Agenda

Workshop on GEOSPATIAL SOFTWARE: CONNECTING BIG DATA WITH GEOSPATIAL DISCOVERY AND INNOVATION

Date: January 28-30, 2018

Location: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

January 28, 2018

Working Dinner/Arrival by 5:00 pm (icebreaking). All (or most) attendees will have submitted position papers in advance, position papers posted on the project web site, and attendees requested to read all position papers in advance.

January 29, 2018

7:00am – 8:00pm

TIME	EVENTS	ROOM
7:00-8:00am	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00-8:30am	Welcome and Introduction John Wilson, University of Southern California (USC) Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (UIUC)	Main Room
8:30-9:15am	Plenary: NSF Perspectives – Moderator: Shaowen Wang Rajiv Ramnath, NSF Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Daniel Sui, NSF Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences
9:15-10:00am	Panel: Science Drivers and Community Needs for GSI – Moderator: Mary Shelley, University of Maryland, College Park. Panelists: Luc Anselin, University of Chicago Gabe Bowen, University of Utah Coline Dony, American Association of Geographers (AAG) Praveen Kumar, UIUC Helena Mitasova, North Carolina State University
10:00-10:15am	Break
10:15-11:15am	Keynotes – Moderator: Shaowen Wang Michael Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, University of California, San Diego
11:15am-12:00pm	Panel: Big Data Challenges and Opportunities for Geospatial Software and Science Drivers – Moderator: Paul Morin, University of Minnesota. Panelists: Jeffrey Carver, University of Alabama Hanan Samet, University of Maryland, College Park Carol Song, Purdue University David Tarboton, Utah State University Ryan Wyatt, California Academy of Sciences
12:00-1:00pm	Lunch
1:00-2:15pm	Special Interest Group Breakout Sessions (Scientific Drivers and Use Cases) – Moderator: Michael Goodchild Breakout group 1: Moderator: Luc Anselin, University of Chicago Breakout group 2: Moderator: Mary Shelley, University of Maryland, College Park Breakout group 3: Moderator: Eric Shook, University of Minnesota Discussion Questions: How to achieve rigorous quality and science of geospatial software? What are the most desirable and impactful scientific use cases of GSI? What are the most critical geospatial software requirements for GSI?
2:15-3:15am	Lightning Talks (Moderator: Diana Sinton, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS)): Giuseppe Amatulli. Geo-Computation of Big Data Using Open Source Geo-Software: What We Can Do and the Importance of Mastering Programming Language at the Graduate Level. Li An. Meeting Grand Challenges in Complex Systems through ABM Software Development. Guofeng Cao. Uncertainty Modeling in Geospatial Data Science. Yao-Yi Chiang and Dan Feldman. Next Generation Framework for Imagery Recognition and Analysis. Xingong Li. Spatiotemporal Map Algebra: A Framework for Big Geospatial Data Analysis. Hanan Samet. Interoperable Geospatial Software. Tyson Swetnam. Cyberinfrastructure for Scientific Reproducibility in Data-Intensive Geospatial Research and Education. Ming-Hsiang Tsou, Atsushi Nara, Arash Jahangiri and Sahar Ghanipoor Machiani. Developing Web-based Spatiotemporal Analytics Software Tools for Analyzing Connected Vehicle Data and Aggressive Driving Behaviors. Li Xiong, Cyrus Shahabi, Liyue Fan and Ming Li. A Geospatial Software to Protect the Privacy of Location Data.	Main Room
3:15-3:30pm	Break
3:30-4:45pm	Special Interest Group Breakout Sessions (Community, Organizational, and Social Dimensions) – Moderator: Erin Robinson, Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) What are effective ways and organizational structures for GSI to engage and serve communities? Moderator: John Wilson, USC How should GSI incentivize active community participation and contributions with solid value proposition? Moderator: Tyson Swetnam, University of Arizona How to best address sociologic issues (e.g., teaming, credit, training) and long-term sustainability of GSI? Moderator: Daniel Katz, UIUC
4:45-5:45pm	Panel: Building Community Consensus on GSI – Moderator: Martin Raubal, ETH Zurich Panelists: William Barley, UIUC Bertram Ludascher, UIUC Serge Rey, University of California, Riverside Erin Robinson, ESIP Diana Sinton, UCGIS Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, UCSD
6:00-8:00pm	Dinner

January 30, 2018

7:00am – 1:30pm

TIME	EVENTS	ROOM
7:00-8:00am 8:00-8:30am	Continental Breakfast Reflection on the first-day progress – Shaowen Wang Community survey analysis – William Barley, UIUC	Main Room
8:30-9:30am	Panel: Perspectives from Industry – Moderator: Erik Hoel, Esri Panelists: Aashish Chaudhary, Kitware Paul Morin, University of Minnesota Robert Nagler, Radiosoft George Percivall, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
9:30-10:45am	Special Interest Group Breakout Sessions (Core Technical Capabilities) – Moderator: Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota What are core technical capabilities and expertise that GSI should have? Moderator: Anand Padmanabhan, UIUC What are effective open science and open software strategies suitable for GSI? Moderator: Serge Rey, UC, Riverside How should GSI achieve computational reproducibility? Moderator: Victoria Stodden, UIUC How should GSI contribute to and take advantage of the strengths of open source and commercial geospatial software? Moderator: Paul Morin, University of Minnesota
10:45-11:00am	Break
11:00am-12:30pm	Workshop Synthesis: Design and Structure of GSI – Moderator: Shaowen Wang Panelists: Michael Goodchild, UCSB Daniel Katz, UIUC George Percivall, OGC Martin Raubal, ETH Zurich Victoria Stodden, UIUC
12:30-1:30pm	Lunch
1:30pm	Adjourn