Program

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Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Workshops




Wednesday, November 5, 2014

7:00 - 8:00 AM   Breakfast and Registration

8:00 - 8:10 AM   Welcome

8:10 - 9:25 AM   Session 1: Route Planning I

Session Chair: Erik Hoel (ESRI)

  • Computing Highly Occluded Paths Using a Sparse Network
    Niel Lebeck (University of Washington Department of Computer Science and Engineering, USA), Thomas Mølhave (SCALGO USA), Pankaj K. Agarwal (Duke University Department of Computer Science, USA)
  • Frequency-Based Search for Public Transit
    Hannah Bast (University of Freiburg, Germany), Sabine Storandt (University of Freiburg, Germany)
  • Concise Caching of Driving Instructions
    Jeppe Rishede Thomsen (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong), Man Lung Yiu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong), Christian S. Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)

9:25 - 10:25 AM   Invited Talk

10:25 - 10:55 AM   Break

10:55 AM - 12:35 PM   Session 2: Matching

Session Chair: Matt Duckham (University of Melbourne)

  • Eddy: An Error-bounded Delay-bounded Real-time Map Matching Algorithm using HMM and Online Viterbi Decoder
    Guanfeng Wang (National University of Singapore), Roger Zimmermann (National University of Singapore)
  • Local Persistent Homology Based Distance Between Maps
    Mahmuda Ahmed (The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA), Brittany Terese Fasy (Tulane University, USA), Carola Wenk (Tulane University, USA)
  • Index-supported Pattern Matching on Symbolic Trajectories
    Fabio Valdés (FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany), Ralf Hartmut Güting (FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany)
  • Spatio-Temporal Trajectory Simplification for Inferring Travel Paths
    Hengfeng Li (The University of Melbourne, Australia), Lars Kulik (The University of Melbourne, Australia), Kotagiri Ramamohanarao (The University of Melbourne, Australia)

12:35 - 2:10 PM   Lunch

2:10 - 3:25 PM   Fast Forward

3:25 - 3:55 PM   Break

3:55 - 4:45 PM   Session 3: Spatial Data Processing and Querying I

Session Chair: Leila De Floriani (University of Genova)

  • Spatial Indexing and Analytics on Hadoop
    Randall T. Whitman (Esri, USA), Michael B. Park (Esri, USA), Sarah M. Ambrose (Esri, USA), Erik G. Hoel (Esri, USA)
  • TAREEG: A MapReduce-Based Web System for Extracting Spatial Data from OpenStreetMap
    Louai Alarabi (University of Minnesota, USA), Ahmed Eldawy (University of Minnesota, USA), Rami Alghamdi (University of Minnesota, USA), Mohamed F. Mokbel (University of Minnesota, USA)

4:45 - 6:00 PM   Session 4:  Recommendation and LBS

Session Chair: Peter Scheuermann (Northwestern University)

  • SubwayPS: Towards Enabling Smartphone Positioning in Underground Public Transportation Systems
    Thomas Stockx (Hasselt University, Belgium), Brent Hecht (University of Minnesota, USA), Johannes Schöning (Hasselt University, Belgium)
  • LORE: Exploiting Sequential Influence for Location Recommendations
    Jia-Dong Zhang (City University of Hong Kong), Chi-Yin Chow (City University of Hong Kong), Yanhua Li (HUAWEI Noahs Ark Lab, Hong Kong)
  • Parameter-Free Discovery and Recommendation of Areas-of-Interest
    Dmitry Laptev (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Alexey Tikhonov (Yandex, Russia), Pavel Serdyukov (Yandex, Russia), Gleb Gusev (Yandex, Russia)

6:30 - 7:30 PM   ACM SIGSPATIAL Business Meeting

7:30 PM - 12:00 AM   Poster Reception, Demo Session




Thursday, November 6, 2014

7:00 - 8:00 AM   Breakfast and Registration

8:00 - 9:15 AM   Session 5: Data Quality and Security

Session Chair: Michael Goodrich (University of California, Irvine)

  • Adding Completeness Information to Query Answers over Spatial Databases
    Simon Razniewski (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy), Werner Nutt (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
  • Secure Mutual Proximity Zone Enclosure Evaluation
    Sunoh Choi (Purdue University, USA), Gabriel Ghinita (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA), Elisa Bertino (Purdue University, USA)
  • Ambiguity and Plausibility: Managing Classification Quality in Volunteered Geographic Information
    Ahmed Loai Ali (Bremen University, Germany), Falko Schmid (Bremen University, Germany), Rami Al-Salman (Bremen University, Germany), Tomi Kauppinen (Bremen University, Germany)

9:15 - 10:15 AM   Invited Talk

10:15 - 10:40 AM   Break

10:40 AM - 12:20 PM   Session 6: Spatio-textual Data

Session Chair: Mohamed Ali (University of Washington)

  • Uncovering the Spatial Relatedness in Wikipedia
    Gianluca Quercini (École Supérieure d'Électricité, France), Hanan Samet (University of Maryland, USA)
  • Taghreed: A System for Querying, Analyzing, and Visualizing Geotagged Microblogs
    Amr Magdy (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA), Louai Alarabi (University of Minnesota, USA), Saif Al-Harthi (KACST GIS Technology Innovation Center, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia), Mashaal Musleh (KACST GIS Technology Innovation Center, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia), Thanaa M. Ghanem (Department of Information and Computer Sciences, Metropolitan State University, Saint Paul, USA), Sohaib Ghani (KACST GIS Technology Innovation Center, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia), Mohamed F. Mokbel (University of Minnesota, USA)
  • Scalable Spatio-Textual Region Querying in Key-Value Stores
    Anders Skovsgaard (Aarhus University, Denmark), Christian S. Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
  • Geocoding for texts with fine-grain toponyms: an experiment on a geoparsed hiking descriptions corpus
    Ludovic Moncla (LIUPPA Laboratory, France), Walter Renteria-Agualimpia (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain), Javier Nogueras-Iso (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain), Mauro Gaio (LIUPPA Laboratory, France)

12:20 - 1:35 PM   Lunch

1:35 - 2:50 PM   Session 7: Route Planning II

Session Chair: Markus Schneider (University of Florida)

  • Two-Phase Bicriterion Search for Finding Fast and Efficient Electric Vehicle Routes
    Michael Goodrich (University of California, Irvine, USA), Pawel Pszona (University of California, Irvine, USA)
  • Efficient Itinerary Planning with Category Constraints
    Paolo Bolzoni (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy), Sven Helmer (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy), Kevin Wellenzohn (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy), Johann Gamper (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy), Periklis Andritsos (University of Toronto, Canada)
  • Participatory Route Planning
    David Wilkie (UNC Chapel Hill, USA), Cenk Baykal (UNC Chapel Hill, USA), Ming Lin (UNC Chapel Hill, USA)

2:50 - 4:05 PM   Session 8: Spatial Models and Algorithms

Session Chair: Franz Leberl (Graz University of Technology)

  • Efficient computation and simplification of discrete Morse decompositions on triangulated terrains
    Riccardo Fellegara (Department of Computer Science, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering (DIBRIS), University of Genova, Italy), Federico Iuricich (Department of Computer Science and UMIACS, University of Maryland, USA), Leila De Floriani (Department of Computer Science, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering (DIBRIS), University of Genova, Italy), Kenneth Weiss (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
  • Surrounds in Partitions
    Matthew Dube (University of Maine, USA), Max Egenhofer (University of Maine, USA)
  • How to Eat a Graph: Computing Selection Sequences for the Continuous Generalization of Road Networks
    Markus Chimani (University of Osnabrueck, Germany), Thomas C. Van Dijk (University of Wuerzburg, Germany), Jan-Henrik Haunert (University of Osnabrück, Germany)

4:05 - 4:30 PM   Break

4:30 - 6:10 PM   Session 9: Spatial Data Mining

Session Chair: Rolf de By (University of Twente)

  • Extracting stay regions with uncertain boundaries from GPS trajectories: a case study in animal ecology
    Maria Luisa Damiani (University of Milan, Italy), Hamza Issa (University of Milan, Italy), Francesca Cagnacci (Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy)
  • Learning From Synthetic Models for Roof Style Classification in Point Clouds
    Xi Zhang (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA), Andi Zang (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA), Gady Agam (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA), Xin Chen (NOKIA Here.com, USA)
  • Learning to Count Buildings in Diverse Aerial Scenes
    Jiangye Yuan (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA), Anil Cheriyadat (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
  • Hourly Pedestrian Population Trends Estimation using Location Data from Smartphones Dealing with Temporal and Spatial Sparsity
    Kentaro Nishi (The University of Tokyo, Japan), Kota Tsubouchi (Yahoo Japan Research, Japan), Masamichi Shimosaka (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

6:10 - 6:20 PM   Break

6:20 - 7:00 PM   Contest Session

  • SIG SPATIAL CUP Report: Constrained Map Generalization
    Siva Ravada (Oracle America Inc., USA), Xin Chen (NOKIA Here.com, USA), Zhi Liu (University of North Texas, USA), Xi Zhang (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
  • A fast algorithm of Geometry Generalization
    Yuwei Wang (Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Danhuai Guo (Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Kuien Liu (Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Yan Xiong (Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
  • Fast Map Generalization Heuristic with a Uniform Grid
    Salles Viana Gomes de Magalhaes (Universidade Federal de Vicosa, Brazil), W Randolph Franklin (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), Wenli Li (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), Marcus V. A. Andrade (Universidade Federal de Vicosa, Brazil)
  • Greedy Map Generalization by Iterative Point Removal
    Yanzhe Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China), Rong Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China), Haibo Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China), Binyu Zang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China), Yin Wang (Facebook, Menlo Park, USA)
  • An Efficient Method of Map Generalization Using Topology partitioning and Constraints recognition
    Hongtai Zhang (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Jian Dai (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Kuien Liu (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Limin Guo (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Zhiming Ding (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
  • Moving Window based Geometry Simplification with Topology Constraints
    Shivanth P (Advanced Lab for Geospatial Information Science and Engineering, Departement of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Bombay, India), Sandeep Kale (Advanced Lab for Geospatial Information Science and Engineering, Departement of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Bombay, India), Vishal Goje (Advanced Lab for Geospatial Information Science and Engineering, Departement of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Bombay, India), Nandlal Sarda (Advanced Lab for Geospatial Information Science and Engineering, Departement of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Bombay, India), Umesh Bellur (Advanced Lab for Geospatial Information Science and Engineering, Departement of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Bombay, India)

7:00 - 7:30 PM   Drinks

7:30 PM - 12:00 AM   Banquet




Friday, November 7, 2014

7:00 - 8:00 AM   Breakfast and Registration

8:00 - 9:15 AM   Session 10: Spatial Data Processing and Querying II

Session Chair: Peer Kröger (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität)

  • Distance Queries for Complex Spatial Objects in Oracle Spatial
    Ying Hu (Oracle America Inc., USA), Siva Ravada (Oracle America Inc., USA), Richard Anderson (Oracle America Inc., USA), Bhuvan Bamba (Oracle America Inc., USA)
  • Towards GeoSpatial Semantic Data Management: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Challenges Ahead
    Kostas Patroumpas (National Technical University of Athens, Greece), Giorgos Giannopoulos (Institute for the Management of Information Systems, Athena Research Center, Greece), Spiros Athanasiou (Institute for the Management of Information Systems, Athena Research Center, Greece)
  • OWGIS 2.0: Open source Java application that builds Web GIS interfaces for desktop and mobile devices
    Olmo Zavala (Florida State University, USA), Eric Chassignet (Center of Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, USA), Jorge Zavala (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Panagiotis Velissariou (Florida State University, USA), Harshul Pandav (Florida State University, USA), Anke Meyer-Baese (Florida State University, USA)

9:15 - 10:05 AM   Session 11: Streaming

Session Chair: Mohamed Mokbel (University of Minnesota)

  • Online Event Clustering in Temporal Dimension
    Thanh Lam Hoang (IBM Research, Dublin, Ireland), Eric Bouillet (IBM Research, Dublin, Ireland)
  • Real-Time Movement Visualization of Public Transit Data
    Hannah Bast (University of Freiburg, Germany), Patrick Brosi (geOps, Germany), Sabine Storandt (University of Freiburg, Germany)

10:05 - 10:35 AM   Break

10:35 AM - 12:40 PM   Session 12: Trajectories

Session Chair: Maria Luisa Damiani (University of Milan)

  • Path-based Queries on Trajectory Data
    Benjamin Krogh (Aalborg University, Denmark), Nikos Pelekis (University of Piraeus, Greece), Yannis Theodoridis (University of Piraeus, Greece), Kristian Torp (Aalborg University, Denmark)
  • A Framework for Trajectory Segmentation by Stable Criteria
    Sander P. A. Alewijnse; Kevin Buchin; Maike Buchin; Andrea Kölzsch; Helmut Kruckenberg; Michel A. Westenberg
  • Continuous Monitoring of Nearest Trajectories
    Dimitris Sacharidis (R.C. ATHENA, Greece), Dimitrios Skoutas (R.C. ATHENA, Greece), Georgios Skoumas (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
  • Persistence Based Online Signal and Trajectory Simplification for Mobile Devices
    Panagiota Katsikouli (University of Edinburgh, UK), Rik Sarkar (University of Edinburgh, UK), Jie Gao (Stony Brook University, USA)
  • Minimum Backward Frechét Distance
    Amin Gheibi (Carleton University, Canada), Anil Maheshwari (Carleton University, Canada), Jörg-Rüdiger Sack (Carleton University, Canada), Christian Scheffer (Department of Computer Science, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany)

12:40 - 1:00 PM   Closing





Poster Reception, Demo Session

Poster Papers

  • Quality Control from the Perspective of the Real-Time, Spatial-Temporal Data Aggregator and (re)Distributor
    Douglas Galarus (Montana State University, USA), Rafal Angryk (Georgia State University, USA)
  • Indexing Recent Trajectories of Moving Objects
    Ahmed Mahmood (Purdue University, USA), Walid Aref (Purdue University, USA), Ahmed Aly (Purdue University, USA), Saleh Basalamah (Umm Alqura University, Saudi Arabia)
  • Parameterized Spatial Query Processing based on Social Probabilistic Clustering
    Liang Tang (Auburn University, USA), Haiquan Chen (Valdosta State University, USA), Wei-Shinn Ku (Auburn University, USA), Min-Te Sun (National Central University, Taiwan)
  • SnapNet: Accurate and Efficient Map Matching for Challenging Environments
    Reham Mohamed (Alexandria University, Egypt), Heba Aly (Alexandria University, Egypt), Moustafa Youssef (Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST), Egypt)
  • Towards Efficient Private Spatial Information Retrieval Using GPUs
    Mihai Maruseac (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA), Gabriel Ghinita (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA), Ming Ouyang (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA), Razvan Rughinis (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania)
  • Viewing Streaming Spatially-Referenced Data at Interactive Rates
    Shangfu Peng (University of Maryland, USA), Marco Adelfio (University of Maryland, USA), Hanan Samet (University of Maryland, USA)
  • Placing User-generated Content on the Map with Confidence
    Suradej Intagorn (Information Sciences Institute, USC, USA), Kristina Lerman (Information Sciences Institute, USC, USA)
  • Learning Symbolic Descriptions of Activities from Examples in WAAS
    Jongmoo Choi (University of Southern California, USA), Gerard Medioni (University of Southern California, USA)
  • Maximal Reverse Skyline Query
    Farnoush Banaei-Kashani (University of Southern California, USA), Parisa Ghaemi (University of Southern California, USA), John P. Wilson (University of Southern California, USA)
  • Can Geo-tags on Flickr Draw Coastlines?
    Masaki Omori (Shizuoka University, Japan), Masaharu Hirota (Shizuoka University, Japan), Hiroshi Ishikawa (Information and Communications Systems, Faculty of System Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan), Shohei Yokoyama (Shizuoka University, Japan)
  • A Parallel Query Engine for Interactive Spatiotemporal Analysis
    Mihir Sathe (University of Southern California, USA), Craig Knoblock (University of Southern California, USA), Yao-Yi Chiang (University of Southern California, USA), Aaron Harris (University of Southern California, USA)
  • HMM-based Address Parsing: Efficiently Parsing Billions of Addresses on MapReduce
    Xiang Li (New York University, USA), Hakan Kardes (inome, Inc., USA), Xin Wang (inome, Inc., USA), Ang Sun (inome, Inc., USA)
  • A data driven approach to mapping urban neighbourhoods
    Paul Brindley (The University of Nottingham, UK), James Goulding (The University of Nottingham, UK), Max L. Wilson (The University of Nottingham, UK)
  • Fast Approximation of Reach Hierarchies in Networks
    Joris Maervoet (Department of Computer Science, CODeS, KU Leuven, Belgium), Patrick De Causmaecker (Department of Computer Science, CODeS, KU Leuven, Belgium), Greet Vanden Berghe (Department of Computer Science, CODeS, KU Leuven, Belgium)
  • A spatially enabled framework for habitats and species management system - Architecture and case study
    Dr. Cristina Oana (Esri Romania), Dr. Cristian Vasile (Esri Romania), Simona Ipate Staiculescu (Esri Romania)
  • Automated Highway Tag Assessment of OpenStreetMap Road Networks
    Musfira Jilani (University College Dublin, Ireland), Padraig Corcoran (Massachuseutts Institute of Technology, USA), Michela Bertolotto (University College Dublin, Ireland)
  • Leveraging P2P Interactions for Efficient Location Privacy in Database-driven Dynamic Spectrum Access
    Erald Troja (The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), USA), Spiridon Bakiras (John Jay College, USA)
  • Exploring Cell Tower Data Dumps for Supervised Learning-based Point-of-Interest Prediction
    Ran Wang (City University of Hong Kong), Chi-Yin Chow (City University of Hong Kong), Sarana Nutanong (City University of Hong Kong), Yan Lyu (City University of Hong Kong), Yanhua Li (HUAWEI Noahs Ark Lab, Hong Kong), Mingxuan Yuan (Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, Hong Kong), Victor C. S. Lee (City University of Hong Kong)
  • Using Multi-Criteria Decision Making for Personalized Point-of-Interest Recommendations
    Yan Lyu (City University of Hong Kong), Chi-Yin Chow (City University of Hong Kong), Ran Wang (City University of Hong Kong), Victor C. S. Lee (City University of Hong Kong)
  • An Efficient Index Structure for Large-scale Geo-tagged Video Databases
    Ying Lu (University of Southern California, Integrated Media Systems Center, USA), Cyrus Shahabi (University of Southern California, Integrated Media Systems Center, USA), Seon Ho Kim (University of Southern California, Integrated Media Systems Center, USA)
  • Efficient Spatial Query Processing for Big Data
    Kisung Lee (Georgia Tech, USA), Raghu Ganti (IBM Research TJ Watson, USA), Mudhakar Srivatsa (IBM Research TJ Watson, USA), Ling Liu (Georgia Tech, USA)
  • Electric and Conventional Vehicle Driving Patterns
    Benjamin Krogh (Aalborg University, Denmark), Ove Andersen (Aalborg University, Denmark), Kristian Torp (Aalborg University, Denmark)
  • Historical Traffic-Tolerant Paths in Road Networks
    Pui Hang Li (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong), Man Lung Yiu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong), Kyriakos Mouratidis (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
  • Group Nearest Neighbor Queries in the Presence of Obstacles
    Nusrat Sultana (Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh), Tanzima Hashem (Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh), Lars Kulik (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
  • Towards Knowledge-Enriched Path Computation
    Georgios Skoumas (National Technical University of Athens, Greece), Klaus Arthur Schmid (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany), Gregor Jossé (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany), Andreas Züfle (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany), Mario Nascimento (University of Alberta, Canada), Matthias Renz (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany), Dieter Pfoser (George Mason University, USA)
  • Parallel Multiple Observer Siting on Terrain
    Wenli Li (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), W. Randolph Franklin (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), Daniel N. Benedetti (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), Salles V.G. Magalhães (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
  • A Combined Geometrical and Topological Hierarchy for Terrain Analysis
    Federico Iuricich (University of Maryland, USA), Leila De Floriani (University of Genoa, Italy)
  • BioenergyKDF: Enabling Spatiotemporal Data Synthesis and Research Collaboration
    Aaron Myers (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA), Sunil Movva (Cerner Corporation, USA), Rajasekar Karthik (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA), Budhendra Bhaduri (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA), Devin White (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA), Neil Thomas (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA), Adrian Chase (Arizona State University, USA)
  • Regionally Influential Users in Location-Aware Social Networks
    Panagiotis Bouros (Department of Computer Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany), Dimitris Sacharidis (R.C. ATHENA, Greece), Nikos Bikakis (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
  • Towards Approximate Spatial Queries for Large-scale Vehicle Networks
    Lipeng Wan (University of Tennessee, USA), Zhibo Wang (Wuhan University, China), Zheng Lu (University of Tennessee, USA), Hairong Qi (University of Tennessee, USA), Wenjun Zhou (University of Tennessee, USA), Qing Cao (University of Tennessee, USA)
  • Reverse Geo-coding for Photo Captioning with a Meta-Gazetteer
    Vlad Tanasescu (Cardiff University, UK), Christopher Jones (Cardiff University, UK), Philip Smart (Cardiff University, UK)
  • Leveraging Advances in Natural Language Processing to Better Understand Tobler's First Law of Geography
    Toby Jia-Jun Li (University of Minnesota, USA), Shilad Sen (Macalester College, USA), Brent Hecht (University of Minnesota, USA)
  • Labeling Streets in Interactive Maps Using Embedded Labels
    Nadine Schwartges (Universität Würzburg, Germany), Alexander Wolff (Universität Würzburg, Germany), Jan-Henrik Haunert (University of Osnabrück, Germany)
  • The Tale of (Fusing) Two Uncertainties
    Bing Zhang (Northwestern University, USA), Goce Trajcevski (Northwestern University, USA)
  • Community Detection from Location-Tagged Networks
    Zhi Liu (University of North Texas, USA), Yan Huang (University of North Texas, USA)
  • Modeling Fuzzy Topological Predicates for Fuzzy Regions
    Anderson Chaves Carniel (Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil), Markus Schneider (University of Florida, USA), Ricardo Rodrigues Ciferri (Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil), Cristina Dutra De Aguiar Ciferri (University of São Paulo at São Carlos, Brazil)

Demonstration Papers

  • GeoBench: a Geospatial Integration Tool for Building a Spatial Entity Matching Benchmark
    Anthony Morana (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France), Thomas Morel (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France), Bilal Berjawi (LIRIS, France), Fabien Duchateau (LIRIS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France)
  • VisCAT: Spatio|Temporal Visualization and Aggregation of Categorical Attributes in Twitter Data
    Thanaa M. Ghanem (Department of Information and Computer Sciences, Metropolitan State University, Saint Paul, USA), Amr Magdy (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA), Mashaal Musleh (KACST GIS Technology Innovation Center, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia), Sohaib Ghani (KACST GIS Technology Innovation Center, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia), Mohamed F. Mokbel (University of Minnesota, USA)
  • A Social Navigation Guide using Augmented Reality
    Felix Mata (UPIITA-IPN, Mexico), Christophe Claramunt (Naval Academy Reseach Institute, France)
  • SATO: A Spatial Data Partitioning Framework for Scalable Query Processing
    Hoang Vo (Emory University, USA), Ablimit Aji (HP Labs, USA), Fusheng Wang (Emory University, USA)
  • A Search and Summary Application for Traffic Events Detection Based on Twitter Data
    Meiling Liu (Northeast Forestry University, P.R.China and Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, USA), Kaiqun Fu (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA), Chang-Tien Lu (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA), Guangsheng Chen (Northeast Forestry University, China), Huiqiang Wang (Harbin Engineering University, China)
  • Extraction, Integration and Exploration of Crowdsourced Geospatial Content from Multiple Web Sources
    George Lamprianidis (R.C. ATHENA, Greece), Dimitrios Skoutas (R.C. ATHENA, Greece), George Papatheodorou (R.C. ATHENA, Greece), Dieter Pfoser (George Mason University, USA)
  • TREADS: A Safe Route Recommender using Social Media Mining and Text Summarization
    Kaiqun Fu (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA), Yen-Cheng Lu (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA), Chang-Tien Lu (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA)
  • TRAVIC: A Visualization Client for Public Transit Data
    Hannah Bast (University of Freiburg, Germany), Patrick Brosi (geOps, Germany), Sabine Storandt (University of Freiburg, Germany)
  • Monitoring moving objects using uncertain Web data
    Mouhamadou Lamine Ba (Institut Mines-Télécom and Télécom ParisTech, France), Sebastien Montenez (Institut Mines-Télécom and Télécom ParisTech, France), Talel Abdessalem (Télécom ParisTech, France), Pierre Senellart (Institut Mines-Télécom and Télécom ParisTech, France)
  • Efficient One-click Browsing of Large Trajectory Sets
    Benjamin Krogh (Aalborg University, Denmark), Ove Andersen (Aalborg University, Denmark), Edwin Lewis (Kelham (Aalborg University, Denmark), Kristian Torp|Aalborg University, Denmark)
  • A Demonstration of GeomSMS: An SMS Framework for Sharing Geospatial Features
    Chandan Misra (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India), Arindam Dasgupta (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India), Soumya K. Ghosh (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India), Debasis Bhattacharyya (Tata Consultancy Services Ltd)
  • A System for Efficient Cleaning and Transformation of Geospatial Data Attributes
    Yao-Yi Chiang (University of Southern California, USA), Bo Wu (University of Southern California, USA), Akshay Anand (University of Southern California, USA), Ketan Akade (University of Southern California, USA), Craig A Knoblock (University of Southern California, USA)
  • From Map Images to Geographic Names
    Yao-Yi Chiang (University of Southern California, USA), Sima Moghaddam (University of Southern California, USA), Sanjauli Gupta (University of Southern California, USA), Renuka Fernandes (University of Southern California, USA), Craig A Knoblock (University of Southern California, USA)
  • Routing Service With Real World Severe Weather
    Abdeltawab Hendawi (University of Washington, Tacoma, USA), Yiru Li (University of Washington, Tacoma, USA), Sarah George (University of Washington, Tacoma, USA), Craig Apfelbeck (University of Washington, Tacoma, USA), Mohamed Ali (Microsoft Corporation, USA), David Hazel (University of Washington, Tacoma, USA), Ankur Teredesai (University of Washington, Tacoma, USA)
  • A GIS-based Serious Game Interface for Therapy Monitoring
    Ahmad Qamar (College of Computer and Information Systems, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia), Imad Afyouni (KACST GIS Technology Innovation Center, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia), Mohamed Abdur Rahman (College of Computer and Information Systems, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia), Faizan Ur Rehman (Department of Computer Science, LIG, University of Grenoble Alpes, France), Delwar Hossain (KACST GIS Technology Innovation Center, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia), Saleh Basalamah (Umm Alqura University, Saudi Arabia), Ahmed Lbath (Department of Computer Science, LIG, University of Grenoble Alpes, France)
  • Automated Itinerary Visualization
    Marco Adelfio (University of Maryland, USA), Hanan Samet (University of Maryland, USA)
  • City Nexus: Discovering Pairs of Jointly-Visited Locations Based on Geo-Tagged Posts in Social Networks
    Yaron Kanza (Jacobs Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute, USA), Elad Kravi (Technion, Israel), Uri Motchan (Technion, Israel)
  • Traffic Incident Validation and Correlation Using Text Alerts and Images
    Wye Huong Yan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Justin Ong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Shen-Shyang Ho (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Jim Cherian (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)