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PROGRAM
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Organizers

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Scientific Committee

CO-CHAIRFRANCESCO CALABRESE
LEAD BIG DATA & ANALYTICS SCIENTISTAT VODAFONE
ITALY

Karl Aberer (EPFL, Switzerland), Euro Beinat (University ofSalzburg), Augustin Chaintreau (Columbia University, USA),
Vittoria Colizza (INSERM,France), Massimo Colonna (TelecomItalia, Italy), Nicolas Decordes (Orange), Giusy Di Lorenzo(IBM Research, Ireland), FranceKenth Engø-Monsen (Telenor,Norway), Pedro Ferreira (Carnegie Mellon University, US),
Enrique Frias-Martinez (Telefonica Researcher, Spain), Vanessa
Frias-Martinez (University of Maryland, US), Bruno Gonçalves,(Aix-Marseille Université, France), Gautier Krings (Real ImpactAnalytics, Belgium), Renaud Lambiotte (University of Namur,Belgium), David Lazer (Northeastern University, US), Sune
Lehmann (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark), Bruno
Lepri (FBK, Italy), Miguel Luengo (UN Global Pulse, US), Fabio
Manfredini (Politecnico di MIlano, Italy), Cecilia Mascolo(University of Cambridge, UK), Veena Mendiratta (Nokia
Bell Labs, US), Giovanna Miritello (Vodafone, UK), Mirco
Mucolesi (University of Birmingham, UK), Jukka-Pekka Onnela(Harvard University, US), Dino Pedreschi (Università di Pisa,Italia), Daniele Quercia (Bell Labs, UK), Jari Saramäki (AaltoUniversity, Finland), Frank Schweitzer (ETH Zurich, Switzerlan),
Zbigniew Smoreda (Orange Labs, France), Pål Sundsøy(NBIM), Paolo Tagliolato (CNR, Italy), Pedro Zufiría (Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid, Spain).

CO-CHAIRESTEBAN MORO
UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID
SPAIN
CO-CHAIRVINCENT BLONDELUNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DELOUVAINBELGIUM
CO-CHAIR
ALEX ‘SANDY’ PENTLANDMASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE
OF TECHNOLOGY: MITUSA
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Program Overview
APRIL 5TimeSession

8:30 - 9:30

Registration/Welcome

9:30 -10:30

Soc Session Economic

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-12:30

Session 2: Mobility

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:30

Session 3: Social Network

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-17:30

Session 4: Social Good

17:30-18:30

Poster Session 1

18:30-19:30

Welcome Reception

Paper4Session

9:30-10:30

Keynote10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-12:30

Session 5: Health

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Lunch

14:00-15:30

Session 6: Quality & Privacy

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-17:30

Session 7: Social Network

517:30-18:30

Poster Session 21456

APRIL 7HTimeSession

Paper

9:30-10:30

Keynote4

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

511:00-12:30

Session 8: Mobility

1212:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:30

Session 9: Social Good

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-17:30

Session 10: Telco Applications

5APRIL 6
Time

12:30-14:00

Paper

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APRIL 5
8:30-9:30 Registration/Welcome
9:30-10:30 SESSION 1: SOCIO-ECONOMIC
Higher-order correlations of consumption patterns
in social-economic networks
Presents – Marton Karsai
Mobile phone-based Credit Scoring
Presents – Skyler Speakman
Mobile Wallet Usage Study. Applying CDR models
to increase Mobile Wallet Adoption & Activity
Presents – Soren Heitmann
Longitudinal Analysis of Mobile Savings Accounts
Presents – Skyler Speakman
10:30-11:00 CoffeeBreak
11:00-12:30 SESSION 2: MOBILITY
Route flow estimation using trips extracted from cellular
network data
Presents – Nils Breyer
Improving human mobility prediction with geo-taggedpictures
Presents – Mariano Beirò
Inferring Commuting Statistics in Greater Jakarta fromSocial Media Locational Information from Mobile Devices
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An emergent strategy for characterizing crowd dynamics
via GPS data
Presents – Luca Alfeo
Inferring customer visitors by means of WiFi crumbles
Presents – Fabio Pinelli
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 SESSION 3: SOCIAL NETWORKAge disparities in ethnic segregation: a study of activity
spaces using the Call Detail Record dataset
Presents – Siiri Silm
The Ripple Effect: You Are More Influential Than You Think
Presents – Yan LengCohesive groups in urban area: characterizationof p-cliques in mobile phone graphPresents – Sabrina Gaito
Personality Traits and Ego-Network Dynamics
Presents – Simone Centellegher
Why people stop calling? The temporal weaknessof decaying ties
Presents – Esteban Moro
15:30-16:00 CoffeeBreak
16:00-17:30 SESSION 4: SOCIAL GOOD
A tool for estimating and visualizing poverty maps
Presents – Rachael Dottle

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Inside Out: to understand crime mechanisms look at urban
fabric first
Presents – Marco De Nadai
LDA Mapping of Regional Socioeconomic Status
Presents – Lingzi Hong .
Rapid Assessments of Population Displacement in the 2015
Nepal Earthquake
Presents - Elisabeth zu Erbach-Schoenberg
Uncovering the Spread of Chagas Disease in Argentinaand Mexico
Presents - Carlos Sarraute
17:30-18:30 POSTER SESSION 1 POSTER FROM 1 TO 12
18:30 -19:30 Welcome Reception

APRIL 6
10:00-10:30 Keynote
Presents – Dino Pedreschi
10:30-11:00 CoffeeBreak
11:00-12:30 SESSION 5: HEALTH
Spatially explicit modeling of potential Ebola
spread in Senegal
Presents – Lorenzo Mari
Anticipatory Monitoring of Depressive States through theAnalysis of Multimodal Phone DataPresents – Mirco Musolesi
Assessing the use of mobile phone data to describe
recurrent mobility patterns in spatial epidemic models
Presents – Paolo Bajardi
Are you getting sick? Predicting Flu-Like Symptoms Using
Human Mobility Behaviours
Presents – Gianni Barlacchi
Impact of Human Mobility on Spread of Dengue in SriLanka
Presents – Lasantha Fernando
12:30-14:00 Lunch

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14:00-15:45 SESSION 6: DATA QUALITY AND PRIVACY
Geographical veracity of indicators derived from mobilephone data.
Presents - Maarten Vanhoof
Preserving Mobile Subscriber Privacy in Open Datasetsof Spatiotemporal Trajectories
Presents – Marco Fiore
Detecting the leakage of personal confidential
information from mobile data
Presents – Xinhai Liu
Biases and errors in the temporal sampling of random
movements
Presents – Riccardo Gallotti
Application of trajectory based models for continuous
behavioural user authentication through anomaly
detection
Presents – Piotr Jankowiak
Time Accuracy Analysis of Post-Mediation PacketSwitched Charging Data Records for Urban Mobility
Applications
Presents – Oscar Francisco Peredo Andrade
15:45-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-17:30 SESSION 7: SOCIAL NETWORK
What comes first? Social strength or common friends?
Presents – Esteban Moro
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Presents – Till Hoffmann
Familiar Strangers: the Collective Regularity in HumanBehaviors
Presents – Yan Leng
Impact of university admission on student’s egocentric
network
Presents – Márton Karsai
17:30-18:30 POSTER SESSION 2 POSTER FROM 1 TO 13

APRIL 710:00-10:30 Keynote
Presents – Nuria Oliver
10:30-11:00 CoffeeBreak
11:00-12:45 SESSION 8: MOBILITY
More reliable and more accurate traffic models using
mobile phone data
Presents – Klaas Friso
Understanding Drivers of Short Term Mobility
Presents – Svetoslava Milusheva
Short-Term Traffic Prediction
Using Visitor Location Registry Data
Presents – Lasantha Fernando
Understanding Multiday Activity Patterns Based on Mobile
Internet Usage Behaviour
Presents – Yihong Wang

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16:00-17:30 SESSION 10 : TELCO APPLICATIONSThe Effect of Pokémon Go on The Pulse of the City
Presents – Eduardo Graells
Traffic Analysis of Railways using Call Detail Records
Presents – Hiroki Ishizuka
12:45-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 SESSION 9: SOCIAL GOOD
A Framework for Evacuation Hotspot Detection afterLarge Scale Disasters using Mobile Phone Location Data
Presents – Takahiro Yabe
Mapping poverty using mobile phone and satellite data Presents – Jessica Steele
Estimating population behaviour to describe activitybased land-use in emerging economies using mobilephone event series
Presents – Gregor Engelmann

Predict Cellular Network Traffic with Markov Logic
Presents – Marco Mamei
Towards a data science model for device upgrade
Presents – Roberto Caporicci
On Added Value Of Feature Engineering for ChurnPrediction
Presents – Sandra Mitrovic
Layers of social acquaintance for telecommunication
churn prediction
Presents – Davide Cellai
Learning about New Technologies: Evidence from Phone
Plans in Rwanda
Presents – Daniel Bjorkegren

Targeted disease containment strategies based on spatial
network analysis
Presents – Stefano Rubrichi
What does mobile metadata measure? Insights from apilot study during a sudden emergency
Presents – Carolina Mattsson
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

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1. Churn Prediction in the Telecommunication Industry using
Social Network Analytics • Presents – Maria Oskarsdottir
2. Joint Spatial and Temporal Classification of Mobile TrafficDemands • Presents – Marco Fiore
3. Understanding mall visiting patterns and mobility inSantiago de Chile with CDR data •Presents – Mariano Beiró
4. Developing and Deploying a Taxi Price Comparison
Mobile App in the Wild: Insights and Challenges •Presents – Vsevolod Salnikov
5. The Cost of Taxing Network Goods: Evidence from Mobile
Phones in Rwanda • Presents – Daniel Bjorkegren
6. PRIVA’MOV: Analysing Human Mobility Through MultiSensor Datasets • Presents – Antoine Boutet
7. Developing a mobility monitoring application hand inhand with the end user • Presents – Jerome Urbain
8. Effects of Network Architecture on Model Performance
when Predicting Churn in Telco •Presents – Maria Oskarsdottir
9. A Neural Network Framework for Next Place Prediction •Presents – Langford Chad
10. Explorative analyse of two Italian cities: Turin and Venicefor diversity • Presents – Didem Gundogdu
11. PyMobility: an open source Python package for humanmobility analysis and simulation •Presents – Gianni Barlacchi
12. An exploratory analysis of ethnic groups in the city of Milan
through mobile phone data • Presents – Gianni Barlacchi

1. Climate change induced migrations from a cell phone
perspective • Presents – Sibren Isaacman
2. High speed analysis of volatile mobile data applied toroad safety • Presents – José Gómez Castaño
3. Context-Aware Recognition of Physical Activities Using
Mobile Devices • Presents – Gabriele Civitarese
4. Mining the Air - for Research in Social Science andNetworking Measurement		
5. User Authentication with Neural Networks Basedon CDR Data • Presents – Bartosz Perkowski
6. Analysis of Tourist Activity from Cellular Network Data •Presents – Marco Mamei
7. A neural embedding approach to recommender systems
in telecommunication • Presents – Nikolaos Lamprou
8. Drivers of spatial heterogeneity of HIV prevalence inSenegal: disentangling key features of human activity andmobility • Presents – Lorenzo Righetto
9. Automatic stress assessment using smartphone interaction
data • Presents – Matteo Ciman
10. A New Point Process Model for the Spatial Distribution ofCell Towers • Presents – Carlos Sarraute
11. Evolving connectivity graphs in mobile phone data •Presents – Sanja Brdar
12. Using Mobile Phone Signalling Data For Estimating Urban
Road Traffic States • Presents – Thierry Derrmann
13. Characterizing Significant Places using Temporal Featuresfrom Call Detail Records • Presents – Mori Kurokawa
14. Estimating the Indicators on Education and Household
Characteristics and Expenditure from Mobile Phone Datain Vanuatu • Presents – Jonggun Lee

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The availability of mobile phone datasets
has opened the possibility to improve ourunderstanding of how humans communicate,socialize, move around cities and mobilize.
Netmob is the primary conference in the analysisof those datasets in social, urban, societal andindustrial issues.

EDITORSFrancesco Calabrese, Esteban Moro,Vincent Blondel, Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland