SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter July 2017 (Volume 9, Number 2): Indoor Spatial Awareness – Part 2

The mission of this special issue “Indoor Spatial Awareness (Part 2)” is to bring together scientists and researchers who work on different topics of indoor spatial awareness and to provide a venue for inspiring new research directions in all relevant aspects.

Volume 9, Number 2, July 2017

Foreword

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Message from the Editor
Chi-Yin Chow

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Section 1: Special Issue on Indoor Spatial Awareness (Part 2)
Introduction to this Special Issue: Indoor Spatial Awareness (Part 2)
Chi-Yin Chow

2
The Anatomy of the Anyplace Indoor Navigation Service
Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti and Christos Laoudias

3-10
Risk Detection and Prediction from Indoor Tracking Data
Tanvir Ahmed, Toon Calders, Hua Lu, and Torben Bach Pedersen

11-18
Toward Mining User Movement Behaviors in Indoor Environments
Shan-Yun Teng, Wei-Shinn Ku, and Kun-Ta Chuang

19-27
Using Integrity Constraints to Guide the Interpretation of RFID-Trajectory Data
Bettina Fazzinga, Sergio Flesca, Filippo Furfaro, and Francesco Parisi

28-35
Towards Ubiquitous Indoor Spatial Awareness on a Worldwide Scale
Moustafa Elhamshary and Moustafa Youssef

36-43
Section 2: Event Reports
10th ACM SIGSPATIAL GIR Workshop Report
Christopher B. Jones and Ross S. Purves 

44-45

SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter March 2017 (Volume 9, Number 1): Indoor Spatial Awareness – Part 1

The mission of this special issue “Indoor Spatial Awareness (Part 1)” is to bring together scientists and researchers who work on different topics of indoor spatial awareness and to provide a venue for inspiring new research directions in all relevant aspects.

Volume 9, Number 2, March 2017


Foreword


i-ii
Message from the Editor
Chi-Yin Chow

1
Section 1: Special Issue on Indoor Spatial Awareness (Part 1)
Introduction to this Special Issue: Indoor Spatial Awareness (Part 1)
Chi-Yin Chow

2
Probabilistic Cleaning over Trajectory Events of Mobile RFID Objects
Guoqiong Liao, Philip S. Yu, Qianhui Zhong, Sihong Xie, Changxuan Wan, and Dexi Liu

3-11
Cleansing Indoor RFID Tracking Data
Asif Iqbal Baba, Hua Lu, Torben Bach Pedersen, and Manfred Jaeger

12-19
Indoor Localization and Navigation Independent of Sensor Based Technologies
Stephan Winter, Martin Tomko, Maria Vasardani, Kai-Florian Richter, and Kourosh Khoshelham

20-33
Deviation Maps for Robust and Informed Indoor Positioning Services 
Henrik Blunck, Thor S. Prentow, Sylvie Temme, Andreas Thom, and Jan Vahrenhold

34-41
(Meta-)Data Modelling: Gathering Spatio-Temporal Data for Indoor-Outdoor Queries
Florence Sèdes and Franck Jeveme Panta

42-49
Section 2: Event Reports
ACM ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016 Conference Report
Matthias Renz, Siva Ravada, and Goce Trajcevski 

50-52
ACM SIGSPATIAL ISA 2016 Workshop Report
Muhammad Aamir Cheema and Mohammed Eunus Ali 

53-54
ACM SIGSPATIAL MELT 2016 Workshop Report
Sarana Nutanong, John Krumm, and Egemen Tanin 

55

SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter November 2016 (Volume 8, Number 3): ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016 Students Research Competition

For the first time, the ACM SIGSPATIAL 201 hosted the SIGSPATIAL ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) this year.

Volume 8, Number 3, November 2016

Foreword

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Message from the Editor
Chi-Yin Chow

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Section 1: Special Issue on ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016 Students Research Competition
ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016 Students Research Competition Report
Moustafa Youssef

2
SRC: Accelerating the Calculation of Minimum Set of Viewpoints for Maximum 
Coverage over Digital Elevation Model Data by Hybrid Computer Architecture and Systems

Chenggang Lai, Miaoqing Huang, and Xuan Shi

3-4
SRC: City-Scale Mapping of Pets Using Georeferenced Images
Aaron San Jose, Eduardo Hernandez, and Shawn Newsam

5-6
SRC: Computational Steering for Geosimulations
Ashwin Shashidharan 

7-8
SRC: Dynamic Indoor Navigation with Bayesian Filters 
Wenlu Wang and Wei-Shinn Ku

9-10
Section 2: Event Reports
The 5th ACM SIGSPATIAL MobiGIS Workshop Report
Shashi Shekhar, Maria Luisa Damiani, Chi-Yin Chow, and Reza Nourjou 

11
The 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL IWGS Workshop Report 
Chengyang Zhang, Farnoush Banaei-Kashani, and Abdeltawab Hendawi 

12-13

SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter July 2016 (Volume 8, Number 2): Spatio-Temporal Uncertainty

Volume 8, Number 2, July 2016


Foreword


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Message from the Editor
Chi-Yin Chow

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Section 1: Special Issue on Spatio-Temporal Uncertainty
Introduction to this Special Issue: Spatio-Temporal Uncertainty
Goce Trajcevski

2
Uncertainty in Geosocial Data: Friend or Foe?
Yaron Kanza

3-10
Managing Uncertainty of Large Spatial Databases
Reynold Cheng

11-17
Bayesian Network Movement Model
Andreas Züfle

18-25
Processing Uncertain Spatial Data Resulting from Differentially-Private Sanitization 
Mihai Maruseac and Gabriel Ghinita

26-34
Addressing the Uncertainties in Autonomous Driving
Jane Macfarlane and Matei Stroila

35-40
Section 2: Event Reports
The Second ACM SIGSPATIAL PhD Workshop Report
Peter Scheuermann and Mohamed Sarwat 

41-42

SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter March 2016 (Volume 8, Number 1): GIS in Public Health Research

This special issue consists of five contributions that address different problems in the research area of GIS and public health.

Volume 8, Number 1, March 2016


Foreword


i-ii
Message from the Editor
Chi-Yin Chow and Zhuojie Huang 

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Section 1: Special Issue on GIS in Public Health Research
Introduction to this Special Issue: GIS in Public Health Research
Chi-Yin Chow and Zhuojie Huang

2
From Farm to Fork: How Spatial-Temporal Data can Accelerate Foodborne Illness Investigation in a Global Food Supply Chain
Kun Hu, Stefan Edlund, Matthew Davis, and James Kaufman

3-11
Multiscale Modeling Approach for Hierarchical Aligned Aggregated Small Area Health Data
Mehreteab Aregay, Andrew B. Lawson, Christel Faes, Russell S. Kirby, Rachel Carroll, and Kevin Watjou

12-19
Integrating Geographic Activity Space and Social Network Space to Promote Healthy Lifestyles
Xinyue Ye and Jay Lee 

20-33
A Fully GIS-Integrated Simulation Approach for Analyzing the Spread of Epidemics in Urban Areas 
Hedi Haddad, Bernard Moulin, and Marius Thériault

34-41
Gamifying Hand Physical Therapy with Intelligent 3D Navigation 
Imad Afyouni, Faizan Ur Rehman, Sohaib Ghani, Ahmad Qamar, and Saleh Basalamah

42-49
Section 2: Event Reports
ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015 Conference Report
Michael Gertz, Matthias Renz, and Jagan Sankaranarayanan 

50-52
ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015 Industrial Workshop Report
Egemen Tanin and Goce Trajcevski 

53-54
ACM SIGSPATIAL IWCTS 2015 Workshop Report
Yan Huang and Xin Chen 

55
ACM SIGSPATIAL MobiGIS 2015 Workshop Report
Chi-Yin Chow, Maria Luisa Damiani, and Shashi Shekhar 

56

SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter November 2015 (Volume 7, Number 3): Mobile Data Analytics

Volume 7, Number 3, November 2015


Foreword


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Message from the Editor
Chi-Yin Chow 

1
Section 1: Special Issue on Mobile Data Analytics
Introduction to this Special Issue: Mobile Data Analyticss
Chi-Yin Chow

2
Dynamic Ridesharing
Bilong Shen, Yan Huang, and Ying Zhao

3-10
Geo-social Media Data Analytic for User Modeling and Location-based Services
Jie Bao, Defu Lian, Fuzheng Zhang, and Nicholas Jing Yuan

11-18
How Events Unfold: Spatiotemporal Mining in Social Media
Ting Hua, Liang Zhao, Feng Chen, and Chang-Tien Lu 

19-25
Point-of-Interest Recommendations in Location-Based Social Networks 
Jia-Dong Zhang and Chi-Yin Chow

26-33
Section 2: Event Reports
ACM SIGSPATIAL GeoPrivacy 2015 Workshop Report
Grant McKenzie, Krzysztof Janowicz, and Gueorgi Kossinets 

34
ACM SIGSPATIAL EM-GIS 2015 Workshop Report
Hui Zhang, Yan Huang, and Jean-Claude Thil 

35
ACM SIGSPATIAL MELT 2015 Workshop Report
Ying Zhang and Bodhi Priyantha 

36
ACM SIGSPATIAL IWGS 2015 Workshop Report
Chengyang Zhang, Farnoush Banaei-Kashani, and Abdeltawab Hendawi 

37-38

SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter July 2015 (Volume 7, Number 2): Geosensor Networks

Volume 7, Number 2, July 2015

Foreword

i-ii
Message from the Editor
Chi-Yin Chow 

1
Section 1: Special Issue on Geosensor Networks
Introduction to this Special Issue: Geosensor Networks
Silvia Nittel 

2
Deployment of a Large-Scale Soil Monitoring Geosensor Network
Gopal K Mulukutl, Brian T. Godbois, and Serita Frey

3-13
Challenges to Using Decentralized Spatial Algorithms in the Field: The RISERnet Geosensor Network Case Study
Matt Duckham, Xu Zhong, and Kevin Toohey 

14-21
Real-time Sensor Data Streams
Silvia Nittel 

22-28
Fusing Human and Technical Sensor Data: Concepts and Challenges
Bernd Resch and Thomas Blaschke 

29-35
Formal Foundations of Sensor Network Applications
Jacob Beal and Mirko Viroli 

36-42
Section 2: Event Reports
ACM SIGSPATIAL MapInteract 2014 Workshop Report
Falko Schmid, Chris Kray, and Holger Fritze 

43
ACM SIGSPATIAL BigSpatial 2014 Workshop Report
Varun Chandola and Ranga Raju Vatsavai
44

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