Overview and introduction of the Location and the Web (LocWeb2017) workshop at WWW2017 http://dhere.de/locweb2017/

1. LocWeb 2017
7th International Workshop on Location and the Web
at
WWW 2017
Perth, Australia
32°57′25′′S 115°51′13′′E

3. Organizers
Dirk Ahlers
NTNU
Trondheim, Norway
Erik Wilde
CA Technologies
Zurich, Switzerland

4. Programme Committee
• Andreas Henrich, Universität Bamberg,
Germany
• Arjen de Vries, Radboud University
• Bruno Martins, University of Lisbon, Portugal
• Carsten Keßler, Hunter College, City
University of New York
• Chandan Kumar, University Koblenz-Landau,
Germany
• Claudia Hauff, Delft University, Netherlands
• Clodoveu Davis, Universidade Federal de
Minas Gerais, Brazil
• Christoph Trattner, Know-Center, Austria
• Christopher Jones, Cardiff University, UK
• Faegheh Hasibi, Norwegian University of
Science and Technology
• Francisco López-Pellicer, Universidad
Zaragoza, Spain
• John Krogstie, Norwegian University of
Science and Technology
• Lisette Espín-Noboa, GESIS – Leibniz-
Institute for the Social Sciences
• Luca Maria Aiello, Bell Labs
• Massimiliano Ruocco, Norwegian
University of Science and Technology
• Rainer Simon, AIT Austrian Institute for
Technology
• Ross Purves, Universität Zürich,
Switzerland
• Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University, UK
• Yana Volkovich, Appnexus

5. LocWeb 2017
• 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

6. Schedule
9:00 – 10:30 Session 1
• Opening
• Keynote Understanding Indoor Behavior: Where, What, with Whom?
Martin Tomko (University of Melbourne)
• Predicting train occupancies based on query logs and external data sources
Gilles Vandewiele, Pieter Colpaert, Joachim Van Herwegen, Olivier Janssens, Ruben Verborgh,
Erik Mannens, Femke Ongenae, Filip De Turck (Universiteit Gent – imec, IDLab)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30 Session 2
• Spatial Analysis of Social Media Response to Live Events. The Case of the Milano Fashion
Week
Marco Brambilla, Stefano Ceri, Florian Daniel, Gianmarco Donetti (Politecnico di Milano)
• Could data from location-based social networks be used to support urban planning?
Tiago Lima (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Rodrigo Smarzaro (Universidade Federal de
Viçosa), Clodoveu Davis Jr (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
• Keynote Standards Update: GeoJSON and Geo APIs
Erik Wilde
• Discussion on Open Questions
• Closing

7. Contact
• http://dhere.de/locweb2017/
• @locweb
• #locweb2017
• #www2017

8. Discussion

9. Perth Location Details
• Location (use) is highly local
• Details can be surprising
• Understand the city?
• What did you discover?

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

11. 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?

12. Follow-up
• http://dhere.de/locweb2017/
– Linking papers from ACM DL and WWW
• Make slides available, please!
– And send link
• @locweb
• Work on open issues

13. Keep in touch!
LocWeb 2017
WWW 2017
Perth, Australia
32°57′25′′S 115°51′13′′E
http://dhere.de/locweb2017/
@locweb