3rd International Workshop on Mobile Sensing: The future, brought to you by Big Sensor Data co-located with IPSN '13 and CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS WEEK (CPSWEEK) Philadelpha, PA, USA - APRIL 8-11 2013

Mobile Sensing is rapidly becoming a part of everyday life. Through the proliferation of sensor platforms (e.g., wearables, phones) the opportunity to collect and analyze rich large-scale mobile sensor data is steadily increasing. Simultaneously, we are witnessing a revolution in the general importance of data ? advances in the field of Big Data are highlighting the benefits of data-driven analytics in all facets of society. The objective of this workshop is to arrive at a deeper understanding of how these powerful trends intersect; we refer to the intersection of these two fields as Big Sensor Data. How should the techniques and analytical tools from years of Big Data research impact future directions in Mobile Sensing? Similarly, what role should programmable context-aware mobile sensing systems play within the study of Big Data?

This workshop will provide an open forum for researchers and industry practitioners to present and discuss their perspectives on the topic of Big Sensor Data. Specifically, we anticipate lively discussions on: i) new application scenarios; ii) how data analytics and the operation of sensing systems can be more tightly coupled; iii) emerging new roles for people; iii) hybrid sensing and analytics systems that blend both large-scale mobile sensor data and social data (e.g., micro-blogs, social networks), along with a broader set of potential alternative data sources (transaction logs, search queries etc.)

We invite the submission of position papers related to Big Sensor Data and its relationship to Mobile Sensing along with technical papers that represent the latest innovations in the field. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Mobile crowd-sourcing and example uses of human-in-the-loop design
* Machine learning applied to sensor data
* Mobile sensor based personal informatics
* Energy-efficiency and other resource trade-offs with sensing systems
* Participatory and opportunistic sensing
* Fusion of multiple sensing modalities
* Systems architecture for mobile sensing
* Leverage cloud computing for mobile sensing
* Privacy and mobile sensing
* Persuasive feedback
* Applications
* New mobile sensing hardware
* Mobile sensing deployment experiences and users studies

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline : March 10th, 2013 - 11:59PM US PDT
Author Notification : April 1st, 2013

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

TPC Chairs
Nic Lane (Microsoft Research Asia)
Hide Tokuda (Keio University)
Feng Zhao (Microsoft Research Asia)

TPC Members
Ramon Caceres (AT&T Research)
Hao Chu (National Taiwan University)
Daniel Gatica-Perez (IDIAP Research Institute)
Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge)
Emiliano Miluzzo (AT&T Research)
Mirco Musolesi (University of Birmingham)
Jin Nakazawa (Keio University)
Junehwa Song (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Ben Zhao (UC Santa Barbara)

Web/Publicity Chair
Yohan Chon (Yonsei University)