VLDB Journal Special Issue on Data Management for Mobile Services
Aims and Scope
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Small, GPS-enabled and wireless networked mobile devices such as mobile phones, personal digital assistants, or car navigation systems have become powerful, affordable, and wide-spread. Not only do these devices interact with the environment such as local services and facilities, searching for useful information, but they are also capable of collecting and transmitting position data. There is a need for addressing both aspects, of supporting online services by managing the locations of large sets of currently moving users, and of analyzing enormous volumes of captured trajectory data. The latter may in particular be useful for improving mobile services.
This special issue focuses on managing information about moving objects in space and time, both for online applications and for analysis of "historical" trajectory data. Although substantial research has been conducted, there is still a large number of open research problems in data
management for mobile services. The aims of this special issue are to bring out the state-of-the-art in this exciting area and to provide directions for future research.
Topics of Interest
The VLDB Journal solicits contributions to a Special Issue on Data Management for Mobile Services. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- environment dependent trajectory modeling ("semantic trajectories")
- dealing with uncertainty in modeling and query processing
- modeling movement in three dimensions (including 3D city models)
- modeling constrained movement (networks, obstacles, indoors)
- formulating complex queries on trajectory data sets
- data mining on large sets of trajectories
- discovering movement patterns
- query optimization for moving objects databases
- integration of specialized query types into higher level languages and into query optimization
- organization of query processing between mobile devices and servers
- mobile ad-hoc networking applications
- continuous queries and stream processing on moving objects
- dealing with privacy issues in online applications and in trajectory analysis
- high update rates and main memory management of moving objects
- scalable, parallel and distributed management of large volumes of moving objects
- on-line maintenance of large sets of trajectories for currently moving objects
- improving the infrastructure for MOD research (e.g. providing real data sets, benchmarks, platforms for experimentation)
- scientific applications on trajectory data
- novel applications posing new challenges
- sharing trajectories in web applications and social networks
Whereas we welcome any submissions of high-quality, original research, we are particularly interested in submissions that demonstrate integration into a system context. Besides novel technical solutions, well-written survey articles are highly appreciated.
For experimental work, authors are encouraged to make available their software to enable readers to repeat experiments and to support future experimental comparisons with alternative approaches.
One possibility to demonstrate integration as well as support experimental repeatability is to make the software available as a Secondo plugin (see http://dna.fernuni-hagen.de/Secondo.html/start_content_plugins.html).
Guest Editors
Ralf Hartmut Gueting, FernUniversitaet in Hagen, Germany (rhg at fernuni-hagen dot de)
Nikos Mamoulis, The University of Hong Kong (nikos at cs dot hku dot hk)
Important Dates
- Paper submissions: September 15th, 2010
- First round notification: January 15th, 2011
- Revised versions: April 1st, 2011
- Second round notifications: May 1st, 2011
- Final version: June 1st, 2011
- Publication in August or October, 2011
Submission Website: http://www.editorialmanager.com/vldb/default.asp (under "Article Type" choose Data Management for Mobile Services.)
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