[Tccc] [Mobile Data Challenge by Nokia] Call for Participation
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olivier.dousse
Mon Nov 7 10:19:28 EST 2011
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Mobile Data Challenge
by Nokia
in conjunction with Pervasive 2012
(http://research.nokia.com/mdc)
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Do you have an interest in analyzing real life data collected on mobile devices? Nokia Research Center Lausanne and its academic partners (EPFL and Idiap) have recently completed a data collection campaign (http://research.nokia.com/page/11367) in the Lake Geneva region. Data from smartphones of almost 200 participants were collected in the course of more than one year.
The Mobile Data Challenge (MDC) releases these data to the research community. The Challenge provides you an opportunity to analyze a comprehensive and relatively unexplored data set including rich social and geographic information. Selected contributions will be invited for presentation in a workshop organized in conjunction with the Pervasive 2012 Conference (June, 18th ? 2012; Newcastle, UK). The best contributions will also be awarded prizes.
Description of the Challenge
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The Challenge comprises two alternative tracks: Open Track and Dedicated Track.
The Open Track invites you to propose your own Challenge task - one that matches with your own research interests and background. You can e.g. discover hidden behavioral patterns through statistical techniques, focus on more methodological contributions related to data mining or develop novel ways for data visualization.
The Dedicated Track proposes a set of three concrete prediction tasks to solve, with properly defined training and test sets, and evaluation measures that will be used to assess and rank all the contributions. The tasks are related to the prediction of the semantic labels of places, future location of users and demographic attributes of users.
Important dates
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* December 7, 2011 Registration deadline for participation
* April 15, 2012 Deadline for final submission of Challenge contributions
* June 18, 2012 "Mobile Data Challenge by Nokia" Workshop @ Pervasive 2012, Newcastle, UK
Further information
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Challenge participation instructions, other further information and updates on the Mobile Data Challenge are available on the web page:
http://research.nokia.com/mdc
You can also register to the MDC mailing list or request additional information by sending email to:
mobiledata.challenge2012 at nokia.com<mailto:mobiledata.challenge2012 at nokia.com>
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