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In the first section, we have a special issue of some topic of interest to the SIGSPATIAL community. The topic of this issue is "Mobile Data Analytics" which is edited by our associate editor Dr. Chi-Yin Chow (Ted). Dr. Chow is currently an Assistant ...
Mobile data analytics: introduction to this special issue
With the rapid advancement of mobile devices and location acquisition technologies, more and more large-scale location-based data have been available for data analytics and realizing new location-aware services. Various large-scale location-based data ...
Dynamic ridesharing
Ridesharing, which offers empty seats in a car to other passengers, is an efficient way of transportation. In this way, the utilization of seats can be improved and the number of cars used can be reduced. Ridesharing has the potential to solve the ...
Geo-social media data analytic for user modeling and location-based services
More and more geo-tagged social media data is generated, nowadays, from the geo-tagged tweets, geo-tagged photos to check-ins. Analyzing this flourish data enables the possibility for us to discover users daily mobility patterns, profiles and ...
How events unfold: spatiotemporal mining in social media
There has been significant recent interest in the application of social media analytics for spatiotemporal event mining. However, no structured survey exists to capture developments in this space. This paper seeks to fill this void by reviewing recent ...
Point-of-interest recommendations in location-based social networks
Location-based social networks (LBSNs), e.g., Foursquare, Gowalla and Yelp, bridge the physical world with the virtual online world. LBSNs have accumulated plenty of community-contributed data such as social links between users, check-ins of users on ...
GeoPrivacy 2015 workshop report: the second ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Privacy in Geographic Information Collection and Analysis (Seattle, WA, USA - November 3, 2015)
Developments in mobile and surveying technologies over the past decade have enabled the collection of individual-level and aggregated geographic information at unprecedented scale. These data are valuable sources for answering scientific questions about ...
EM-GIS 2015 workshop report: the first ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on the Use of GIS in Emergency Management (Seattle, Washington, USA - November 3, 2015)
Emergency management aims to develop strategies and establish operations to decrease the potential impact of unexpected events (i.e., human or natural disasters). By quick response and rescue, it saves human lives from the secondary disasters and ...
MELT 2015 workshop report: the fifth ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Mobile Entity Localization and Tracking in GPS-less Environments (Seattle, Washington, USA - November 3, 2015)
After a decade of research and development for GPS-less localization and tracking, there has been significant progress in location-awareness and location-based services around the world. Almost all cell phone platforms, Android, iPhone and Windows ...
IWGS 2015 workshop report: the 6th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoStreaming (Seattle, WA, USA - November 3, 2015)
The ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geostreaming (IWGS) was held for the sixth time in conjunction with the 23rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACMGIS 2015). The workshop has been a ...
