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The 1st IEEE Intl. Workshop on ALgorithms for Indoor Architectures and Systems (ALIAS 2019), collocated with the 20th IEEE Intl. Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2019).

June 10, 2019, Hong Kong
https://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/mdm2019/
https://alias19.cs.ucy.ac.cy/

AIMS & TOPICS OF INTEREST
Indoor Information Systems (IIS) have witnessed significant growth over the past decade, driven by the fact that 90% of our activities are carried out in indoor spaces. As a result, new research paradigms in constituent technologies have emerged, ranging from data-driven localization algorithms, to data privacy handling schemes, and indoor data management operators. Towards this direction, successful launching of popular applications relied on stored indoor spatial models fusing sensor information, exploiting sensor prevalence in smartphone devices and wireless connectivity pervasiveness, in light of the big data era and accompanying technologies. This workshop aims to discuss current trends and highlight future directions on both established and potentially transforming Algorithms for Indoor Architectures and Systems.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Positioning technologies using different technologies (e.g., UWB, IMU, Cellular, 5G femtocells, RFID, Magnetic, Vision, Hybrid)
* 2D and 3D operators for localization and analytics
* Modeling and representation of indoor spaces
* Indoor GIS integration efforts (IndoorOSM, IndoorGML)
* Storage, processing and indexing operators for indoor data
* Collaborative positioning and crowdsourcing
* Indoor analytics and indoor decision support systems
* Visual analytics of indoor data
* Big-data processing of indoor data
* Privacy issues with indoor technologies
* Human mobility data acquisition, handling, and analysis in indoor spaces
* Data quality and uncertainty issues study on indoor mobility data
* Discovery of indoor mobility patterns
* Theoretic and/or empirical indoor modelling issues
* Semantic knowledge harvesting and ontologies for indoor data
* Recommender Systems for indoor data (e.g., POIs, services)
* Real-time analysis of data generated in indoor spaces (audio, video, text)
* Social behaviour analysis on indoor mobility data
* Deep learning on indoor data
* Security and Privacy in indoor mobile systems
* Robotics and Drones for logistics operations in indoor spaces
* Indoor Case Studies (e.g., Healthcare, Airports, Campuses)
* Interactive media technologies to indoor (Augmented/Virtual/Mixed Reality)
* Indoor Technologies for inside the space of Smart and Self-driving Cars
* Offline and Hybrid Online/Offline Navigation and Context Awareness
* Mapmatching Algorithms and Systems
* Out-of-the-box application domains for indoor (blockchain, AI, IoT)

The workshop will be organized in a manner that fosters interaction and exchange of ideas among the participants. Besides regular papers, we will also consider vision, retrospective and work-in-progress papers that have the potential to stimulate debate on existing solutions or open challenges. We additionally plan to accept a limited number of demonstration papers where researchers and technologists will have the opportunity to describe an innovative system or tool in the area of data management for mobile and wireless access. We discourage the submission of incremental papers. This year’s program is also expected to feature a keynote speech and a panel discussion on newly-emerging or controversial topics.

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract Registration: Mon., February 25, 2019 (midnight – anywhere on earth)
Paper/Demo Submission: Mon., March 4, 2019 (midnight – anywhere on earth)
Notification of Acceptance: Fri., March 22, 2019
Camera-ready Version Due: Tue., April 02, 2019 (midnight – anywhere on earth)
Workshop Date: June 10, 2019 (tentative date)

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS
Manuscripts in the following categories will be considered for publication in the 1st IEEE Intl. Workshop on ALgorithms for Indoor Architectures and Systems:
* Regular papers (max. 6 pages): The submission should describe significant theoretical and/or experimental contributions to the topics of the workshop.
* Demo OR Vision papers (max. 3 pages): The submission should either descrive some vision in the scope of the workshop or the architecture, implementation and usage of innovative tools or systems that fit the context of the workshop.

The presentation of demo|vision papers will be conducted in a designated session during the workshop (in the form of short presentations).

All of the submissions should be in PDF format and conform to the IEEE MDM’19 proceedings format. Submitted papers must not have been published or currently be under consideration for publication at another venue.

All of the submissions will be handled electronically. Each paper will be reviewed by several members of the program committee.
Detailed submission information will be posted on the website of the workshop.

The workshop proceedings will be published in the IEEE MDM proceedings (volume 2) and electronic versions of the papers will be included in the IEEE DL, DiSC’09 and DBLP.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS
* Dong-Soo Han
Department of Computer Science
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea https://sites.google.com/site/profdshan/

* Andreas S. Panayides
Department of Computer Science
University of Cyprus, Cyprus
https://goo.gl/zC4usu/

* Nacim Ramdani
PRISME Laboratory
University of Orleans, France
https://agora.bourges.univ-orleans.fr/ramdani/

* Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti
Department of Computer Science
University of Cyprus, Cyprus
https://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~dzeina/

(PRELIMINARY) TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Monash University, Australia
* Lynn Choi, Korea University
* Eftychios Christoforou, University of Cyprus
* Panos K. Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh
* Christophe Claramunt, Naval Academy Research Institute
* Sergio Ilarri, University of Zaragoza
* Gentian Jakllari, Universite de Toulouse
* Kourosh Khoshelham, The University of Melbourne
* Andreas Konstantindis, Frederick University and University of Cyprus
* Christos Laoudias, University of Cyprus
* Huan Li, Zhejiang University
* Mohamed F. Mokbel, Qatar Computing Research Institute
* Vartholomeos Panagiotis, SingularLogic
* Kai-Florian Richter, Umea University
* Markus Schneider, University of Florida
* Dragan Stojanovic, University of Nis
* Eleftheria Vellidou, National and Technical University of Athens
* Jianliang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University
* Shiyu Yang, East China Normal University
* Moustafa Youssef, Alexandria University

WEBMASTER
* Joanna Georgiou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

CONTACT
For further information please contact us at: alias19@cs.ucy.ac.cy