SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter November 2020 (Volume 12, Number 3): ACM SIGSPATIAL 2020

Volume 12, Number 3, November 2020

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Forward and Table of Contents
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Introduction to this Special Issue
Andreas Züfle 

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Section 1: ACM SIGSPATIAL 2020 Conference Report
The 28th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2020)
Chang-Tien Lu, Fusheng Wang, Goce Trajcevski, Yan Huang, Shawn Newsam, Li Xiong

3-6
Section 2: SIGPSPATIAL 2020 Workshop Reports
The 4th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Location-Based Recommendations, Geosocial Networks, and Geoadvertising (LocalRec 2020)
Panagiotis Bouros, Tamraparni Dasu, Yaron Kanza, Matthias Renz, Dimitris Sacharidis


7-10
The 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoSpatial Simulation (GeoSim 2020)
Joon-Seok Kim, Taylor Anderson, Ashwin Shashidharan, Andreas Züfle


11-14
The 9th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Analytics for Big Geospatial Data (BIGSPATIAL 2020)
Ashwin Shashidharan, Varun Chandola, Ranga Raju Vatsavai

15-16
The 4th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geospatial Humanities (GeoHumanities 2020)
Ludovic Moncla, Patricia Murrieta-Flores, Carmen Brando

17-19
The 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Data Access and Processing APIs (SpatialAPI 2020)
Ahmed Eldawy, Gobe Hobona

20-22
The 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Advances in Resilient and Intelligent Cities
(ARIC 2020)

Bandana Kar, Olufemi A. Omitaomu, Xinyue Ye, Shima Mohebbi, Guangtao Fu

23-25
13th International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science (IWCTS 2020)
Kuldeep Kurte, Anne Berres, Srinath Ravulaparthy, Jibonananda Sanyal, Gautam Thakur

26-31
2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Spatial Gems (SpatialGems 2020)
John Krumm, Cyrus Shahabi, Andreas Züfle

32-34
The 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Modeling and Understanding the Spread of COVID-19
Taylor Anderson, Jia Yu, Andreas Züfle

35-40
The 6th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop Emergency Management using GIS (EM-GIS 2020)
Yan Huan, Jean-Claude Thill, Hui Zhang, Bin Chen, Wei Xu

41-42
The 5th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop Emergency Management using GIS (EM-GIS 2019)
Hui Zhang, Yan Huang, Jean-Claude Thill, Danhuai Guo, Yi Liu, Bin Chen, Wei Xu

43-45
Section 3: ACM SIGSPATIAL 2020 Students Research Competition: Grand Finalists
Efficient Downscaling of Satellite Oceanographic Data With Convolutional Neural Networks
Nikita Saxena

46-47

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SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter July 2020 (Volume 12, Number 2): Modeling and Understanding the Spread of COVID-19 (Part 2)

Volume 12, Number 2, July 2020

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Foreword
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Introduction to this Special Issue: Modeling and Understanding the Spread of COVID-19
(Part II)

Andreas Züfle, Taylor Anderson 

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Section 1: Modeling and Understanding the Spread of COVID-19
REACT: Real-Time Contact Tracing and Risk Monitoring using Privacy-Enhanced Mobile Tracking
Li Xiong, Cyrus Shahabi, Yanan Da, Ritesh Ahuja, Vicki Hertzberg, Lance Waller, Xiaoqian Jiang, Amy Franklin

3-14
Contact Tracing: Beyond the Apps
Mohamed Mokbel, Sofiane Abbar, Rade Stanojevic

15-24
Geospatial forecasting of COVID-19 spread and risk of reaching hospital capacity
Georgiy Bobashev, Ignacio Segovia-Dominguez, Yulia R. Gel, James Rineer, Sarah Rhea, Hui Sui

25-32
COVID-19 Ensemble Models Using Representative Clustering
Joon-Seok Kim, Hamdi Kavak, Andreas Züfle, Taylor Anderson

33-41
Section 2: Spatial Data Systems for the Internet of Things
Spatial Data Systems Support for the Internet of Things – Challenges and Opportunities
Mohamed Sarwat

42-47

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SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter March 2020 (Volume 12, Number 1): Modeling and Understanding the Spread of COVID-19 (Part 1)

Volume 12, Number 1, March 2020

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Foreword
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Introduction to this Special Issue: Modeling and Understanding the Spread of COVID-19
(Part I)

Andreas Züfle 

1-2
Section 1: Event Reports
The 27th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
(ACM SIGSPATIAL 2019)
Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 5-8, 2019

Ralf Hartmut Güting, Lars Kulik, Shawn Newsam, Farnoush Banaei-Kashani, Goce Trajcevski

3-5
Section 2: Modeling and Understanding the Spread of COVID-19
GeoCoV19: A Dataset of Hundreds of Millions of Multilingual COVID-19 Tweets with Location Information
Umair Qazi, Muhammad Imran, Ferda Ofli

6-15
Mapping county-level mobility pattern changes in the United States in response to COVID-19
Song Gao, Jinmeng Rao, Yuhao Kang, Yunlei Liang, Jake Kruse

16-26
Rapid detection of COVID-19 clusters in the United States using a prospective space-time scan statistic: An update
Alexander Hohl, Eric Delmelle, Michael Desjardins

27-33
Human Mobility based Individual-level Epidemic Simulation Platform
Zipei Fan, Xuan Song, Yinghao Liu, Zhiwen Zhang, Chuang Yang, Quanjun Chen, Renhe Jiang, Ryosuke Shibasaki

34-40
Section 3: Microblog and Location-Based Social Network Data
Microblogs: A Renewable Spatio-temporal Fortune
Amr Magdy

41-52
Location-Based Social Simulation for Prescriptive Analytics of Disease Spread
Joon-Seok Kim, Hamdi Kavak, Chris Ovi Rouly, Hyunjee Jin, Andrew Crooks, Dieter Pfoser, Carola Wenk, Andreas Züfle

53-61

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SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter November 2019 (Volume 11, Number 3): ACM SIGSPATIAL 2019 Student Research Competition

Volume 11, Number 3, November 2019

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Foreword
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Message from the Editor
Andreas Züfle 

1-2
Section 1: The 4th ACM SIGSPATIAL Student Research Competition (SRC) Grand Finalists
Flash: Scalable Spatial Probabilistic Graphical Modeling
Ibrahim Sabek

3-6
Discovering Human Activity Community in a City
Tianyuan Huang

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Section 2: Workshop Reports
The 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computing with Multifaceted Movement Data (MOVE++ 2019)
Marc van Kreveld, Bettina Speckmann, Matei Stroila, Goce Trajcevski

9-11
The 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geo-computational Thinking in Education (GeoEd 2019)
Amr Magdy, Coline Dony

12-13
The 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Data Access and Processing APIs (SpatialAPI 2019)
Ahmed Eldawy

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The 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Spatial Gems (SpatialGems 2019)
John Krumm, Cyrus Shahabi, Andreas Züfle

15-17
The 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Advances on Resilient and Intelligent Cities (ARIC 2019)
Bandana Kar, Olufemi A. Omitaomu, Xinyue Ye, Shima Mohebbi, Guangtao Fu

18-19
The 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoSpatial Simulation (GeoSim 2019)
Joon-Seok Kim, Hamdi Kavak, Dieter Pfoser, Andrew Crooks, Carola Wenk, Sarah Wise

21-22
The 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on AI for Geographic Knowledge Discovery (GeoAI 2019)
Song Gao, Shawn Newsam, Liang Zhao, Dalton Lunga, Yingjie Hu, Bruno Martins, Xun Zhou, Feng Chen

23-24
The 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Analytics for Local Events and News (LENS 2019)
Haiquan Chen, Federico Iuricich, Amr Magdy

25-26
The 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities (GeoHumanities 2019)
Bruno Martins, Ludovic Moncla, Patricia Murrieta-Flores

27-29
The 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location-Based Recommendations, Geosocial Networks, and Geoadvertising (LocalRec 2019)
Panagiotis Bouros, Tamraparni Dasu, Yaron Kanza, Matthias Renz, Dimitris Sacharidis

30-33
The 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Prediction of Human Mobility (PredictGIS 2019)
Satish V. Ukkusuri, Kaoru Sezaki, Takahiro Yabe, Kota Tsubouchi

34-37
The 8th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Analytics for Big Geospatial Data (BigSpatial 2019)
Ashwin Shashidharan, Varun Chandola, Ranga Raju Vatsavai

38-39
Section 3: Event Announcements
Call for Submissions: The Sixth International ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Enriched Geo-Spatial Data (GeoRich 2020)
Panagiotis Bouros, Amr Magdy, Matthias Renz, Mohamed Sarwat, Andreas Züfle

40-41

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SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter July 2019 (Volume 11, Number 2): Visions and Challenges

Volume 11, Number 2, July 2019

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Forewordi-ii
Message from the Editor
Andreas Züfle 
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Section 1: Special Issue on Visions and Challenges
Introduction to this Special Issue 
Andreas Züfle
2-4
GeoAI at ACM SIGSPATIAL: Progress, Challenges, and Future Directions
Yingjie Hu, Song Gao, Dalton Lunga, Wenwen Li, Shawn Newsam, Budhendra Bhaduri
5-15
Batman or the Joker? The Powerful Urban Computing and its Ethics Issues
Kaiqun Fu, Abdulaziz Alhamadani, Taoran Ji, Chang-Tien Lu
16-25
Quantum Spatial Computing
Martin Werner
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Section 2: Tools and Datasets
UCR-STAR: The UCR Spatio-temporal Active Repository
Saheli Ghosh, Tin Vu, Mehrad Amin Eskandari, Ahmed Eldawy
34-40
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SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter March 2019 (Volume 11, Number 1): Spatial Query Processing and Traffic Simulation

Volume 11, Number 1, March 2019

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Forewordi-ii
Message from the Editor
Andreas Züfle 
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Section 1: Special Issue on Spatial Query Processing and Traffic Simulation
Introduction to this Special Issue 
Andreas Züfle
2
Spatial Pattern Matching: A New Direction for Finding Spatial Objects 
Yun Li, Yixiang Fang, Reynold Cheng, Wenjie Zhang
3-12
Spatial Joins: What’s next? 
Panagiotis Bouros, Nikos Mamoulis
13-21
Generating Traffic Data for Any City using SMARTS Simulator 
Hairuo Xie, Egemen Tanin, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Shanika Karunasekera, Lars Kulik, Rui Zhang, Jianzhong Qi 
22-28
Section 2: Event Reports
Conference Report: The 26th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on 
Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2018)
Seattle, Washington, USA November 6-9, 2018 

Ralf Hartmut Güting, Roberto Tamassia, Li Xiong, Farnoush Banaei-Kashani, Erik Hoel 
29-31
ACM SIGSPATIAL Cup 2018 – Identifying Upstream Features in Large Spatial Networks 
Dev Oliver, Bo Xu, Yuanyuan Pao 
32-35
Spatial Gems: A New Type of Workshop at the SIGSPATIAL Conference 
John Krumm, Cyrus Shahabi, Andreas Züfle 
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SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter November 2018 (Volume 10, Number 3): ACM SIGSPATIAL 2018 Student Research Competition

Volume 10, Number 3, November 2018

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Foreword
i-ii
Message from the Editor
Andreas Züfle 

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Section 1: Special Issue on the ACM SIGSPATIAL 2018 Students Research Competition (SRC)
Summit: A Scalable System for Massive Trajectory Data Management 
Louai Alarabi

2-3
Automatic Intersection Extraction and Building Arrangement with StarCraft II Maps 
Yuanbin Cheng, Yao-Yi Chiang

4-5
An Intelligent and Interactive Route Planning Maker for Deploying New Transportation Services 
Fandel Lin, Hsun-Ping Hsieh

6-7
Centroid-Amenities: An Interactive Visual Analytical Tool for Exploring and Analyzing Amenities in Singapore
Jazreel Siew Xue Qian, Sean Koh Jia Ming

8-9
Transferring scale-independent features to support multi-scale object recognition with deep convolutional neural network 
Xiran Zhou

10-11
Section 2: Event Reports
The Seventh ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Analysis for Big Spatial Data (BIGSPATIAL 2018) 
Varun Chandola, Ranga Raju Vatsavai 

12-13
The 4th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Safety and Resilience (EM-GIS 2018) 
Hui Zhang, Yan Huang, Jean-Claude Thill, Danhuai Guo, Yi Liu, Bin Chen, Wei Xu 

14-15
The 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoAI: AI for Geographic Knowledge Discovery (GeoAI 2018) 
Yingjie Hu, Song Gao, Shawn Newsam, Dalton Lunga 

16-16
The 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geospatial Humanities (GeoHumanities 2018) 
Bruno Martins, Patricia Murrieta-Flores 

17-18
The 12th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR 2018) 
Ross S. Purves, Christopher B. Jones 

19-20
The 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Analytics for Local Events and News (LENS 2018) 
Amr Magdy, Xun Zhou, Liang Zhao, Yan Huang 

21-22
The 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Recommendations for Location-based Services and Social Networks (LocalRec 2018) 
Panagiotis Bouros, Matthias Renz, Dimitris Sacharidis 

23-25
The 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Prediction of Human Mobility (PredictGIS 2018) 
Akihto Sudo, Yoshihide Sekimoto, Lau Honng Chuin, Xuan Song, Takahiro Yabe 

26-27
The 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoSpatial Simulation (GeoSim 2018) 
Joon-Seok Kim, Hamdi Kavak, Andreas Züfle, Andrew Crooks, Umar Manzoor, Paul M. Torrens 

28-29

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SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter July 2018 (Volume 10, Number 2): Urban Analytics and Mobility – Part 2

This July 2018 continues to feature a special topic of “Urban Analytics and Mobility”. The choice for this topic follows the rapid trend of the last years: The UrbanGIS’17 workshop at SIGSPATIAL 2017 was one of the largest workshops, many papers and research sessions focused on related topics, and the SIGSPATIAL 2017 keynote by Bryan Mistele, Founder & CEO of INRIX, discussed many future challenges in urban environments.

Volume 10, Number 2, July 2018

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Foreword
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Message from the Editor
Andreas Züfle 

1
Special Issue on Urban Analytics and Mobility (Part 2)
Introduction to this Special Issue 
Andreas Züfle

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Urban Analytics in the Context of Public Safety: The Case of Avoidance Patterns 
Emre Eftelioglu

3-9
Indoor location-based services: Challenges and Opportunities 
Muhammad Aamir Cheema

10-17
Dynamic Task Assignment in Spatial Crowdsourcing 
Yongxin Tong, Zimu Zhou

18-25
Spatiotemporal Clustering in Urban Transportation – a Bus Route Case Study in Washington D.C. 
Xiqi Fei, Olga Gkountouna

26-33
Procedural City Generation Beyond Game Development 
Joon-Seok Kim, Hamdi Kavak, Andrew Crooks

34-41

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SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter March 2018 (Volume 10, Number 1): Urban Analytics and Mobility – Part 1

This March 2018 continues to feature a special topic of “Urban Analytics and Mobility”. The choice for this topic follows the rapid trend of the last years: The UrbanGIS’17 workshop at SIGSPATIAL 2017 was one of the largest workshops, many papers and research sessions focused on related topics, and the SIGSPATIAL 2017 keynote by Bryan Mistele, Founder & CEO of INRIX, discussed many future challenges in urban environments.

Volume 10, Number 1, March 2018


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Foreword


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Message from the Editor
Andreas Züfle

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Section 1: Special Issue on Urban Analytics and Mobility (Part 1)
Introduction to this Special Issue 
Andreas Züfle

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A Brief Overview of Machine Learning Methods for Short-term Traffic Forecasting and Future Directions 
Yaguang Li, Cyrus Shahabi

3-9
Time-Dependent Route Scheduling on Road Networks 
Lei Li, Jiwon Kim, Jiajie Xu, Xiaofang Zhou

10-14
High Definition Maps in Urban Context
Andi Zhang, Xin Chen, Goce Trajcevski

15-20
Section 2: Event Reports
Conference Report: The 25th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017) Redondo Beach, California, USA November 7—10 , 2017 
Goce Trajcevski, Siva Ravada, Roberto Tamassia 

21-23
ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS Cup 2017 – Range Queries under Fréchet Distance 
Martin Werner, Dev Oliver 

24-27

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

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
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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