April 22, 2024 | News | Workshop

Migration and Mobility Research in the Digital Era (MIMODE 2024)

A satellite event of the Conference on Complex Systems 2024
Date of Event: Sept. 2024
Submissions deadline: TBA
Venue: Exeter, England
Previous events: MIMODE2022, MIMODE2021
Contact: kim@demogr.mpg.de (Jisu Kim) perrotta@demogr.mpg.de (Daniela Perrotta)

The recent availability of massive amounts of digital data have profoundly revolutionized research on migration and mobility, enabling scientists to quantitatively study individual and collective mobility patterns at different granularities as generated by human activities in their daily life. Harnessing such digital data offers many new opportunities to study migration and mobility and fill in the gaps left by traditional data. At the same time, such innovative data sources also come with several limitations, biases, and challenges, which have led to diverging research methodologies and frameworks, requiring even greater effort in their operationalization and communication to stakeholders and policy makers.

The aim of this satellite session is to bring together researchers from different fields and practitioners from around the world to facilitate a conversation on the use of innovative digital data sources, new methodologies, empirical findings, and critical challenges of studying migration and mobility in the digital era.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

New data sources for mobility and migration research, challenges and opportunities
Internal and international migration, short- and long-term mobility
Modeling and predicting human mobility patterns
Machine learning and AI methods for studying mobility
Longitudinal analyses and empirical studies of mobility and migration
Socio-economic and environmental drivers of migration
Integration and segregation of migrant populations
Measuring the impact of natural disasters, conflicts, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic on migration
Access to mobility data, open science, and privacy concerns
Evaluation and development of migration policy

Call for Abstracts

We welcome submissions of abstracts on ongoing or published work that fit the topics of the event. The submissions must be a single PDF-file of maximum 2 pages in English including the title, list of authors and affiliations, abstract text, descriptive figure or table, and references (optional). The abstracts can be in any format or style as long as they do not exceed the page and word limits. Alternatively, authors can use an abstract template (click here to view our optional formatting template).

Abstracts must be submitted electronically by TBD, through the Easychair platform at the following link: TBD

All submissions will be evaluated by the Program Committee on the basis of quality and fit to the satellite theme.

Oral presentations will be allocated about 12 minutes, followed by 5 minutes of Q&A. Please note that the presenting author must register to the main conference as announced on CCS2024 website.

Important Dates

June 2024 — Deadline for abstract submissions (midnight CEST)(TBD)

July 2024 — Notification of abstract acceptance for oral presentation (TBD)

July 25, 2024 — Deadline for early bird registration

October 2024 — MIMODE 2024 satellite (half-day session)

Registration & Venue

MIMODE 2024 is a satellite of the Conference on Complex Systems CCS2024, and will take place in Exeter, England in September, 2024.

Satellite participants (with or without abstract submission) will have to register following the procedure described in the CCS2024 conference website: https://ccs24.cssociety.org/registration/

Presenting authors can indicate their availability to travel to England in September 2024 in the submission platform. We will consider researchers’ needs and organize our satellite event accordingly as we approach the date of the event. More details will follow soon.

The conference venue will be the University of Exeter.

To know more about the venue, please visit the conference website: https://ccs24.cssociety.org/venues/

Program

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Invited speaker

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Program Committee

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Organizers

Jisu Kim, Research Scientist, Laboratory of Digital and Computational Demography, MPIDR.

Jisu holds a PhD in Data Science from Scuola Normale Superiore in Italy. She has worked on exploring and establishing novel methods to improve relevant statistics of international migration using social media data. Her research focuses on the intersection of migration sciences, economics of migration, complex social networks, statistical models and data-driven algorithms.

Daniela Perrotta, Research Scientist, Laboratory of Digital and Computational Demography, MPIDR.

Daniela Perrotta completed her PhD in Complex Systems for Life Sciences at the University of Turin with a fellowship at the Laboratory of Digital and Computational Epidemiology at the ISI Foundation in Italy. Her research focuses on harnessing innovative data-collection schemes and computational methods for modeling human mobility and disease spread.