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The 11th International Conference on GeoComputation Programme

July 19-22, 2011: Roberts Building, University College London


Tuesday, 19 July 2011 16:00 17:00 Registration 17:00 18:00 Pre-Conference Keynote Address (in association with STDM 2011) Visualising Space-Time Dynamics: Graphs and Maps, Plots and Clocks Prof. Mike Batty, CASA, UCL 18:30 21:30 Reception (in association with STDM 2011) Sponsored by Esri UK, Ordnance Survey (Great Britain), Pion, Taylor &Francis, Wiley, STANDARD Wednesday, 20 July 2011 (8:30 9:15: Registration) Conference Opening (G06) 9:15 9:30 Prof. Marek Ziebart, Vice Dean, Faculty of Engineering, UCL Keynote address: Digital Environments and Real World Geographies (G06) 9:30 10:20 Prof. Peter Nijkamp, Free University, Amsterdam, NL 1B: Genetic Algorithms & Cellular Automata 10:30 11:30 1A: Geodemographics (G06) Modelling (G08) 11:30 12:00 Coffee Break
12:00 13:20 13:20 14:20 14:20 15:40 15:50 16:20 16:20 17:10 17:10 18:00 18:30 21:30 2A: Agent-Based Modelling (1) (G06) 2B: Geostatistics 3B: Uncertainty and Accuracy (G08) (G08) (G06) (G06) Buffet Lunch 3A: Space-Time Modelling and Analysis (1) (G06) 4: Posters Coffee Break Keynote address: Does Visualization with Geocomputation Offer Anything We Didnt Know Already? Dr Jo Wood, City University London, UK Dinner 5B: VGI and Computational Infrastructure

Thursday, 21 July 2011


9:00 -10:20 10:20 10:50 10:50 12:10 12:10 13:10 5A: Network Complexity Coffee Break 6A: Machine Learning (G06) 6B: GeoVisual and Terrain Analysis (G08) (G06) (G08)

Buffet Lunch 7A: Geographically Weighted 7B: Space-Time Modelling 13:10 14:30 Regression (G06) and Analysis (2) (G08) 14:30 15:00 Coffee Break Keynote address: Geographically Weighted Regression and Geocomputation: an 15:00 15:50 Overview of Recent Developments Prof. Stewart Fotheringham, National University of Ireland (Maynooth) 16:00 17:20 18:45 22:00 8A: Location-based Services Boat Dinner (G06) 8B: Applications (1) (G08)

Friday, 22 July 2011


9:00 10:20 10:20 10:50 10:50 11:40 11:40 12:10 9A: Agent-Based Modelling (2) (G06) 9B: Applications (2) (G08) (G06) (G06) Coffee Break Keynote address: The Future of Geocomputation Prof. Keith Clarke, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Conference Close

Wednesday, 20 July 2011


Conference Opening Welcome address: Prof. Marek Ziebart, Vice Dean, Faculty of Engineering, UCL Chaired by Tao Cheng 9:30 10:20 Keynote address: Sponsored by Willey Digital Environments and Real World Geographies Prof. Peter Nijkamp, Free University, Amsterdam, NL Chaired by Tao Cheng 10:30 11:30 11A: Geodemographics 1B: Genetic Algorithms & Cellular Automata Modelling Chaired by Andrew Crooks Chaired by David O'Sullivan A Comparison of Genetic Algorithms and Reinforcement Learning for Creating Realistic Synthetic Populations at Varying Spatial Scales: a Optimising Sustainable Forest Management Comparative Critique of Population Synthesis Techniques Verena Rieser, Derek T. Robinson, Dave Murray-Rust and Mark Rounsevell. Alison Heppenstall, Kirk Harland, Dianna Smith and Mark Birkin Evolving Simulation Modeling: Calibrating SLEUTH Using a Genetic Algorithm Building Geodemographics on Parallel Graphics Processing Unit M. Clarke-Lauer and Keith Clarke Architecture Calibration of a Cellular Automata Model with the Particle Swarm Algorithm Adnan Muhammad, Alex Singleton and Paul Longley Nuno N. Pinto, Antnio P. Antunes and Josep R. Cladera The Use of Consensus Clustering in Geodemographics James Cheshire, Muhammad Adnan and Paul Longley 11:30 12:00 12:00 13:20 Coffee Break 2A: Agent-Based Modelling (1) Chaired by Keith Clarke Simulation of Cholera Diffusion to Compare Transmission Mechanisms Ellen-Wien Augustijn, Juliana Useya, Raul Zurita-Milla and Frank Osei Modified Navigation Algorithms in Agent-Based Modelling for Fire Evacuation Simulation Tyng-Rong Roan, Muki Haklay and Claire Ellul. Integrating an Agent-Based Model and a Population Microsimulation to Explore Crime Patterns Nick Malleson and Mark Birkin. Understanding Route Choice by Using Agent-based Simulation Ed Manley, Tao Cheng and Andy Emmonds Buffet Lunch 3A: Space-Time Modelling & Analysis (1) Chaired by Bin Jiang Where Were You? A Time-Geographic Approach to Activity Destination Re-construction Mark Horner and Joni Downs. SimTraj: An Approach to Similar Queries over Trajectories Metric 2B: Geostatistics Chaired by Chris Brunsdon Merging Areal and Point Data in Medical Geography and Soil Mapping Pierre Goovaerts. Reducing Aggregation Error in Spatial Interaction Models by Location Sampling Alex Hagen-Zanker and Ying Jin. Incorporating Environmental data into Poisson Kriging Approaches for Mapping Patterns of Herbivore Species Abundance in Kruger National Park, South Africa Ruth Kerry, Pierre Goovaerts, Izak Smit and Ben Ingram. Evaluation of Geostatistical Analysis Capability in Wireless Signal Propagation Modeling Samira Kolyaie and Marjan Yaghooti. 9:15 9:30

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3B: Uncertainty and Accuracy Chaired by Alex Comber Toponym Disambiguation of Landscape Features Using Geomorphometric Characteristics Curdin Derungs, Ross Purves and Bettina Waldvogel. On Delimiting of Ecotone Occurrence from Land Cover Data Using Type 2 Fuzzy

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Spaces Sets Fbio Afonso, Fernanda Barbosa and Armanda Rodrigues. Pavel Tuek, Jan Caha and Vilem Pechanec. Measuring Population Shift Bias in Tests of Spatio-Temporal Modeling Spatial Relevancy in Context-Aware Systems Using Fuzzy Intervals Interaction Najmeh Samany, Mahmoud Reza Delavar, Nicholas Chrisman and Nicholas Malizia, Elizabeth Mack and Sergio Rey Mohammad Reza Malek. Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Air Pollution Data in Malta Map Comparison for the Evaluation of Spatial Bayesian Models Luana Chetcuti Zammit, Kenneth Scerri, Maria Attard, Therese Colin Robertson Bajada and Mark Scerri. 4: Posters Chaired by Andy Chow Eveline Wandl-Vogt: GeoComputation and Dialect Lexicography: methods to increase insight in an interdisciplinary partnership Seyed Kazem Alavipanah, Hamidreza Matinfar, Nader Sarmasti, Mansour Jafarbeglou, Saeed Goodarzimehr, Bahere Khakbaz and Farzam Khosravi: Evaluation of ASTER and LISS III Data in Identification of Saline Soils, case study: regions of Iran Abdulhakim Khmag, Alexis Comber and Pete Fisher: Accuracy Assessment for Fuzzy Classification in Tripoli, Libya Ahu Sokmenoglu, Gulen Cagdas and Sevil Sariyildiz: Application of Data Mining In Micro-scale Urban Feature Analysis Eric Delmelle: MetaHeuristics for a Non-Linear Spatial Sampling Problem Ali Goli: Spatial Determinants of Quality of Life in Urban Areas: Does Metropolitan Contiguity Effect? Pavel Tuek, Luk Marek, Vt Pszto, Zbynk Janoka and Martin Dank: Fractal Perspectives of GIScience Based on the Leaf Shape Analysis Khalid Al-Ahmadi, Alison Heppenstall, Linda See and A Al-Zahrani. Building a Web-based Cancer Atlas for Saudi Arabia Andrew Crooks and Sarah Wise: Modelling Humanitarian Relief through Crowdsourcing, Volunteered Geographical Information and Agent-Based Modelling: A test Case Haiti Huaya Wu, Wenxiu Gao: Vector-Based Mathematical Morphology Peter Foley: Towards Using Geovisual Analytics to Interpret the Output of Geographically Weighted Discriminant Analysis Tomasz Stepinski, Denis White and Josue Salazar: Discovering Different Regimes of Biodiversity Support Using Decision Tree Learning Budhendra Bhaduri, Xiaohui Cui, Cheng Liu, Jennifer Santos-Hernandez, Benjamin Preston, Jack Schryver, James Nutaro, Stan Hadley, Richard Medina and Hoe Kyoung Kim: Knowledge Discovery for Exploring the Relations between Climate Change and Population Dynamics Fabian Neuhaus: Location Based Social Networks Tracking Activity in an Urban Environment in Using Twitter Data Coffee Break Keynote address: Does Visualization with Geocomputation Offer Anything We Didnt Know Already? Professor Jo Wood, City University London, UK Chaired by Mark Horner Dinner

Thursday, 21 July 2011


9:00 10:20 5A: Network Complexity Chaired by Itzhak Benenson Modelling Dynamic Space-Time Autocorrelations of Urban Transport Network Tao Cheng, Jiaqiu Wang, James Haworth, Benjamin Heydecker and Andy Chow. Road Network Analysis using Geometric Graphs of -skeleton Toshihiro Osaragi and Yuko Hiraga. The Head/tail Division Rule for Characterizing the Scaling of Geographic Space Bin Jiang and Xintao Liu. Distance Dependence in the Spatial Structure of Chinas Aviation System: A complex network perspective Jingyi Lin Coffee Break 6A: Machine Learning Chaired by Mikhail Kanevski Using a Moving Window SVMs Classification to Infer Travel Mode from GPS Data Adel Bolbol, Tao Cheng and James Haworth Putting the Geographical Analysis Machine on the Internet (Revisited) Ian Turton and Andy Turner. Inverse Estimation of the Point Position from an Image of Kernel Density Estimation Atsushi Takizawa. Kernel Regression for Traffic Prediction Under Missing Data James Haworth, Tao Cheng, John Shawe-Taylor Buffet Lunch 7A: Geographically Weighted Regression Chaired by Linda See Model Selection in GWR: the Development of a Flexible Bandwidth GWR Wenbai Yang, A. Stewart Fotheringham and Paul Harris. Spatial Planning an Inverse Problem? Ricardo Crespo and Adrienne Grt-Regamey. A Spatial Analysis of Perceptions of Health Services Accessibility, Health Status and Geographic Access using GWR Alexis Comber, Chris Brunsdon and Robert Radburn. Distance Metric Selection for Calibrating a Geographically Weighted 5B: VGI and Computational Infrastructure Chaired by Victor Mesev An automated method to assess Data Completeness and Positional Accuracy of OpenStreetMap Thomas Koukoletsos, Muki Haklay and Claire Ellul. Improving Global Land Cover through Crowd-Sourcing and Map Integration Linda See, Steffen Fritz, Ian Mccallum, Christian Schill, Christoph Perger and Michael Obersteiner. Geospatial Service Web CyberInfrastructure for Service-oriented Geospatial Science Jianya Gong, Huayi Wu, Wenxiu Gao, Peng Yue, Xinyan Zhu A Universal Framework for Parallel Processing Massive Spatial Data in a Splitand-Merge Paradigm Xuefeng Guan and Huayi Wu 6B: GeoVisual & Terrain Analysis Chaired by Jianya Gong Selective Progressive Transmission of Vector Data Fangli Ying, Peter Mooney, Padraig Corcoran and Adam Winstanley. Software Prototyping of A Heuristic and Visualized Modeling Environment for Digital Terrain Analysis Cheng-Zhi Qin, Yan-Jun Lu, A-Xing Zhu and Weili Qiu. Interactive Visualisation of Spatial Turnover Shawn Laffan. Automatic Terrain Analysis in Railway Transportation Corridors with Regard to Asset Line-of-Sight from Monocular Video Thomas Warsop.

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7B: Space-Time Modelling & Analysis (2) Chaired by Shashi Shekhar Challenges for Social Flows within a GIS Framework Clio Andris and Joseph Ferreira Model for Haptic-Assisted Pedestrian Navigation Mobile Applications Ricky Jacob, Peter Mooney, Padraig Corcoran and Adam Winstanley Trajectory Data Mining: Classification and Spatio-Temporal Visualization of Mobile Objects Atsushi Nara and Paul Torrens An Adaptive-Velocity Time-Geographic Density Estimator Joni Downs and Mark Horner

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Regression model Binbin Lu and Martin Charlton Coffee Break Keynote address: Sponsored by Pion Geographically Weighted Regression and Geocomputation: an Overview of Recent Developments Prof. Stewart Fotheringham, National University (Maynooth), Ireland Chaired by Mike Batty 8A: Location-based Services Chaired by Claire Ellul 8B: Applications (1) Chaired by Kirsi Virrantaus Dynamic Planning of Ambulance Location in Leicestershire Temporal limits to urban growth modeling Emeka Chukwusa, Alexis Comber and Chris Brunsdon. Gargi Chaudhuri and Keith Clarke Locating allocating Schools Using Metaheuristics and GIS High-Resolution Estimation and Analysis of Transport Accessibility in the City Raul Zurita-Milla, Md. Shamsul Arifin and Otto Huisman. Itzhak Benenson, Amit Rosental and Karel Martens. A New Variable for Spatial Accessibility Measurement in Social Agent-based Modeling of Sustainable Urban Development along the MidInfrastructure Planning Section of Silk Road in Northwest China Yang Li and Allan Brimicombe. Yichun Xie and Xiaojin Tan. Boat Dinner

Friday, 22 July 2011


9:00 10:20 9A: Agent-based Modelling (2) Chaired by Yichun Xie Using Agent-Based Complex Systems to Model Impacts of Policy Decisions on Climate Change Scenarios Marta Vallejo An Agent-Based Model of Woodland Caribou Habitat- Selection in West Central Alberta: A Behavioural and Ecological Approach Christina Semeniuk, Marco Musiani, Mark Hebblewhite, Scott Grindal and Danielle Marceau. Agent Based Modelling and GIS for Community Resource Management: Acequia-based Agriculture Sarah Wise and Andrew Crooks. SAFEPED: Agent-Based Environment for Estimating Accident Risks at the Road Black Spots Gennady Waizman, Eilon Blank-Baron and Itzhak Benenson. Coffee Break Keynote address: The Future of Geocomputation Prof. Keith Clarke, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Chaired by Paul Longley Conference Close 9B: Applications (2) Chaired by Maria Attard Polyline Averaging Using Distance Surfaces: a Spatial Hurricane Climatology Kelsey Scheitlin, Victor Mesev and James Elsner. Using Fine Resolution Population Data and Spatial Interaction Modeling to Estimate Risk from Airborne Toxic Releases Jamison Conley and Robert Stewart. Defining Spatial Weights Matrices in Ecological Research Trisalyn Nelson and Colin Robertson. Geometric Techniques to Speed up Geospatial Feature Matching Constantinos Tsirogiannis.

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Sponsored by Taylor &Francis

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