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Overview

Dieter Pfoser is affiliated with George Mason University in the United States. Their research spans the intersection of social sciences and computer science, with a focus on various specialized subfields including transportation, artificial intelligence, building and construction, signal processing, and geography, planning and development.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics, prominently featuring human mobility and location-based analysis, geographic information systems studies, data management and algorithms, automated road and building extraction, traffic prediction and management techniques, transportation planning and optimization, and urban design and spatial analysis.

Frequent publication venues for Dieter Pfoser include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Computational Urban Science
  • International Journal of Digital Earth
  • SIGSPATIAL Special
  • ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems

Their recent papers illustrate the diversity and application of their research topics, such as:

  • "Taking the pulse of COVID-19: a spatiotemporal perspective," 2020, International Journal of Digital Earth
  • "Predicting building types using OpenStreetMap," 2022, Scientific Reports
  • "Urban life: a model of people and places," 2021, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory
  • "Location-based social simulation for prescriptive analytics of disease spread," 2020, SIGSPATIAL Special
  • "Factorized deep generative models for end-to-end trajectory generation with spatiotemporal validity constraints," 2022, Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

Collaboration is evident through frequent co-authors, including:

  • Andreas Züfle
  • Hamdi Kavak
  • Shiyang Ruan
  • Sandro M. Reia
  • Liang Zhao

The research contributions of Dieter Pfoser reflect an emphasis on spatial analysis and the use of advanced computational methods to study urban environments, human mobility, and infrastructure systems. Their work integrates methodologies from artificial intelligence and signal processing with domain knowledge in transportation and urban planning to explore challenges in data management, extraction of geographic features, and modeling of complex spatial phenomena.

Best Publications

  • Novel Approaches to the Indexing of Moving Object Trajectories

    Dieter Pfoser;Christian S. Jensen;Yannis Theodoridis

  • On map-matching vehicle tracking data

    Sotiris Brakatsoulas;Dieter Pfoser;Randall Salas;Carola Wenk

  • Capturing the Uncertainty of Moving-Object Representations

    Dieter Pfoser;Christian S. Jensen

  • Novel Approaches in Query Processing for Moving Object Trajectories

    Dieter Pfoser;Christian S. Jensen;Yannis Theodoridis

  • Indexing the Trajectories of Moving Objects

    Dieter Pfoser

  • Crowdsourcing urban form and function

    Andrew Crooks;Dieter Pfoser;Andrew Jenkins;Arie Croitoru

  • A comparison and evaluation of map construction algorithms using vehicle tracking data

    Mahmuda Ahmed;Sophia Karagiorgou;Dieter Pfoser;Carola Wenk

  • On vehicle tracking data-based road network generation

    Sophia Karagiorgou;Dieter Pfoser

  • Addressing the Need for Map-Matching Speed: Localizing Global Curve-Matching Algorithms

    C. Wenk;R. Salas;D. Pfoser

  • Indexing of network constrained moving objects

    Dieter Pfoser;Christian S. Jensen

  • Generating semantics-based trajectories of moving objects

    Dieter Pfoser;Yannis Theodoridis

  • Modeling, storing and mining moving object databases

    S. Brakatsoulas;D. Pfoser;N. Tryfona

  • A Comparison and Evaluation of Map Construction Algorithms.

    Mahmuda Ahmed;Sophia Karagiorgou;Dieter Pfoser;Carola Wenk

  • Revisiting R-tree construction principles

    Sotiris Brakatsoulas;Dieter Pfoser;Yannis Theodoridis

  • Revisiting R-Tree Construction Principles

    Sotiris Brakatsoulas;Dieter Pfoser;Yannis Theodoridis

  • Structuring Space with Image Schemata: Wayfinding in Airports as a Case Study

    Martin Raubal;Martin Raubal;Max J. Egenhofer;Max J. Egenhofer;Dieter Pfoser;Dieter Pfoser;Nectaria Tryfona;Nectaria Tryfona

  • Zika in Twitter: Temporal Variations of Locations, Actors, and Concepts

    Anthony Stefanidis;Emily Vraga;Georgios Lamprianidis;Jacek Radzikowski

  • Location-Based Services - A Database Perspective

    Christian Søndergaard Jensen;Anders Friis-Christensen;Torben Bach Pedersen;Dieter Pfoser

  • Taking the pulse of COVID-19: a spatiotemporal perspective

    Chaowei Yang;Dexuan Sha;Qian Liu;Yun Li

  • Requirements, definitions, and notations for spatiotemporal application environments

    Dieter Pfoser;Nectaria Tryfona

  • Cancer and Social Media: A Comparison of Traffic about Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, and Other Reproductive Cancers on Twitter and Instagram.

    Emily K. Vraga;Anthony Stefanidis;Georgios Lamprianidis;Arie Croitoru

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian S. Jensen
Christian S. Jensen Aalborg University
Andrew Crooks
Andrew Crooks University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Yannis Theodoridis
Yannis Theodoridis University of Piraeus
Yufei Tao
Yufei Tao Chinese University of Hong Kong
Michael F. Goodchild
Michael F. Goodchild University of California, Santa Barbara
Mohamed F. Mokbel
Mohamed F. Mokbel University of Minnesota
Richard T. Snodgrass
Richard T. Snodgrass University of Arizona
Max J. Egenhofer
Max J. Egenhofer University of Maine
David W. S. Wong
David W. S. Wong George Mason University
Konrad J Wessels
Konrad J Wessels George Mason University

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