos Santos Mello, Geomar Schreiner, Cristian Alchini, Gustavo Santos, Vania Bogorny, Chiara Renso has been presented by Prof. Mello at the virtual edition of the ER 21 Conference! Paper is available at Zenodo MASTER Repository

New journal paper published on trajectory compression
Congratulations to our partners from Horokopio University, Federal University of Santa Catarina and Federal University of Ceará for having their paper published at Geoinformatica Journal about compression methods for trajectory similarity! You can find the paper here

MASTER participates in the Blue Week!
The objective of Blue Research and Innovation Days (Blue Week) held online from April 19 to April 23rd 2021, was to present ongoing cutting-edge projects along with a specially-shaped hackathon towards bringing together consortia, the scientific community and industry working at the core of the ‘blue economy'.MASTER has been invited to participate the day April 23rd when our partner Alessandra Raffaetá from University Ca'Foscari in Venice presented their work developed with Dalhousie University on predicting fishing effort in the Adriatic Sea. Furthermore, our partner Prof. Stan Matwin from Dalhousie University (Canada) gave an inspiring final speech.More infos: https://blueinnovation2021.athenarc.gr

Big Mobility Data Analytics
The fourth edition of the International workshop on Big Mobility Data Analytics has been held on March 23, 2021 in a fully online edition. The event included an interesting invited talk by Prof. Kristian Torp from University of Aalborg (Denmark) with title "Using Large Trajectory Dataset for Quantifying Mobility". The program included 9 papers of which 6 are long research papers and 3 demos. The event has seen the participation of of 35 attendees. MASTER participated having partners CNR and UPRC as organisers and one paper was the result of a MASTER activity between UNIVE and DAL: Multiple aspect trajectories: a case study on fishing vessels in the Northern Adriatic sea Giulia Rovinelli (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy), Stan Matwin (Dalhousie University, Canada), Fabio Pranovi, Elisabetta Russo, Claudio Silvestri, Marta…

MASTER Special Issue at IJGIS
MASTER partners finally published a special section of the International Journal of GIS entitled "Multiple Aspects analysis of semantic trajectories (MASTER). This special section is an outcome of the first MASTER workshop and reports three main advances of the state of the art: (1) searching semantically enriched trajectories; (2) anomaly detection in marine traffic and (3) extracting evolving clusters from trajectories graphs. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13658816.2020.1870982

Participation to the MOBIDATALAB Kick – off meeting
One of the many outcomes of MASTER is that CNR participates in a new H2020 project called MOBIDATALAB (GA N. 10100687). This project funded under the call H2020-MG-2020-SingleStage-INEA proposes a solution for mobility data sharing in EU. CNR participates in providing federated cloud solutions and methods for semantics enrichments of mobility data. CNR contributions will be build also on the results of MASTER!