{"title":"Human Mobility Computing and Privacy: Fad or Reality?","authors":"Adam J. Lee, K. Pelechrinis, D. Zeinalipour-Yazti","doi":"10.1109/MDM.2015.86","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDM.2015.86","url":null,"abstract":"The advent of mobile computing and sensing technologies, in conjunction with omni-present and high-speed mobile networks, allow nowadays the capture of human mobility data at an extremely high fidelity. Modern mobile computing services not only have the capacity to store spatio-temporal mobile data, these nowadays also have the capability to process incoming data in near-real time. As a result, we have a better chance to develop effective strategies and build intelligent systems that play critical roles in areas like public health, traffic engineering, urban planning and economic forecasting. On the other hand, detailed movement data often poses a threat to the privacy and security of users and companies, given that mobile devices are associated with real human custodians. One fundamental question is whether human mobility computing and privacy can co-exist under the same roof, given different cultural, religious, legal, technological and socio-economic backgrounds of societies. This panel will explore how the academia and industry are tackling human mobility computing and privacy challenges at a global scale. It will also identify and debate the key challenges and opportunities, in terms of applications, queries, architectures, to which the mobile data management community should contribute.","PeriodicalId":187331,"journal":{"name":"2015 16th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121207507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Converting Mobile Sensing in Data and Data into Action","authors":"D. Siewiorek, A. Smailagic","doi":"10.1109/MDM.2015.81","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDM.2015.81","url":null,"abstract":"The proliferation of wearable sensor platforms (Jawbone, Fit Bit, Smart Watches) and sensor rich Smart Phones have produced a torrent of real time sensed signals that is interpreted to produce data (e.g. Sleep quality, step count). Often the volume of this data overwhelms users. Visualization is an effective way to summarize data and observe trends. This is especially valuable when someone, such as a doctor, has to monitor a large number of people. When a human expert is not available, a Virtual Coach can provide feedback and guidance. Virtual coaches can recognize actions, correct errors, recognize emotions, and provide motivation. We will illustrate how these two technologies can effectively convert data into action in dozens of real applications. Examples include monitoring physiological parameters, identifying trends, providing guidance, correcting errors, and motivating. We will conclude with a projection of future Virtual Coaches.","PeriodicalId":187331,"journal":{"name":"2015 16th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123830966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vehicle Routing with User-Generated Trajectory Data","authors":"Vaida Ceikute, Christian S. Jensen","doi":"10.1109/MDM.2015.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDM.2015.29","url":null,"abstract":"Rapidly increasing volumes of GPS data collected from vehicles provide new and increasingly comprehensive insight into the routes that drivers prefer. While routing services generally compute shortest or fastest routes, recent studies suggest that local drivers often prefer routes that are neither shortest nor fastest, indicating that drivers value route properties that are diverse and hard to quantify or even identify. We propose a routing service that uses an existing routing service while exploiting the availability of historical route usage data from local drivers. Given a source and destination, the service recommends a corresponding route that is most preferred by local drivers. It uses a route preference function that takes into account the number of distinct drivers and the number of trips associated with a route, as well as temporal aspects of the trips. The paper provides empirical studies with real route usage data and an existing online routing service.","PeriodicalId":187331,"journal":{"name":"2015 16th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management","volume":"184 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122193590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kyriakos Georgiou, Timotheos Constambeys, C. Laoudias, L. Petrou, Georgios Chatzimilioudis, D. Zeinalipour-Yazti
{"title":"Anyplace: A Crowdsourced Indoor Information Service","authors":"Kyriakos Georgiou, Timotheos Constambeys, C. Laoudias, L. Petrou, Georgios Chatzimilioudis, D. Zeinalipour-Yazti","doi":"10.1109/MDM.2015.80","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDM.2015.80","url":null,"abstract":"People do most of their activities, business, commerce, entertainment and socializing indoors. As all of these are increasingly aided by online services and indoor spaces are becoming bigger and more complex, there is a growing need for cost-effective indoor localization, mapping, navigation and information services. In this paper, we present a complete Indoor Information Service, coined Anyplace, which has an open, modular, extensible and scalable architecture, making it ideal for a wide range of applications. Our service features three highly desirable properties, namely crowd sourcing, scalability and accuracy. Anyplace implements a set of crowd sourcing-supportive mechanisms to handle the enormous amount of crowd-sensed data, filter incorrect user contributions and exploit Wi-Fi data from heterogeneous mobile devices. Moreover, it uses a big-data architecture for efficient storage and retrieval of localization and mapping data. Finally, our service relies on the abundance of sensory data on smartphones (e.g., Wi-Fi signal strength and inertial measurements) to deliver reliable indoor geolocation information that received several international awards.","PeriodicalId":187331,"journal":{"name":"2015 16th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132472083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sourav Dutta, A. Narang, Souvik Bhattacherjee, A. Das, D. Krishnaswamy
{"title":"Predictive Caching Framework for Mobile Wireless Networks","authors":"Sourav Dutta, A. Narang, Souvik Bhattacherjee, A. Das, D. Krishnaswamy","doi":"10.1109/MDM.2015.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDM.2015.14","url":null,"abstract":"With increasing popularity of Netflix, Yahoo! Video, etc., interactive multimedia services such as video-on-demand (VoD) provide an interesting and rich field of research. The advent of smarter wireless devices has surged the need for such services through wireless connectivity. However, personalization of individual user needs, reducing latency, coupled with maintaining low operational costs provides a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose an efficient VoD system, for wireless mobile devices, based on a novel caching algorithm, Intelligent Network Caching Algorithm (INCA) using analytics-driven look ahead scheme for both prefetch and replacement policies to deliver higher performance. This enables enhanced Quality Of Experience (QoE) of users with limited infrastructural changes and low operational cost. Alongside, we develop theoretical formulation of the QoE optimization problem that lies at the intersection of MPC (Markov Predictive Control) and MDP (Markov Decision Process). Empirical analysis over realistic user video query logs demonstrate better cache hit rate and QoE with low prefetch bandwidth, compared to existing caching schemes.","PeriodicalId":187331,"journal":{"name":"2015 16th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133221182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparing Urban Sensing Applications Using Event and Network-Driven Mobile Phone Location Data","authors":"Fabio Pinelli, G. D. Lorenzo, Francesco Calabrese","doi":"10.1109/MDM.2015.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDM.2015.33","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we address the use of mobile phone location data to build urban sensing applications. In the past decade, several research works have proposed the use of different types of location data from the telecommunication network to characterise people mobility in the city. Thus, several applications to infer urban dynamics where proposed. However, different papers have used different types of mobile phone location data, making it is difficult to understand whether a particular dataset provided by a telecom operator is indeed effective for a specific urban sensing application. In this paper we address this issue by comparing the quality of the insights extracted from different types of mobile phone location data, with specific reference to two urban sensing applications: people count by location, and people flow between locations. Experiments executed on a real dataset provided by a telecom operator in Belgium show the advantages of using network-driven mobile phone location data (collected regardless on whether people are using their phone) compared to the widely used Call Detail Records.","PeriodicalId":187331,"journal":{"name":"2015 16th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116486474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Usage of Annotation Tags in the Problem of Mining Similar Users","authors":"O. Vedernikov","doi":"10.1109/MDM.2015.83","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDM.2015.83","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel method of measuring user similarity in Location-Based Services (LBS) via relationships between users and annotation tags of locations they attended. Collecting all check-in data together, matrix factorization methods are applied in order to find semantic similarity between tags. Next, an idea of User Attendance Graph (UAG) is proposed to represent user check-in history and describe importance of each tag together with transitions between them. Further, Semantic Behavior Similarity (SBS) algorithm is proposed to measure likeness between UAG. This approach was evaluated with a real dataset collected from Whrrl using nDCG measure. Results show ~90% efficiency of proposed method for finding LBS users with similar behavior, and it can be used in different applications, e.g. Friend recommender systems.","PeriodicalId":187331,"journal":{"name":"2015 16th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116536612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Content Replication in Mobile Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks","authors":"Fabrício A. Silva, A. Loureiro","doi":"10.1109/MDM.2015.56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDM.2015.56","url":null,"abstract":"Vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) is a special type of mobile networks that has received significant attention from the academia and the industry in recent years. VANET applications are emerging as new opportunities for the automobile industry to provide advanced services to connected vehicles and their users. Most of those services, like information, safety, and entertainment systems, require a variety of content to be delivered to vehicles. An useful concept in this case is the one of content replication, which defines that content should be placed close to its potential clients. However, existing replicating solutions, as originally proposed for the Internet, are not suitable to VANETs because of their particular characteristics, such as highly dynamic topology, existence of push-based applications, information-centric nature, location- and time-dependent content, and intermittent connections. Therefore, we propose and evaluate in this work new techniques to replicate content in VANETs that rely on the vehicles' origin-destination (O-D) points. Theresults reveal that our solutions were able to increase the content availability in two case studies, named city-wide and region-wide.","PeriodicalId":187331,"journal":{"name":"2015 16th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115132372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Weighted Distance Similarity Model to Improve the Accuracy of Collaborative Recommender System","authors":"Bing Huang, Bi-Ru Dai","doi":"10.1109/MDM.2015.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDM.2015.43","url":null,"abstract":"Collaborative filtering is one of the most widely used methods to provide product recommendation in online stores. The key component of the method is to find similar users or items by using user-item matrix so that products can be recommended based on the similarities. However, traditional collaborative filtering approaches compute the similarity between a target user and the other user without considering a target item. More specifically, they give an equal weight to each of the items which are rated by both users. However, we think that the similarity between the target item and each of the co-rated items is a very important factor when we calculate the similarity between two users. Therefore, in this paper we propose a new similarity function that takes similarities between a target item and each of the co-rated items and the proportion of common ratings into account. Experimental results from Movie Lens dataset show that the method improves accuracy of recommender system significantly.","PeriodicalId":187331,"journal":{"name":"2015 16th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130699646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Interactive Freight-Pooling Service for Efficient Last-Mile Delivery","authors":"Panagiotis Liakos, A. Delis","doi":"10.1109/MDM.2015.60","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDM.2015.60","url":null,"abstract":"The existing practices of the urban section of freight transport chain result in traffic congestion, air pollution and resources being wasted. We focus on the final stage of freight distribution and propose an interactive freight-pooling service, in an effort to reduce the undesirable effects and the cost of freight transport in urban areas. Our service empowers city and state authorities to orchestrate the distribution network through interactive interfaces. We break the problem into three distinct phases that collectively helps us set constraints related to the quality of service and find inexpensive routes. In this regard, our proposed freight-pooling approach becomes an attractive option for efficient distribution, that guarantees cost minimization without sacrificing the level of quality.","PeriodicalId":187331,"journal":{"name":"2015 16th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130828571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}