http://mss2012.modap.org/

Leysin, Switzerland, 1-6 July 2012

Deadline for grant application: 25 April, 2012
Deadline for registration: 15 May, 2012
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The 2nd�Summer�School�on Mobility, Data Mining, and Privacy is co-organized by the FP7/ICT project MODAP ?Mobility, Data Mining and Privacy? and the COST Action IC0903 MOVE ?Knowledge Discovery from Moving Objects". It is also supported by the FP7/Marie Curie project SEEK and by CUSO, a coordination body for western Switzerland universities

The specific focus of this edition is on privacy-aware social mining, i.e. how to discover the patterns and models of social complexity from the digital traces of our life, in a privacy preserving way.

The�school�targets doctoral students and young postdocs as well as a small number of senior researchers working on database management, machine learning, data mining, GIS, statistics, complex systems, social and economic sciences, law, and interdisciplinary studies. Attendees will receive intensive training in the above topic taught by well-known experts. The participants will also be given an opportunity to present their own work, and receive feedback.

To benefit from optimal training conditions, the�school�is based on limited attendance. Please send your application form as soon as possible.

======Themes and speakers======

* Trust Networks and Reality Mining (Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, MIT-Cambridge, USA)

* Legal & ethical challenges for the knowledge society (Mireille �Hildebrandt,
� Center for Law Science Technology & Society Studies (LSTS), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

* Models of social complexity (Laszlo Barabasi,Northeastern/Harvard University, USA; Dirk Helbing, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa, Italy)

* Trust & Privacy enhancing technologies (Elena Ferrari, Uni. Insubria,Italy)

* Database challenges for big data analytics (Minos Garofalakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece)

* Smart self-organizing cities (Olivier Verscheure, IBM Research, Ireland)

* Mobilytics: mobility data analytics �(Gennady & Natalia Andrienko, Fraunhofer IAIS,Sankt Augustin, Germany and Salvo Rinzivillo, ISTI-CNR., Pisa, Italy)

* Privacy-preserving mobilytics (Maria Luisa Damiani Uni. Milan, and�Anna�Monreale, University of Pisa, Italy)

======Venue======

The venue for this event is Leysin, a mountain village and resort in the Swiss Alps, close to the Lake of Geneva:�http://www.leysin.ch/en/. Thanks to its revolving restaurant Kuklos located at 2,048 m on top of La Berneuse, and accessible by cable-car, Leysin (1,264 m) offers the possibility to enjoy a unique 360? panorama of Alpine peaks: Eiger, Mont-Blanc, Matterhorn and Dents du Midi.

======Registration fees and grant opportunities=======

The registration fee is a fixed rate that covers all expenses directly related to the participation to theschool�for the whole period of the�school.

- Student fee regular: 660 chf �(app. 550 euros, full board, accommodation in shared double room at IBIS hotel)
- Student fee superior: 850 chf (app. 710 euros, full board, accommodation in single room at IBIS hotel)
- Regular fee single: 1070 chf (app. 890 euros, full board, accommodation in �single room at Mercure hotel)
- Regular fee shared: 850 chf (app. 710 euros, per person, full board, accommodation in double room at Mercure hotel)
- Regular fee for one participant with one accompanying person: 1475 chf (app. 1220 euros, accommodation in double room at Mercure hotel, full board for the participant and half-board for the accompanying person)

A number of grants are available to facilitate the participation of students to the�Summer�School. The procedure for grant applications can be found at�http://mss2012.modap.org


====== Important dates=======

- Deadline for grant application: April 25,2012
- Grant notification: � � � � � � May 4, 2012
- Deadline for registration: � � �May 15, 2012
-�Summer�school�starts: � � � � � July 1, 2012
-�Summer�school�ends: � � � � � � July 6, 2012

====== Organization ========

**Steering Committee**

Gennady Andrienko, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
Maria Luisa Damiani, U. Milan, Italy (Program co-Chair)
Josep Domingo-Ferrer, U. Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia, Spain
Fosca Giannotti, ISTI/CNR, Italy (Program co-Chair)
Dimitrios Gunopulos, U. Athens, Greece
Bart Kuijpers, Hasselt U., Belgium
Katharina Morik, U. Dortmund, Germany
Christine Parent, U. of Lausanne, Switzerland (Organizing Co-Chair)
Yucel Saygin, Sabanci U., Turkey (MODAP project coordinator)
Stefano Spaccapietra, EPFL, Switzerland (Organizing Co-Chair)
Chiara Renso, CNR, Italy (SEEK coordinator)
Yannis Theodoridis, U. Piraeus, Greece
Nico Van de Weghe, Ghent U., Belgium
Robert Weibel, U. Zurich, Switzerland (Chair, COST Action IC0903 MOVE)


**Organization Committee**

Christine Parent, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (christine.parent@epfl.ch)
Stefano Spaccapietra, EPFL, Switzerland (stefano.spaccapietra@epfl.ch)

====== Contact ======

For further information on the program please send an e-mail to the
Program Chairs (Maria Luisa Damiani�damiani@dico.unimi.it, Fosca Giannotti
fosca.giannotti@isti.cnr.it)

For further information on the local arrangements, please contact
Mrs Marlyse Taric, secretary of the�School�(marlyse.taric@epfl.ch)


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Anna Monreale
Department of Computer Science
University of Pisa
Largo Pontecorvo 3 - 56127 Pisa, Italy
http://www.di.unipi.it/~annam�� annam@di.unipi.it