Important Dates

• Paper submission
• June 12, 2015 (PCT 11:59:59PM) Extended
• Notification of acceptance
• July 12, 2015 Extended
• Camera-ready copies due
• July 20, 2015
• Workshop date
• August 10, 2015

Chairs

• Program Chair

• Yu Zheng

• Microsoft Research, China

• General Co-Chairs
• Steven E. Koonin
• New York University
• Ouri E. Wolfson
• University of Illinois at Chicago
• Fang Chen

  NICTA, Australia

  Qiang Yang

  Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  UrbComp 2012

  UrbComp 2013

  UrbComp 2014

Full Papers

Transfer Learning For Urban Computing: A Case Study For Optimal Retail Store Placement
Ningyu Zhang (Zhejiang University), Huajun Chen (Zhejiang University), Xi Chen (Zhejiang University)

Discovering Congestion Propagation Patterns in Spatio-Temporal Traffic Data
Hoang Nguyen (National ICT Australia), Wei Liu (University of Technology), Fang Chen (National ICT Australia)

Assessing the Impact of Real-time Ridesharing on Urban Traffic using Mobile Phone Data
Lauren P. Alexander (MIT - Mass. Inst. of Tech.), Marta C. Gonzalez (MIT - Mass. Inst. of Tech.)

Characterizing Taxi Flows in New York City
Marjan Momtazpour (Virginia Tech), Naren Ramakrishnan (Virginia Tech)

Visual Analysis of Route Choice Behaviour based on GPS Trajectories
Min Lu (Peking University), Chufan Lai (Peking University), Tangzhi Ye (Peking University), Jie Liang (Peking University), Xiaoru Yuan (Peking University)

Activity-Based Human Mobility Patterns Inferred from Mobile Phone Data: A Case Study of Singapore
Shan Jiang (MIT - Mass. Inst. of Tech.), Joseph Ferreira Jr (MIT - Mass. Inst. of Tech.), Marta C. Gonzales (MIT - Mass. Inst. of Tech.)

On Inferring the Time-Varying Traffic Connectivity Structures of an Urban Environment
Sanjay Chawla (QCRI and University of Sydney), Somwrita Sarkar (University of Sydney), Javier Borge-Holthoefer (Qatar Computing Research Institute), Shameem Ahamed (UTC France and QCRI), Hossam Hammady (Qatar Computing Research Institute), Fethi Filali (Qatar Mobility Innovation Centre), Wassim Znaidi (Qatar Mobility Innovation Centre)


Short Papers

A Scalable Framework for Clustering Vehicle Trajectories in a Dense Road Network
Dheeraj Kumar (Electrical and Electronic Engineering), Sutharshan Rajasegarar (The University of Melbourne, National ICT Australia), Marimuthu Palaniswami (Electrical and Electronic Engineering), Xiaoting Wang (The University of Melbourne), Christopher Leckie (The University of Melbourne, National ICT Australia)

Profiling Pedestrian Activity Patterns in a Dynamic Urban Environment
Minh Tuan Doan (National ICT Australia, The University of Melbourne), Sutharshan Rajasegarar (The University of Melbourne, National ICT Australia), Christopher Leckie (The University of Melbourne, National ICT Australia)

An Interactive Visualization System to Analyze and Predict Urban Construction Dynamics
Tzu-Chi Yen (Sensoro Technology Co., Ltd.), Tzu-Yun Lin (Academia Sinica), Ching-Yuan Yeh (National Taiwan University Hospital), Hsun-Ping Hsieh (National Taiwan University), Cheng-Te Li (Academia Sinica)

Predict User In-World Activity via Integration of Map Query and Mobility Trace
Zhengwei Wu (Baidu Research), Haishan Wu (Baidu Research), Tong Zhang (Baidu Research)

Perspectives on Stability and Mobility of Passenger's Travel Behavior through Smart Card Data
Zhiyong Cui (Peking University), Ying Long (Beijing Institute of City Planning)

On the Spatial Dependencies of Human Mobility and Urban Energy Consumption
Neda Mohammadi (Virginia Tech), John E. Taylor (Virginia Tech)