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CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMOS

ACM HotPlanet 2012 - The 4th ACM International Workshop on Hot Topics in Planet-Scale Measurement

June 25, Low Wood Bay, Lake District, UK
http://www.hotplanetconf.net

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IMPORTANT DATES
Full paper and demo registration deadline: March 23, 2012
Submission deadline: March 26, 2012
Authors notification: April 25, 2012
Camera-ready: May 1, 2012
Registration deadline: May 10, 2012
Workshop date: June 25, 2012

SCOPE
It is well-known that successfully researching, designing and building new mobile, ad-hoc, mesh and opportunistic networking systems and algorithms requires access to large-scale data on human mobility, encounter, and social network patterns. Unfortunately, the wireless and mobile research communities lack such data, with typical human contact traces consisting of less than 100 nodes. 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. Complex networks research has flourished since 1989 when the first large Internet (and later WWW) datasets became available. To achieve similar improvements in mobile networking and related fields, large-scale, and ideally planet-scale, datasets must be collected and made available.

This 4th ACM HotPlanet workshop will challenge the community to collect large-scale human mobility traces as well as to propose novel mobility data processing and knowledge discovery techniques, also showcasing demonstrations of innovative realworld technology.

Topics of interest include but are not restricted to:
• Motivating applications for large-scale human mobility data collection, especially from other disciplines, e.g., epidemiology, sociology
• Methods for collecting large-scale human mobility datasets
• Techniques for mobility data storage and processing
• Knowledge discovery from mobility data
• Novel applications of large-scale human mobility datasets, e.g., human dynamics characterization and modeling
• Planet-scale data collection infrastructures
• Testbed federation for planet-scale data collection
• Incentive models for encouraging users and businesses to contribute in providing/collecting data on a planet-wide scale
• Enabling security, privacy and anonymity for large-scale data collection
• Regulatory, legal and ethical issues in planet-wide data collection

FULL PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on their originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. Accepted papers will be published by ACM and placed in the ACM Digital Library. Submissions must be in English, no longer than 6 pages and in PDF format, and use the ACM templates. All fonts must be embedded within the PDF and be Type 1 (scalable).
In order to allow papers to appear in the ACM Digital Library, authors of accepted papers will be asked to submit, together with their camera-ready, an ACM proceedings copyright transfer form. Failure to send the camera-ready and copyright transfer on time will prevent the publication of the paper and its inclusion in the ACM Digital Library.

Papers will be reviewed single blind.

DEMO PROPOSALS SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Real-world data gathering and measurement are at the heart of large-scale human
mobility data collection, processing, and modeling. Technical demonstrations showing innovative and original practical solutions in the above mentioned topics are solicited, showing working prototypes stimulating discussion among the attendees.

Demo proposals should be submitted following the exact same guidelines of full papers, except for the page limit that is fixed to 2 (two) pages. Accepted proposals will be included in the proceedings and published by ACM on the ACM Digital Library.

Demo proposals will be peer reviewed single blind by the Demo Program Committee.

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Aline Carneiro Viana, NRIA, France
Ahmed Helmy, University of Florida, USA

DEMO CHAIR
Luigi Iannone, Telekom Innovation Laboratories, Germany

WEB CHAIR
Fehmi Ben Abdesslem, University of Cambridge, UK

STEERING COMMITTEE
Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK
Xiaoming Fu, University of Goettingen, Germany
Pan Hui, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany
Tristan Henderson, University of St. Andrews, UK

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE – FULL PAPER
Greg Bigwood, University of St Andrews, UK
Marco Fiore, INSA Lyon, France
Marcelo Dias de Amorim, CNRS/UPMC - Sorbonne Universités, France
Jérôme Härri & EUROCOM Sophia Antipolis, France
Emmanuel Bacceli, INRIA, France
Julinda Stefa, University of Sapienza, Italy
Pedro Stancioli, Federal University of Minas Gernais, Brazil
Ana Cristina B. Kochem Vendramin, UTFPR, Brazil
Artur Ziviani, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Brazil
Theus Hossmann & ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Zhixian Yan & EPFL, Switzerland
Nilanjan Banerjee & University of Arkansas, USA
Agoston Petz & University of Texas at Austin, USA
Gautam Thakur & University of Florida, USA
Aruna Seneviratne, NICTA, Australia
Tamer Nadeem, Old Dominion University, USA
Carlos Rey Moreno & University of the Western Cape, South Africa / Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE – DEMO PAPER
Cristel Pelsser, Internet Initiative, Japan
Damien Saucez, INRIA Sophia Antipolis
Mehdi Bezahaf, University of Lancaster, UK
Fernando SIlveira, Technicolor, USA
Hamed Haddadi, Queen Mary University of London, UK