In this November 2017 issue, the first section continues the tradition of highlighting the top papers selected for the 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL Student Research Competition (SRC) held at the ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017. The second section consists of workshop reports of workshops that were co-located with SIGSPATIAL 2017.
Volume 9, Number 3, November 2017
Foreword i-iii Message from the Editor Andreas Züfle 1 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 2-3 SRC: Towards a Location-based Graph Database System Yuhan Sun 4-5 SRC: A Fully Automatic Geographic Feature Recognition System Weiwei Duan, Yao-Yi Chiang 6-7 SRC: Tornado: A Distributed Spatio-Textual Stream Processing System Ahmed R. Mahmood 8-9 SRC: Extracting Commute Patterns for Customized Bus Service Area Design Jiang Lian 10-11 SRC: Assessing Verticalization Effects on Urban Safety Perception Ricardo Barros Lourenço 12-13 SRC: Automatic Extraction of Phrase-Level Map Labels from Historical Maps Haowen Lin, Yao-Yi Chiang 14-15 Section 2: Event Reports ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Computational Transportation Science (IWCTS 2017) Bo Xu, Gautam S. Thakur 16-17 ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geostreaming (IWGS 2017) Chengyang Zhang, Farnoush Banaei-Kashani, Abdeltawab Hendawi 18 ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Emergency Management using GIS (EM-GIS 2017) Hui Zhang, Jean-Claude Thill, Yan Huang, Danhuai Guo, Yi Liu, Rui Yang 19 ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Analytics for Big Geospatial Data (BigSpatial 2017) Varun Chandola, Ranga Raju Vatsavai 20-21 ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geospatial Humanities (GeoHumanities 2017) Bruno Martins, Patricia Murrieta-Flores 22-23 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 24 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 25 ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Recommendations for Location-based Services and Social Networks (LocalRec 2017) Panagiotis Bouros, Matthias Renz, Dimitris Sacharidis 26-27 ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Analytics for Local Events and News (LENS 2017) Amr Magdy, Xun Zhou, Yan Huang 28-29 ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Prediction of Human Mobility (PredictGIS 2017) Akihto Sudo, Takahiro Yabe, Yoshihide Sekimoto 30-31
