Post on 12-Apr-2017
LocWeb 20166th International Workshop on Location and the Web
atWWW 2016
Montréal, Canada45°30′N 73°34′W
Organizers
Dirk AhlersNTNUTrondheim, Norway
Bruno MartinsUniversity of Lisbon, IST and INESC-IDLisbon, Portugal
Erik WildeSiemensBerkeley, USA
Programme Committee• Andreas Henrich, Universität
Bamberg, Germany• Arjen de Vries, CWI, Netherlands• Carsten Keßler, CUNY, USA• Chandan Kumar, University
Koblenz-Landau, Germany• Christoph Trattner, Graz University
of Technology, Austria• Christopher Jones, Cardiff
University, UK• Claudia Hauff, Delft University,
Netherlands• Clodoveu Davis, Universidade
Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil• Francisco López-Pellicer,
Universidad Zaragoza, Spain
• Massimiliano Ruocco, Telenor Research, Norway
• Max Egenhofer, University of Maine, USA
• Rainer Simon, AIT Austrian Institute for Technology
• Ross Purves, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
• Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University, UK
• Torsten Suel, New York University, USA
• Vanessa Murdock, Bing, USA• Yana Volkovich, Centro
Tecnológico de Catalunya, Spain
LocWeb 2016• Location-aware information
access• Cross-cutting issue in Web
research– Search, retrieval, analytics,
mining, extraction, mobility, apps, services, systems
• Interdisciplinary perspective• Discuss and develop the
role of location
Schedule14:00 – 15:30 Session 1• Opening
• Context-Aware Friend Recommendation for Location Based Social Networks using Random WalkHakan Bagci (Middle East Technical University); Pinar Karagoz (Middle East Technical University)
• Maps for HTMLPeter Rushforth (Natural Resources Canada)
• Discovering and Characterizing Mobility Patterns in Urban Spaces: A Study of Manhattan Taxi DataLisette Espín-Noboa (GESIS); Florian Lemmerich (GESIS); Philipp Singer (GESIS); Markus Strohmaier (GESIS)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30 Session 2• Keynote
Luca Aiello (Yahoo Labs): The Sensorial Map of the City• Keynote
Erik Wilde: GeoJSON Update• Discussion on Open Questions• Closing
Montréal Location Details• Location is interesting and useful• Cities are exciting• Location (use) is highly local• Details can be surprising• Understand the city?• What did you discover?• Multilinguality?
Montréal Underground City• (officially RÉSO or La Ville
Souterraine)• ~30km of underground
malls, tunnels, etc.• Map:
http://documents.tourisme-montreal.org/Traveller/Travel-Information/Getting-Around/EN/Underground-Pedestrian-Network-Map.pdf
• Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_City,_Montreal
• Site: http://montrealundergroundcity.com/
Thoughts for LocWeb201*• What did you expect, what new
things did you learn?• Things you liked (not?) at LocWeb?• Room for improvement?• Particular ideas for next edition?
Follow-up• http://dhere.de/locweb2016/– Linking papers from ACM DL and WWW
• Make slides available, please!– And send link
• @locweb• Work on open issues