The main conference on the scientific analysis
of mobile phone datasets
8-10 July 2019 Mathematical Institute, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

July 8-10

We are planning a very exciting edition for NetMob 2019. The conference will take place at the Mathematical Institute of Oxford University. We hope to see you here and look forward to catching up with the latest developments in mobile phone dataset analysis.

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About/Dates



Scope

NetMob is the primary conference in the analysis of mobile phone datasets in social, urban, societal and industrial problems. Previous editions in Boston and Milano brought together more than 250 researchers, practitioners and decision-makers from more than 140 institutions and 30 countries.

Format

The 2019 edition of NetMob will take place at the Mathematical Institute of Oxford University in a conference format similar to that of the previous editions: one track of short contributed talks, a simplified submission procedure, no proceedings (except for a book of abstracts), and the possibility to present recent results or results submitted elsewhere.

Dates

Submission deadline: 15 March 2019
 Extended Submission deadline: 25 March 2019
Notification of acceptance: 10 April 2019
Registration opening: 1 April 2019 Register
End of registration: 16 June 2019
Conference: 8-10 July, 2019


Call for Abstracts



The conference format is flexible: one track of short contributed talks, a simplified submission procedure (1-page abstracts only), and the possibility to present recent results or results submitted elsewhere. We welcome all contributions that deal with the analysis of mobile phone datasets. This includes but is not limited to the analysis of CDRs, mobile location data, wifi usage, app-generated data, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

Submissions format

  • Authors are invited to submit 1-page abstracts
  • Submissions should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s) and email address(es) on the first page.
  • Electronic submission of manuscripts in PDF format is required.

Book of abstracts

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Future Cities Challenge



For this edition of Netmob together with Location technology platform Foursquare we introduce a unique data challenge by giving access to a mobility dataset describing venue interactions in the world's top cities and organising a special session to present results at the conference.

Find out more at

https://www.futurecitieschallenge.com/

Venue/Accommodation



Venue

The conference will take place at the Mathematical Institute of Oxford University, Andrew Wiles Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG
Accommodation
Because July is high season in Oxford, accommodation is expensive and tricky to find. For this reason, we urge you to secure your accommodation as soon as possible.

We may be able to assist you in finding a college room at St Anne’s College or St Hugh’s College (2 minutes’ and 10 to 15 minutes’ walk from Maths Institute respectively). All rooms are single ensuite.

The price is £78 (bed and breakfast) per person per night but please note that bookings for these rooms cannot be changed and are non-refundable.

If you are interested, could you email us at: netmob2019@maths.ox.ac.uk ? Rooms will be allocated on first come first served basis and preference may be given to students.



NetMob 2019 Organizers




Renaud Lambiotte

Associate Professor of Networks and Nonlinear Systems


Esteban Moro

Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain).


Vincent Blondel

Professor of Applied Mathematics at Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium). Also Recteur de l'UCL


Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

Director of the Human Dynamics Laboratory and Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program at MIT

Program Committee



Karl Aberer, EPFL,
Francesco Calabrese, Vodafone, Italy
Manuel Cebrián, MIT, USA
Augustin Chaintreau, Columbia University, USA
Vittoria Colizza, INSERM, France
Massimo Colonna, Telecom Italy, Italy
Nicolas de Cordes, Orange, France
Kenth Engø-Monsen, Telenor, Norway
Pedro Ferreira, Carnegie Mellon University, US
Vanessa Frias-Martinez, University of Maryland, US
Enrique Frias-Martinez, Telefonica Research, Spain
Marta Gonzales, Berkeley, US
Kimmo Kaski, Aalto University, Finland
János Kertész, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
David Lazer, Northeastern University, US
Sune Lehmann, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Miguel Luengo, UN Global Pulse, US
Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, UK
Veena Mendiratta, Bell Labs Alcatel-Lucent, US
Giovanna Miritello, Vodafone, UK
Mirco Musolesi, UCL, UK
Tassos Noulas, NYU, US
Jukka-Pekka Onnela, Harvard University, US
Nuria Oliver, Vodafone, UK
Dino Pedreschi, Università di Pisa, Italy
Daniele Quercia, Bell Labs, UK
Vsevolod Salnikov, University of Namur, Belgium
Jari Saramäki, Aalto University, Finland
Frank Schweitzer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Zbigniew Smoreda, Orange Labs, France
Pål Sundsøy, Telenor, Norway
Jérome Urbain, Dalberg Analytics, Belgium
Pedro Zufiría, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Local organisers



Jared Tanner
Hattie Moody
Samuel Heroy
Rodrigo Leal-Cervantes
Xiaowen Dong
Neave O’Clery

PAST EDITIONS OF NETMOB

NetMob 2017

April 5-7, 2017
Vodafone Theatre in Milan, Italy
Program (1MB)
Book of abstracts: Oral (11MB)
Book of abstracts: Poster (6MB)


NetMob 2010
May 11, 2010
Media Lab at MIT (Cambridge, MA)
Co-located with the International Conference on Network Science
Book of abstracts (81 pages, 5.5 MB)

NetMob 2015

April 7-10, 2015
Media Lab at MIT (Cambridge, MA)
Program (3MB)
Book of abstracts: Oral (28MB)
Book of abstracts: Poster (120 pages, 47MB)
Netmob 2015 had a special session on the D4D Orange challenge on mobile phone dataset analysis
The D4D Book of Abstracts: Scientific Papers (298 pages, 83MB) and D4D Book of Abstracts: Posters (56 pages, 53MB) contain copies of all the submissions to the D4D challenge that have been selected for NetMob.

NetMob 2013

May 2-3, 2013
Media Lab at MIT (Cambridge, MA)
Program (3MB)
Book of abstracts (176 pages, 40MB)
Netmob 2013 had a special session on the D4D Orange challenge. The D4D book (122MB) contains all the selected submissions.

NetMob 2011


October 10-11, 2011
Media Lab at MIT (Cambridge, MA)
Co-located with the Third IEEE Conference on Social Computing
Book of abstracts (127 pages, 16MB)

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