SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter November 2017 (Volume 9, Number 3): ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017 Student Research Competition

Volume 9, Number 3, November 2017

Foreword
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Message from the Editor
Andreas Züfle

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Section 1: Special Issue on the ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017 Students Research Competition (SRC)
SRC: Geospatial Visual Analytics Belongs to Database Systems: The BABYLON Approach 
Jia Yu

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SRC: Towards a Location-based Graph Database System 
Yuhan Sun

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SRC: A Fully Automatic Geographic Feature Recognition System
Weiwei Duan, Yao-Yi Chiang

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SRC: Tornado: A Distributed Spatio-Textual Stream Processing System
Ahmed R. Mahmood

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SRC: Extracting Commute Patterns for Customized Bus Service Area Design 
Jiang Lian

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SRC: Assessing Verticalization Effects on Urban Safety Perception 
Ricardo Barros Lourenço

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SRC: Automatic Extraction of Phrase-Level Map Labels from Historical Maps 
Haowen Lin, Yao-Yi Chiang

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Section 2: Event Reports
ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Computational Transportation Science (IWCTS 2017) 
Bo Xu, Gautam S. Thakur 

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ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geostreaming (IWGS 2017) 
Chengyang Zhang, Farnoush Banaei-Kashani, Abdeltawab Hendawi 

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ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Emergency Management using GIS (EM-GIS 2017) 
Hui Zhang, Jean-Claude Thill, Yan Huang, Danhuai Guo, Yi Liu, Rui Yang 

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ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Analytics for Big Geospatial Data (BigSpatial 2017) 
Varun Chandola, Ranga Raju Vatsavai 

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ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geospatial Humanities (GeoHumanities 2017) 
Bruno Martins, Patricia Murrieta-Flores 

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ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on High-Precision Maps and Intelligent Applications for Autonomous Vehicles (AutonomousGIS 2017) 
Song Gao, Jing Dai, Gengen He, Yang Xu, Xin Chen 

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ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning for Geographic Knowledge Discovery (GeoAI 2017) 
Huina Mao, Yingjie Hu, Bandana Kar, Song Gao, Grant McKenzie 

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ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Recommendations for Location-based Services and Social Networks (LocalRec 2017) 
Panagiotis Bouros, Matthias Renz, Dimitris Sacharidis 

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ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Analytics for Local Events and News (LENS 2017) 
Amr Magdy, Xun Zhou, Yan Huang 

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ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Prediction of Human Mobility (PredictGIS 2017) 
Akihto Sudo, Takahiro Yabe, Yoshihide Sekimoto 
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