27Sep 2019 by master_admin
MASTER participates in BRIGHT 2019 in Pisa (Italy) and in Athens (Greece)

MASTER participates in BRIGHT 2019 in Pisa (Italy) and in Athens (Greece)

News
MASTER participates in the Researcher's Night (BRIGHT) at CNR in Pisa and at NTUA in Athens, the night of September 27, 2019. In Pisa, the project coordinator Chiara Renso introduces the potentialities and issues in the collection and analysis of mobility data. We had a special focus on the analysis of Save and Rescue  operations of vessels in the Mediterranean Sea, related to the migration phenomenon. The talk has been held in Italian for a non specialistic audience. Many attendees were citizen interested in better understanding mobility data. Part of the audience was young attendees from schools. In Athens, at the National Technical University of Athens, Nikos Pelekis and colleagues from our partner UPRC presented MASTER to a wide audience of interested attendees.
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16Sep 2019 by master_admin
First MASTER Workshop in Wurzburg!

First MASTER Workshop in Wurzburg!

Meetings, News
On September 16, 2019 we had our First MASTER workshop!The event has been held in conjunction with ECML-PKDD conference in Wurzburg, Germany. The main conference received an unexpected high number of participants this year, thus favouring a very good attendance to our Workshop! The program of the workshop with link to submitted version of papers is available here.We are very honoured to host the keynote talk by Prof. Yannis Theodoridis. Slides are available in the Invited Speaker tab!We had very good attendance and discussion with MASTER partners and external authors and attendees. Some photos of the event:   The workshop organizers (left to right): Konstantinos Tserpes (HUA), Chiara Renso (CNR), Stan Matwin (DAL) Part of audience during presentations Daisuke Moriwaki during his presentation The worshop room at the ECML-PKDD conference venue at the University of…
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13Sep 2019 by master_admin
Newsletter Issue N. 3 is published

Newsletter Issue N. 3 is published

News
The third issue of the MASTER newsletter is read! In this issue you can find an inspiring article from Prof. Yannis Theodoridis from UPRC discussing the "Mobility Data Analytics" era and the future research challenges. We also meet another EC-funded project called SoBigData sharing common interest that is creating many synergies with MASTER. As in the past issues, we report on the secondments experience and we report on the past and next events. You can download it here. Happy reading!
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12Sep 2019 by master_admin
Luiz Santana from UFSC visiting CNR

Luiz Santana from UFSC visiting CNR

Meetings, News
Luiz Santana, a post-doc from UFSC is visiting CNR today in his way back to Brazil. CNR researchers Vincius Monteiro de Lira, Chiara Renso, Raffaele Perego  held a meeting with him discussing  a middleware for the management of large RDF graph stored into NoSQL databases.
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05Jul 2019 by master_admin
Secondments of CNR researchers to Dalhousie University

Secondments of CNR researchers to Dalhousie University

News, Secondments
CNR researchers Vinicius Monteiro de Lira (ESR) and Emanuele Carlini (ER) already started their secondments to Dalhousie University in Halifax (Canada), hosted by Prof. Stan Matwin. The objective of their secondments is to develop methods to  efficiently analysis vessels trajectories from AIS data. In the picture we see (from left to right) Lucas May Petry from our partner Federal University of Santa Catarina in Brazil, Amilcar Soares from Dalhousie, Emanuele Carlini from CNR, Prof. Stan Matwin from Dalhousie and Vinicius Monteiro de Lira  from CNR. Below some pictures taken during the meetings at the Dalhousie offices.  
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