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- research-articleJuly 2024
Mobility Data Science: Perspectives and Challenges
- Mohamed Mokbel,
- Mahmoud Sakr,
- Li Xiong,
- Andreas Züfle,
- Jussara Almeida,
- Taylor Anderson,
- Walid Aref,
- Gennady Andrienko,
- Natalia Andrienko,
- Yang Cao,
- Sanjay Chawla,
- Reynold Cheng,
- Panos Chrysanthis,
- Xiqi Fei,
- Gabriel Ghinita,
- Anita Graser,
- Dimitrios Gunopulos,
- Christian S. Jensen,
- Joon-Seok Kim,
- Kyoung-Sook Kim,
- Peer Kröger,
- John Krumm,
- Johannes Lauer,
- Amr Magdy,
- Mario Nascimento,
- Siva Ravada,
- Matthias Renz,
- Dimitris Sacharidis,
- Flora Salim,
- Mohamed Sarwat,
- Maxime Schoemans,
- Cyrus Shahabi,
- Bettina Speckmann,
- Egemen Tanin,
- Xu Teng,
- Yannis Theodoridis,
- Kristian Torp,
- Goce Trajcevski,
- Marc van Kreveld,
- Carola Wenk,
- Martin Werner,
- Raymond Wong,
- Song Wu,
- Jianqiu Xu,
- Moustafa Youssef,
- Demetris Zeinalipour,
- Mengxuan Zhang,
- Esteban Zimányi
ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (TSAS), Volume 10, Issue 2Article No.: 10, Pages 1–35https://doi.org/10.1145/3652158Mobility data captures the locations of moving objects such as humans, animals, and cars. With the availability of Global Positioning System (GPS)–equipped mobile devices and other inexpensive location-tracking technologies, mobility data is collected ...
- research-articleNovember 2023
Conference Report: The 30th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2022) Seattle, Washington, USA November 1--4, 2022
This report presents the development and finalization of the 30th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2022), which was held in Seattle, Washington, USA, November 1--4, 2022.
- short-paperJune 2023
A Demonstration of GeoTorchAI: A Spatiotemporal Deep Learning Framework
SIGMOD '23: Companion of the 2023 International Conference on Management of DataPages 195–198https://doi.org/10.1145/3555041.3589734This paper demonstrates GeoTorchAI, a spatiotemporal deep learning framework. In recent years, many neural network models have been proposed focusing on the applications of raster imagery and spatiotemporal non-imagery datasets. Implementing these models ...
- posterNovember 2022
GeoTorch: a spatiotemporal deep learning framework
SIGSPATIAL '22: Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information SystemsArticle No.: 100, Pages 1–4https://doi.org/10.1145/3557915.3561036Deep learning frameworks, such as PyTorch and TensorFlow, support the implementation of various state-of-the-art machine learning models such as neural networks, hidden Markov models, and support vector machines. In recent years, many extensions of ...
- proceedingNovember 2022
SIGSPATIAL '22: Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
The conference started as a series of workshops and symposia back in 1993 with the aim of promoting interdisciplinary discussions among researchers, developers, users, and practitioners and fostering research in all aspects of geographic information ...
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- research-articleNovember 2021
GEM: An Efficient Entity Matching Framework for Geospatial Data
SIGSPATIAL '21: Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information SystemsPages 346–349https://doi.org/10.1145/3474717.3483973Identifying various mentions of the same real-world locations is known as spatial entity matching. GEM is an end-to-end Geospatial EM framework that matches polygon geometry entities in addition to point geometry type. Blocking, feature vector creation, ...
- research-articleJune 2021
- research-articleMarch 2021
Evaluation of Machine Learning Algorithms in Predicting the Next SQL Query from the Future
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), Volume 46, Issue 1Article No.: 4, Pages 1–46https://doi.org/10.1145/3442338Prediction of the next SQL query from the user, given her sequence of queries until the current timestep, during an ongoing interaction session of the user with the database, can help in speculative query processing and increased interactivity. While ...
- research-articleJanuary 2021
GeoSparkViz: a cluster computing system for visualizing massive-scale geospatial data
The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Volume 30, Issue 2Pages 237–258https://doi.org/10.1007/s00778-020-00645-2AbstractIn the last decade, geospatial data which is extracted from GPS traces and satellites image has become ubiquitous. GeoVisual analytics, abbr. GeoViz, is the science of analytical reasoning assisted by geospatial map interfaces. GeoViz involves two ...
- research-articleDecember 2020
Dissecting GeoSparkSim: a scalable microscopic road network traffic simulator in Apache Spark
Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD), Volume 38, Issue 4Pages 963–994https://doi.org/10.1007/s10619-020-07306-xAbstractResearchers and practitioners have widely studied road network traffic data in different areas such as urban planning, traffic prediction and spatial-temporal databases. For instance, researchers use such data to evaluate the impact of road ...
- research-articleOctober 2020
Spatial data systems support for the internet of things: challenges and opportunities
SIGSPATIAL Special (SIGSPATIAL), Volume 12, Issue 2Pages 42–47https://doi.org/10.1145/3431843.3431850The Internet of Things (IoT) has recently received significant attention. An IoT device may possess an array of sensors that for example monitors the air temperature, carbon monoxide level, wifi signals, and sound intensity. IoT data is initially ...
- research-articleAugust 2020
Tabula in action: a sampling middleware for interactive geospatial visualization dashboards
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), Volume 13, Issue 12Pages 2925–2928https://doi.org/10.14778/3415478.3415510In this paper, we demonstrate Tabula, a middleware that sits between the data system and the geospatial visualization dashboard to increase user interactivity. The proposed system adopts a sampling cube approach that stores prematerialized spatial ...
- proceedingJune 2020
GeoRich '20: Proceedings of the Sixth International ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Managing and Mining Enriched Geo-Spatial Data
The aim of the GeoRich workshop is to provide a unique forum for discussing in depth the challenges, opportunities, novel techniques and applications on modeling, managing, searching and mining rich geo-spatial data, in order to fuel scientific research ...
- research-articleMay 2020
A Comprehensive Benchmark Framework for Active Learning Methods in Entity Matching
SIGMOD '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of DataPages 1133–1147https://doi.org/10.1145/3318464.3380597Entity Matching (EM) is a core data cleaning task, aiming to identify different mentions of the same real-world entity. Active learning is one way to address the challenge of scarce labeled data in practice, by dynamically collecting the necessary ...
- short-paperNovember 2019
Spatial Data Wrangling with GeoSpark: A Step by Step Tutorial
SpatialAPI'19: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Data Access and Processing APIsArticle No.: 3, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/3356394.3365589This tutorial is expected to deliver a comprehensive study and hands-on tutorial of how GeoSpark incorporates Spark to uphold massive-scale spatial data. We also want this tutorial to serve as an introductory course that teaches the audience the basic ...
- demonstrationAugust 2019
Demonstrating GeoSparkSim: A Scalable Microscopic Road Network Traffic Simulator Based on Apache Spark
SSTD '19: Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal DatabasesPages 186–189https://doi.org/10.1145/3340964.3340984Road network traffic data has been widely studied by researchers and practitioners in different areas such as urban planning, traffic prediction and spatial-temporal databases. The existing urban traffic simulators suffer from two critical issues (1) ...
- proceedingAugust 2019
SSTD '19: Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases
- Walid G. Aref,
- Michela Bertolotto,
- Panagiotis Bouros,
- Christian S. Jensen,
- Ahmed Mahmood,
- Kjetil Nørvåg,
- Dimitris Sacharidis,
- Mohamed Sarwat
This volume contains the proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD 2019). Included are the research contributions that were presented at SSTD 2019 in Vienna, Austria. The symposium brought together, for ...
- articleJuly 2019
A spatially-pruned vertex expansion operator in the Neo4j graph database system
Geoinformatica (KLU-GEIN), Volume 23, Issue 3Pages 397–423https://doi.org/10.1007/s10707-019-00361-2Graphs are widely used to model data in many application domains. Thanks to the wide spread use of GPS-enabled devices, many applications assign spatial attributes to graph vertexes (e.g., geographic knowledge bases, geo-tagged social media). Graph ...
- articleJanuary 2019
Spatial data management in apache spark: the GeoSpark perspective and beyond
The paper presents the details of designing and developing GeoSpark, which extends the core engine of Apache Spark and SparkSQL to support spatial data types, indexes, and geometrical operations at scale. The paper also gives a detailed analysis of the ...
- research-articleNovember 2018
A generic database indexing framework for large-scale geographic knowledge graphs
SIGSPATIAL '18: Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information SystemsPages 289–298https://doi.org/10.1145/3274895.3274966The paper proposes Riso-Tree, a generic indexing framework for geographic knowledge graphs. Riso-Tree enables fast execution of graph queries that involve spatial predicates (aka. GraSp). The proposed framework augments the classic R-Tree structure with ...