Venue: San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront
(opens in new tab)1800 Old Bayshore Highway
Burlingame, CA 94010 USA
It was our pleasure to be part of the 24th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016 (opens in new tab)) in San Francisco, CA, on October 31 – November 3, 2016 at the San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront Hotel.
Microsoft was a proud sponsor of the ACM SIGSPATIAL Cup and the first ACM SIGSPATIAL Student Research Competition. Microsoft researchers were in attendance and presented at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016. If you were in attendance, we hope you were able to chat with our researchers about the projects and opportunities at Microsoft.
Committee Chairs
- Jie Bao (opens in new tab), Proceedings Co-Chair
Program Committee members
Workshop
- Mobile Entity Localization, Tracking and Analysis (MELT 2016 (opens in new tab))
Program Chair Co-Chairs: John Krumm
Program Committee member: Bodhi Priyantha
Accepted papers
- “A Cloud-based Trajectory Data Management System” by Jie Bao, Ruiyuan Li, Xiuwen Yi, and Yu Zheng (opens in new tab)
- “Forecasting Citywide Crowd Flows Based on Big Data” by Minh Hoang, Yu Zheng, and Ambuj Singh
- “DNN-Based Prediction Model for Spatial-Temporal Data” by Junbo Zhang (opens in new tab), Yu Zheng, Dekang Qi, Ruiyuan Li, and Xiuwen Yi
Posters
- “Mining the Most Influential k-Location Set from Massive Trajectories” by Jie Bao, Yuhong Li, Yanhua Li, Yu Zheng, Yingcai Wu, and Zhiguo Gong
Competitions
- First ACM SIGSPATIAL Student Research Competition
(opens in new tab)SRC allows undergraduate and graduate students to share their research results and exchange ideas with other students, judges, and conference attendees; understand the practical applications of their research; perfect their communication skills; and receive prizes and gain recognition from ACM and the greater computing community.
Judge: John Krumm - ACM SIGSPATIAL Cup 2016 (opens in new tab)
Annual algorithm contest with the goal of encouraging innovation in a fun way. The winners will be announced at the ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS conference in November 2016. Contest participants will submit original computer programs to be evaluated by the contest organizers on a common dataset.