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!

Yu Zhengyuzheng@microsoft.com

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/yuzheng/