Prof. Stan Matwin from Dalhousie University reflects on what privacy means in tracking people at the coronavirus time and how we will balance the tracking and privacy needs in the world after the virus. You can read the Stan's blog discussion entitled "Privacy at the time of pandemic":https://bigdata.cs.dal.ca
MASTER partners, as an activity not directly related to the project but interesting to mention due to the links with the project topics, are actively participating and giving contributions to the COVID19 pandemic that is affecting the whole globe.Prof. Vania Bogorny and Luis Otavio Alvares from Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) are collaborating with an Italian company in developing a tracing app for the COVID. The app is called "Covid Community Alert", a worldwide open-source standard proposed by a global community to provide a service that allows the monitoring of interactions among devices in a totally anonymous way. More infos:https://github.com/Coronavirus-Outbreak-Control/Documentation/blob/master/Covid%20Community%20Alert%20-%20Protocol%20Decription.pdfhttps://coronavirus-outbreak-control.github.io/web/https://torino.corriere.it/economia/20_marzo_27/startup-che-vuole-arginare-covid-19-il-ministero-nasce-biella-brasile-b709554c-706e-11ea-82c1-be2d421e9f6b.shtml?refresh_ce-cp (In italian)
The Big Mobility Data Analysis workshop planned to be in Copenhagen - joint with the EDBT conference - on March 30 has been held remotely, due to the coronavirus restrictions.Chiara Renso (CNR) and Karine Zeitouni (UVSQ) has chaired the workshop by Zoom, hosted by the EDBT conference system.Prof. Zymanyi from Free University of Brussels held a keynote speech entitled "MobilityDB: Managing Mobility Data in PostgreSQL". Nine papers has been selected by the Program Committee and has been presented using uploaded videos and live Q&A. An average number of 37 users attended the workshop.
Due to the coronavirus outbreak, the DSM summer school has been postponed to October 2020. For information, check the school web site: http://master-school.isti.cnr.it
Prof. Stan Matwin from DAL is now at CNR in Pisa. we see Stan with Vinicius Monteiro de Lira and Emanuele Carlini discussing their joint MASTER research activities on AIS data.
Prof. Kofidis from University of Piraeus (Greece) executed his secondment to Dalhousie University in Canada during the month of February 2020. The research topic of prof. Kofidis is the application of multi-way arrays (aka tensors) and their (coupled) decomposition to holistic trajectories. These models have been recently shown to outperform more conventional models and methods, and result in highly effective tools for applications such as recommendation and prediction.
Prof. Ronaldo Mello from UFSC is visiting Prof. Yannis Theodoridis and Prof. Nikos Pelekis from University of Piraeus (Greece). They discussed how to extend the MASTER conceptual model. In the picture we see Ronaldo, Yannis and Nikos from left to right.
Prof. Ronaldo Mello from Federal University of Santa Catarina is visiting Harokopio University in Athens. They are working hard in defining extensions to the MASTER conceptual model extensions for data analytics. We see in the picture Christos Sardianos, Antonios Makris, Ronaldo Mello, Iraklis Varlamis, Yannis Kontopoulos, Konstantinos Tserpes.
The proceedings of our workshop MASTER held in Wurzburg in Germany last September 2019, are online and free access. You can find them here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-38081-6
FIRST INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ONDATA SCIENCE FOR MOBILITYApril 27 - May 1, 2020Kastelli Resort, Kamari Village,Santorini, Greece http://master-school.isti.cnr.it **** REGISTRATIONS ARE NOW OPEN **** Massive amounts of spatio-temporal data representing trajectories of moving objects are produced by an ever-increasing number of diverse, real-life applications, ranging from mobile to social media apps and surveillance systems, from vehicle tracking systems to IoT mobile sensors. Such mobility-aware traces come in huge numbers and very complex forms, and can be enriched with multiple different semantic dimensions. These semantically enriched trajectories have the potential to unveil novel challenges in several domains, such as urban, maritime and aviation. The explosion in Data Science is happening now. The Big Data technological infrastructure has reached maturity. Significant interest from the research community is being shown towards the Big Data Value Analytics…
