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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 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 "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  

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

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 

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 

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!

MASTER participates in BRIGHT 2020! This year the BRIGHT edition has been fully virtual. MASTER participated into the CNR edition with a seminar entitled "Dimmi dove vai e ti diro' chi sei" ("Tell me where you go and I will tell you who you are") and focussed on the privacy and ethical issues of the location data collection and analysis.  Speakers were Beatrice Rapisarda and Chiara Renso by CNR. The slides (in Italian) can be found here.

Third Workshop on Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, Ethics and Society on the Web Ljubljana, Slovenia 19-23 April 2021 Joint with The Web Conference 2021 The goal of this workshop is to gather researchers and developers from academia, industry, and civil society to present and debate topics of the importance of developing better AI systems on the Web and tools to deal with privacy matters. To achieve this, we will seek contributions that describe research initiatives, projects, results, and design techniques and experiments that are being developed to deal with fairness and accountability, transparency, and ethics on AI and privacy. Deadline January 8th 2021  More infos at: http://fates.isti.cnr.it