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The 2nd International Workshop on Urban Computing (UrbComp 2012)
A Summary
August 11, 2013 - Chicago, IL, USA
In conjunction with KDD 2013
General Co-ChairsSteven E. Koonin, New York UniversityOuri E. Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago
Program ChairYu Zheng, Microsoft Research Asia
Submissions
• Received 28 submissions from 7 countries/regions
• Joined by many leading research organizations
Countries/Regions Num.
USA 15
China 3
Brazil 3
Portugal 3
UK 2
Italy 1
Switzerland 1
Continents Submissions Percentage
North American 15 53.5%
Europe 6 21.4%
South American 4 14.3%
Asia 3 10.7%
MIT, CMU, UC Berkeley , Microsoft Research, UIUC, Purdue University, University of Minnesota, ETH, University College London …
Papers
• Accepted 6 full papers (21.4%) and 11 short presentation papers
• Short papers have the same length (8 pages) as the full paper
• Both of them have been included in ACM DL
• Papers can be found here.
Program Committee
• Alexandre M. Bayen, U. C. Berkeley, USA • Licia Capra, University College of London, UK • Sanjay Chawla, University of Sydney, Australia• Baoquan Chen, Institute of Advanced Computing and Digital Engineering, China • Xin Chen, Nokia, USA• Francesco Calabrese, IBM Research & Development• Giannotti Fosca. University of Pisa, Italy• Marta C. González, MIT, USA.• Ralf Hartmut Guting, University of Hagen, Germany• Yan Huang, University of North Texas• Patrick Jaillet, MIT, USA• Samuel Madden, MIT, USA• Alexei Pozdnoukhov, U. C. Berkeley, USA • Wen-Chih Peng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan• Daniele Quercia, Yahoo Lab. Spain.• Claudio T. Silva, New York University, USA• Hui Xiong, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey• Hai YANG, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology• Daqing Zhang, Institute TELECOM SudParis, France
Program ChairYu Zheng, Microsoft Research Asia
Best Paper Candidates
• A Review of Urban Computing for Mobile Phone Traces: Current Methods, Challenges and OpjportunitiesShan Jiang (MIT), Gaston Fiore (MIT), Yingxiang Yang (MIT), Joseph Ferreira (MIT), Emilio Frazzoli (MIT), Marta González (MIT)
• Fast and Exact Network Trajectory Similarity Computation: A Case-Study on Bicycle Corridor Planning Michael Evans (University of Minnesota), Dev Oliver (University of Minnesota), Shashi Shekhar(University of Minnesota), Francis Harvey (University of Minnesota)
• A comparison of Foursquare and Instagram to the study of city dynamics and urban social behavior Thiago Silva (Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais), Pedro Vaz de Melo (Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais), Jussara Almeida (Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais), Juliana Salles (Microsoft Research), Antonio Loureiro (UFMG)
Agenda
• 1 keynote, 4 sessions and 1 Panel Discussion – Keynote: Computational Urban Sciences: Emerging Opportunities
– Session 1 (65min): Human Mobility
Chair: Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago
– Session 2(90min): Social Behaviors and Urban Activities
Chair: Steven E. Koonin, New York University
– Session 3 (80min): Mining Urban Traffic (13:40)
Chair: Yu Zheng, Microsoft Research Asia
– Session 4 (70min): Understanding Cities
Chair: Charlie Catlett, University of Chicago
– Panel Discussion and Business meeting (16:40)
Chair: Yu Zheng, Microsoft Research Asia
Sharing
• Research results and experiences
• Data, Data, Data!
Information
• Three Free Datasets– GeoLife Trajectory Dataset (1.2)
– T-Drive Taxi Trajectories (1.0)
– Foursquare Check-In Data
• 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
Foursquare Check-In
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
1
Panel Discussion
• Your vision about urban computing
• What are the key challenges in this field?
• What are the research problems here?
• What’s the key technology that we need in this area? What is still missing here?
• Share up-to-three most important and promising applications or urban computing in your mind.
Best Paper Announcement
Best Paper Candidates
• A Review of Urban Computing for Mobile Phone Traces: Current Methods, Challenges and OpjportunitiesShan Jiang (MIT), Gaston Fiore (MIT), Yingxiang Yang (MIT), Joseph Ferreira (MIT), Emilio Frazzoli (MIT), Marta González (MIT)
• Fast and Exact Network Trajectory Similarity Computation: A Case-Study on Bicycle Corridor Planning Michael Evans (University of Minnesota), Dev Oliver (University of Minnesota), Shashi Shekhar(University of Minnesota), Francis Harvey (University of Minnesota)
• A comparison of Foursquare and Instagram to the study of city dynamics and urban social behavior Thiago Silva (Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais), Pedro Vaz de Melo (Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais), Jussara Almeida (Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais), Juliana Salles (Microsoft Research), Antonio Loureiro (UFMG)
Best Paper AwardPresented To
For the paperA Review of Urban Computing for Mobile Phone Traces:
Current Methods, Challenges and Opportunities
Shan Jiang, Gaston Fiore, Yingxiang Yang, Joseph Ferreira, Emilio Frazzoli, Marta González
The International Workshop on Urban Computing
(UrbComp 2013)
August 11, 2013 - Chicago, IL, USA
Held in conjunction with the 19th ACM SIGKDD 2013
Look forward to seeing you in UrbComp 2014 at NYC!
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/yuzheng/