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

Contact• http://dhere.de/locweb2016/• @locweb• #locweb2016• #www2016

Session I

Session II

Keynote

The Sensorial Map of the CityLuca Aiello

Keynote

GeoJSON UpdateErik Wilde

Discussion

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/

Open Issues• What is exciting?• What is difficult?• What is challenging?• What should we work on?

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

Keep in touch!LocWeb 2016WWW 2016

Montréal, Canada45°30′N 73°34′W

http://dhere.de/locweb2016/ @locweb