Accepted Papers

The following contributions have been accepted to the programme of GIScience2018, in their respective categories:

Full Papers

Acceptance rate:   17/46, 37%

  • David Amores, Maria Vasardani and Egemen Tanin: Early Detection of Herding Behaviour during Emergency Evacuations
  • Alberto Belussi, Damiano Carra, Sara Migliorini, Mauro Negri and Giuseppe Pelagatti: What Makes Spatial Data Big? A Discussion on How to Partition Spatial Data
  • Paolo Fogliaroni, Dominik Bucher, Nikola Jankovic and Ioannis Giannopoulos: Intersections of Our World
  • Francis Harvey: Considerations of graphical proximity and geographical nearness
  • Yingjie Hu and Krzysztof Janowicz: An empirical study on the names of points of interest and their changes with geographic distance
  • Myeong-Hun Jeong, Junjun Yin and Shaowen Wang: Outliers Detection and Comparison of Origin-Destination Flows with Data Depth
  • Markus Kattenbeck, Eva Nuhn and Sabine Timpf: Is salience robust? A heterogeneity analysis of survey ratings
  • Filip Krumpe: Labeling Points of Interest in Dynamic Maps using Disk Labels
  • Sara Lafia, Andrew Turner and Werner Kuhn: Improving Discovery of Open Civic Data
  • Yan Li and Shashi Shekhar: Local Co-location Pattern Detection: A Summary of Results
  • Yann Meneroux, Hiroshi Kanasugi, Guillaume Saint Pierre, Arnaud Le Guilcher, Sebastien Mustiere, Ryosuke Shibasaki and Yugo Kato: Detection and Localization of Traffic Signals with GPS Floating Car Data and Random Forest
  • Alan Murray, Xin Feng and Ali Shokoufandeh: Heterogeneous Skeleton for Summarizing Continuously Distributed Demand in a Region
  • Benjamin Niedermann, Johannes Oehrlein, Sven Lautenbach and Jan-Henrik Haunert: A network flow model for the analysis of green spaces in urban areas
  • Rudra Ranajee Saha, Tanzima Hashem, Tasmia Shahriar and Lars Kulik: Continuous Obstructed Detour Queries
  • Joram Schito, Ulrike Wissen Hayek and Martin Raubal: Enhanced multi criteria decision analysis for planning power transmission lines
  • Ashwin Shashidharan, Ranga Raju Vatsavai, Derek Berkel and Ross Meentemeyer: FUTURES-AMR: Towards an Adaptive Mesh Refinement Framework for Geosimulations
  • Bo Yan, Krzysztof Janowicz, Gengchen Mai and Rui Zhu: xNet+SC: Classifying Places Based on Images by Incorporating Spatial Contexts

Short Papers

  • Benjamin Adams and Martin Tomko: A critical look at cryptogovernance of the real world: Challenges for spatial representation and uncertainty on the blockchain
  • Ali Afghantoloee and Mir Abolfazl Mostafavi: Towards optimal deployment of a sensor network in a 3D indoor environment for the mobility of people with disabilities
  • Niloofar Aflaki, Shaun Russell and Kristin Stock: Challenges in Creating an Annotated Set of Geospatial Natural Language Descriptions
  • Abdullah Alattas, Sisi Zlatanova, Peter van Oosterom and Ki-Joune Li: Improved and more complete conceptual model for the revision of IndoorGML
  • Devanjan Bhattacharya and Marco Painho: Design for Geospatially Enabled Climate Modeling and Alert System (CLIMSYS): A Position Paper
  • Raphaël Ceré, Mattia Egloff and François Bavaud: Geographical exploration and analysis extended to textual content
  • Changlock Choi, Yelin Kim, Youngho Lee and Seong-Yun Hong: Evaluating efficiency of spatial analysis in cloud computing platforms
  • Rahul Deb Das and Ross Purves: Towards the Usefulness of User-Generated Contents to Understand Traffic Events
  • Paolo Fogliaroni, Marvin Mc Cutchan, Gerhard Navratil and Ioannis Giannopoulos: Unfolding Urban Structures: Towards Route Prediction and Automated City Modeling
  • Martin Geilhausen and Patrick Laube: Deconstructed and inverted multi-criteria evaluation for on-the-fly scenario development and decision-making
  • Amin Gharebaghi and Mir Abolfazl Mostafavi: Space-time representation of accessible areas for wheelchair users in urban areas
  • Jean-François Girres, Martine Assenat, Robin Ralite and Ester-Inès Ribo-Delissey: Spatial periodicity analysis of urban elements. Application to the ancient city of Amida
  • Fabian Göbel, Peter Kiefer, Ioannis Giannopoulos and Martin Raubal: Gaze Sequences and Map Task Complexity
  • Jung-Hong Hong and Jing-Cen Yang: Facilitating the Interoperable Use of Cross-Domain Statistical Data Based on Standardized Identifiers
  • Ryo Inoue, Rihoko Ishiyama and Ayako Sugiura: Identification of Geographical Segmentation of the Rental Apartment Market in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area
  • Hanme Jang, Jong Hyeon Yang and Kiyun Yu: Automatic wall detection and building topology and property of 2D floor plan
  • Shelan Jeawak, Christopher Jones and Steven Schockaert: Mapping Wildlife Species Distribution With Social Media: Augmenting Text Classification With Species Names
  • Jincheng Jiang and Shuai He: Multimodal-Transport Collaborative Evacuation Strategies for Urban Serious Emergency Incidents Based on Multi-Sources Spatiotemporal Data
  • Donglai Jiao and Jintao Sun: A new map symbol design method for real-time visualization of geo-sensor data
  • Irene Johannsen, Sara Irina Fabrikant and Mariele Evers: How do texture and color communicate uncertainty in climate change map displays?
  • Chaogui Kang and Yu Liu: Understanding Urban Functionality from Human Activities: A Proposed Analytical Framework
  • Seongyong Kim, Seula Park and Kiyun Yu: Application of Style Transfer in the Vectorization Process of Floorplans
  • Yan Li, Yiqun Chen, Abbas Rajabifard, Kourosh Khoshelham and Mitko Aleksandrov: Estimating building age from Google Street View images using deep learning
  • Wei Lu and Tinghua Ai: Center Point of Simple Area Feature Based on Triangulation Skeleton Graph
  • Yi Lu and Shawn Laffan: The use of Particle Swarm Optimization for a vector Cellular Automata model of land use change
  • Karlo Lugomer and Paul Longley: Towards comprehensive temporal classification of footfall patterns in the cities of Great Britain
  • Alan M. MacEachren, Richard Caneba, Hanzhou Chen, Harrison Cole, Emily Domanico, Nicholas Triozzi, Fangcao Xu and Liping Yang: Is This Statement About A Place? Comparing two perspectives
  • Marvin Mc Cutchan and Ioannis Giannopoulos: Geospatial Semantics for Spatial Prediction
  • Grant McKenzie: Docked vs. Dockless Bike-sharing: Contrasting spatiotemporal patterns
  • Grant McKenzie and Krzysztof Janowicz: OpenPOI: An Open Place of Interest Platform
  • Aline Menin, Sonia Chardonnel, Paule-Annick Davoine and Luciana Nedel: Exploring Shifting Densities through a Movement-based Cartographic Interface
  • Kyunghyun Min, Jungseok Lee, Kiyun Yu and Jiyoung Kim: Geotagging Location Information Extracted from Unstructured Data
  • Franz-Benjamin Mocnik: Linked Open Data Vocabularies for Semantically Annotated Repositories of Data Quality Measures
  • April Morton, Jesse Piburn and Nicholas Nagle: Need A Boost? A Comparison of Traditional Commuting Models with the XGBoost Model for Predicting Commuting Flows
  • Kamaldeep Singh Oberoi, Géraldine Del Mondo, Yohan Dupuis and Pascal Vasseur: Modeling Road Traffic Takes Time
  • Bill Palmer, Alice Gaby, Jonathon Lum and Jonathan Schlossberg: Diversity in spatial language within communities: the interplay of culture, language and landscape in representations of space
  • Emmanuel Papadakis, Andreas Petutschnig and Thomas Blaschke: Flexible Patterns of Place for Function-based Search of Space
  • Yi Qiang, Barbara Buttenfield, Nina Lam and Nico Van de Weghe: Novel Models for Multi-Scale Spatial and Temporal Analyses
  • Alina Ristea, Ourania Kounadi and Michael Leitner: Geosocial media data as predictors in a GWR application to forecast crime hotspots
  • Dara Seidl and Piotr Jankowski: Who masks? Correlates of individual location-masking behavior in an online survey
  • Kelly Sims, Gautam S. Thakur, Kevin Sparks, Marie Urban, Amy Rose and Robert Stewart: Dynamically-Spaced Geo-Grid Segmentation for Weighted Point Sampling on a Polygon Map Layer
  • Gaurav Sinha, Samntha Arundel, Torsten Hahmann, E. Lynn Usery, Kathleen Stewart and David Mark: The Landform Reference Ontology (LFRO): A foundation for exploring linguistic and geospa-tial conceptualization of landforms
  • Martin Sudmanns, Stefan Lang, Dirk Tiede, Christian Werner, Hannah Augustin and Andrea Baraldi: Abstract data types for spatio-temporal remote sensing analysis
  • Quy Thy Truong, Guillaume Touya and Cyril de Runz: Towards Vandalism Detection in OpenStreetMap Through a Data Driven Approach
  • Xuebin Wei and Xiaobai Yao: A Conceptual Framework for Representation and Analysis of Location-based Social Media Activities
  • Rene Westerholt, Mathias Gröbe, Alexander Zipf and Dirk Burghardt: Towards the Statistical Analysis and Visualization of Places
  • Lionov Wiratma, Maarten Löffler and Frank Staals: An experimental comparison of two definitions for groups of moving entities
  • Jibo Xie: Extracting geospatial information from social media data for hazard mitigation, Typhoon Hato as case study
  • Jin Xing and Renee Sieber: Propagation of Uncertainty for Volunteered Geographic Information in Machine Learning
  • Chunxue Xu and Bo Zhao: Satellite image spoofing: Creating remote sensing dataset with Generative Adversarial Networks
  • Kayoko Yamamoto and Ximing Li: Proposal of Safety Evaluation Method of Evacuation Routes in Urban Areas in Case of Earthquake Disasters Using Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm and Geographic Information Systems
  • Xiongfeng Yan and Tinghua Ai: Analysis of Irregular Spatial Data with Machine Learning: Classification of Building Patterns with a Graph Convolution Neural Network
  • Chi-Feng Yen, Ming-Hsiang Tsou and Chris Allen: Assessing Neighborhood Conditions using Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis and Spatial Analysis
  • Madiha Yousaf and Diedrich Wolter: Spatial Information Extraction from Text Using Spatio-Ontological Reasoning
  • Tian Zhao, Chuanrong Zhang and Zhijie Zhang: Scalable Spatial Join for WFS Clients
  • Di Zhu and Yu Liu: Modelling Spatial Patterns using Graph Convolutional Networks

Extended Abstracts (not published, oral presentations)

  • Manuel Baer and Ross Purves: StarBorn: Making in-situ land cover validation fun with a location based game
  • Lars Brabyn: Modelling Human Habitat
  • Hanzhou Chen and Xi Liu: The Taste of Gentrification: Sense of Place in Gentrifying Neighborhoods Using Yelp Data
  • Wen Dai, Xin Yang, Jingwei Li, Yihan Cheng and Guoan Tang: Effects of DEM resolution on gully mapping in loess hilly areas
  • Laure De Cock, Kristien Ooms, Nico Van de Weghe and Philippe De Maeyer: Adapting indoor route guidance to space complexity
  • John Duncan, Bryan Boruff, Alex Saunders and Chayn Sun: Using ‘big’ remote sensing data and spatial analysis to enhance understanding of the relationship between urban vegetation structure and temperature
  • Ekaterina Egorova: You Know a Mountain by a Company It Keeps: A Corpus-driven Study of Landscape Terms’ Semantics
  • Carolyn Fish: Evaluating emotional responses to framing of climate change maps with facial emotion recognition technology
  • Mark Gahegan: Prospects for building process models and explanations entirely from geospatial data
  • Jing Gao and Brian O’Neill: A Data-Science Approach to Simulating Spatiotemporal Built-Up Land Patterns for Climate Change Impact Assessment
  • Daria Hollenstein, Martin Hess, Susanne Bleisch and Denis Jordan: Logistic regression analysis of the relation of roundabout parameters to bicycle accident occurrence
  • Péter Jeszenszky, Sandro Bachmann and Peter Ranacher: Towards the parameterisation and quantification of dialect contact potential
  • Yelin Kim and Seong-Yun Hong: Fine-scale estimation of workplace population using the integration of public data
  • Katsuo Kogure and Yoshito Takasaki: GIS for Causal Research Design
  • Jinhyung Lee and Harvey Miller: Measuring and comparing individual and collective accessibility using average space-time prisms
  • Shunbao Liao, Keli Wang and Xiao Jiang: Exploration of Relationship between Land Cover Distribution Pattern and Terrain Factors
  • Xi Liu, Zixuan Huang, Sohrab Rahimi and Clio Andris: Using Deep Learning to Quantify Urban Residential Interiors
  • Xiaoping Liu, Xun Liang and Xia Li: A future land use simulation model (FLUS) for simulating land use change by coupling human and natural effects
  • Alex Saunders, Bryan Boruff, Joe Hurley, Marco Amati, Kath Phelan, Peter Caccetta and John Duncan: What makes Perth’s residential neighbourhoods green? High resolution remote sensing data and the drivers of tree canopy cover on public and private land
  • Raja Sengupta: Manipulating objects to cultivate fields: A Spatio-Temporal Data Structure for Sensor placements to measure the Urban Heat Island phenomenon
  • Henrikki Tenkanen and Rami Piiroinen: Web 3.0 and the future of decentralized GIS, blockchain technologies and self-sovereign location data?
  • Ming-Hsiang Tsou, Hao Zhang, Jaehhee Park, Atsushi Nara and Chin-Te Jung: Spatial Distribution Patterns of Geo-tagged Twitter Data Created by Social Media Bots and Recommended Data Wrangling Procedures
  • Nina Vanhaeren, Kristien Ooms and Philippe De Maeyer: On the right track
  • Lixia Wang, Dongyang Yu, Zhao Liu, Yun Yang, Juan Zhang, Jichang Han and Zhongan Mao: Study on NDVI Changes in Weihe Watershed Based on CA-Markov Model
  • Hongqiang Wei and Guiyun Zhou: Efficient Priority-Flood depression filling in raster digital elevation models
  • Bin Wu, Bailang Yu, Shenjun Yao and Jianping Wu: A Novel Method for Urban Hierarchy Characterization Using Nighttime Light Remote Sensing Data
  • Shi Xian and Zhixin Qi: An exploration of social segregation using mobility-activity data and decision tree algorithms
  • Jiue-An Yang, Marta Jankowska, Arun Kumar and Jacqueline Kerr: Movement Data and Environmental Context for Predicting Human Behavior with Machine Learned Models: A Case of Tacos and Fitness Studios
  • Guoming Zhang and Junshu Wang: Context-Aware Point-of-interest Recommendation Based on Hawkes Process
  • Yabo Zhao, Xiuguo Liu, Weihua Hua, Dong Liang and Xieyun Wang: A method for calculating the distance between two points in folded strata
  • Jingyi Xiao and Werner Kuhn: A study of transdisciplinary spatial computations on GIS Stack Exchange posts