Saad Aljubayrin, B. Yang, Christian S. Jensen, Rui Zhang
{"title":"Finding non-dominated paths in uncertain road networks","authors":"Saad Aljubayrin, B. Yang, Christian S. Jensen, Rui Zhang","doi":"10.1145/2996913.2996964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2996913.2996964","url":null,"abstract":"With the rapidly growing availability of vehicle trajectory data, travel costs such as travel time and fuel consumption can be captured accurately as distributions (e.g., travel time distributions) instead of deterministic values (e.g., average travel times). We study a new path finding problem in uncertain road networks, where paths have travel cost distributions. Given a source and a destination, we find optimal, non-dominated paths connecting the source and the destination, where the optimality is defined in terms of the stochastic dominance among cost distributions of paths. We first design an A based framework that utilizes the uncertain graph to obtain the most accurate cost distributions while finding the candidate paths. Next, we propose a three-stage dominance examination method that employs extreme values in each candidate path's cost distribution for early detection of dominated paths, thus reducing the need for expensive distributions convolutions. We conduct extensive experiments using real world road network and trajectory data. The results show that our algorithm outperforms baseline algorithms by up to two orders of magnitude in terms of query response time while achieving the most accurate results.","PeriodicalId":20525,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems","volume":"301 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89036965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marjan Alirezaie, Franziska Klügl-Frohnmeyer, A. Loutfi
{"title":"Knowing without telling: integrating sensing and mapping for creating an artificial companion","authors":"Marjan Alirezaie, Franziska Klügl-Frohnmeyer, A. Loutfi","doi":"10.1145/2996913.2996961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2996913.2996961","url":null,"abstract":"This paper depicts a sensor-based map navigation approach which targets users, who due to disabilities or lack of technical knowledge are currently not in the focus of map system developments for personalized information. What differentiates our approach from the state-of-art mostly integrating localized social media data, is that our vision is to integrate real time sensor generated data that indicates the situation of different phenomena (such as the physiological functions of the body) related to the user. The challenge hereby is mainly related to knowledge representation and integration. The tentative impact of our vision for future navigation systems is reflected within a scenario.","PeriodicalId":20525,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81297025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cleansing indoor RFID data using regular expressions","authors":"A. Baba, Hua Lu, Wei-Shinn Ku, T. Pedersen","doi":"10.1145/2996913.2996979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2996913.2996979","url":null,"abstract":"RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)-based object tracking is increasingly deployed and used in indoor environments such as airports, shopping malls, etc. However, the inherent noise in the raw RFID data makes it difficult to support queries and analyses on the data. In this paper, we propose an RFID data cleansing based on regular expressions. We generate the regular expressions in an automaton that captures all possible indoor paths from the spatial and temporal aspects of indoor space and deployed readers. Given the raw data of an object, the proposed matching algorithm finds all the matching paths using the automaton. We evaluate the proposed approach by conducting experimental studies using real dataset. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of the propose approach.","PeriodicalId":20525,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems","volume":"95 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76228551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unsupervised annotated city traffic map generation","authors":"Rohit Verma, Surjya Ghosh, Aviral Shrivastava, Niloy Ganguly, Bivas Mitra, Sandip Chakraborty","doi":"10.1145/2996913.2996942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2996913.2996942","url":null,"abstract":"Public bus services in many cities in countries like India are controlled by private owners, hence, building up a database for all the bus routes is non-trivial. In this paper, we leverage smart-phone based sensing to crowdsource and populate the information repository for bus routes in a city. We have developed an intelligent data logging module for smart-phones and a server side processing mechanism to extract roads and bus routes information. From a 3 month long study involving more than 30 volunteers in 3 different cities in India, we found that the developed system, CrowdMap, can annotate bus routes with a mean error of 10m, while consuming 80% less energy compared to a continuous GPS based system.","PeriodicalId":20525,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87820456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-user routing to single destination with confluence","authors":"Kazuki Takise, Yasuhito Asano, Masatoshi Yoshikawa","doi":"10.1145/2996913.2997018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2996913.2997018","url":null,"abstract":"The recent increase in attention to ride-sharing applications demonstrates the importance of routing algorithms for multiple users who obtain benefits from confluence, that is, traveling together on all or part of their routes. We propose novel and flexible formulation of routing optimization for multiple users who have their respective sources and a single common destination. The formulation is general enough to express each user's benefit (or cost) of confluence for every combination of users. Hence, the formulation can represent a wide range of applications and subsumes almost all formulations proposed in literature. We establish an efficient exact method for the formulation. Interestingly, we found well-known Dreyfus-Wagner Algorithm for the Minimum Steiner Tree Problem (MSTP) is extensible for ours, although our formulation is much harder than the MSTP. Our experimental results obtained on large-scale road networks reveal that our method is efficient in practical settings.","PeriodicalId":20525,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82841881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bo Lyu, Shijian Li, Yanhua Li, Jie Fu, Andrew C. Trapp, Haiyong Xie, Yong Liao
{"title":"Scalable user assignment in power grids: a data driven approach","authors":"Bo Lyu, Shijian Li, Yanhua Li, Jie Fu, Andrew C. Trapp, Haiyong Xie, Yong Liao","doi":"10.1145/2996913.2996970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2996913.2996970","url":null,"abstract":"The fast pace of global urbanization is drastically changing the population distributions over the world, which leads to significant changes in geographical population densities. Such changes in turn alter the underlying geographical power demand over time, and drive power substations to become over-supplied (demand << capacity) or under-supplied (demand ≈ capacity). In this paper, we make the first attempt to investigate the problem of power substation-user assignment by analyzing large-scale power grid data. We develop a Scalable Power User Assignment (SPUA) framework, that takes large-scale spatial power user/substation distribution data and temporal user power consumption data as input, and assigns users to substations, in a manner that minimizes the maximum substation utilization among all substations. To evaluate the performance of our SPUA framework, we conduct evaluations on real power consumption data and user/substation location data collected from a province in China for 35 days in 2015. The evaluation results demonstrate that our SPUA framework can achieve a 20%--65% reduction on the maximum substation utilization, and 2 to 3.7 times reduction on total transmission loss over other baseline methods.","PeriodicalId":20525,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74627072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael Matheny, Raghvendra Singh, L. Zhang, Kaiqiang Wang, J. M. Phillips
{"title":"Scalable spatial scan statistics through sampling","authors":"Michael Matheny, Raghvendra Singh, L. Zhang, Kaiqiang Wang, J. M. Phillips","doi":"10.1145/2996913.2996939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2996913.2996939","url":null,"abstract":"Finding anomalous regions within spatial data sets is a central task for biosurveillance, homeland security, policy making, and many other important areas. These communities have mainly settled on spatial scan statistics as a rigorous way to discover regions where a measured quantity (e.g., crime) is statistically significant in its difference from a baseline population. However, most common approaches are inefficient and thus, can only be run with very modest data sizes (a few thousand data points) or make assumptions on the geographic distributions of the data. We address these challenges by designing, exploring, and analyzing sample-then-scan algorithms. These algorithms randomly sample data at two scales, one to define regions and the other to approximate the counts in these regions. Our experiments demonstrate that these algorithms are efficient and accurate independent of the size of the original data set, and our analysis explains why this is the case. For the first time, these sample-then-scan algorithms allow spatial scan statistics to run on a million or more data points without making assumptions on the spatial distribution of the data. Moreover, our experiments and analysis give insight into when it is appropriate to trust the various types of spatial anomalies when the data is modeled as a random sample from a larger but unknown data set.","PeriodicalId":20525,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems","volume":"191 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75830233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Predicting irregular individual movement following frequent mid-level disasters using location data from smartphones","authors":"T. Yabe, K. Tsubouchi, Akihito Sudo, Y. Sekimoto","doi":"10.1145/2996913.2996929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2996913.2996929","url":null,"abstract":"Mid-level disasters that frequently occur, such as typhoons and earthquakes, heavily affect human activities in urban areas by causing severe congestion and economic loss. Predicting the irregular movement of individuals following such disasters is crucial for managing urban systems. Past survey results show that mid-level disasters do not force many individuals to evacuate away from their homes, but do cause irregular movement by significantly delaying the movement timings, resulting in severe congestion in urban transportation. We propose a novel method that predicts such irregularity of individuals' movements in several mid-level disasters using various types of features including the victims' usual movement patterns, disaster information, and geospatial information of victims' locations. Using real GPS data of 1 million people in Tokyo, we show that our method can predict mobility delay with high accuracy,","PeriodicalId":20525,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88055478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spatiotemporal topic association detection on tweets","authors":"Zhi Liu, Yan Huang, Joshua R. Trampier","doi":"10.1145/2996913.2996933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2996913.2996933","url":null,"abstract":"The analysis of Twitter data can help to predict or explain many real world phenomena. The relationships among events in the real world can be reflected among the topics on social media. In this paper, we propose the concept of topic association and the associated mining algorithms. Topics with close temporal and spatial relationship may have direct or potential association in the real world. Our goal is to mine such topic associations and show their relationships in different time-region frames. We propose to use the concepts of participation ratio and participation index to measure the closeness among topics and propose a spatiotemporal index to calculate them efficiently. With the topic filtering and the topic combination, we further optimize the mining process and the mining results. The algorithms are evaluated on a Twitter dataset with 27,956,257 tweets.","PeriodicalId":20525,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80303387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samuli Hemminki, Keisuke Kuribayashi, S. Konomi, P. Nurmi, S. Tarkoma
{"title":"Quantitative evaluation of public spaces using crowd replication","authors":"Samuli Hemminki, Keisuke Kuribayashi, S. Konomi, P. Nurmi, S. Tarkoma","doi":"10.1145/2996913.2996946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2996913.2996946","url":null,"abstract":"We propose crowd replication as a low-effort, easy to implement and cost-effective mechanism for quantifying the uses, activities, and sociability of public spaces. Crowd replication combines mobile sensing, direct observation, and mathematical modeling to enable resource efficient and accurate quantification of public spaces. The core idea behind crowd replication is to instrument the researcher investigating a public space with sensors embedded on commodity devices and to engage him/her into imitation of people using the space. By combining the collected sensor data with a direct observations and population model, individual sensor traces can be generalized to capture the behavior of a larger population. We validate the use of crowd replication as a data collection mechanism through a field study conducted within an exemplary metropolitan urban space. Results of our evaluation show that crowd replication accurately captures real human dynamics (0.914 correlation between indicators estimated from crowd replication and visual surveillance) and captures data that is representative of the behavior of people within the public space.","PeriodicalId":20525,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79823991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}