The 10th International Workshop on Location and the Web
LocWeb is happening as an online workshop! We will run the workshop in a slightly different format this year, and the main aim is to still give all authors the option to present their papers and get feedback as well as general discussions. Details of online participation are below.
Please also check with the main conference for online participation and sessions. This is in line with the WWW conference logistics: https://www2020.thewebconf.org/press
21. April 2020
In conjunction with
WWW 2020 The Web Conference
Taipei, Taiwan – Only Online Participation (due to Covid-19)
Programme and Schedule
The detailed conference schedule with sessions and Zoom links is available here: https://www2020.citi.sinica.edu.tw/schedule/#W11-LocWeb2020
The Zoom participation link for LocWeb2020 is: https://zoom.us/j/96309726663 The password should have been sent to you by email by the WWW registration system.
The proceedings are in the ACM DL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3366424#heading15
Session 1: 14:00-15:30 (local time Taiwan) [8:00-9:30 CEST]
14:00
Introduction [slides]
14:05
Open Geodata Reuse: Towards Natural Language Interfaces to Web APIs,
Auriol Degbelo, Ang Sherpa
[Paper in ACM DL] [doi] [slides]
14:35
Leveraging Behavioral Heterogeneity Across Markets for Cross-Market Training of Recommender Systems,
Kevin Rotiero, Ben Carterette, Rishabh Mehrotra, Mounia Lalmas
[Paper in ACM DL] [doi]
15:05
Toward Characterizing Cities with Social Media Images using Activity Recognition, Topic Modeling and Visualization,
Daniela Opitz, Eduardo Graells-Garrido, Ignacio Pérez-Messina
[Paper in ACM DL] [doi] [slides]
(20 minutes presentation full paper, 15 minutes short paper + 10 minutes discussion each)
Break: 15:30-16:00 (local time)
Session 2: 16:00-17:30 (local time) [10:00-11:30 CEST]
16:00
Discussion, Open Issues
17:00
Closing and Wrap-up
Workshop theme
We are excited to announce that LocWeb2020 has been accepted as a workshop at the WWW2020 conference!
Location and geospatial analytics are important aspects in a wide range of Web research and systems. LocWeb 2020 will continue a successful workshop series at the intersection of location-based analytics and Web architecture. It focuses on Web-scale services and systems facilitating location-aware information access as well as spatial social behavior analytics as part of social computing. The location topic is seen as a cross-cutting issue equally concerning information access, semantics and standards, social analysis and mining, and Web-scale systems and services. It will explore the connection of the Web to the real physical and spatial world. We aim for a highly interactive, collaborative full day workshop with ample room for discussion and demos that will explore and advance the topic, with contributions from research and industry.
New application areas for Web architecture, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Web of Things (WoT), will lead to increasingly rich and large sets of applications for which location is highly relevant as the connection to the physical world. Location has high importance in Web-based designs, and it continues to provide challenging research questions.
It plays important roles in large systems of social and societal importance, and we aim to explore this connection further under the topics of data science for social good and through ways to improve people’s lives.
Call for Papers
LocWeb will solicit submissions under the main theme of Web-scale Location-Aware Information Access and spatial social computing. Subtopics include (i) geospatial semantics, systems, and standards; (ii) large-scale geospatial and geo-social ecosystems; (iii) mobility; (iv) location in the Web of Things; and (v) mining and searching geospatial data on the Web. The workshop encourages work describing Web-mediated or Web-scale approaches that build on reliable foundations, and that thoroughly understand and embrace the geospatial dimension.
Topics
The topics are designed to reflect the multitude of fields that demand and utilize location data. We encourage submissions to take an interdisciplinary perspective at the topic of location on the Web.
- Location-Aware Information Access
- Spatial Social Behavior
- Location-Aware Web-Scale Systems and Services
- Location in the Internet/Web of Things
- Geospatial Data Science for Social Good
- Open Geospatial Web Data
- Geospatial aspects of Smart Cities
- Urban Planning and Citizen Engagement
- Location prediction in social media and the Web
- Influence modeling and processing in static and dynamic spatio-social graphs
- Evaluation of frameworks, metrics and algorithms
- Large-scale Geospatial Ecosystems
- Standards for Location and Mobility Data
- Modeling Location and Location Interaction
- Location-Based Social Networks
- Geospatial Web Search and Mining
- Mobile Search and Location-Based Recommendation
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: 20. Dec 2019 19.Jan.2020 26.Jan.2020 (23:59 AoE Anywhere on Earth)
Acceptance Notification: 30. Jan 2020 06. Feb 2020
Final hard camera-ready: 17. Feb 2019
Workshop day: 21. April 2019
Submission instructions
We solicit full papers of 6-8 pages, and short papers of up to 4 pages describing work-in-progress or early results. Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research that is not being considered for publication in any other forum. Workshop submissions will be evaluated based on the quality of the work, originality, match to the workshop themes, technical merit, and their potential to inspire interesting discussions. The review process is single blind, so please provide your name and affiliation.
Submit via easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=locweb2020
Submissions should follow the ACM styles and guidelines of the WebConf conference proceedings, using the “sigconf” format. Accepted workshop papers will be published in the WWW companion proceedings and the ACM Digital Library. For inclusion in the proceedings, at least one author of the accepted paper has to register for the workshop and present the paper.
Presenters are encouraged to bring demos to the workshop, to facilitate discussion and make the workshop more interactive.
Organizers
Workshop team
Dirk Ahlers, NTNU, Norway, dirk.ahlers@ntnu.no
Erik Wilde, Axway
Rossano Schifanella, University of Turin, Italy
Jalal S. Alowibdi, University of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Programme Committee
Anastasios Noulas (New York University)
Bart Thomee (Google)
Bruno Martins (IST and INESC-ID – Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon)
Carsten Keßler (Aalborg University Copenhagen)
Clodoveu Davis (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
Francisco J. Lopez-Pellicer (University of Zaragoza)
Leonidas Anthopoulos (University of Applied Science (TEI) Larissa)
Lisette Espín-Noboa (GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, University of Koblenz-Landau)
Muhammad Murtaza Khan (University of Jeddah)
Muhammad Usman Ilyas (University of Jeddah)
Rainer Simon (AIT – Austrian Institute of Technology)
Ross Purves (University of Zurich)
Salem Alelyani (King Khalid University)
Torsten Suel (New York University)
Yana Volkovich (Xandr)