Sunday 3rd Sept:
Workshops (10am onwards; 7pm onwards for evening workshop)
Monday 4th Sept:
Registration, 1pm onwards (School of Music)
Conference, 2pm to 5.30pm (School of Music)
Evening Reception, 6pm for 6.45pm til late (Great Hall)
Tuesday 5th Sept:
Conference, 9.30am to 5.30pm (School of Music)
Evening off to explore Leeds
Wednesday 6th Sept:
Conference, 9.30am to 5.30pm (School of Music)
Conference meal, 7pm til late (Doubletree Hotel)
including algorave by
Belisha Beacon.
Thursday 7th Sept:
Conference, 9.30am to 1.00pm (School of Music)
Fieldtrip, 1.00pm til late (Manchester Museum of Science and Industry)
| Time | Room 1 | Room 2 | Room 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday 2-3.30 |
Keynotes | ||
| Monday 4-5.30 |
Machine Learning |
Social Applications |
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| Monday 5.30-6.30 |
Geocomputation with R mini-workshop (leaving from Music foyer) | ||
| Tuesday 9.30-11 |
Keynotes | ||
| Tuesday 11.30-1 |
Space & Time |
Environmental Applications |
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| Tuesday 2-3.30 |
Space & Time |
Environmental Applications |
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| Tuesday 4-5.30 |
Space & Time |
Environmental Applications |
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| Wednesday 9.30-11 |
Urban structure |
ABM/CA | Networks & Transport |
| Wednesday 11.30-1 |
Uncertainty | ABM/CA | Networks & Transport |
| Wednesday 2-3.30 |
Games | ABM/CA | Text and Social |
| Wednesday 4-5.30 |
HPC + HPC for everyone demo |
Mapping & GIS |
Text & Social |
| Thursday 9.30-11 |
Object interactions |
Spatial models |
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| Thursday 11.30-1 |
Keynotes | ||
| Monday 4th Sept: | |
|---|---|
| School of Music | Registration |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Registration and coffee |
| Room 1 | Keynotes |
| 14:00 - 14:45 |
The State of the Art Chris Brunsdon |
| 14:45 - 15:30 |
The State of the Art Dawn Parker |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Break |
| Room 1 | Machine Learning & Spatial Techniques for Causal Inference |
| 16:10 - 16:30 |
Causal Tree Determination of the Heterogeneous Impacts of International Programs to Mitigate Deforestation Daniel Runfola and Seth Goodman |
| 16:30 - 16:50 |
ART-P-MAP Neural Network Modelling of Spatial Choices Zhaoya Gong and Jean-Claude Thill |
| 16:50 - 17:10 |
A Neural Qualitative Approach for Automatic Territorial Zoning Renato Maciel, Marcos Aurelio Santos Da Silva, Leonardo Matos and Márcia Dompieri |
| 17:10 - 17:30 |
A Machine Learning Framework to Map User Classification for Online Map Community Shaohua Wang, Yang Zhong, Zhong Ershun, Erqi Wang, Yinna Zhang and Wenwen Cai |
| Room 2 | Applications of GeoComputational Methods in the Social Sciences |
| 16:10 - 16:30 |
Designing police patrol districts on street network Huanfa Chen and Tao Cheng |
| 16:30 - 16:50 |
Investigating the impacts of training data set length (T) and the aggregation unit size (M) on the accuracy of the self-exciting point process (SEPP) hotspot method Monsuru Adepeju and Andy Evans |
| 16:50 - 17:10 |
Are poorer residents being pushed out of city centre? Measuring the decentralisation of poverty in England and Wales Meng Le Zhang and Gwilym Pryce |
| 17:10 - 17:30 |
Spatial Approach to Identifying Trends in Racial Composition Changes for Large American Cities 1990-2000-2010 Anna Dmowska and Tomasz Stepinski |
| Great Hall | Evening function |
| 19:00 - late | Food and Drink |
Tuesday 5th Sept: | |
| Room 1 | Keynotes |
| 9:30 - 11:00 |
The Future Adam Dennett and Dianna Smith |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Break |
| Room 1 | Spatio-temporal analysis I |
| 11:30 - 11:50 |
Time: the late arrival at the Geocomputation party and the need for considered approaches to spatio-temporal analyses Alexis Comber, Paul Harris and Narumasa Tsutsumida |
| 11:50 - 12:10 |
Tri-clustering: a novel approach to explore spatio-temporal data cubes Raul Zurita Milla, Xiaojing Wu, Emma Izquierdo-Verdiguier and Menno-Jan Kraak |
| 12:10 - 12:30 |
Specifying regression models for spatio-temporal data sets Paul Harris, Lex Comber and Naru Tsutsumida |
| 12:30 - 12:50 |
An adaptive density-based time series clustering algorithm Yaolin Liu, Xiaomi Wang and Yanfang Liu |
| Room 2 | Applications of GeoComputational Methods in the Environmental Sciences I |
| 11:30 - 11:50 |
Worldwide inventory of landscapes through segmentation of global land cover dataset Jakub Nowosad and Tomasz Stepinski |
| 11:50 - 12:10 |
Segmentation of WorldClim dataset reveals new insight into spatial variability of global climate Pawel Netzel and Tomasz Stepinski |
| 12:10 - 12:30 |
Towards computation of urban local climate zones (LCZ) from OpenStreetMap data Timofey Samsonov and Ksenia Trigub |
| 12:30 - 12:50 |
Geographically Weighted Regression Models for Ordinal Categorical Response Variables - Applications to Air Pollution and Quality of Life in Beijing, China Guanpeng Dong and Alex Singleton |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| Room 1 | Spatio-temporal analysis II |
| 14:00 - 14:20 |
Detecting Stops from GPS Trajectories: A Comparison of Different GPS Indicators for Raster Sampling Methods Yang Wang and David McArthur |
| 14:20 - 14:40 |
An Approximate Entropy Based Approach for Quantifying Stability in Spatio-Temporal Data with Limited Temporal Observations Jesse Piburn, Robert Stewart and April Morton |
| 14:40 - 15:00 |
Measuring Attraction and Redistribution of Institution-Based Movements Michelle Pistner and Clio Andris |
| 15:00 - 15:20 |
Spatio-Temporal Point Event Cluster Detection by Controlling Shape Complexity Ryo Inoue and Hiroshi Kimoto |
| Room 2 | Applications of GeoComputational Methods in the Environmental Sciences II |
| 14:00 - 14:20 |
Watershed and stream network delineation using digital elevation models and spectral satellite information Giuseppe Amatulli, Sami Domisch and Peter Raymond |
| 14:20 - 14:40 |
Exploring Geostatistical Methods to Improve the Altimetry Accuracies of Digital Elevation Models Carlos Felgueiras, Eduardo Camargo and Jussara Ortiz |
| 14:40 - 15:00 |
3D LISA: A Flexible Program for Calculating the Local Moran's I in 1, 2 or 3D Illustrated with Examples from Soil Science Ruth Kerry, Ben Ingram, Pierre Goovaerts, Federico Meza and Daniel Gimenez |
| 15:00 - 15:20 |
The Regular Hierarchical Surface Model (RHSM) Joseph Wright, Antoni Moore and Greg Leonard |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Break |
| Room 1 | Spatio-temporal analysis III |
| 16:00 - 16:20 |
Analysis of Activity Trends Based on Smart Card Data of Public Transportation Takashi Nicholas Maeda, Junichiro Mori, Fujio Toriumi and Hirotada Ohashi |
| 16:20 - 16:40 |
Paper withdrawn for publication |
| 16:40 - 17:00 |
Mapping the Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Rough Sleepers in London: An exploration of the CHAIN dataset Patrick Moss, James Haworth, Dawn Williams and Sam Dufton |
| 17:00 - 17:20 |
An Interactive Dashboard for Visualizing Big Spatial-Temporal Data in an Urban Area Ningchuan Xiao, Shaun Fontanella, Harvey Miller, Matthew Adair and Jerry Mount |
| Room 2 | Applications of GeoComputational Methods in the Environmental Sciences III |
| 16:00 - 16:20 |
On a Mantel-Test Extension for k Series of Distances and Related k-Way Multivariate Methods Roberto Santos and Didier Leibovici |
| 16:20 - 16:40 |
Fine-scale visualization of pollen concentrations across the Eastern United States: A space-time parallel approach Michael Desjardins, Alexander Hohl, Adam Griffith and Eric Delmelle |
| 16:40 - 17:00 |
Assessing copper and lead concentrations at abandoned mine areas using GIS-based hot spot analysis from portable XRF data Sung-Min Kim and Yosoon Choi |
| 17:00 - 17:20 |
Testing robustness in a global ecosystem model: the effects of language translation Michael Bithell, Phillip J. Underwood, Michael B. Harfoot and Derek P. Tittensor |
| Evening off to explore Leeds | |
Wednesday 6th Sept: | |
| Room 1 | Urban Structure |
| 9:30 - 9:50 |
Urban structure types as a fingerprints of past, present and future city development Jaroslaw Jasiewicz and Adam Dabrowski |
| 9:50 - 10:10 |
Spatial Measurement of Residential Segregation in Metropolitan Cape Town Jacobus Van Rooyen and Joana Barros |
| 10:10 - 10:30 |
Measuring urban facility spatial accessibility in Beijing using Gaussian 2SFCA Method Yanli Fu, Changfeng Jing and Mingyi Du |
| 10:30 - 10:50 |
Super-diversity and urban development – challenges and possibilities of simulating future scenarios for the case of Berlin, Germany Hannah Haacke and Tobia Lakes |
| Room 2 | Applications of GeoComputational Methods: ABM I |
| 9:30 - 9:50 |
Agent-based modelling and networks: Case study of the emerald ash borer Taylor Anderson and Suzana Dragicevic |
| 9:50 - 10:10 |
Crowding of Support Facilities for People who have Difficulty Returning Home on Foot after a Large Earthquake Toshihiro Osaragi |
| 10:10 - 10:30 |
Spatial analysis of stray animal management in Daejeon City Katarina Mayer |
| 10:30 - 10:50 |
The AXS Model: an agent-based simulation model for urban flows Marcus Saraiva and Joana Barros |
| Room 3 | Networks and transport I |
| 9:30 - 9:50 |
Relation between proximity of streets in urban network and parameters of neural network for traffic volume prediction Koji Yoshida and Ryo Inoue |
| 9:50 - 10:10 |
Determination of Spatially Distributed Velocity for Flow Routing Fangli Zhang, Jun Liu and Qiming Zhou |
| 10:10 - 10:30 |
A Simulation Approach for Modeling High-Resolution Daytime Commuter Travel Flows and Distributions of Worker Subpopulations April Morton, Jesse Piburn, Nicholas Nagle, H M Abdul Aziz, Samantha Duchscherer and Robert Stewart |
| 10:30 - 10:50 |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 | Break |
| Room 1 | Uncertainty, semantic and spatial ambiguity, and error |
| 11:30 - 11:50 |
Uncertainty in Historical GIS Liliana Mamani Sanchez and Michela Bertolotto |
| 11:50 - 12:10 |
Initial spatial conditions in simulation models: the missing leg of sensitivity analyses? Clémentine Cottineau, Juste Raimbault, Marion Le Texier, Florent Le Nechet and Romain Reuillon |
| 12:10 - 12:30 |
Map LineUps: implications for spatial analysis Roger Beecham and Jason Dykes |
| 12:30 - 12:50 |
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| Room 2 | Applications of GeoComputational Methods: ABM II |
| 11:30 - 11:50 |
Integrating Spatial Intelligence for risk perception in an Agent Based Disease Model Shaheen Abdulkareem, Ellen-Wien Augustijn-Beckers, Yaseen Mustafa and Tatiana Filatova |
| 11:50 - 12:10 |
A cellular automata model of urban growth for two built density classes: a study of urban growth in the Thames Basin Alex Hagen-Zanker, Clare Rowland, Scott McGrane, James Miller and Michael Hutchins |
| 12:10 - 12:30 |
Simulating urban growth in South Asia: A SLEUTH application Gargi Chaudhuri |
| 12:30 - 12:50 |
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| Room 3 | Networks and transport II |
| 11:30 - 11:50 |
New tools of the trade? The potential and pitfalls of 'Machine Learning' and 'DAGs' to model origin-destination data Robin Lovelace, Ilan Fridman-Rojas and Rob Long |
| 11:50 - 12:10 |
Analysing Cycle Accidents using a Relationship-Graph Technique Narushige Shiode, Shino Shiode, Ryoichi Shinkuma, Manuela Piasentin and Takashi Matsuura |
| 12:10 - 12:30 |
Exploring spatiotemporal features of station-free bike sharing trips: case study of Shenzhen Yuanxuan Yang, Alexis Comber, Alison Heppenstall and Andy Turner |
| 12:30 - 12:50 |
VGI for mapping change in bike ridership Darren Boss, Trisalyn Nelson and Meghan Winters |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| Room 1 | Spatially-Explicit Serious Immersive Games and Game-Based Modelling |
| 14:00 - 14:20 |
From Geosimulation of Urban Fires to Firefighters Serious Games Yonatan Shaham and Itzhak Benenson |
| 14:20 - 14:40 |
Towards a Virtual Reality Elicitation of Building Occupancy Robert Stewart, Marie Urban, David Anderson, Samantha Duchscherer, Eric Axley and Jesse Piburn |
| 14:40 - 15:00 |
Data-Driven Games and Environmental Storytelling; Moving Beyond ‘Simulation and Gaming’ Tradition Moozhan Shakeri |
| 15:00 - 15:20 |
Game-Based Modeling of Human-Driven Geographic Systems Itzhak Benenson and Eran Ben-Elia |
| Room 2 | Applications of GeoComputational Methods: ABM III |
| 14:00 - 14:20 |
High-resolution simulations of population-density change with an activity-based cellular automata land-use model Tomas Crols, Roger White, Inge Uljee, Lien Poelmans, Guy Engelen and Frank Canters |
| 14:20 - 14:40 |
Remote sensing and agent-based modelling for grazing management: a case study in Zeku, China Rui Yu, Andrew Evans and Nick Malleson |
| 14:40 - 15:00 |
Simulating Urban Flows Nick Malleson, Andy Evans and Jon Ward |
| 15:00 - 15:20 |
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| Room 3 | Georeferenced text and social media I |
| 14:00 - 14:20 |
Semantic considerations of local statistical modelling: what does it all mean? Alexis Comber, Peter Atkinson and Paul Harris |
| 14:20 - 14:40 |
Semantic Enrichment of Interesting Regions with POI data Jianan Shen and Cheng Tao |
| 14:40 - 15:00 |
Diversity and Similarity Indices in Volunteered Geographic Information Peter Mooney |
| 15:00 - 15:20 |
Spatial Narrative Construction using Thematic KDE Nick Bennett, David Millard, David Martin and Pouria Amirian |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Break |
| Room 1 | High performance and cloud computing |
| 16:00 - 16:20 |
Continental-Scale Monitoring and Mapping of False Spring: A Cloud Computing Solution Hamed Mehdipoor, Emma Izquierdo-Verdiguier and Raul Zurita-Milla |
| 16:20 - 16:40 |
The Biodiversity and Climate Change Virtual Laboratory (BCCVL) - a cloud based platform for species distribution modelling and biodiversity analysis Shawn Laffan |
| 16:40 - 17:00 |
Demo: High Performance Computation for Everyone: Integrating Web-portals and a HPC (GeoQuery) Seth Goodman, Dan Runfola, and Miranda Lv |
| Room 2 | Mapping and GIS |
| 16:00 - 16:20 |
Using Surrogate Road Network for Map-Matching: A Sensitivity Analysis of Positional Accuracy Yann Meneroux, Arnaud Le Guilcher, Olivier Orfila, Benoit Lusetti, Sébastien Mustière and Guillaume Saint Pierre |
| 16:20 - 16:40 |
PA model for large-scale analysis of line of sight, accounting for building heights Dan Olner |
| 16:40 - 17:00 |
Paper2GIS: A self-digitising, paper-based PPGIS Jonny Huck, Isobel Dunning, Pierre Lee, Thomas Lowe, Ervine Quek, Sandaru Weerasinghe and Dominic Wintie |
| Room 3 | Georeferenced text and social media II |
| 16:00 - 16:20 |
Assessing OSM street semantics quality using context and user trustworthiness Amerah Alghanim and Michela Bertolotto |
| 16:20 - 16:40 |
Temporal Signatures of Shops' and Restaurants' Opening and Closing Times at Global, Country, and City Scales Kevin Sparks, Gautam S. Thakur, Marie Urban and Robert Stewart |
| 16:40 - 17:00 |
A Preliminary Meta-analysis of Social Media Use during Disaster Yi-Min Chang Chien, Alexis Comber and Steve Carver |
| DoubleTree hotel | Conference dinner |
| 19:00 - late | Food and Drink |
Thursday 7th Sept: | |
| Room 1 | Modeling interactions between moving objects |
| 9:30 - 9:50 |
A computational movement analysis approach for modelling interactions between pairs of moving objects Jennifer Miller |
| 9:50 - 10:10 |
Computing Animal Habitat Use at the Population Level: A Time-Geographic Approach Rebecca Loraamm and Katharine Goodenough |
| 10:10 - 10:30 |
Individual-Based Modelling of Species' Dynamic Resource Use Paul Holloway |
| Room 2 | Spatial modelling |
| 9:30 - 9:50 |
Investigating the Repeat and Near-Repeat Patterns in Sub-categories of Burglary Crime Monsuru Adepeju |
| 9:50 - 10:10 |
Correlation as a LISA Martin Charlton and Chris Brunsdon |
| 10:10 - 10:30 |
A spatially explicit model for establishing adaptive parking prices Nir Fulman and Itzhak Benenson |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Break |
| Room 1 | Keynotes |
| 11:00 - 11:45 |
Words of Advice for Young GeoCompers Mike Batty |
| 11:45 - 12:30 |
Words of Advice for Young GeoCompers Alan Wilson |
| 12:30 - 12:40 | Conference wrap |
| 13:00 - late | Conference fieldtrip |