Sessions




Day 1 - Wednesday, October 30

Session 1: LLM and Mobility (8:00 - 9:00)

Session Chair: TBD

Room: TBD

Paper Type: Research

  • Urban Mobility Assessment Using LLMs (Paper)
    Prabin Bhandari: Department of Computer Science, George Mason University
    Antonios Anastasopoulos: Department of Computer Science, George Mason University
    Dieter Pfoser: Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University

  • Prompt Mining for Language Models-based Mobility Flow Forecasting (Paper)
    Hao Xue: University of New South Wales
    Tianye Tang: University of New South Wales
    Ali Payani: Cisco Research
    Flora D. Salim: University of New South Wales

  • Harnessing LLMs for Cross-City OD Flow Prediction (Paper)
    Chenyang Yu: University of North Texas
    Xinpeng Xie: University of North Texas
    Yan Huang: University of North Texas
    Chenxi Qiu: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas

Session 2: Computational Geometry and Spatial Graph Processing (10:30 - 12:00)

Session Chair: TBD

Room: TBD

Paper Type: Research

  • Critical Features Tracking on Triangulated Irregular Networks by a Scale-Space Method (Paper)
    Haoan Feng: University of Maryland
    Yunting Song: University of Maryland
    Leila De Floriani: University of Maryland

  • Revisiting the Bus Stop Problem in Road Networks (Paper)
    Claudius Proissl: University of Stuttgart
    Daniel Koch: University of Stuttgart

  • Discretized Random Walk Models for Efficient Movement Interpolation (Paper)
    Kevin Buchin: Department of Computer Science, Technical University Dortmund
    Mart Hagedoorn: Department of Computer Science, Technical University Dortmund
    Alexander Korn: University of Cologne

  • A Framework for Automated Junction Monitoring (Paper)
    Rodrigo Sasse David: Aalborg University
    Kristian Torp: Aalborg University
    Mahmoud Sakr: Universite Libre de Bruxelles
    Esteban Zimanyi: Universite Libre de Bruxelles

  • Calculating Upstream Relation in Spatial Networks Under Path Constraints (Paper)
    Wejdene Mansour: Professorship of Big Geospatial Data Management, Technical University of Munich
    Martin Werner: Professorship of Big Geospatial Data Management, Technical University of Munich

Session 3: Spatio-Temporal Learning on Graphs (13:00 - 14:30)

Session Chair: TBD

Room: TBD

Paper Type: Research

  • Towards Unifying Diffusion Models for Probabilistic Spatio-Temporal Graph Learning (Paper)
    Junfeng Hu: National University of Singapore
    Xu Liu: National University of Singapore
    Zhencheng Fan: University of Technology Sydney
    Yuxuan Liang: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
    Roger Zimmermann: National University of Singapore

  • Enhancing Dependency Dynamics in Traffic Flow Forecasting via Graph Risk Bootstrap (Paper)
    Qiang Gao: Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
    Zizheng Wang: Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
    Li Huang: Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
    Goce Trajcevski: Iowa State University
    Kunpeng Zhang: University of Maryland
    Xueqin Chen: Delft University of Technology

  • SAUC: Sparsity-Aware Uncertainty Calibration for Spatiotemporal Prediction with Graph Neural Networks (Paper)
    Dingyi Zhuang: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Yuheng Bu: University of Florida
    Guang Wang: Florida State University
    Shenhao Wang: University of Florida
    Jinhua Zhao: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Enhancing Graph Neural Networks in Large-scale Traffic Incident Analysis with Concurrency Hypothesis (Paper)
    Xiwen Chen: Clemson University
    Sayed Pedram Haeri Boroujeni: Clemson University
    Xin Shu: Northeastern University
    Huayu Li: University of Arizona
    Abolfazl Razi: Clemson University

  • Regional Features Conditioned Diffusion Models for 5G Network Traffic Generation (Paper)
    Xiaoqian Qi: Department of Electronic Engineering, BNRist, Tsinghua University
    Haoye Chai: Department of Electronic Engineering, BNRist, Tsinghua University
    Li Yu: China Mobile Research Institute
    Yong Li: Department of Electronic Engineering, BNRist, Tsinghua University
    Zhaocheng Wang: Department of Electronic Engineering, BNRist, Tsinghua University

Data & Resources Track (16:00 - 16:30)

Session Chair: TBD

Room: TBD

Paper Type: Data and Resources Track

  • CC-GPX: Extracting High-Quality Annotated Geospatial Data from Common Crawl (Paper)
    Ilya Ilyankou: SpaceTimeLab, University College London
    Meihui Wang: SpaceTimeLab, University College London
    Stefano Cavazzi: Ordnance Survey
    James Haworth: SpaceTimeLab, University College London

  • Dockless Electric Scooters Worldwide: Methods and Analysis (Paper)
    Hassan Ali Khan: Computer Science, North Carolina State University
    Muhammad Shahzad: Computer Science, North Carolina State University
    Guoliang Jin: Computer Science, North Carolina State University

  • GUI: A Comprehensive Dataset of Global Urban Infrastructure Based on Geospatial Visual Foundation Models (Paper)
    Zhenyu Han: Tsinghua University,Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (BNRist)
    Xin Zhang: Tsinghua University,Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (BNRist)
    Yanxin Xi: University of Helsinki
    Yan Luo: Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Tong Xia: Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge
    Yong Li: Tsinghua University,Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (BNRist)

  • Data and Resources for Combining Point of Interest Semantics, Locations, and Road Networks (Paper)
    Joseph Zuber: Iowa State University
    Xu Teng: ESRI
    Andreas Zufle: Emory University
    Goce Trajcevski: Iowa State University

Day 2 - Thursday, October 31

Session 4: Remote Sensing and Climate Science (8:00 - 9:00)

Session Chair: TBD

Room: TBD

Paper Type: Research

  • Multilingual Vision-Language Pre-training for the Remote Sensing Domain (Paper)
    Joao Daniel Silva: IST and INESC-ID - Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon
    Joao Magalhaes: Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
    Devis Tuia: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
    Bruno Martins: IST and INESC-ID - Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon

  • DeepSoil: A Science-guided Framework for Generating High Precision Soil Moisture Maps by Reconciling Measurement Profiles Across In-situ and Remote Sensing Data (Paper)
    Paahuni Khandelwal: Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University
    Sangmi Lee Pallickara: Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University
    Shrideep Pallickara: Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University

  • Towards Kriging-informed Conditional Diffusion for Regional Sea-Level Data Downscaling: A Summary of Results (Paper)
    Subhankar Ghosh: Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    Arun Sharma: Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    Jayant Gupta: Oracle Inc., USA
    Aneesh Subramanian: Atmospheric Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder
    Shashi Shekhar: Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Vision Track (10:30 - 12:00)

Session Chair: TBD

Room: TBD

Paper Type: Vision

  • SRL: Towards a General-Purpose Framework for Spatial Representation Learning (Paper)
    Gengchen Mai: Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin
    Xiaobai Yao: Geography, University of Georgia
    Yiqun Xie: Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park
    Jinmeng Rao: Google DeepMind
    Hao Li: Techinical Universtiy of Munich
    Qing Zhu: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
    Ziyuan Li: University of Connecticut
    Ni Lao: Google LLC

  • Beyond the Commute: Unlocking the Potential of Electric Vehicles as Future Energy Storage Solutions (Vision Paper) (Paper)
    Muhammad Aamir Cheema: Monash University
    Hao Wang: Monash University, Australia
    Wei Wang: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China
    Adel Nadjaran Toosi: The University of Melbourne, Australia
    Egemen Tanin: The University of Melbourne, Australia
    Jianzhong Qi: The University of Melbourne, Australia
    Hanan Samet: University of Maryland

  • Vision: Leveraging Low Earth Orbit Satellites for Future Ubiquitous Positioning (Paper)
    Sherif Mostafa: The American University in Cairo
    Mahmoud Elsanhoury: University of Vaasa
    Jaakko Yliaho: University of Vaasa
    Janne Koljonen: University of Vaasa
    Heidi Kuusniemi: University of Vaasa
    Mohammed Elmusrati: University of Vaasa
    Khaled A. Harras: Carnegie Mellon University
    Moustafa Youssef: The American University in Cairo

  • A Geospatial Perspective on Data Ownerships, the Right to be Forgotten, Copyrights, and Plagiarism in Generative AI (Paper)
    Yaron Kanza: AT&T Labs - Research
    Balachander Krishnamurthy: AT&T Labs-Research
    Divesh Srivastava: AT&T Labs-Research

  • A roadmap for generative mapping ? unlocking the power of generative AI for map-making (Paper)
    Sidi Wu: ETH Zurich
    Katharina Henggeler: ETH Zurich
    Yizi Chen: ETH Zurich
    Lorenz Hurni: ETH Zurich

Session 5: Mobility Mining (13:00 - 14:00)

Session Chair: TBD

Room: TBD

Paper Type: Research

  • Trajectory Anomaly Detection with Language Models (Paper)
    Jonathan Mbuya: George Mason University
    Dieter Pfoser: George Mason University
    Antonios Anastasopoulos: George Mason University

  • Beauty or Beast: Human Behavioral Insights and Learning Power of Federated Mobility Prediction (Paper)
    João Paulo Esper: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
    Aline Carneiro Viana: Inria
    Jussara Almeida: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

  • Transferable Unsupervised Outlier Detection Framework for Human Semantic Trajectories (Paper)
    Zheng Zhang: Emory University
    Hossein Amiri: Emory University
    Dazhou Yu: Emory University
    Yuntong Hu: Emory University
    Liang Zhao: Emory University
    Andreas Zufle: Emory University

Day 3 - Friday, November 1

Session 6: Prediction and forecasting (8:00 - 9:00)

Session Chair: TBD

Room: TBD

Paper Type: Research

  • Enhancing Spatio-temporal Quantile Forecasting with Curriculum Learning: Lessons Learned (Paper)
    Du Yin: School of Computer Science and Engineering of UNSW
    Jinliang Deng: HKGAI, Hong Kong SAR
    Southern University of Science and Technology, China
    Shuang Ao: School of Computer Science and Engineering of UNSW
    Zechen Li: School of Computer Science and Engineering of UNSW
    Hao Xue: School of Computer Science and Engineering of UNSW
    Arian Prabowo: School of Computer Science and Engineering of UNSW
    Renhe Jiang: Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo
    Xuan Song: School of Artificial Intelligence of Jilin University, Southern University of Science and Technology
    Flora Salim: School of Computer Science and Engineering of UNSW

  • CMAD: Advancing Understanding of Geospatial Clusters of Anomalous Melt Events in Sea Ice Extent (Paper)
    Maloy Kumar Devnath: Information Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    Sudip Chakraborty: Information Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    Vandana P. Janeja: Information Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

  • GraphParcelNet: Predicting Parcel-Level Imperviousness from Geospatial Vector Data using Graph Neural Networks (Paper)
    Lapone Techapinyawat: Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
    Wenlu Wang: Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
    Mehrube Mehrubeoglu: Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
    Hua Zhang: Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

Industry & Systems Track (10:30 - 12:00)

Session Chair: TBD

Room: TBD

Paper Type: Research

  • Adaptive Dispatching of Mobile Charging Stations using Multi-Agent Graph Convolutional Cooperative-Competitive Reinforcement Learning (Paper)
    Shimon Wonsak: Volkswagen AG
    Nils Henke: Volkswagen AG
    Mohammad Al-Rifai: Volkswagen AG
    Michael Nolting: Volkswagen AG
    Wolfgang Nejdl: L3S Research Center

  • Multi-Entry Generalized Search Trees for Indexing Trajectories (Paper)
    Maxime Schoemans: Université libre de Bruxelles
    Walid G. Aref: Purdue University
    Esteban Zimányi: Université libre de Bruxelles
    Mahmoud Sakr: Université libre de Bruxelles

  • Learning to Estimate Package Delivery Time in Mixed Imbalanced Delivery and Pickup Logistics Services (Paper)
    Jinhui Yi: Tsinghua University
    Huan Yan: Tsinghua University
    Haotian Wang: Rutgers University
    Jian Yuan: Tsinghua University
    Yong Li: Tsinghua University

  • Mapping Passenger Trajectories to Train Schedules - industrial paper (Paper)
    Lorenzo Padoan: Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova,Motion Analytica s.r.l.
    Francesco Silvestri: Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova
    Bruno Zamengo: Motion Analytica s.r.l.

  • Accurate Customer Address Matching via Weak Supervision for Geocode Learning (Paper)
    Arpan Paul: Amazon
    Saket Maheshwary: Amazon
    Saurabh Sohoney: Amazon

Session 7: Urban Computing and Human Mobility (13:00 - 14:30)

Session Chair: TBD

Room: TBD

Paper Type: Research

  • EFECTIW-ROTER: Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Solving Heterogeneous Fleet and Demand Vehicle Routing Problem With Time-Window Constraints (Paper)
    Arash Mozhdehi: Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary
    Mahdi Mohammadizadeh: Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary
    Yunli Wang: National Research Council
    Sun Sun: National Research Council
    Xin Wang: Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary

  • Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Period Facility Location: pk-median Dynamic Location Problem (Paper)
    Changhao Miao: Beijing Institute of Technology
    Yuntian Zhang: Beijing Institute of Technology
    Tongyu Wu: Beijing Institute of Technology
    Fang Deng: Beijing Institute of Technology
    Chen Chen: Beijing Institute of Technology

  • ModeSense: Ubiquitous and Accurate Transportation Mode Detection using Serving Cell Tower Information (Paper)
    Sherif Mostafa: The American University in Cairo
    Moustafa Youssef: The American University in Cairo
    Khaled A. Harras: Carnegie Mellon University

  • M3LUC: Multi-modal Model for Urban Land-Use Classification (Paper)
    Sibo Li: Department of Electronic Engineering, BNRist, Tsinghua University
    Xin Zhang: Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University
    Yuming Lin: Department of Electronic Engineering, BNRist, Tsinghua University
    Yong Li: Department of Electronic Engineering, BNRist, Tsinghua University

  • SARN: Structurally-Aware Recurrent Network for Spatio-Temporal Disaggregation (Paper)
    Bin Han: University of Washington
    Bill Howe: University of Washington

Session 8: Privacy and Security (15:00 - 16:00)

Session Chair: TBD

Room: TBD

Paper Type: Research

  • Protecting Vehicle Location Privacy with Contextually-Driven Synthetic Location Generation (Paper)
    Sourabh Yadav: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas
    Chenyang Yu: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas
    Xinpeng Xie: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas
    Yan Huang: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas
    Chenxi Qiu: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas

  • Privacy preserved taxi demand prediction system for distributed data (Paper)
    Ren Ozeki: Osaka University
    Haruki Yonekura: Osaka University
    Hamada Rizk: Osaka University
    Hirozumi Yamaguchi: Osaka University

  • Adversarial Reconstruction of Trajectories: Privacy Risks and Attack Models in Trajectory Embedding (Paper)
    Haochen Han: Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Shuaiyu Yang: Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Jiaxin Ding: Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Luoyi Fu: Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Xinbing Wang: Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Chenghu Zhou: Chinese Academy of Sciences

Session 9: Spatial Data Generation and Augmentation (16:00 - 17:00)

Session Chair: TBD

Room: TBD

Paper Type: Research

  • Augmentation Techniques for Balancing Spatial Datasets in Machine and Deep Learning Applications (Paper)
    Alberto Belussi: Department of Computer Science, University of Verona
    Diego Garofolo: Department of Computer Science, University of Verona
    Sara Migliorini: Department of Computer Science, University of Verona

  • WildGraph: Realistic Long-Horizon Trajectory Generation with Limited Sample Size (Paper)
    Ali Al-Lawati: The Pennsylvania State University
    Elsayed Eshra: The Pennsylvania State University
    Prasenjit Mitra: The Pennsylvania State University

  • TrajGPT: Controlled Synthetic Trajectory Generation Using a Multitask Transformer-Based Spatiotemporal Model (Paper)
    Shang-Ling Hsu: University of Southern California
    Emmanuel Tung: Novateur Research Solutions
    John Krumm: University of Southern California
    Cyrus Shahabi: University of Southern California
    Khurram Shafique: Novateur Research Solutions