Workshop Program

Opening and Welcome Erik Wilde

Morning Session 1 (1,5h): Location Precision and Location Mining

Precision of Positioning Data on Smartphones
Stephan von Watzdorf, ETH Zurich
Florian Michahelles, ETH Zurich

Frequent Trajectory Mining on GPS Data
Norma Savage, University Of California in Santa Barbara
Shoji Nishimura, NEC Corporation
Norma Elva Chavez, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Xifeng Yan, University Of California in Santa Barbara

What Aspects do People Search in Geo-referenced Text?
Gwan Jang, KAIST
Keun-Chan Park, KAIST
Kyung-Min Kim, KAIST
Yoonjae Jeong KAIST
Sung-Hyon Myaeng, KAIST

Coffee Break

Morning Session 2 (1,5h): LocWeb Applications

Inferring Usage Characteristics of Electric Bicycles from Position Information
Johannes Paefgen, University of St. Gallen Florian Michahelles, ETH Zurich

System Architecture for using Location Information for Process Optimization within a Factory of Things
Peter Stephan, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI

TimeTable.Locky: Nation Wide WiFi Location Information System based on User Contributed Information
Motoki Yano, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University
Katsuhiko Kaji, Graduated School of Engineering, Nagoya University
Nobuo Kawaguchi, Graduated School of Engineering, Nagoya University

Lunch

Afternoon Session (1,5h): LocWeb Frameworks, Architectures and Semantics


Acquiring Semantic Context for Events from Online Resources
João Oliveirinha, Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra
Francisco Pereira, Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra
Ana Alves, Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra

Genetic Location-Based Social Networks (G-LBSN)
Hassan Karimi, University of Pittsburgh

The Location Graph: Towards a Symbolic Location Architecture for the Web
Vlad Stirbu, Nokia
Petri Selonen, Nokia
Arto Palin, Nokia

Coffee Break

Breakout Discussion (1h)

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