Monica Wachowicz

 

wachowicz.jpg.jpgAdjunct Professor

Chair of the Applied Movement Behaviour Research Group    

 

 

 

Contact:

University of New Brunswick

Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering

15 Dineen Drive, P.O. Box 4400

Fredericton, NB, Canada, E3B 5A3
Phone: + 1  506-292-02 53, Fax: +1  506-453-4943, E-mail Monica

 

Biography

After receiving a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Edinburgh in 1995, she worked on spatio-temporal modelling for ubiquitous computing at the University of Cambridge, Computer Sciences Department in England. She then took a research fellow position at the Pennsylvania State University before joining the Wageningen University and Research (WUR) in 1999. She was a visiting Professor in the LatinGeo Group at the Technical University of Madrid, Spain. She is currently Adjunct Professor at the University of New Brunswick and the European Editor of the International Journal of Geographic Information Science edited by Taylor & Francis.

For the last decade, she has been working on policy, research and educational issues at European and international levels, aiming to address the needs in sustainable mobility. Working in international funded research projects has provided her with the experience of operating in multidisciplinary teams from government, industry, and international organisations. In addition, one of her most rewarding experiences has been in teaching students from different cultural backgrounds and nationalities.

 

Research Interests      

1.      Investigate some of the major theories on behaviour that are pertinent to the development of effective space-time representations about mass movement. Considerable attention has been given in literature to models of individual behaviour – but much less attention has been given to models or theories that attempt to understand movement behaviour within groups, organisations and whole communities.

2.      Develop a new approach to study mass movement behaviour through the simulation of social, economical and environmental systems. These systems are extremely complex, and they usually develop into scale-free structures. My central point of investigation within Geomatics is the development of Knowledge Spaces where relationships between movement, socio-cultural organisation and geographical landcsapes can analytically introduce the principles that govern movement behaviour, serving as a starting point of a statistically self-consistent microscopic model for individual human mobility, which in turn will explain the origin of scaling laws and predict the pertinent granularity levels that govern the occurrence of mass movement patterns.

3.      Explore cutting edge advances in Information and Communication Technology such as the application of mobile sensor networks, ubiquitous computing, and social media.

 

People

PhD Students

http://photos.academia.edu/515221/180155/210038/large_sara.pinto.jpgSara Pinto       Teresa Iturrioz AguirreTeresa Iturrioz Aguirre    http://photos.academia.edu/195083/46604/42896/large_arantza.respaldiza_hidalgo.jpgArantza Respaldiza Hidalgo

 

Collaborators

    http://www.barabasilab.com/personnel/pics/fg.JPG Fosca Giannotti               http://www.di.unipi.it/~pedre/Pedreschi.jpgDino Pedreschi

Picture, 28 kBOtto Huisman                           http://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/staff/apgalton/apgalton-small.jpgAntony Galton

 

  MYS    Maribel Yasmina Santos           

 

 

Current Research Projects

1.      SEEK (Semantic EnrichmEnt of trajectory Knowledge discovery) is a research project funded by EU under the Programme “PEOPLE” – FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IRSES”, 2012-2014.

 

2.      Multi-Sensors Systems for Tracking and Mobility Applications is a research project funded by GEOIDE , 2009-2012.

 

3.      SOCONET (Understanding social networks within complex, nonlinear systems: geographically-integrated history and dynamics GIS) is a multidisciplinary, multinational research project funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI), 2010-2014.

 

4.      MODAP (Mobility, Data Mining, and Privacy) is a Coordination Action funded by EU, FET OPEN, 2009-2012.                        

5.      MOVE (Knowledge Discovery from Moving Objects) is a COST Action funded by EU, COST, ICT, 2009-2013.                                                                                                 Gertrude Tool

 

6.      España Virtual, research project funded by CDTI Spain, 2008-2011.

 

Publications (last 4 years)

Books

1.       Wachowicz, M. (2010). Movement-Aware Applications for Sustainable Mobility: Technologies and Approaches IGI Global Publishing.

2.       Frabrikant, S. and Wachowicz, M. (2007). The European Information Society: Leading the Way with Geo-information, Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, Springer-Verlag.

Special Issues (Editor)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    MovementMapper

4.       Wachowicz, M. (2010). Special Issue: State-of-the-Art Sensors Technology in the Netherlands, Sensors Journal.

5.       Compte Lobera, I. Guimet Pereña J. and Wachowicz, M. (2009). Special issue on Geographical Information Systems. Special issue on Geographical Information Systems. Novática Journal of the Spanish CEPIS (Council of European Professional Informatics Societies) and ATI (Asociación de Técnicos de Informática), 198 (March-April).                         

6.       Andrienko, G., Andrienko, N., Dykes, J., Fabrikant, S. and Wachowicz, M. (2008). Special Issue of the ICA Commission on Geovisualisation of Dynamics, Movement and Change, Information Visualisation Journal, 7(3/4).

 

Peer-reviewed papers (Journals and Book Chapters)

4.       Wachowicz, M. R. Ong, Renso, C. M. Nanni, (2011). Discovering Moving Flock Patterns among Pedestrians through Spatio-Temporal Coherence. International Journal of Geographical Information Science (in press).

5.       Maldonado, A., Wachowicz, M. and Vazquez, A. H. (2011). Movement Surface: A multi-level approach for predicting visitor movement in nature areas, Environment and Planning B Journal (in press).

6.       Orellana, D. Wachowicz, M. (2011). Exploring Patterns of Movement Suspension in Pedestrian Mobility, Geographical Analysis (in press).

7.       Orellana, D., Wachowicz, M., Ligtenberg, A. Bregt, A. (2011). Exploring Moving Patterns of Visitors of Recreational Areas. Tourism Management Journal (in press).

8.       Ballari, D., Wachowicz, M., Bregt. A.  and Manso-Callejo, M. (2011). A Mobility Constraint Model to Infer Sensor Behaviour in Forest Fire Risk Monitoring, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (in press).

9.       Manso-Callejo, M., Wachowicz, M. and Bernabé-Poveda, M. (2011). The design of an automated workflow for metadata generation. In: Communications in Computer and Information Science Series, Springer ( in press).

10.    Santos, M.Y.C., Cardoso, A.J., Wachowicz, M. , and Orellana, D. (2010). The impact of data quality in the context of pedestrian movement analysis. In GeoSpatial Thinking, Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, Springer, pp. 61-78.

11.    Iturrioz, T. and Wachowicz, M. (2010). An Artistic Perspective for Affective Cartography, In: Mapping Different Geographies, Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, K. Kriz, W. Cartwright, L. Hurni (Eds.), Springer, pp. 79-92.

12.    A. Fernández-Wyttenbach, W. Siabato, M. Bernabé-Poveda and M. Wachowicz, Evolution of Digital Map Libraries towards Virtual Map Rooms: New Challenges for Historical Research. In: Mapping Different Geographies, Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, K. Kriz, W. Cartwright, L. Hurni (Eds.), Springer, pp.129-142.

13.    Wachowicz, M. and Owens, J. (2009). Space-Time Representations of Complex Networks: What is next? Geofocus Journal, 9, 1-10.

14.    Iturrioz, T., Cano, J. and Wachowicz, M. (2009). Mapping Letters Through Interactive Design, The Cartographic Journal, Special Issue on Cartography and Art, Sebastien Caquard, Barbara Piatti and William Cartwright (Eds.), 46(4), pp. 350-359(10).

15.    Ballari, D., Wachowicz, M., Manso-Callejo, M.A. (2009). Metadata behind the Interoperability of Wireless Sensor Network. Sensors Journal, Special Issue Sensing a Changing World, Arend Ligtenberg and Lammert Kooistra (Eds.), 9(5), pp. 3635-3651.

16.    Manso-Callejo, M.A., Wachowicz, M., Bernabé-Poveda, M.A. (2009). Towards and integrated model of interoperability for SDIs. Transactions in GIS, 13(1), pp. 43-67.

17.    Manso-Callejo, M. A. and Wachowicz, M. (2009). GIS Design: A review of current issues in interoperability. Geography Compass Journal, 3(3), pp. 1105-1124.

18.    Baglioni, M.,  Macedo, J.A, Renso, C., Trasarti, R. and Wachowicz, M. (2009). Towards semantic interpretation of movement behavior. In: Advances in GiScience, Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, Sester, Monika; Bernard, Lars; Paelke, Volker (Eds.), Springer, pp.271-288.

19.    Wachowicz, M., Macedo, J., Renso, C. Ligtenberg, A. (2009).The role of a multi-tier ontological framework in reasoning to discover meaningful patterns of sustainable mobility. In: Geographic data mining and knowledge discovery, H. J. Miller and J Han (Eds.), 2nd edition, London: Taylor and Francis, pp. 367-388.

20.    Ligtenberg, A., Beulens, A., Kettenis, D., Bregt, A., and Wachowicz, M. (2009). Simulating knowledge sharing in spatial planning: an agent based approach. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 36, pp. 644-663.

21.    Vania Bogorny and Wachowicz, M. (2009). A Framework for Context-aware Trajectory Data Mining. In: “Data Mining for Business Applications”, Cao, L.; Yu, P.S.; Zhang, C.; Zhang, H. (Eds.), Springer, pp. 225-240.

22.    Baglioni, M., Macedo, J., Renso, C. and Wachowicz, M. (2008). An ontology-based approach for the semantic modelling and reasoning on trajectories. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Advances in Conceptual Modeling – Challenges and opportunities, 5232/2008, pp. 344-353.

23.    Wachowicz, M. Ligtenberg, A., Renso, C. and Gurses, S. (2008). Characterising mobile applications through a privacy-aware geographic knowledge discovery process. In: Mobility, data mining, and privacy: geographic knowledge discovery. F. Giannotti and D. Pedreschi (Eds.). Springer-Verlag, pp. 39-72.

 

Encyclopedia Entries

24.    Wachowicz, M. (2010). Usability of Geospatial Information. Encyclopedia of Geography, Barney Warf (Ed.), SAGE Publications.

25.    Wachowicz, M. (2010). AGILE. Encyclopedia of Geography, Barney Warf  (Ed.), SAGE Publications.

 

Proceedings of meetings with competitive selection

26.    Santos, M.S. and Wachowicz, M. (2011). Computing Performance Indicators in Detecting Shipping Collision. 3rd ACM International Workshop on Hot Topics in Planet-scale Measurement, co-located with the ACM MobySys 2001 Conference, Washington, USA.

27.    Santos, M.S., Mendes, J., Moreira, A. And Wachowicz, M. (2011). Towards a Spatio-Temporal Information System for Moving Objects. 11th International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2011), B. Murgante et al. (Eds.): ICCSA 2011, Part I, LNCS 6782, Springer-Verlag, pp. 1–16.

28.    Ong, R. Renso, C., Nanni, M. and Wachowicz, M. (2010). From Pattern Discovery to Pattern Interpretation in Movement Data, Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Semantic Aspects in Data Mining (SADM), in conjunction with the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2010), Sydney, Australia.

29.    Orellana, D. Wachowicz, M. De Knegt, H.J.,Ligtenberg, A. and Bregt, A. (2010). Uncovering Patterns of Suspension of Movement, Proceedings of the GIScience 2010 Conference, Zurich, Switzerland .

30.    Pinto, S., Nogueira, M. Wachowicz, M. and Polônia, A. (2010). Mapping 16th Century Trade Networks: a GIS Application for Historical Data Sources. Proceedings of the AGILE 2010 Conference, Guimaraes, Portugal.

31.    Verstegen, J., Ligtenberg, A. and Wachowicz, M. (2010) Learning Actors in Spatial Planning: Incorporating Bayesian Networks in an Agent Based Model, Proceedings of the AGILE 2010 Conference, Guimaraes, Portugal.

32.    Maldonado, A., Wachowicz, M. and Vazquez, A.H. (2009). Modelling human displacement through movement surfaces. Proceedings of the AGILE 2009 Conference, June, Germany.

33.    Orellana, D., Wachowicz, M.; Andrienko, N.; Andrienko, G. (2009). Uncovering Interaction Patterns in Mobile Outdoor Gaming, Advanced Geographic Information Systems & Web Services, 2009. GEOWS '09 Proceedings, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp.51-58.

34.    Owens, J.B., M. Yuan, M. Wachowicz, V. Kantabutra, E. A. Coppola, Jr., D.P. Ames, and A. Gangemi (2009).  Visualizing Historical Narratives: Geographically-Integrated History and Dynamics GIS.  Proceedings of the Workshop on Visualizing the Past" at the University of Richmond, Virginia (20-21 February), USA.

35.    M. Baglioni, J. Macedo, C. Renso, Wachowicz, M. (2008) An ontology-based approach for the semantic modelling and reasoning on trajectories, Proceedings of the SeCoGIS 2008, Barcelona, Spain, October 20,23 2008.

36.    Ballari, D., Manso, M.A.C., and Wachowicz, M. (2008). The interoperability of Wireless Sensor Networks. Proceedings of the 6th Geographic Information Days – GI Days 2008, Pebesma, E. Bishr, M. and Bartoscheck, T. (Eds.), IfGI prints.

37.    Andrienko, N. Andrienko, G. Wachowicz, M. and Orellana,D. (2008). Uncovering Interactions between Moving Objects, Proceedings of the GIScience 2008 Conference, September, Utah, USA, pp.16-26.

38.    Wachowicz, M., Orellana, D., Crespo, A. Owens, J. and Bernabé, M.A. (2008). A space-time representation for reasoning about the Atlantic commercial routes of the 18th century. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Session Theme: Contributory GIS for Historical Research, October, Miami, USA.

 

Publications in Conferences and Workshops (abstracts)

39.    Wachowicz, M., Maldonado, A. Hoehne, A.V. (2010). MovementMapper: the movement simulation of visitors in nature areas. 5th International Conference on Monitoring and Management of Visitor Flows in Recreational and Protected Areas, Special Session on Movement Research, November, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

40.    Wachowicz, M., Ong, R., Renso, C. and Nanini, M. (2010). Discovering flocking patterns in pedestrian movement. Invited Session of Spatiotemporal Pattern Discovery and Data Mining in IGARSS 2010, July, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

41.    Wachowicz, M. and Owens, J. (2010). Space-Time Representation of Narrative Knowledge, AAG 2010 Special Session on Modelling Geographic Complexity, April, Washington, DC, USA.

42.    Gutierrez, F.V., Manso-Callejo M.A., Lang, M., Wachowicz, M.,  Strauch, W. and Bernabé-Poveda,  M.A. (2010). The design of web-enabled services for providing damage estimation maps caused by natural hazards, Gi4DM 2010, February, Torino, Italy.

43.    Wachowicz, M., Iturrioz T., Cano, J. Polónia A. and Pinto S. (2009) Affective Mapping of Social Networks. 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science, Workshop on 'Geospatial computing for the arts, humanities and cultural heritage'. December, Oxford, England.

44.    Gutierrez, F.V., Strauch, W., Wachowicz, M. and, Bernabe-Poveda, M.A. (2009). The development of an empirical workflow process for mapping affected communities of the hurricane Felix, Nicaragua, 2007.  International Conference on Cartography and Geoinformatics for Early Warning and Emergency Management: Towards Better Solutions, January, Prague, Czech Republic.

45.    Respaldiza, A. Hoenhe, A.V. and Wachowicz, M. (2009). Propuesta de un núcleo estándar de metadatos para los recursos del Patrimonio Histórico Español, JIDEE09 VI Jornadas Técnicas de la IDE de España, November, Murcia, Spain.

46.    Bernabé-Poveda, A. Wyttenbach, F., Manso-Callejo, M.A. and Wachowicz M. (2009). Closing the gap between digital libraries and Spatial Data Infrastructures. GSDI 11 World Conference: Spatial Data Infrastructure Convergence: Building SDI Bridges to Address Global Challenges, June, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

47.    Manso-Callejo, M., Wachowicz, M. y Bernabé-Poveda, M. (2009). Automatic Metadata Creation for Supporting Interoperability Levels of Spatial Data Infrastructures. GSDI 11 World Conference: Spatial Data Infrastructure Convergence: Building SDI Bridges to Address Global Challenges, June, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

48.    Fernández-Wyttenbach, A., Siabato W., Bernabé-Poveda, M.A., Wachowicz, M. (2009). Evolution of Digital Map Libraries towards Virtual Map Rooms: new challenges for the historical research. Mapping Different Geographies Workshop, February ,Puchberg am Schneeberg, Austria.

49.    Iturrioz, T. and Wachowicz, M. (2009). Collaborative Cartography and Affective Cartography form an artistic perspective. Mapping Different Geographies Workshop, February, Puchberg am Schneeberg, Austria.

50.    Manso-Callejo, M. Wachowicz, M., Bernabé-Poveda, MA., Sanchez, A. and Rodriguez, A.F. (2008). Modelo de Interoperabilidad Basado en Metadatos (MIBM). V Jornadas Tecnicas de la IDE de España, JIDEE 2008, November ,Tenerife, Spain.

51.    Ballari, D., Wachowicz, M., Manso-Callejo, M.A. (2008). Metadata behind the Interoperability of Wireless Sensor Network, International Workshop Sensing a  Changing World 2008.  November, Wageningen, The Netherlands. ISSN 1568-1874.

52.    Ballari, D., Wachowicz, M. and Manso-Callejo, M.A. (2008). The Interoperability of Wireless Sensor Networks, GEOSS Sensor Web Workshop 2008, GEO Secretariat and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), GEO Task DA07-04 and the European Commission, May, Geneva, Switzerland.

53.    Crompvoets, J.W.H.C.; Bregt, A.K.; Wachowicz, M.; Hofstede, G.J.; Vereijken, P.; Man, E. de (2008). Exploring worldwide the impact of society on the success of national spatial data clearinghouses.  GSDI-10 Conference, Small Island Perspectives on Global Challenges: The Role of Spatial Data in Supporting a Sustainable Future, February, St. Augustine, Trinidad.

54.    Maldonado, A. and Wachowicz, M. (2008). Towards a spatio-temporal model of human movement surfaces for the simulation of best utility trajectories. AAG 2008 Annual Meeting, April, Boston, USA.

55.    Manrique, M.T. and Wachowicz, M. (2008). The development of an experimental approach for the generation of a usability hypothesis about the academic use of geo-information. AAG 2008 Annual Meeting, April, Boston, USA.

56.    Wachowicz, M., Orellana, D., Renso, C., Moraga, E.M. and Parada, J. (2008). The spatial knowledge representation of players’ movement in mobile outdoor gaming. The Fourth International Conference on Monitoring and Management of Visitor Flows in Recreational and Protected Areas: Management for Protection and Development, October, Montecatini Terme (Tuscany), Italy.

 

Posters, Reports and publications aimed at a professional public

57.    Ballari, D., Wachowicz, M. (2010). The design of a Bayesian Network for mobility management in Wireless Sensor Networks, Poster Presentation at GIScience 2010 Conference, September, Zurich, Switzerland.

58.    Wachowicz, M., Vazquez, A., Ballari, D., Orellana, D. and Rodríguez, A. (2009). Los patrones de movilidad de las personas:Una fuente de conocimiento geoespacial. Novática Journal of the Spanish CEPIS (Council of European Professional Informatics Societies) and ATI (Asociación de Técnicos de Informática), 198 (March-April), pp. 18-23.

59.    Wachowicz, M., Vazquez, A., Ballari, D., Orellana, D. and Rodríguez, A. (2009). Human Mobility Patterns: A Source of Geospatial Knowledge, Upgrade, digital journal of CEPIS (Council of European Professional Informatics Societies), April 2009.

60.    Respaldiza, A. , Wachowicz, M. and Hoehe, A.V. (2009). Visualización de metadatos de la información del Patrimonio Histórico en un Entorno Colaborativo 3D, Poster presentation at ARQUEOLÓGICA 2.0, I International Meeting on Graphic Archeology and Informatics, Cultural Heritage and Innovation, Sevilla, 17-20 June 2009.

61.    Yuan, M., Wachowicz, M. Kantabutra, V. Coppola, E.A. Ames, D.P. and Gangemi, A. (2009). Visualizing Historical Narratives: Geographically-Integrated History and Dynamics GIS, Position paper for the National Endowment for the Humanities workshop “Visualizing the Past: Tools and Techniques for Understanding Historical Processes,” 20-21 February 2009, University of Richmond, Virginia, USA.

62.    Wachowicz, M. Solana, A.C. and Bernabé, M.A. (2008). Scientific Report: ESF Eurocores Workshop: Visualisation and Space-Time Representation of Dynamic, Non-linear, Spatial Data in DynCoopNet and Other TECT Projects, 25-26 September 2008, Technical University of Madrid, Spain.

63.    Wachowicz, M. (2008). Movilidad Sostenible: El conocimiento de los patrones de movilidad de poblaciones. Revista Seguridad y Medio Ambiente, Fundación MAPFRE, 28(111), Tercer Trimestre 2008, 40-49.

64.    Wachowicz, M. (2008). Un Nuevo sistema permitirá conocer de que forma se mueve la población. Madrid Qué, Lunes 14 abril 2008, p.7.

65.    Wachowicz, M. (2008). El estudio del movimiento humano, crucial para conseguir una movilidad más sostenible. El Mundo, Edición Madrid, Miércoles 23 de abril 2008, Suplemento El Campus, Lección de Ciencias, p.4.

66.    Wachowicz, M. (2008). Si logramos entender cómo nos movemos, construiremos transportes más ecológicos. ECCUS Interview, Zona Campus, 29/05/2008).

67.    Wachowicz, M., Orellana, D. Owens, J. and Solana, A.C. (2008). DynCoopNet Project Presentation. Workshop on “A place in Europe: Historical GIS and new perspectives on European and World History”. EUROCORES Programme: Inventing Europe, Barcelona, Spain.