MUSE 2011 - Workshop Mining Ubiquitous and Social Environments (MUSE 2011)

The emergence of ubiquitous computing has started to create new environments consisting of small, heterogeneous, and distributed devices that foster the social interaction of users in several dimensions. Similarly, the upcoming social semantic web also integrates the user interactions in social networking environments. Mining in ubiquitous and social environments is thus an emerging area of research focusing on advanced systems for data mining in such distributed and network-organized systems. It also integrates some related technologies such as activity recognition, Web 2.0 mining, privacy issues and privacy-preserving mining, predicting user behavior, etc.

In typical ubiquitous settings, the mining system can be implemented inside the small devices and sometimes on central servers, for real-time applications, similar to common mining approaches. However, the characteristics of ubiquitous and social mining are in general quite different from the current mainstream data mining and machine learning. Unlike in traditional data mining scenarios, data does not emerge from a small number of (heterogeneous) data sources, but potentially from hundreds to millions of different sources. As there is only minimal coordination, these sources can overlap or diverge in any possible way. Steps into this new and exciting application area are the analysis of this new data, the adaptation of well known data mining and machine learning algorithms and finally the development of new algorithms.

The goal of this workshop is to promote an interdisciplinary forum for researchers working in the fields of ubiquitous computing, social semantic web, Web 2.0, and social networks which are interested in utilizing data mining in an ubiquitous setting. The workshop seeks for contributions applying state-of-the-art mining algorithms on ubiquitous and social data. Papers focusing on the intersection of the two fields are especially welcome. In short, we want to accelerate the process of identifying the power of advanced data mining operating on data collected in ubiquitous and social environments, as well as the process of advancing data mining through lessons learned in analyzing these new data.

Topics of Interest
The topics of the workshop are split roughly into three areas which include, but are not limited to the following topics:

Sensors and mobile devices:
Resource-aware algorithms for distributed mining
Scalable and distributed classification, prediction, and clustering algorithms
Activity recognition
Mining continuous streams and ubiquitous data
Online methods for mining temporal, spatial and spatio-temporal data
Combining data from different sources
Sensor data preprocessing, transformation, and space-time sampling techniques
User behavior:
Personalization and recommendation
User models and predicting user behavior
User profiling in ubiquitous and social environments
Mining continuous streams and ubiquitous data
Network analysis of social systems
Discovering social structures and communities
Applications:
Discovering misuse and fraud
Usage and presentation interfaces for mining and data collection
Privacy challenges in ubiquitous and social applications
Applications of any of the above methods and technologies
We also encourage submissions which relate research results from other areas to the workshop topics.

Springer Book: As in the previous year, it is planned to publish revised selected papers as a volume in the Springer LNCS/LNAI series.

Workshop Organizers
Martin Atzmueller, Knowledge and Data Engineering Group, University of Kassel, Germany
( atzmueller-AT-cs.uni-kassel.de )
Andreas Hotho, Data Mining and Information Retrieval Group, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
( hotho-AT-cs.uni-kassel.de )