[HotPlanet'09] HotPlanet'09 Call for Papers

ACM MobiSys'09 Workshop on Hot Topics of Planet-scale Mobility
Measurements (HotPlanet), Krakow, Poland, June 22, 2009
http://www.hotplanetconf.net/

Important dates:
Submission deadline: May 15, 2009
Student traveling grant application deadline: May 15, 2009
Authors notification: June 2, 2009
Camera ready: June 12, 2009
Registration deadline: June 12, 2009
Workshop date: June 22, 2009

Call for papers:
It is well-known that successfully researching, designing and building
mobile systems and algorithms requires access to large-scale mobility
data. Unfortunately, the wireless and mobile research communities lack
such data. For instance, the largest publicly available human contact
traces contain only 100 very sparsely connected nodes, a limitation of
the experimental setup. We believe that large-scale datasets are
important, not only in communication network design, but also for
fundamental study in other academic disciplines, e.g., epidemiology,
urban planning, and social science. An analogy can be made to the field
of complex networks research, which flourished since 1989 when the first
large datasets from the Internet (and subsequently the World Wide Web)
became available. To achieve similar improvements in mobile networking
and other related fields, relevant large-scale datasets must be made
available.

In this workshop, we wish to challenge the community to collect
large-scale human mobility traces. We will highlight some of the issues
in the hope that the community can help find solutions that can form the
basis of practical experiments: the main aim is to raise these issues to
gain community support to meet this challenge. Topics of interest
include but are not restricted to:

* Motivating applications for large-scale human mobility data collection
* Methods for collecting large-scale human mobility datasets
* Existing applications of large-scale human mobility datasets, e.g.
human dynamics characterisation and modeling
* Reports of planet-scale infrastructure for data collection
* Proposed business models to incentivise involvement of network
operators in contributing data
* Issues concerning privacy and anonymity of data collection
* Regulatory and legal issues about data collection

The workshop proceedings will be archived in the ACM Digital Library.

Papers must be submitted to EDAS in PDF format. All submissions must be
in English, no more than 6 pages long, two columns (using the ACM
templates), no characters smaller than 10 point fonts, and must fit
properly on US "Letter"-sized paper (8.5x11 inches). Margins must be of
1 inch on all edges (top, bottom, left, and right) of each page.

Papers will be reviewed single blind.

HotPlanet'09 Student Traveling Grant:
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A limited number of student grant support is provided by ACM
HotPlanet'09. Grants will cover travel, lodging and registration
expenses, up to a maximum of 700 EUROs per grant; costs in excess of the
grant will not be reimbursed.

A registered full-time master or PhD student may apply for HotPlanet
travel support. Preference may be given to applicants who will present
or have submitted a paper at HotPlanet'09.

To apply for a grant, please send a letter to the workshop chairs
explaining why you believe that attending the conference will beneficial
for both sides. The application should include an email/letter from your
advisor/supervisor, briefing your work and the benefit attending the
conference will bring to that work.

The deadline for applying for student traveling grants is May 15, 2009.
Applying earlier is encouraged.

Further information please find in workshop webpage:
http://www.hotplanetconf.net/