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Organization

• Workshop Co-Chairs
• Gabriel Ghinita
• Jennifer Neville
• Shawn Newsam

08:00-09:00 Breakfast

09:00-09:15 Opening Remarks - Foreword

09:15-10:30 Keynote: The Anatomy of Sindbad: A Location-based Social Networking System Mohamed F. Mokbel (University of Minnesota, USA)

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Session 1: Knowledge Discovery

Traffic Observatory: a system to detect and locate traffic events and conditions using Twitter
Silvio S. Ribeiro Jr., Diogo Oliveira, Tatiana Goncalves, Clodoveu Davis Jr., Wagner Meira Jr. and Gisele Pappa (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil)

Can Off-The-Shelf Object Detectors Be Used to Extract Geographic Information From Geo-referenced Social Multimedia?
Daniel Leung and Shawn Newsam (University of California, Merced)

Exploratory Analysis on Heterogeneous Tag-Point Patterns for Ranking and Extracting Hot-Spot Related Tags
Massimiliano Ruocco and Heri Ramampiaro (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30 Session 2: Geocoding and Behavior Analysis

TweoLocator: A Non-Intrusive Geographical Locator System for Twitter
Rodolfo Gonzalez, Gerardo Figueroa and Yi-Shin Chen (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

Multimodal Geo-tagging in Social Media Websites using Hierarchical Spatial Segmentation
Pascal Kelm, Sebastian Schmiedeke and Thomas Sikora (TU Berlin, Germany)

Public Checkins versus Private Queries: Measuring and Evaluating Spatial Preference
James Caverlee, Zhiyuan Cheng (Texas A&M University, USA), Wai Gen Yee, Roger Liew (Orbitz, USA) and Yuan Liang (Texas A&M University, USA)

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:00 Session 3:Systems and Frameworks

Parallelization of Ensemble Neural Networks for Spatial Land-Use Modeling
Zhaoya Gong, Wenwu Tang, and Jean-Claude Thill (University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA)

SNAIR: A Framework for Personalised Recommendations Based on Social Network Analysis
Saajan Shridhar, Mithleshwar Lakhanpuria, Abhishek Charak, Ankur Gupta (Model Institute of Engineering and Technology, India) and Swapan Shridhar (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)

17:00-17:15 Concluding Remarks