GISscience 2023

Programme

The main conference runs from 13th – 15th September 2023, with workshops and a welcome reception on 12th September.

Handbook and Proceedings

  • The handbook is available for download (as a pdf)
  • All papers accepted for GIScience have been published in the official proceedings: 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023). Roger Beecham and Jed A. Long and Dianna Smith and Qunshan Zhao and Sarah Wise (Eds.) ISBN 978-3-95977-288-4, LIPICS Vol. 277. https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/portals/lipics/index.php?semnr=16299 .

Tuesday 12th September

  • 09:00 - 17:00: Workshops (registration from 08:30). Leeds University Business School, Maurice Keyworth building
  • 18:00 - 20:30: Welcome reception (with music, buffet and drinks), Great Hall

Wednesday 13th September

  • 08:45 - 17:30: Full day conference program, Michael Sadler building. Registration is from 08:00 in the Parkinson Court.
  • Evening is free for delegates to explore Leeds.

Thursday 14th September

  • 09:00 - 17:00: Full day conference program, Michael Sadler Building. Registration is from 08:30 in the Pakinson Court.
  • 19:00 – 22:00: Conference dinner at the Queens Hotel.

Friday 15th September

  • 09:00 - 13:00: Half-day conference program. Registration is from 08:30 in the Pakinson Court.

 

Overview of the Conference Sessions

Sessions marked with * contain a long paper.

Overview of the conference programme

Detailed Session Information

Papers marked with * are long papers.

Session Paper Title Authors
1A GISci. Chair: Shawn Laffan
1A 10:30

Map Reproducibility in Geoscientific Publications: An Exploratory Study*

Eftychia Koukouraki; Christian Kray
1A 11:00

Toward Causal Aware GIS - Events as cornerstones

Nina Polous
1A 11:15

Causal effects under spatial confounding and interference

Jing Zhang
1A 11:30

From Reproducible to Explainable GIScience

Mark Gahegan
1A 11:45

Modeling affordances

Sabine Timpf; Franziska Klügl
1B Environment. Chair: Jed Long
1B 10:30

Genetic programming for computationally efficient land use allocation optimization*

Moritz Hildemann; Alan T. Murray; Judith A. Verstegen
1B 11:00

How does travel environment affect mood? A study using geographic ecological momentary assessment in the UK

Milad Malekzadeh; Darja Reuschke; Jed Long
1B 11:15

Unlocking the Power of Mobile Phone Application Data to Accelerate Transport Decarbonisation

Xianghui Zhang; Tao Cheng
1B 11:30 Haoyu Wang; Jennifer Miller
1B 11:45

Harnessing the sunlight on facades - an approach for determining vertical photovoltaic potential

Franz Welscher; Ivan Majic; Franziska Hübl; Rizwan Bulbul; Johannes Scholz
1C Ethics and Privacy. Chair: Ana Basiri
1C 10:30

Platial k-anonymity: Improving location anonymity through temporal popularity signatures*

Grant McKenzie; Hongyu Zhang
1C 11:00

The Ethics of AI-Generated Maps: DALLE·2 and AI’s Implications for Cartography

Qianheng Zhang; Yuhao Kang; Robert Roth
1C 11:15

Towards an inclusive urban environment: A participatory approach for collecting spatial accessibility data in Zurich

Hoda Allahbakhshi
1C 11:30

Confidential, decentralized location-based data services

Benjamin Adams
1C 11:45

How to count travelers without tracking them between locations

Nadia Shafaeipour; Maarten van Steen; Frank Ostermann
2A Geo-AI. Chair: Rich Harris
2A 14:00

Transitions in Dynamic Map Labeling*

Thomas Depian; Guangping Li; Martin Nöllenburg; Jules Wulms
2A 14:30

Calculating Shadows with U-Nets for Urban Environments

Dominik Rothschedl; Franz Welscher; Franziska Hübl; Ivan Majic; Daniele Giannandrea; Johannes Scholz; Matthias Wastian; Niki Popper
2A 14:45

Estimating the Impact of a Flood Event on Property Value and its Diminished Effect Over Time

Nazia Sodial; Oleksandr Galkin; Aidan Slingsby
2A 15:00

Framework for motorcycle real-time risk assessment using onboard panoramic camera

Natchapon Jongwiriyanurak; Zichao Zeng; Meihui Wang; James Haworth; Garavig Tanaksaranond; Jan Boehm
2A 15:15

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Large Language Models in Representing Textual Descriptions of Geometry and Spatial Relations

Yuhan Ji; Song Gao
2B Spatial Networks. Chair: Sabine Timpf
2B 14:00

Visualizing Geophylogenies - Internal and External Labeling with Phylogenetic Tree Constraints*

Jonathan Klawitter; Felix Klesen; Joris Y. Scholl; Thomas C. van Dijk; Alexander Zaft
2B 14:30 Urmi Shah; Jia Wang
2B 14:45

Anonymous routing using minimum capacity clustering

Maike Buchin and Lukas Plätz
2B 15:00

Assessing epidemic spreading potential with Encounter Netwrk

Behnam Tahmasbi; Farnoosh Roozkhosh; X. Angela Yao
2B 15:15

Betweenness Centrality in Spatial Networks: A Spatially Normalised Approach

Christian Werner; Martin Loidl
2C Semantics. Chair: Henrikki Tenkanen
2C 14:00

Do You Need Instructions Again? Predicting Wayfinding Instruction Demand*

Negar Alinaghi; Tiffany C.K. Kwok; Peter Kiefer; Ioannis Giannopoulos
2C 14:30

Does generalisation matters in pan-scalar maps?

Azelle Courtial; Guillaume Touya
2C 14:45

Exploring Map App Usage Behaviour Through Touchscreen Interactions

Donatella Zingaro; Mona Bartling; Tumasch Reichenbacher
2C 15:00

Why is Greenwich so common? Quantifying the uniqueness of multivariate observations

Andrea Ballatore; Stefano Cavazzi
2C 15:15

Geography and the Brain’s Spatial System

May Yuan; Kristen Kennedy
3A Simulation. Chair: Andrew Crooks
3A 16:00

Agent-Based Modelling and Disease: Demonstrating the Role of Human Remains in Epidemic Outbreaks

Huixin Liu; Sarah Wise
3A 16:15 Yiyu Wang; Jiaqi Ge; Alexis Comber
3A 16:30

Using the Dynamic Microsimulation MINOS to Evidence the Effect of Energy Crisis Income Support Policy

Robert Clay; Luke Archer; Alison Heppenstall; Nik Lomax
3A 16:45

Calibration in a Data Sparse Environment: How Many Cases Did We Miss?

Robert Manning Smith; Sarah Wise; Sophie Ayling
3A 17:00

A Data-Driven Decision-Making Framework for Spatial Agent-Based Models of Infectious Disease Spread

Emma Von Hoene; Amira Roess; Taylor Anderson
3A 17:15

Exascale agent-based modelling for policy evaluation in real-time (ExAMPLER)

Alison Heppenstall; Gary Polhill; Mike Batty
3B Place and Supply and Demand. Chair: Dianna Smith
3B 16:00

Understanding People’s Perceptions of Their Liveable Neighbourhoods: A Case Study of East Bristol

Elisa Covato; Shelan Jeawak
3B 16:15

Place Identity: A Generative AI’s Perspective

Kee Moon Jang; Junda Chen; Yuhao Kang; Junghwan Kim; Jinhyung Lee; Fábio Duarte
3B 16:30

Predicting visit frequencies to new places

Nina Wiedemann; Ye Hong; Martin Raubal
3B 16:45

Impacts of Catchments Derived from Fine-Grained Mobility Data on Spatial Accessibility

Alexander Michels; Jinwoo Park; Bo Li; Jeon-Young Kang; Shaowen Wang
3B 17:00

Geographic analysis of trade-offs between amenity and supply effects in new office buildings

Kazushi Matsuo; Morito Tsutsumi; Toyokazus Imazeki
3B 17:15

Achieving least relocation of existing facilities in spatial optimisation: a bi-objective model and solution approaches

Huanfa Chen; Rongbo Xu
3C Transport and mobility. Chair: Urska Demsar
3C 16:00

Visual Methods for Representing Flow Space with Vector Fields

Gong Zhaoya; Zhang Han; Thill Jean-Claude
3C 16:15

Understanding the complex behaviours of electric vehicle drivers with agent-based models in Glasgow

Zixin Feng; Qunshan Zhao; Alison Heppenstall
3C 16:30

Uncovering Spatiotemporal Patterns of Travel Flows under Extreme Weather Events by Tensor Decomposition

Zhicheng Deng; Zhaoya Gong; Pengjun Zhao
3C 16:45

Finding feasible routes with reinforcement learning using macro-level traffic measurements

Mustafa Can Ozkan; Tao Cheng
3C 17:00

Mobility Vitality: Assessing Neighborhood Similarity through Transportation Patterns in New York City

Dan Qiang; Grant McKenzie
3C 17:15

Simulating and Validating the Traffic of Blackwall Tunnel Using TfL Jam Cam Data and Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO)

Chukun Gao
4A Localised models. Chair: Steve Manson
4A 10:30

Benchmarking regression models under spatial heterogeneity*

Nina Wiedemann; Henry Martin; René Westerholt
4A 11:00

Counter-Intuitive Effect of Null Hypothesis on Moran’s I tests under Heterogenous Populations

Nishi Hayato; Ikuho Yamada
4A 11:15

A Hierarchical and Geographically Weighted Regression Model and Its Backfitting Maximum Likelihood Estimator

Yigong Hu; Richard Harris; Richard Timmerman; Binbin Lu
4A 11:30

Multiscale spatially and temporally varying coefficient modelling using a Geographic and Temporal Gaussian Process GAM (GTGP-GAM)

Alexis Comber; Paul Harris; Chris Brunsdon
4A 11:45

Introducing a General Framework for Locally Weighted Spatial Modelling Based on Density Regression

Yigong Hu; Binbin Lu; Richard Harris; Richard Timmerman
4B Cartography. Chair: Roger Beecham
4B 10:30

Data-spatial layouts for grid maps*

Nathan van Beusekom; Wouter Meulemans; Bettina Speckmann; Jo Wood
4B 11:00

Development of a semantic segmentation approach to old-map comparison

Yves Annanias; Daniel Wiegreffe; Anreas Niekler; Marta Kuźma; Francis Harvey
4B 11:15

The FogDetector: A User Survey to Measure Disorientation in Pan-Scalar Maps

Guillaume Touya; Justin Berli
4B 11:30

Resiliency: A Consensus Data Binning Method

Arpit Narechania; Alex Endert; Clio Andris
4B 11:45

On the Cartographic Communication of Places

Franz-Benjamin Mocnik
4C Spatial Analysis. Chair: Adam Dennett
4C 10:30

Building alternative indices of socioeconomic status for population modeling in data-sparse contexts

Angela Cunningham; Joseph Tuccillo; Tyler Frazier
4C 10:45

Investigating MAUP Effects on Census Data Using Approximately Equal-Population Aggregations

Yue Lin; Ningchuan Xiao
4C 11:00

Status poles and status zoning to model urban residential land prices: Status-Quality Trade Off theory

Thuy Phuong Le; Alexis Comber; Binh Quoc Tran; Phe Huu Hoang; Huy Quang Man; Linh Xuan Nguyen; Tuan Le Pham; Tu Ngoc Bui
4C 11:15

Inferring the history of spatial diffusion processes

Takuya Takahashi; Geneviève Hannes; Nico Neureiter; Peter Ranacher
4C 11:30

Characterizing Urban Expansion Processes Using Dynamic Spatial Models – a European Application

Alex Hagen-Zanker; Jingyan Yu; Susan Hughes; Naratip Santitissadeekorn
4C 11:45

Project-Based Urban Dynamics: A Novel Method for Assessing Urban Sprawl

Nir Fulman; Yulia Grinblat; Itzhak Benenson
5A ML and Spatial Statistics. Chair: Sarah Wise
5A 14:00

A Comparison of Global and Local Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques in Estimating Flash Flood Susceptibility

Jing Yao; Ziqi Li; Xiaoxiang Zhang; Changjun Liu; Liliang Ren
5A 14:15

Reducing False Discoveries in Statistically-Significant Regional-Colocation Mining: A Summary of Results*

Subhankar Ghosh; Jayant Gupta; Arun Sharma; Shuai An; Shashi Shekhar
5A 14:45

Exploring the Use of Machine and Deep Learning Models for OpenStreetMap Data Quality Assessment and Improvement

Salim Miloudi; Bouhadjar Meguenni
5A 15:00

Moran eigenvectors-based spatial heterogeneity analysis for compositional data

Zhan Peng; Ryo Inoue
5A 15:15

Smarter Than Your Average Model - Bayesian Model Averaging as a Spatial Analysis Tool

Christopher Brunsdon; Paul Harris; Alexis Comber
5B Map Services. Chair: Levi Wolf
5B 14:00

Semi-supervised Learning from Street-View Images and OpenStreetMap for Automatic Building Height Estimation*

Hao Li; Zhendong Yuan; Gabriel Dax; Gefei Kong; Hongchao Fan; Alexander Zipf; Martin Werner
5B 14:30

Power of GIS Mapping: ATLAS Flood Maps 2022

Munazza Usmani; Hafiz Muhammad Tayyab Bhatti; Francesca Bovolo; Maurizio Napolitano
5B 14:45

Application of GIS in Public Health Practice: a Consortium’s Approach to Tackling Travel Delays in Obstetric Emergencies in Urban Areas

Jia Wang; Itohan Osayande; Peter Macharial; Prestige Tatenda Makanga; Kerry Wong; Tope Olubodun; Uchenna Gwacham-Anisiobi; Olakunmi Ogunyemi; Abimbola Olaniran; Ibukun-Oluwa Abejirinde; Lenka Beňová; Bosede Afolabi; Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas
5B 15:00

Progress in Constructing an Open Map Generalization Data Set for Deep Learning

Cheng Fu; Zhiyong Zhou; Jan Winkler; Nicolas Beglinger; Robert Weibel
5B 15:15

Building-level comparison of Microsoft and Google open building footprints datasets

Jack Gonzales
5C New forms of data. Chair: Qunshan Zhao
5C 14:00

Towards a multidimensional interaction framework for promoting public engagement in citizen science projects*

Maryam Lotfian; Jens Ingensand; Christophe Claramunt
5C 14:30

Digital Injustice: A Case Study of Land Use Classification using Multisource Data in Nairobi, Kenya

Wenlan Zhang; Chen Zhong; Faith Taylor
5C 14:45

The Ups and Downs of London High Streets Throughout COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights from Footfall-Based Clustering Analysis

Xinglei Wang; Xianghui Zhang; Tao Cheng
5C 15:00

Understanding active travel networks using GPS data from an outdoor mapping app

Marcus Young
5C 15:15

National-scale spatiotemporal variation in driver behaviour

Elliot Karikari; Manon Prédhumeau; Peter Baudain; Ed Manley
6A Disruption and Vulnerability 1. Chair: Mark Gahegan
6A 16:00

An Interpretable Index of Social Vulnerability to Environmental Hazards

Joseph Tuccillo
6A 16:15

Beware the rise of models when they are wrong : Looking at Heat Vulnerability with a Spyglass

Seda Salap-Ayca; Erica Akemi Goto
6A 16:30

Exploring Energy Deprivation across Small Areas in England and Wales

Meixu Chen; Alex Singleton; Caitlin Robinson
6A 16:45

Development and Operationalisation of Local Sustainability Indicators - A Gobal South Perspective on Data Challenges and Opportunities for GIScience

Stefan Steiniger; Carolina Rojas; Ricardo Truffello; Jonathan Barton
6B Uncertainty. Chair: Bin Chi
6B 16:00

Uncertainty in causal neighborhood effects: a multi-agent simulation approach

Cecile de Bezenac
6B 16:15

An Evaluation of the Impact of Ignition Location Uncertainty on Forest Fire Ignition Prediction using Bayesian Logistic Regression

David Röbl; Rizwan Bulbul; Johannes Scholz; Mortimer Müller; Harald Vacik
6B 16:30

An Integrated Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis for Spatial Multicriteria Models

Piotr Jankowski; Arika Ligmann-Zielinska; Zbigniew Zwolinski; Alicja Najwer
6B 16:45

Uncertainty Quantification in the Road-level Traffic Risk Prediction by Spatial-Temporal Zero-Inflated Negative Binomial Graph Neural Network(STZINB-GNN)

Xiaowei Gao; James Haworth; Dingyi Zhuang; Huanfa Chen; Xinke Jiang
7A Disruption and Vulnerability 2. Chair: Rachel Franklin
7A 10:30

Waffle Homes: Utilizing Aerial Imagery of Unfinished Buildings to Determine Average Room Size

Carson Woody; Ty Frazier
7A 10:45

A Data Fusion Framework for Exploring Mobility around Disruptive Events

Evgeny Noi; Somayeh Dodge
7A 11:00

Understand the Geography of Financial Precarity in England and Wales

Zi Ye; Alex Singleton
7A 11:15

From change detection to change analytics: Decomposing multi-temporal pixel evolution vectors

Victoria Scherelis; Patrick Laube; Michael Doering
7B Text analysis. Chair: Yahya Gamal
7B 10:30

GeoQAMap - Geographic Question Answering with Maps leveraging LLM and open knowledge base

Yu Feng; Linfang Ding; Guohui Xiao
7B 10:45

When Everything is ‘Nearby’: How Airbnb Listings in New York City Exaggerate Proximity

Mikael Brunila; Priyanka Verma; Grant McKenzie
7B 11:00

Agent-based modeling of consumer choice by utilizing crowdsourced data and deep learning

Boyu Wang; Andrew Crooks
7B 11:15

Understanding the spatial complexity in landscape narratives through qualitative representation of space

Erum Haris; Anthony Cohn; John Stell

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