International Workshop on Urban Computing (UrbComp 2012)

Yu Zheng Microsoft Research Asia

A Summary

Submissions

• Received 29 submissions from 13 countries/regions

Countries/Regions Num.

USA 8

China 6

Italy 3

Spain 2

Taiwan 2

Australia 1

Canada 1

England 1

Ireland 1

Japan 1

Mexico 1

Portugal 1

Singapore 1

Continents Submissions Percentage

Asia 10 34.5%

North American 10 34.5%

Europe 8 27.6%

Australia 1 3.0%

USA

28%

china

21%Italy

10%

Spain

7%

Taiwan

7%

Austrilia

4%

Canada

4%

England

4%

Ireland

3%

Japan

3%

Mexico

3%Portugal

3%

Singapore

3%

Papers

• Accepted 6 full papers (20.7%) and 16 short presentation papers

• Short papers have the same length (8 pages) as the full paper

• Both of them have been included in ACM DL (check it out)

• Slide deck of some papers can be found here.

Continents Submissions Accepted Among total accepted papers

Asia 10 7 31.8%

North American 10 8 36.4%

Europe 8 6 27.2%

Australia 1 1 4.5%

Papers Invited to ACM TIST

1. Inferring land use from mobile phone activity Jameson Toole (MIT), Michael Ulm (Austrian Institute of Technology), Dietmar Bauer (Austrian Institute of Technology), Marta Gonzalez (MIT)

2. City-scale Traffic Simulation From Digital Footprints Gavin McArdle (NCG), Eoghan Furey (NCG), Aonghus Lawlor, Alexei Pozdnoukhov (NCG)

3. Exploiting Large-Scale Check-in Data to Recommend Time-Sensitive Routes Hsun-Ping Hsieh (National Taiwan University), Cheng-Te Li (National Taiwan University), Shou-De Lin (National Taiwan University)

4. Urban Point-of-Interest Recommendation by Mining User Check-in Behaviors Jia-Ching Ying (National Cheng Kung University), Hsueh-Chan Lu (National Cheng Kung University), Wen-Ning Kou (National Cheng Kung University), Vincent Tseng (National Cheng Kung University)

5. Coordinated Clustering Algorithms to Support Charging Infrastructure Design for Electric Vehicles Marjan Momtazpour (Virginia Tech), Patrick Butler (Virginia Tech), M. Shahriar Hossain (Virginia Tech), Mohammad Bozchalui (NEC Laboratories America, Inc), Naren Ramakrishnan (Virginia Tech), Ratnesh Sharma

6. Mining Regular Route from GPS Data for Ridesharing Recommendation Wen He (Tsinghua University), Deyi Li, Tianlei Zhang, Mu Guo, Lifeng An

Best Paper Candidates

• Inferring land use from mobile phone activity Jameson Toole (MIT), Michael Ulm (Austrian Institute of Technology), Dietmar Bauer (Austrian Institute of Technology), Marta Gonzalez (MIT)

• City-scale Traffic Simulation From Digital Footprints Gavin McArdle (NCG), Eoghan Furey (NCG), Aonghus Lawlor, Alexei Pozdnoukhov (NCG)

• Coordinated Clustering Algorithms to Support Charging Infrastructure Design for Electric Vehicles

Marjan Momtazpour (Virginia Tech), Patrick Butler (Virginia Tech), M. Shahriar Hossain (Virginia Tech), Mohammad Bozchalui (NEC Laboratories America, Inc), Naren Ramakrishnan (Virginia Tech), Ratnesh Sharma

Agenda

• 4 sessions and 1 business meeting – Session 1 (90min): Urban Computing with communication data

Chair: Vincent S. Tseng, National Cheng Kung University

– Session 2(90min): Urban Computing with social media

Chair: Xing Xie, Microsoft Research Asia

– Session 3 (90min): Urban Computing with human traces (13:30)

Chair: Sanjay Chawla, University of Sydney

– Session 4 (90min): Urban computing with transportation data

Chair: Hui Xiong, Rutgers University

– Business meeting (16:50)

Chair: Yu Zheng, Microsoft Research Asia

Information

• Two Free Datasets – GeoLife Trajectory Dataset (1.2)

– T-Drive Taxi Trajectories (1.0)

• One Related Book – Computing with Spatial Trajectories

– Slide decks can be found here

GeoLife Trajectory Dataset (1.2)

Version 1.1 Version 1.2 Incremental

Time span of the collection 04/2007 – 10/2011 04/2007 – 8/2012 +10 months

Number of users 178 182 +4

Number of trajectories 17,621 18,670 +1,049

Number of points 23,667,828 24,876,978 +1,209,150

Total distance 1,251,654km 1,292,951km +41,297 km

Total duration 48,203hours 50,176hours +1,973 hour

Effective days 10,413 11,129 +716

Transportation mode

Distance (km)

Duration (hour)

Walk 10,123 5,460

Bike 6,495 2,410

Bus 20,281 1,507

Car & taxi 32,866 2,384

Train 36,253 745

Airplane 24,789 40

Other 9,493 404

Total 14,0304 12,953

Link to the data

T-Drive Taxi Trajectories 1.0

• Generated by 10,357 taxicabs in one week in 2008 – 15 million points

– 9 million KM Link to the data

Reminder

• Each full paper: Presentation (22min) + Q&A (3min)

• Each short paper: Presentation (11min) + Q&A (2min)

• 1 minute before the end of the presentation time

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Best Paper Announcement

Best Student Paper Award

The International Workshop on Urban Computing

(UrbComp 2012)

August 12, 2012 - Beijing, China

Held in conjunction with the 18th ACM SIGKDD 2012

Presented To

For the paper Coordinated Clustering Algorithms to Support Charging

Infrastructure Design for Electric Vehicles

Marjan Momtazpour, Patrick Butler, M. Shahriar Hossain, Mohammad Bozchalui, Naren Ramakrishnan, Ratnesh Sharma

Best Paper Award

The International Workshop on Urban Computing

(UrbComp 2012)

August 12, 2012 - Beijing, China

Held in conjunction with the 18th ACM SIGKDD 2012

Presented To

For the paper

Inferring land use from mobile phone activity

Jameson Toole, Michael Ulm, Dietmar Bauer, Marta Gonzalez

Notes of Business Meeting

• Organize UrbComp’13 at KDD 2013

• Accept posters in the next round

• Identify a special issue for UrbComp’13

See you in UrbComp 2013!

Yu Zheng yuzheng@microsoft.com

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/yuzheng/