The full conference program, including workshop timings, social events, and detailed session information is here. All locations are Storey Hall Main Auditorium unless otherwise specified [B.L.R]. Speaker slot size varies depending on whether it is a Full paper, or Short paper/Extended abstract (see bottom of page).
Program at a glance
| TIME | Tuesday 28.08.2018 | Wednesday 29.08.2018 | Thursday 30.08.2018 | Friday 31.08.2018 |
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| TIME | Tuesday 28.08.2018 | Wednesday29.08.2018 | Thursday 30.08.2018 | Friday 31.08.2018 |
| 8:15 am - 8:45 am | Buffet Breakfast | Buffet Breakfast | Buffet Breakfast | |
| 8:45 am - 9:00 am | Conference Opening and Welcome | |||
| 9:00am - 10:00am | Workshops | Keynote - Jantien Stoter Plenary | Keynote - Billie Giles-Corti Plenary | Block 7 (Sessions 7.1-7.3) Check detailed timing |
| 10:00am - 10:30am | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30am - 12:10pm | Workshops | Block 1 (Sessions 1.1, 1.2) | Block 4 (Sessions 4.1-4.3) | Block 8 and Block 9, Plenary Check detailed timing |
| 12:10pm - 1:30pm | Lunch (on your own) | Lunch (on your own) | Extended session until 12:40pm, then Awards & Farewell | |
| 1:30pm - 3:10pm | Workshops | Block 2 (Sessions 2.1-2.3) | Block 5 (Sessions 5.1-5.3) | |
| 3:10pm - 3:40pm | Afternoon Tea | Afternoon Tea | ||
| 3:40pm - 5:20pm | Workshops | Block 3 (Sessions 3.1-3.3) | Block 6(Sessions 6.1-6.3) | |
| 6:00pm - 7:30pm | Opening Panel: Indigenous Knowledge and GIScience | |||
| 7:00pm - late | Icebreaker reception (from 7:30pm) | Conference Dinner at Melbourne Aquariuam |
Tuesday
Workshop programs (periodically updated links):
- W1 – Seminar Room 1 [B016.07.001]: New Directions in Geovisual Analytics: Visualization, Computation, and Evaluation (GVIZ 2018) Programme
- W3 – Seminar Room 3 [B016.07.003]: Corpus in GIScience: Beyond butterfly collecting Programme
- W4 – Seminar Room 4 [B016.07.004]: LoPaS 2018: Workshop on Location Privacy and Security Programme
- W5 – Seminar Room 2 [B016.07.002]: Rethinking the ABCs: Agent-Based Models and Complexity in the age of Big Data Programme
- W6 – Conference Room 1 [B016.07.007]: Spatial big data and machine learning in GIScience Programme
- W7 – Megaflex 1 [B008.04.011]: 2nd Workshop on Computing Techniques for Spatio-Temporal Data in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (COARCH’18) Programme
- W8 – Conference Room 2 [B016.07.008]: Analysis of Movement Data 2018 Programme
- W9 – Megaflex 2 [B008.04.012]: Core Computations on Spatial Information (CCSI’18) Programme
- S1 – Megaflex 1 [B008.04.011]: Symposium on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies for Spatial Information and Analysis Programme
Code for rooms: [Building#.Level#.Room#]
Note: S1 and W7 share the same space, S1 is in the morning slots, W7 in the afternoon.
Tuesday - Panel and Icebreaker
| Time | ||
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| 6:00pm - 6:15pm | Welcome and Acknowledgment of Country | |
| 6:15pm - 7:30pm | Indigenous knowledge and geographic information science | |
| 7:30pm - late | Icebreaker Social Function |
Wednesday
Venue: Storey Hall Main Auditorium and Foyer
Time Opening and Welcome
8:45am - 9:00am Prof Calum Drummond, RMIT Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and Innovation and Vice-President
Aileen Buckley, ESRI, Primary Sponsor
Prof Matt Duckham, GIScience 2018 Chair
| Time | Keynote | |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00am - 10:00am | Prof. Jantien Stoter Next generation 3D city models for Smart Cities Plenary | |
| Block 1 | Session 1.1 - Data science [16.01.001] | Session 1.2 - Mobility [16.05.001] |
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| Chair | Grant McKenzie, McGill University | Susanne Bleisch, FHNW Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz |
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| 10:30am - 12:10am | 2 [FP] Alberto Belussi, Damiano Carra, Sara Migliorini, Mauro Negri and Giuseppe Pelagatti What Makes Spatial Data Big? A Discussion on How to Partition Spatial Data | 11 [FP] 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 |
| 79 [EA] 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 | 25 [SP] Rahul Deb Das and Ross Purves Towards the Usefulness of User-Generated Contents to Understand Traffic Events |
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| 83 [EA] Jing Gao and Brian O'Neill A Data-Science Approach to Simulating Spatiotemporal Built-Up Land Patterns for Climate Change Impact Assessment | 35 [SP] Jincheng Jiang and Shuai He Multimodal-Transport Collaborative Evacuation Strategies for Urban Serious Emergency Incidents Based on Multi-Sources Spatiotemporal Data |
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| 93 [EA] Raja Sengupta Manipulating objects to cultivate fields: A Spatio-Temporal Data Structure for Sensor placements to measure the Urban Heat Island phenomenon | 88 [EA] Jinhyung Lee and Harvey Miller Measuring and comparing individual and collective accessibility using average space-time prisms |
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| 95 [EA] 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 | 28 [SP] Amin Gharebaghi and Mir Abolfazl Mostafavi Space-time representation of accessible areas for wheelchair users in urban areas |
| Block 2 | Session 2.1 - Maps [16.01.001] | Session 2.2 - Understanding urban activity and mobility [16.07.007] | Session 2.3 - Spatial analysis [16.05.001] |
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| Chair | Maria Vasardani, The University of Melbourne | Patrick Laube, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences | Karen Kemp, University of Southern California Dornsife |
| Time | |||
| 1:30pm - 3:10pm | 4 [FP] Francis Harvey Considerations of graphical proximity and geographical nearness | 6 [FP] Myeong-Hun Jeong, Junjun Yin and Shaowen Wang Outliers Detection and Comparison of Origin-Destination Flows with Data Depth | 15 [FP] Joram Schito, Ulrike Wissen Hayek and Martin Raubal Enhanced multi criteria decision analysis for planning power transmission lines |
| 81 [EA] Carolyn Fish Evaluating emotional responses to framing of climate change maps with facial emotion recognition technology | 26 [SP] Paolo Fogliaroni, Marvin Mc Cutchan, Gerhard Navratil and Ioannis Giannopoulos Unfolding Urban Structures: Towards Route Prediction and Automated City Modeling | 89 [EA] Shunbao Liao, Keli Wang and Xiao Jiang Exploration of Relationship between Land Cover Distribution Pattern and Terrain Factors |
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| 37 [SP] Irene Johannsen, Sara Irina Fabrikant and Mariele Evers How do texture and color communicate uncertainty in climate change map displays? | 100 [EA] Shi Xian and Zhixin Qi An exploration of social segregation using mobility-activity data and decision tree algorithms | 99 [EA] Bin Wu, Bailang Yu, Shenjun Yao and Jianping Wu A Novel Method for Urban Hierarchy Characterization Using Nighttime Light Remote Sensing Data |
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| 30 [SP] Fabian Göbel, Peter Kiefer, Ioannis Giannopoulos and Martin Raubal Gaze Sequences and Map Task Complexity | 38 [SP] Chaogui Kang and Yu Liu Understanding Urban Functionality from Human Activities: A Proposed Analytical Framework | 29 [SP] 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 |
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| 48 [SP] Aline Menin, Sonia Chardonnel, Paule-Annick Davoine and Luciana Nedel Exploring Shifting Densities through a Movement-based Cartographic Interface | 43 [SP] Karlo Lugomer and Paul Longley Towards comprehensive temporal classification of footfall patterns in the cities of Great Britain | 70 [SP] Chi-Feng Yen, Ming-Hsiang Tsou and Chris Allen Assessing Neighborhood Conditions using Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis and Spatial Analysis |
| Block 3 | Session 3.1 - Place [16.01.001] | Session 3.2 - Open and volunteered data [16.07.007] | Session 3.3 - Imagery and classification [16.05.001] |
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| Chair: | Alan Murray, University of California at Santa Barbara | Carsten Kessler, Aalborg University Copenhagen | Chris Jones, Cardiff University |
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| 3:40pm - 5:20pm | 7 [FP] Markus Kattenbeck, Eva Nuhn and Sabine Timpf Is salience robust? A heterogeneity analysis of survey ratings | 9 [FP] Sara Lafia, Andrew Turner and Werner Kuhn Improving Discovery of Open Civic Data | 17 [FP] Bo Yan, Krzysztof Janowicz, Gengchen Mai and Rui Zhu xNet+SC: Classifying Places Based on Images by Incorporating Spatial Contexts |
| 76 [EA] Hanzhou Chen and Xi Liu The Taste of Gentrification: Sense of Place in Gentrifying Neighborhoods Using Yelp Data | 86 [EA] Yelin Kim and Seong-Yun Hong Fine-scale estimation of workplace population using the integration of public data | 60 [SP] Martin Sudmanns, Stefan Lang, Dirk Tiede, Christian Werner, Hannah Augustin and Andrea Baraldi Abstract data types for spatio-temporal remote sensing analysis |
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| 63 [SP] Rene Westerholt, Mathias Gröbe, Alexander Zipf and Dirk Burghardt Towards the Statistical Analysis and Visualization of Places | 61 [SP] Quy Thy Truong, Guillaume Touya and Cyril de Runz Towards Vandalism Detection in OpenStreetMap Through a Data Driven Approach | 40 [SP] Yan Li, Yiqun Chen, Abbas Rajabifard, Kourosh Khoshelham and Mitko Aleksandrov Estimating building age from Google Street View images using deep learning |
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| 62 [SP] Xuebin Wei and Xiaobai Yao A Conceptual Framework for Representation and Analysis of Location-based Social Media Activities | 57 [SP] Dara Seidl and Piotr Jankowski Who masks? Correlates of individual location-masking behavior in an online survey | 67 [SP] Chunxue Xu and Bo Zhao Satellite image spoofing: Creating remote sensing dataset with Generative Adversarial Networks |
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| 54 [SP] Emmanuel Papadakis, Andreas Petutschnig and Thomas Blaschke Flexible Patterns of Place for Function-based Search of Space | 66 [SP] Jin Xing and Renee Sieber Propagation of Uncertainty for Volunteered Geographic Information in Machine Learning | 74 [EA] Manuel Baer and Ross Purves StarBorn: Making in-situ land cover validation fun with a location based game |
Thursday
| Time | Keynote | |
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| 9:00am - 10:00am | Dist. Prof Billie Giles-Corti Creating Healthy Liveable Cities: Using Spatial Data to take us from Niche to Norm Plenary | |
| Block 4 | Session 4.1 - Spatial pattern detection and prediction [16.01.001] | Session 4.2 - Computational Geometry [16.07.007] | Session 4.3 - Places of being [16.05.001] |
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| Chair: | Piotr Jankowski, San Diego State University | Mark Gahegan, University of Auckland | Shawn Laffan, University of New South Wales |
| Time | |||
| 10:30am - 12:10am | 10 [FP] Yan Li and Shashi Shekhar Local Co-location Pattern Detection: A Summary of Results | 12 [FP] Alan Murray, Xin Feng and Ali Shokoufandeh Heterogeneous Skeleton for Summarizing Continuously Distributed Demand in a Region | 3 [FP] Paolo Fogliaroni, Dominik Bucher, Nikola Jankovic and Ioannis Giannopoulos Intersections of Our World |
| 31 [SP] Jung-Hong Hong and Jing-Cen Yang Facilitating the Interoperable Use of Cross-Domain Statistical Data Based on Standardized Identifiers | 41 [SP] Wei Lu and Tinghua Ai Center Point of Simple Area Feature Based on Triangulation Skeleton Graph | 84 [EA] Daria Hollenstein, Martin Hess, Susanne Bleisch and Denis Jordan Logistic regression analysis of the relation of roundabout parameters to bicycle accident occurrence |
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| 56 [SP] Alina Ristea, Ourania Kounadi and Michael Leitner Geosocial media data as predictors in a GWR application to forecast crime hotspots | 58 [SP] 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 | 92 [EA] 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 |
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| 65 [SP] Jibo Xie Extracting geospatial information from social media data for hazard mitigation, Typhoon Hato as case study | 103 [EA] Yabo Zhao, Xiuguo Liu, Weihua Hua, Dong Liang and Xieyun Wang A method for calculating the distance between two points in folded strata | 34 [SP] Shelan Jeawak, Christopher Jones and Steven Schockaert Mapping Wildlife Species Distribution With Social Media: Augmenting Text Classification With Species Names |
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| 22 [SP] Devanjan Bhattacharya and Marco Painho Design for Geospatially Enabled Climate Modeling and Alert System (CLIMSYS): A Position Paper | 55 [SP] Yi Qiang, Barbara Buttenfield, Nina Lam and Nico Van de Weghe Novel Models for Multi-Scale Spatial and Temporal Analyses | 75 [EA] Lars Brabyn Modelling Human Habitat |
| Block 5 | Session 5.1 - Indoor environments [16.01.001] | Session 5.2 - Dynamic mappings [16.07.007] | Session 5.3 - Spatial analysis 2 [16.05.001] |
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| Chair: | Jantine Stoter, Delft University of Technology | Martin Tomko, The University of Melbourne | Ming-Hsiang Tsou, San Diego State University |
| Time | |||
| 1:30pm - 3:10pm | 1 [FP] David Amores, Maria Vasardani and Egemen Tanin Early Detection of Herding Behaviour during Emergency Evacuations | 8 [FP] Filip Krumpe Labeling Points of Interest in Dynamic Maps using Disk Labels | 14 [FP] Rudra Ranajee Saha, Tanzima Hashem, Tasmia Shahriar and Lars Kulik Continuous Obstructed Detour Queries |
| 19 [SP] 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 | 36 [SP] Donglai Jiao and Jintao Sun A new map symbol design method for real-time visualization of geo-sensor data | 27 [SP] Martin Geilhausen and Patrick Laube Deconstructed and inverted multi-criteria evaluation for on-the-fly scenario development and decision-making |
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| 21 [SP] Abdullah Alattas, Sisi Zlatanova, Peter van Oosterom and Ki-Joune Li Improved and more complete conceptual model for the revision of IndoorGML | 64 [SP] Lionov Wiratma, Maarten Löffler and Frank Staals An experimental comparison of two definitions for groups of moving entities | 32 [SP] Ryo Inoue, Rihoko Ishiyama and Ayako Sugiura Identification of Geographical Segmentation of the Rental Apartment Market in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area |
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| 33 [SP] Hanme Jang, Jong Hyeon Yang and Kiyun Yu Automatic wall detection and building topology and property of 2D floor plan | 73 [SP] Di Zhu and Yu Liu Modelling Spatial Patterns using Graph Convolutional Networks | 90 [EA] Xi Liu, Zixuan Huang, Sohrab Rahimi and Clio Andris Using Deep Learning to Quantify Urban Residential Interiors |
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| 78 [EA] Laure De Cock, Kristien Ooms, Nico Van de Weghe and Philippe De Maeyer Adapting indoor route guidance to space complexity | 39 [SP] Seongyong Kim, Seula Park and Kiyun Yu Application of Style Transfer in the Vectorization Process of Floorplans | 87 [EA] Katsuo Kogure and Yoshito Takasaki GIS for Causal Research Design |
| Block 6 | Session 6.1 - Space and language [16.01.001] | Session 6.2 - Semantics [16.07.007] | Session 6.3 - Computing [16.05.001] |
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| Chair: | Sabine Timpf, University of Augsburg | Stephan Winter, The University of Melbourne | Lars Kulik, The University of Melbourne |
| Time | |||
| 3:40pm - 5:20pm 14' slots | 20 [SP] Niloofar Aflaki, Shaun Russell and Kristin Stock Challenges in Creating an Annotated Set of Geospatial Natural Language Descriptions | 50 [SP] Franz-Benjamin Mocnik Linked Open Data Vocabularies for Semantically Annotated Repositories of Data Quality Measures | 24 [SP] Changlock Choi, Yelin Kim, Youngho Lee and Seong-Yun Hong Evaluating efficiency of spatial analysis in cloud computing platforms |
| 23 [SP] Raphaël Ceré, Mattia Egloff and François Bavaud Geographical exploration and analysis extended to textual content | 59 [SP] 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 geospatial conceptualization of landforms | 72 [SP] Tian Zhao, Chuanrong Zhang and Zhijie Zhang Scalable Spatial Join for WFS Clients |
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| 44 [SP] 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 | 45 [SP] Marvin Mc Cutchan and Ioannis Giannopoulos Geospatial Semantics for Spatial Prediction | 51 [SP] April Morton, Jesse Piburn and Nicholas Nagle Need A Boost? A Comparison of Traditional Commuting Models with the XGBoost Model for Predicting Commuting Flows |
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| 49 [SP] Kyunghyun Min, Jungseok Lee, Kiyun Yu and Jiyoung Kim Geotagging Location Information Extracted from Unstructured Data | 105 [EA] Jingyi Xiao and Werner Kuhn A study of transdisciplinary spatial computations on GIS Stack Exchange posts | 52 [SP] Kamaldeep Singh Oberoi, Géraldine Del Mondo, Yohan Dupuis and Pascal Vasseur Modeling Road Traffic Takes Time |
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| 71 [SP] Madiha Yousaf and Diedrich Wolter Spatial Information Extraction from Text Using Spatio-Ontological Reasoning | 80 [EA] Ekaterina Egorova You Know a Mountain by a Company It Keeps: A Corpus-driven Study of Landscape Terms' Semantics | 94 [EA] Henrikki Tenkanen and Rami Piiroinen Web 3.0 and the future of decentralized GIS, blockchain technologies and self-sovereign location data? |
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| 85 [EA] Péter Jeszenszky, Sandro Bachmann and Peter Ranacher Towards the parameterisation and quantification of dialect contact potential | 18 [SP] Benjamin Adams and Martin Tomko A critical look at cryptogovernance of the real world: Challenges for spatial representation and uncertainty on the blockchain |
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| 53 [SP] 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 |
Thursday - Conference Dinner
| Time | ||
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| 6:30pm - 7:00pm | Arrival and Drinks Reception | |
| 7:00pm - late | ESRI GIScience 2018 Gala Dinner | |
Friday
| Block 7 | Session 7.1 - Points and lines [16.01.001] | Session 7.2 - Characterising physical environments [16.07.007] | Session 7.3 - Simulating change [16.05.001] |
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| Chair: | Werner Kuhn, University of California at Santa Barbara | Mir Abolfazl Mostafavi, Université Laval Québec | Raja Sengupta, McGill University |
| Time | |||
| 9:00am - 9:55am | 47 [SP] Grant McKenzie and Krzysztof Janowicz OpenPOI: An Open Place of Interest Platform | 77 [EA] Wen Dai, Xin Yang, Jingwei Li, Yihan Cheng and Guoan Tang Effects of DEM resolution on gully mapping in loess hilly areas | 91 [EA] 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 |
| 102 [EA] Guoming Zhang and Junshu Wang Context-Aware Point-of-interest Recommendation Based on Hawkes Process | 98 [EA] Hongqiang Wei and Guiyun Zhou Efficient Priority-Flood depression filling in raster digital elevation models | 42 [SP] Yi Lu and Shawn Laffan The use of Particle Swarm Optimization for a vector Cellular Automata model of land use change |
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| 96 [EA] Nina Vanhaeren, Kristien Ooms and Philippe De Maeyer On the right track | 97 [EA] 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 | 68 [SP] 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 |
Short papers and Extended abstracts shortlisted for Best Short Paper/Extended Abstract Awards
| Block 8 | Plenary - Best SP/EA candidates |
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| Chair: | Monika Sester, University of Hannover |
| Time | |
| 10:15am - 11:10am | 69 [SP] Xiongfeng Yan and Tinghua Ai Analysis of Irregular Spatial Data with Machine Learning: Classification of Building Patterns with a Graph Convolution Neural Network |
| 46 [SP] Grant McKenzie Docked vs. Dockless Bike-sharing: Contrasting spatiotemporal patterns |
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| 82 [EA] Mark Gahegan Prospects for building process models and explanations entirely from geospatial data |
Full papers shortlisted for Best Full Paper Awards
| Block 9 | Plenary - Best full paper candidates |
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| 12:40pm - 1:10pm | Awards and closing ceremony |
| Chair: | Amy Griffin, RMIT University |
| Time | |
| 11:10am - 12:40pm | 5 [FP] Yingjie Hu and Krzysztof Janowicz An empirical study on the names of points of interest and their changes with geographic distance |
| 16 [FP] Ashwin Shashidharan, Ranga Raju Vatsavai, Derek Berkel and Ross Meentemeyer FUTURES-AMR: Towards an Adaptive Mesh Refinement Framework for Geosimulations |
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| 13 [FP] Benjamin Niedermann, Johannes Oehrlein, Sven Lautenbach and Jan-Henrik Haunert A network flow model for the analysis of green spaces in urban areas |
Technical Program Key
[FP] – Full paper, number matches the order as published in LIPICS proceedings. Slot of 30′, including discussion time
[SP] – Short paper, number matches the order as published in LIPICS proceedings. Slot of 17.5′, incl discussion, with the exception of Block 6 (14′)
[EA] – Extended paper, not published in proceedings.Slot of 17.5′, incl discussion, with the exception of Block 6 (14′)
Conference Parallel Sessions
[16.01.001] – Storey Hall Level 1 Lecture Theatre
[16.05.001] – Storey Hall Level 5 Main Auditorium
[16.07.007] – Storey Hall Level 7 “Green Brain”