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New Position and Location

Since April 2013, I am a Senior Lecturer (Oberassistent) in the Geographic Information Visualization and Analysis group at the Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland. I can now be found here.

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Transportation Research paper published

Our paper Decentralized Evacuation Management has now been published in Vol. 31 of Transportation Research Part C.

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CEUS paper accepted

The paper Granularity of Locations Referred to by Place Descriptions written by Daniela Richter, Stephan Winter, myself, and Lesley Stirling has been accepted for publication in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. This paper continues our work on analyzing the (spatial) … Continue reading

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Transportation Research paper accepted

The paper Decentralized Evacuation Management co-authored by myself, Mingzheng Shi, Heng-Soon Gan, and Stephan Winter has just been accepted for publication in Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. The paper expands our work on peer-to-peer evacuation simulation previously presented  here.

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AGILE paper accepted

Our paper The Impact of Classification Approaches on the Detection of Hierarchies in  Place Descriptions has been accepted for this year’s AGILE conference in Leuven, Belgium (14-17/5). The paper has been authored by Daniela Richter, myself, and Stephan Winter.

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Two workshop papers accepted at ACMGIS

Two of our papers in the context of the Talking About Place project have been accepted at the First International Workshop on Crowdsourced and Volunteered Geographic Information to be held at the 20th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in … Continue reading

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JOSIS paper appeared

Our JOSIS paper has now appeared in Number 4 of the journal.

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Paper accepted at 9th LBS Symposium

The paper Zooming in – Zooming out: Hierarchies in Place Descriptions written by Daniela Richter, Maria Vasardani, Lesley Stirling, myself, and Stephan Winter has been accepted as a full paper for the 9th Symposium on Location Based Services in Munich, Germany, … Continue reading

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Global Engagement Strategic Mobility Grant

I have received a School of Engineering Global Engagement Strategic Mobility Grant for a project on Assisting People Under Stress: Using Mobile Devices in Evacuation, which I will work on jointly with Toru Ishikawa from the University of Tokyo, Japan.

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Autocarto paper accepted

Our paper Supporting extraction of knowledge about environmental objects and events from geosensor data authored by Susanne Bleisch, Matt Duckham, Allison Kealy, myself, Stephan Winter, Stuart Kininmonth, Alexander Klippel, Patrick Laube, Jarod Lyon, David Medyckyj-Scott, and Tim Wark has been accepted for … Continue reading

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