Dr. Mohamed Bakillah

Dr. Mohamed Bakillah was a Senior scientist and Group Leader at the GIScience Research Group of the Institute of Geography in Heidelberg and Assistant Research Director, AITF-Microsoft Scholar in Open Sensor Web, Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada. He serves as the Chief Editor of Journal of Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards.

Research Interests

• Semantic interoperability and standards
• Mobiles, sensor networks, ad hoc networks
• Geospatial Semantic Web and Semantic Sensor Web
• Cloud computing
• Big Data
• Volunteered Geographic Information
• Data mining, spatiotemporal analysis and reasoning
• Geo-collaboration and multi-agents systems
• Geospatial data quality
• Multi Agent Simulation

Projects

• GRIPS (GIS basiertes Risikoanalyse-, Informations- und Planungssystem für die Evakuierung von Gebieten)

• CAP4Access – Collective Awareness Platforms for Improving Accessibility in European Cities & Regions

• Web-based GIS for Lloyd's Lists – An Integrated Web-Based Information And Analysis System For Historic Geodata: The Case of Lloyd’s Lists

Curriculum Vitae

• since 03/2015: Chief Editor of Journal of Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards, Springer Nature
• since 05/2014: Senior researcher and group leader at GIScience research group, Heidelberg University
• since 05/2012: PostDoc at GIScience research group, Heidelberg University
• since 09/2011: Research Associate, AITF-Microsoft Scholar in Open Sensor Web, Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada
• 2006–2011: Research Assistant, Geomatic Research Center, Université Laval, Canada
• 2004–2006: Research Assistant, Industrial Research Chair in Geospatial Databases for Decision Support, Laval University, Canada
• 2012: Ph. D. in geomatics engineering, Laval University, Canada
• 2007: Master in geomatics engineering, Laval University, Canada
• 1997: Engineer degree in Aeronautical and Space Engineering, École Polytechnique des Sciences Appliquées, Paris, France

Scientific Activities and Membership

• Member of program committee (reviewer) for the International Business Information Management Association (IBIMA)
• Member of program committee for journal of Data & Knowledge Management
• Member of program committee (reviewer) for journal of Network and Computer Applications
• Member of program committee for the International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality (ISSDQ)
• Member of program committee for the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES)
• Member of Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association (CAIAC)
• Member of the Scientific Committee of ISPRS Inter-commission Working Group
• Member of the Québec Professional Corporation of Technologists
• Member of the Canadian Institute of Geomatics (CIG)
• Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc (IEEE)

Honors and Awards

• 2011–2012: Scholarship Award from Microsoft Research and Alberta Innovate Technology Future Natural Sciences (Dr. Steve.H.L.Liang, department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada)
• 2006–2011: Scholarship Award from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)(Dr. Mir Abolfazl Mostafavi, Laval University)
• 2004–2006: Scholarship Award from Industrial Research Chair in Geospatial Databases for Decision Support Canada(Pr. Dr. Yvan Bedard, Laval University)

Special Issues

• Bakillah, M. 2017: Neo-Geography and Crowdsourcing Technologies for Sustainable Urban Transportation. Sustainability.
• Liang, S.H.L., Bakillah, M. 2015: 20 Years of OGC: Open Geo-Data, Software, and Standards. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-information.

Selected Journals

Bakillah, Mohamed, Steve HL Liang, and Alexander Zipf. Location‐Based Services. The International Encyclopedia of Geography (2017).

Mburu, L. W., & Bakillah, M. (2016). Modeling Spatial Interactions between Areas to Assess the Burglary Risk. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 5(4), 47.

Bakillah, M., & Liang, S. (2016). Open geospatial data, software and standards. Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards, 1(1), 1.

Sun, Y., Fan, H., Bakillah, M., & Zipf, A. (2015). Road-based travel recommendation using geo-tagged images. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 53, 110-122.

Jokar Arsanjani, J., Bakillah, M.,(2015): Understanding the potential relationship between the socio-economic variables and contributions to OpenStreetMap. International Journal of Digital Earth, 8(11), 861-876.

Bakillah, M.,Ren-Yu Li, Liang, S. H. L.,(2014). Geo-located community detection in Twitter with enhanced fast-greedy optimization of modularity: the case study of typhoon Haiyan. International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS). Taylor & Francis. doi:10.1080/13658816.2014.964247

Bakillah, M., Liang, S. H. L., Mobasheri, A., Jokar Arsanjani, J., Zipf, A.,(2014). Fine resolution population mapping using OpenStreetMap points-of-interest. International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS). Taylor & Francis. doi:10.1080/13658816.2014.909045

Jokar Arsanjani, J., Helbich, M., Bakillah, M., Loos, L., (2014). The emergence and evolution of OpenStreetMap: A cellular automata approach. International Journal of Digital Earth. (iFirst), 1–30. doi:10.1080/17538947.2013.847125

Bakillah, M., Liang, S.H.L, Mostafavi, M.A, Zipf, A. 2013. A Dynamic and Context-Aware Semantic Mediation Service for Discovering and Fusion of Heterogeneous Sensor Data. Journal of Spatial Information Science (JOSIS) Number 6 (2013), pp. 155–185.http://www.josis.org/index.php/josis/article/viewArticle/104

Jokar Arsanjani J., Helbich, M., Bakillah, M., Hagenauer, J., Zipf., A. 2013. Towards mapping land use patterns from Volunteered Geographic Information. International journal of Geographical Information System (IJGIS).doi:10.1080/13658816.2013.800871.

Bakillah, M., Liang, S.H.L, A. Zipf, Jamal Jokar., Arsanjani. 2013. Semantic Interoperability of Sensor Data with Volunteered Geographic Information: A Unified Model. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information.http://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/2/3/766.

Sun, Y., Bakillah, M. 2013. Analysis of tourist activity based on the tracking data collected by Flickr. Gis.Science journal. Accepted.

Li., M, Bakillah, M., Zipf., A. 2013. Embedding context-awareness to improve 3D geo-visualization for mobile users. Gis.Science journal. Accepted.

Bakillah M., Mostafavi, M.A., Liang, S.H.L., A. Zipf. 2012: Real Time Query Propagation Strategies with Light-weight Coordination Calculus (LCC) for Ad Hoc Networks of Geospatial Databases. Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA). Elsevier. ISSN: 1084-8045. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1084804512001671#.

Bakillah, M.; M. A. Mostafavi; S.H.L. Liang; A. Zipf (2012): Fuzzy Query Propagation in Sensor Networks. International Journal On Advances in Intelligent Systems, v5 n3&4 2012. http://www.thinkmind.org/index.php?view=article&articleid=intsys_v5_n34_2012_8.

Bakillah, M., Mostafavi, M.A., 2012. Multi-view Augmented Concept in Support of Geospatial Data Retrieval.(2)51-70. Journal of Earth Science and Engineering.http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/76285312/multi-view-augmented-concept-support-geospatial-data-retrieval.

Bakillah, M., Mostafavi, M. A., Bédard, Y., 2011. Approche géosémantique intégrée pour les cubes évolutifs de données géospatiales. Revue Internationale de Géomatique. (European Journal of GIS and Spatial Analysis), 21(1): 8-42.http://rig.revuesonline.com/article.jsp?articleId=16010.

Bakillah, M., Mostafavi, M.A., Bédard, Y., Brodeur J., (2009). SIM-NET: A View-Based Semantic Similarity Model for Ad Hoc Network of Geospatial Databases. Transactions in GIS Journal 13(6-6). doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2009.01172.x.

Conference papers

Mobasheri, A., & Bakillah, M. (2015, July). Towards a unified infrastructure for automated management and integration of heterogeneous Geo-datasets in disaster response. In Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2015 IEEE International (pp. 4570-4573). IEEE.

Mobasheri, A., Bakillah, M., & Zipf, A. (2015). Web Mapping of Geo-tagged Shipping Infor-mation; Case Study: The LLOYDS Lists. In 27th International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2015), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Mobasheri, A., Bakillah, M., Rousell, A., Hahmann, S., & Zipf, A. (2015). On the completeness of sidewalk information in OpenStreetMap, a case study of Germany. In The 18th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science.

Rousell, A., Hahmann, S., Bakillah, M., & Mobasheri, A. (2015). Extraction of landmarks from OpenStreetMap for use in navigational instructions. In Proceedings of the AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science (Vol. 83).

Mobasheri, A., Bakillah, M. (2014). Towards Spatio-temporal Data Modeling of Geo-tagged Shipping Information. The 17th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, Castellón, Spain.

Vahidi, H., Mobasheri, A., Alimardani, M., Guan, Q., Bakillah, M. (2014). Towards a location-based service for early mental health interventions in disaster response using minimalistic tele-operated android robots technology. ISPRS Technical Commission IV Symposium on Geo-spatial Databases and Location Based Services, Suzhou, China.

Mobasheri, A., Bakillah, M., Schultes, K., Zipf, A. (2013). Towards Integrated Web Processing Services for Spatio-temporal Analysis of Geo-data, The Case of Lloyd’s Lists. The 4th Conference on Scientific Computing and Cultural Heritage (SCCH’13), Heidelberg, Germany.

Bakillah, M., Mobasheri, A., S.H.L. Liang, A., Zipf. (2013). Towards an Efficient Routing Web Processing Service through Capturing Real-time Road Conditions from Big Data. 5th Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Conference (CEEC).file:///C:/Users/Mohamed/Downloads/06659463%20(2).pdf.

Bakillah, M., Mobasheri, A., S.H.L. Liang, A., Zipf, A. 2013. Event Service Architecture using Big VGI: A solution for real-time routing service. The IEEE International Congress on Big Data. Santa Clara Marriott, CA, USA

Jokar Arsanjani J, Helbich M, Bakillah M, (2013): Exploiting Volunteered Geographic Information to Ease Land Use Mapping of an Urban Landscape, in proceedings of Urban Data Management Society 2013 conference, London.

Bakillah, M., Zipf, A., Liang, S.H.L. 2013. Publish/Subscribe System based on Event Calculus to Support Real-Time Multi-agent Evacuation Simulation. 16th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science. Leuven, Belgium.http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-00615-4_19.

Mobasheri, A., Van Oosterom, P., Zlatanova, S., Bakillah, M. 2013. Semantic annotation of existing geo-datasets, case study of disaster response in Netherlands. Urban Data Management Society (UDMS’13) Conference. London, United Kingdom.

Jokar Arsanjani, J., Helbich, M., Bakillah M. 2013. Exploiting Volunteered Geographic Information to Ease Land Use Mapping of an Urban Landscape, Proceedings of Urban Data Management Society, London.

Jokar Arsanjani J, Loos L C, Helbich M, Bakillah M, (2013): Individuals’ contribution to cells: a cellular automata approach for simulation of collaboratively mapped areas, in Proceedings of the 16th AGILE conference, Leuven, Belgium.

Y, Yessun., Bakillah, M. 2013. Analysis of tourist activity based on the tracking data collected by Flickr. Geoinformatik conference, Heidelberg, Germany.

M. Li, Bakillah, M. 2013. Embedding context-awareness to improve 3D geo-visualization for mobile users. Geoinformatik conference, Heidelberg, Germany.

Jokar Arsanjani J, Barron C, Bakillah M, Helbich M, (2013): Assessing the Quality of OpenStreetMap Contributors together with their Contributions, in Proceedings of the 16th AGILE conference, Leuven, Belgium.

João Porto, de Albuquerque., Bakillah, M. 2013. Connecting global volunteer technical communities and local actors: towards a collaborative approach for improving resilience against disasters, Proceedings of the AGILE 2013, Leuven.

Bakillah, M., M. A. Mostafavi. 2012. REAL-TIME-CPAR Prototype for Disaster Management Context. 8th International Conference on Geo-information for Disaster Management (Gi4DM), 13-16 December, 2012, Enschede, The Netherlands.

Bakillah, M., J. A, Domínguez, Zipf, A., 2012. A Generic Data Model for Multi-agents Evacuation Simulation with Socio-Economic Data for Disaster Management Context. 8th International Conference on Geo-Information for Disaster Management (Gi4DM), 13-16 December, 2012, Enschede, the Netherlands.

Bakillah, M., M. A. Mostafavi, and S. H. L. Liang. 2012. Enriched SQWRL Reasoning Engine in Support of Geospatial Data Retrieval from Multiple and Complementary Sources. 6th International Workshop on Semantic and Conceptual Issues in GIS, Florence, Italy, Springer LNCS.

Bakillah, M., Liang, S.H.L., 2012. Discovering Sensor Services with Social Network Analysis and Expanded SQWRL Querying. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2012, Volume 7236/2012, p.221-238. In: W2GIS 2012, Naples, Italy. Best Paper

Bakillah, M., Hubert Klüpfel, Gregor Lämmel, Alexander Zipf., 2012. Toward a Generic Data Model for Multi-agents Evacuation Simulation in Disaster Management Context. Second International Conference on Evacuation Modeling and Management (ICEM 2012). August 13-15, Chicago, Illinois USA. Accepted.

Bakillah, M., Hubert Klüpfel, Gregor Lämmel, Alexander Zipf., 2012. Agent Based simulation for Disaster Preparedness. 6th International Conference on Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics (PED 2012). 6-8 June, Zurich, Swiss. Accepted.

Bakillah, M., Mostafavi, M.A., Liang, S.H.L., 2012. Real Time Query Propagation in Ad Hoc Networks of Geospatial Databases wit Lightweight Coordination Calculus. Journal of Networks and Computer Applications, to appear.

Bakillah, M., Mostafavi, M.A., 2012. Semantic Interoperability in Ad Hoc Networks of Geospatial Databases: Challenges, Achievements and Perspectives. In: XXII International Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing Congress.

Bakillah, M., Liang, S.H.L., 2012. Discovering Sensor Services with Social Network Analysis and Expanded SQWRL Querying. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2012, Volume 7236/2012, p.221-238. In: W2GIS 2012, Naples, Italy.

Bakillah, M., Mostafavi, M.A., 2011. A Fuzzy Geospatial Ontology Mapping Approach to Support Propagation of Fuzzy Queries in Ontology Networks. In: 5th International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO 2011), Lisbon, 20-25 November, 2011. (Best paper award)

Bakillah, M., Mostafavi, M.A., 2010. G-Map Semantic Mapping Approach Based on Augmented Geospatial Service Description to Improve Semantic Interoperability of Distributed Geospatial Web Services. Fourth International Workshop on Semantic and Conceptual Issues in Geographic Information Systems (SeCoGIS 2010), J. Trujillo et al. (Eds.) LNCS 6413, pp. 12-22, November 1-4, Vancouver, Canada.

Bakillah, M., Mostafavi, M.A., Brodeur J., 2010. Semantic Augmentation of Geospatial Concepts: The Multi-View Augmented Concept (MVAC) to Improve Semantic Interoperability between Multiples Geospatial Databases. Joint International Conference on Theory, Data Handling and Modelling in GeoSpatial Information Science, Hong-Kong, 26-28 May, 2010.

Bakillah, M., Mostafavi, M.A., 2010. A Real Time Semantic Interoperability Framework for Ad Hoc Networks of Geospatial Databases: Disaster Management Context. ISPRS Com 1 and Canadian Geomatics Conference (CGC) , Calgary, 15-18 June 2010.

Bakillah, M., Mostafavi, M.A., 2009. Managing Geo-Coalitions in Geospatial Ontology Network with Network Analysis. International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval, Madeira, Portugal, 6-8 October 2009.

Bakillah, M., Mostafavi, M.A., 2008. Discovering Coalitions in B2B Network with the Concept of Attraction Forces. 12th IBIMA Conference on Knowledge Management and Innovation in Advancing Economies, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 30 June-2 July 2008.

Bakillah, M., M. A. Mostafavi and Brodeur, J., 2007. Mapping Between Dynamic Ontologies in Support of Geospatial Data Integration for Disaster Management. In Joint CIG/ISPRS Conference on Geomatics for Disaster and Risk Management, Toronto, Ontario.

Bakillah. M., 2007. Data Cube Mapping and Visualization with Spatial Online Analytical Processing (SOLAP) Tool: Support for Geospatial Decision Making. 8th IBIMA Conference on Information Management in the Networked Economy, Dublin, Ireland, 20-22 June 2007.

Bakillah, M., Mostafavi, M. A., Bédard, Y., Brodeur, J., 2007. An Approach for Measuring Data Quality Based on a Model for Automatic Semantic Mapping. Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality (ISSDQ), June 13-15, Enschede, Netherlands.

Bakillah, M., Mostafavi, M. A., Bédard, Y., 2006. A Semantic Similarity Model for Mapping Between Evolving Geospatial Data Cubes. R. Meersman, Z. Tari, P. Herrero et al. (Eds.): OTM Workshops 2006, LNCS 4278, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 1658-1669.

Bakillah, M., Mostafavi, M. A., Bédard, Y., 2006. Development of an Integrated Geosemantic Approach for Spatiotemporal Queries in Evolving Geospatial Multidimensional Databases for the Forestry and Land Management Domain. Colloque Géomatique 2006 – Au Coeur des processus, 25-26 October, Montreal, Canada.

Book Chapters

Bakillah, M., Lauer, J., Liang, S., Zipf, A., Jokar Arsanjani, J., Mobasheri, A., Loos, L., 2014: Exploiting Big VGI to Improve Routing and Navigation Services, a book chapter in Karimi H, Big Data Techniques and Technologies in Geoinformatics.

Bakillah, M., Klüpfel,H., Lämmel,G., Walenciak.G., 2014:Multi-agent Transport Simulation for Regional Evacuation ProcessesPedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2012. 1197-1206. Springer International Publishing.

Bakillah, M., M. A. Mostafavi. 2013.(Chapter 8). Multi-view augmented concept to improve semantic interoperability of geospatial data. Advances in Geo-Spatial Information Science: CRC Press .Wenzhong Shi; Michael Goodchild; Brian Lees; Yee Leung.

Bakillah, M., J. Andrés Domínguez, Alexander Zipf, Steve H. L. Liang, M. A. Mostafavi. 2013. Multi-agent Evacuation Simulation Data Model with Social Considerations for Disaster Management Context: Intelligent Systems for Crisis Management. Geoinformation and Cartography . Springer, pp 3-16.

Bakillah, M., Mostafavi, M.A. 2012.Multi-view augmented concept to improve semantic interoperability of geospatial data. Shi, Goodchild, Lees & Leung (eds) © 2012 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-0-415-62093-2

Bakillah, M., Mostafavi, M.A., 2012. An Architecture for Enhancing Semantic Interoperability Based on Enrichment of Semantics of Geospatial Data. In: Tomaž Podobnikar and Marjan Čeh (Eds.), Universal Ontology of Geographic Space: Semantic Enrichment for Spatial Data. IGI Global.

Bakillah, M., Mostafavi, M.A., 2011. Multi-View Augmented Concept to Improve Semantic Interoperability of Geospatial Data. In: Bo Wu (Ed.), ISPRS Book, Taylor & Francis.

Bakillah, M., Mostafavi, M.A., Bédard, Y., Brodeur J., 2009. Elements of Semantic Mapping Quality: A Theoretical Framework. In: Stein, A., Shi, W., Bijker., W. (Eds.), Quality Aspect in Spatial Data Mining, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 37-46.

Bakillah, M., Mostafavi, M.A., Bédard, Y., Brodeur J., 2007. Mapping between Dynamic Ontologies in Support of Geospatial Data Integration for Disaster Management. In: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Geomatics Solutions for Disaster Management, pp. 201-224.

Presentations

Bakillah, M., M. A. Mostafavi. 2012. REAL-TIME-CPAR Prototype for Disaster Management Context. 8th International Conference on Geo-information for Disaster Management (Gi4DM), 13-16 December, 2012, Enschede, The Netherlands.

Bakillah, M., J. A, Domínguez, Zipf, A., 2012. A Generic Data Model for Multi-agents Evacuation Simulation with Socio-Economic Data for Disaster Management Context. 8th International Conference on Geo-Information for Disaster Management (Gi4DM), 13-16 December, 2012, Enschede, the Netherlands

Bakillah, M., M. A. Mostafavi, and S. H. L. Liang. 2012. Enriched SQWRL Reasoning Engine in Support of Geospatial Data Retrieval from Multiple and Complementary Sources. 6th International Workshop on Semantic and Conceptual Issues in GIS, Florence, Italy, Springer LNCS. October 15-18. Florence, Italy