LocWeb 2016
6th International Workshop on Location and the Web
at
WWW 2016
Montréal, Canada
45°30′N 73°34′W

Organizers
Dirk Ahlers
NTNU
Trondheim, Norway
Bruno Martins
University of Lisbon, IST and
INESC-ID
Lisbon, Portugal
Erik Wilde
Siemens
Berkeley, USA

Programme Committee
• Andreas Henrich, Universität
Bamberg, Germany
• Arjen de Vries, CWI, Netherlands
• Carsten Keßler, CUNY, USA
• Chandan Kumar, University
Koblenz-Landau, Germany
• Christoph Trattner, Graz University
of Technology, Austria
• Christopher Jones, Cardiff
University, UK
• Claudia Hauff, Delft University,
Netherlands
• Clodoveu Davis, Universidade
Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
• Francisco López-Pellicer,
Universidad Zaragoza, Spain
• Massimiliano Ruocco, Telenor
Research, Norway
• Max Egenhofer, University of
Maine, USA
• Rainer Simon, AIT Austrian
Institute for Technology
• Ross Purves, Universität
Zürich, Switzerland
• Steven Schockaert, Cardiff
University, UK
• Torsten Suel, New York
University, USA
• Vanessa Murdock, Bing, USA
• Yana Volkovich, Centro
Tecnológico de Catalunya,
Spain

LocWeb 2016
• Location-aware information
access
• Cross-cutting issue in Web
research
– Search, retrieval, analytics,
mining, extraction, mobility,
apps, services, systems
• Interdisciplinary perspective
• Discuss and develop the
role of location

Schedule
14:00 – 15:30 Session 1
• Opening
• Context-Aware Friend Recommendation for Location Based Social Networks using
Random Walk
Hakan Bagci (Middle East Technical University); Pinar Karagoz (Middle East Technical University)
• Maps for HTML
Peter Rushforth (Natural Resources Canada)
• Discovering and Characterizing Mobility Patterns in Urban Spaces: A Study of Manhattan
Taxi Data
Lisette Espín-Noboa (GESIS); Florian Lemmerich (GESIS); Philipp Singer (GESIS); Markus
Strohmaier (GESIS)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30 Session 2
• Keynote
Luca Aiello (Yahoo Labs): The Sensorial Map of the City
• Keynote
Erik Wilde: GeoJSON Update
• Discussion on Open Questions
• Closing

Contact
• http://dhere.de/locweb2016/
• @locweb
• #locweb2016
• #www2016

Session I

Session II

Keynote
The Sensorial Map of the City
Luca Aiello

Keynote
GeoJSON Update
Erik Wilde

Discussion

Montréal Location Details
• Location is interesting and useful
• Cities are exciting
• Location (use) is highly local
• Details can be surprising
• Understand the city?
• What did you discover?
• Multilinguality?

Montréal
Underground City
• (officially RÉSO or La Ville
Souterraine)
• ~30km of underground malls,
tunnels, etc.
• Map:
http://documents.tourisme-
montreal.org/Traveller/Travel-
Information/Getting-
Around/EN/Underground-
Pedestrian-Network-Map.pdf
• Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U
nderground_City,_Montreal
• Site:
http://montrealundergroundcity
.com/

Open Issues
• What is exciting?
• What is difficult?
• What is challenging?
• What should we work on?

Thoughts for LocWeb201*
• What did you expect, what new things did
you learn?
• Things you liked (not?) at LocWeb?
• Room for improvement?
• Particular ideas for next edition?

Follow-up
• http://dhere.de/locweb2016/
– Linking papers from ACM DL and WWW
• Make slides available, please!
– And send link
• @locweb
• Work on open issues

Keep in touch!
LocWeb 2016
WWW 2016
Montréal, Canada
45°30′N 73°34′W
http://dhere.de/locweb2016/
@locweb