Workshop on Knowledge Discovery for Sustainable Mobility

Amsterdam 11th – 12th September, 2006 Waag Society, Amsterdam, The Netherlands


Meeting’s program

Monday 11th, September 2006
  • 9:00-9:30 Reception and Registration
  • Session 1 – Thinking outside the box: New perspectives on mobility
    • 9:30-9:45 Welcome, Monica Wachowicz
    • 9:45-10:30 Fosca Giannotti, Institute of Information Science and Technologies
      Mobility, privacy and geography: a knowledge discovery perspective (slides: pdf)
  • 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break.
    • 11:00-11:45 Henk Eertink, Telematica Instituut, INCA Group
      Learning from monitoring: a person-centric approach (slides: pdf)
    • 11:45-12,30 Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago
      Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing (Mobi-Dik) (slides: pdf)
  • 12:30-14:00 Lunch break.
  • Session 2 – Making better use of mobile technologies
    • 14:00-14:45 Rob Postema, Logica CMG
      The Galileo Satellite Navigation System: Offering new opportunities for monitoring mobility (slides: pdf)
    • 14:45-15:30 Naser El-Sheimy, University of Calgary
      Multi-sensor Systems – The New Trend in Navigation, Mapping and GIS Applications (slides: pdf)
  • 15:30-15:45 Coffee break
    • 15:45-17:00 Group Discussion
      The participants are separated into four discussion groups
    • 17:00-17:45 Group reports
  • 18:00 End of session
  • 19:00 Dinner in Amsterdam

Tuesday 12th, September 2006
  • Session 3 – Exploring new applications I
    • 9:00-9:45 Carlo Ratti, MIT, SENSEable City Lab
      Real Time Rome (slides: pdf)
    • 9:45-10:30 Aske Hopman and Ronald Lenz, Waag Society, Locative Media, Joanne Heyink Leestemaker City Works
      Exploring new applications in the world of art and culture (slides: pdf)
  • 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break.
  • Session 4 – Exploring new applications II
    • 11:00-11:45 Ayse Goker and Hans Myrhaug, Ambiesense
      The future of the Ambient Intelligence Landscape (slides: pdf)
    • 11:45-12:30 Eduardo Dias, GEODAN, Mobile Solutions
      The influence of mobile information provision on spatial behaviour of visitors to a natural area (slides: pdf)
  • 12:30-13:30 Lunch Break
  • Session 5 – Privacy and ethical issues: how to unravel trust problems?
    • 13:30-14:15 Marius Thériault, University of Laval
      Technical and ethical issues for analysing spatio-temporal patterns of mobility: Report on a Canadian experiment (slides: pdf)
    • 14:15-14:45 Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa
      Aggregation doesn’t put you on the safe side: privacy and anonymity issues in spatio-temporal data and patterns (slides: pdf)
  • 14:45-15:15 Coffee Break
  • Session 6 – Looking into society needs
    • 15:15-15:30 Wendy Bohte, TU Delft
      Measuring daily travel behaviour of households: the use of GPS and a web-based recall survey (slides: pdf)
    • 15:30-16:00 Daniela Faur, University Politehnica Bucharest
      Knowledge based information mining from Earth Observation Images (slides: pdf)
  • Session 7 – Closing Plenary
    • 16:00-16:30 Monica Wachowicz
      Summary and wrap up
    • 16:30 Closing and Borel