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BMDA 2025 Call for papers
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7th International Workshop on Big Mobility Data Analytics (BMDA)
co-located with EDBT/ICDT Conference, 25th March-28th March, 2025 Barcelona

https://www.datastories.org/bmda25/
https://edbticdt2025.upc.edu/?contents=workshops.html

** Selected accepted papers will be considered for a special issue at Springer's Geoinformatica journal **

Workshop Description
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From spatial to spatio-temporal and, then, to mobility data. So, what’s next? It is the rise of mobility-aware integrated Big Data analytics. The Big Mobility Data Analytics (BMDA) workshop series (https://www.datastories.org/bmda/), initiated in 2018 with EDBT Conference, aims at bringing together experts in the field from academia, industry and research labs to discuss the lessons they have learned over the years, to demonstrate what they have achieved so far, and to plan for the future of “mobility”.
In its 7th edition, BMDA workshop will foster the exchange of new ideas on multidisciplinary real-world problems, discuss proposals about innovative solutions, and identify emerging opportunities for further research in the area of big mobility data analytics, such as deep learning on mobility data, edge computing, visual analytics, etc. The workshop intends to bridge the gap between researchers and big mobility data stakeholders, including experts from critical domains, such as urban / maritime / aviation transportation, human complex networks, etc. Multiple fields of data analytics relate to the objectives of this workshop, including, but not limited to:
- Fundamentals of mobility data analytics
- Big data platforms for mobility data analytics
- Parallel / streaming / edge data processing for mobility analytics
- Predictive analytics using mobility data
- Deep learning models for mobility data
- Generative models for mobility data
- Complex event detection for moving objects
- Visual analytics on big mobility data
- Mobility-as-a-Service
- Interactive traffic analysis with GPS data
- Urban / maritime / aviation traffic flow forecasting, travel time prediction
- Integration / interlinking of mobility with societal data
- Geosocial networks
- Social computing / spatial epidemiology and COVID-19 contact tracing
- Philosophical / ethical / privacy issues on mobility data analytics


Paper Submission Procedure, Workshop Proceedings, Journal special section
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We invite papers discussing novel research and ideas without substantial overlap with papers that have been published or submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submitted papers can be of two types:
- Regular Research Papers: these papers should report original research results or significant case studies. They should be 5000-8000 words (at most 8 pages) long.
- Demo Papers: these papers should showcase cutting-edge mobility data analytics software. They should be 2500-4000 words (at most 4 pages) long.

Submissions should be formatted using the EDBT/ICDT 2025 camera-ready template (see the instructions at https://edbticdt2025.upc.edu/?contents=EDBT_cameraready.html) and submitted through the workshop submission system at EasyChair [https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bmda2025].

Following the tradition of recent EDBT/ICDT workshops, all workshop papers will be published online under the Creative Commons license CC-by-nc-nd 4.0 by [OpenProceedings.org].
All submitted papers will be peer reviewed by at least three reviewers. If accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the workshop to present the work.

As with the previous BMDA editions, selected accepted papers will be considered for a special issue of Geoinformatica [https://link.springer.com/journal/10707] .

Important dates
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- Abstract submission: January 5, 2025 (11:59PM PDT)
- Paper Submission: January 12, 2025 (11:59PM PDT)
- Notification of Acceptance: January 31, 2025
- Camera Ready Paper Due: February 28, 2025
- Workshop date: March 25, 2025

Organization and Support
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Workshop organizers:
- Mirco Nanni, Institute of Information Science and Technologies, National Research Council of Italy (mirco.nanni@isti.cnr.it)
- Nikos Pelekis, University of Piraeus, Greece (npelekis@unipi.gr)
- Panagiotis Tampakis, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark (ptampakis@imada.sdu.dk)
- Karine Zeitouni, UVSQ - Université Paris-Saclay, France (karine.zeitouni@uvsq.fr)

Supported by:
- SoBigData++ (European Integrated Infrastructure for Social Mining and Big Data Analytics, EU H2020 Programme, 2020-24)
- MobiSpaces (New Data Spaces for Green Mobility, EU Horizon Programme, 2022-25)
- EMERALDS (Extreme-scale Urban Mobility Data Analytics as a Service, EU Horizon Programme, 2023-25)
- Green.Dat.AI (Energy-efficient AI-ready Data Spaces, EU Horizon Programme, 2023-25)


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