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* The First International Workshop on Mobile Data Analytics (MoDA 2013)
* http://moda2013.comp.polyu.edu.hk/
* 7 April 2013, Brisbane, Australia
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* In Conjuction with IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2013)
* 8-12 April 2013, Brisbane Australia
* http://www.icde2013.org/
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Workshop Summary
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As the recent advances in mobile devices, sensing, communication, and computing have made mobile data ubiquitous,
effectively analysing mobile data becomes a central issue in a wide variety of applications.
Mobile data analytics is the next generation of business intelligence, allowing companies and organization
to make better business decisions based on effective understanding of mobile data. The main goal of the
workshop on Mobile Data Analytics is to provide a forum to share original ideas, research results,
and practical development experiences among researchers and application developers.



Topics of Interest
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The topics of interest for MoDA include, but are not limited to:

- Real-time analysis on mobile data
- Visualization of mobile data analytics, including smartphones and tablets
- Business intelligence for mobile data
- Online mobile data analytical processing
- Big mobile data management
- Mobile data analytics in the Cloud
- Processing mobile sensor data, including GPS and in-vehicle sensor data
- Management and control of on-device sensory data
- Mobile data compression
- Mobile data mining
- Social and mobile data fusion



Important Dates
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Submission deadline: Monday 5 Nov 2012
Author notification: Friday 14 Dec 2012
Camera-ready papers due: Friday 21 Dec 2012



Submission Details
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Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication
in any other forum. Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style,
clarity, and relevance to the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop.
Papers should be 8 pages long, formatted according to the ICDE formatting guidelines.



Workshop Committees
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[Program Co-Chairs]
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Karl Aberer, EPFL, Siwtzerland
Man Lung Yiu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Hoyoung Jeung, SAP Research, Australia


[Program Committee]
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Baljeet Malhotra, SAP Research, Singapore
Dipanjan Chakraborty, IBM Research, India
Hua Lu, Aalborg University, Denmark
Joachim Gudmundsson, University of Sydney, Australia
Ki-Joune Li, Pusan National University, South Korea
Kostas Tzoumas, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Marc van Kreveld, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Matthias Renz,Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, Germany
Mohamed A. Sharaf, The University of Queensland, Australia
Nicholas Nicoloudis, Monash University/SAP, Australia
Reynold C.K. Cheng, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Sebastian Michel, Saarland University, Germany
Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
Yongluan Zhou, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Zoltan Miklos, University of Rennes, France
Zhixian Yan, Samsung Research, USA