The focus of this mini-symposium is particularly on DG applications. In fact, a more recent trend is nowadays emerging in the scientific literature, where a much larger number of applications, for which a DG formulation can be supplied, has been brought to the light, so that theoretical results, algorithms, methods and even software tools, initially developed for one specific application, can be adapted, or simply reused, for other applications. Sensors capable to give information about distances are frequently used in these applications, even if their nature often differs from the notion of "sensor" historically used in works on sensor network localization, while the temporal (or dynamical) factor is taking more and more importance. Our list of invited speakers reflects this heterogeneity of applications, with a mathematical background that remains essentially coherent.

Examples of emerging DG applications include
- localization in acoustic networks (very similar to the traditional sensor networks, but where the sensors are microphones, and the distance information is obtained by analyzing sound waves)
- human motion adaptation (sensors are placed on actor's joints to create realistic animations of computer character models by recording the position of every joint over time; the animations are subsequently adapted to be suitable to character models with another morphology)
- adaptive maps (when the Euclidean distance is not always the best metric)

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