List of papers on Google Scholar

Refereed Journal/Conference Papers and Book Chapters

2019

Xi Liu, Clio Andris, and Sohrab Rahimi. Place niche and its regional variability: Measuring spatial context patterns for points of interest with representation learning. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 75 (2019): 146-160. [10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2019.01.011]
Xi Liu, Clio Andris, Zixuan Huang, and Sohrab Rahimi. Inside 50,000 living rooms: an assessment of global residential ornamentation using transfer learning. EPJ Data Science 8, no. 1 (2019): 4. [10.1140/epjds/s13688-019-0182-z]
Wei Luo, Yaoli Wang, Xi Liu, and Song Gao (2019). Cities as spatial and social networks: Towards a spatio-socio-semantic analysis framework. In: Ye X., Liu X. (eds) Cities as Spatial and Social Networks. Human Dynamics in Smart Cities, pp. 21-37. Springer. [10.1007/978-3-319-95351-9_3]

2018

Xi Liu, Hanzhou Chen, and Clio Andris. (2018). trajGANs: Using generative adversarial networks for geo-privacy protection of trajectory data. Location Privacy and Security Workshop 2018 in conjunction with GIScience '18. Aug. 28, Melbourne, Australia. [Vision paper] [Published Online]
Xi Liu, Ransom Hollister, and Clio Andris. (2018). Wealthy hubs and poor chains: Constellations in the U.S. urban migration system. In: Perez, L., Kim, E.K., Sengupta, R. (eds), Agent-Based Models and Complexity Science in the Age of Geospatial Big Data, pp. 73-86. Springer. [10.1007/978-3-319-65993-0_6]

2017

Sohrab Rahimi, Clio Andris, and Xi Liu. (2017) Using Yelp to find romance in the city: A case of restaurants in four cities. In Proceedings of the 3rd International ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Smart Cities and Urban Analytics. Nov. 7, 2017. Los Angeles Area, CA. [10.3390/su9030365]
Sohrab Rahimi, Michael JR Martin, Eric Obeysekere, Daniel Hellmann, Xi Liu, and Clio Andris. (2017). A geographic information system (GIS)-based analysis of social capital data: Landscape factors that correlate with trust. Sustainability, 9(3), 365. [10.3390/su9030365]

2016

Xi Liu, Chaogui Kang, Li Gong, and Yu Liu. (2016). Incorporating spatial interaction patterns in classifying and understanding urban land use. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 30(2), 334-350. [10.1080/13658816.2015.1086923]
Li Gong, Xi Liu, Lun Wu, and Yu Liu. (2016). Inferring trip purposes and uncovering travel patterns from taxi trajectory data. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 43(2), 103-114. [10.1080/15230406.2015.1014424]
Sohrab Rahimi, Xi Liu, and Clio Andris. The hidden styles of the cities: An analysis of geolocated Airbnb rental images in ten major cities. In Proceedings of the 2nd International ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Smart Cities and Urban Analytics. Oct. 31, 2016. San Francisco, CA.

2015

Xi Liu, Li Gong, Yongxi Gong, and Yu Liu. (2015). Revealing travel patterns and city structure with taxi trip data. Journal of Transport Geography, 43, 78-90. [10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2015.01.016]
Yu Liu, Xi Liu, Song Gao, Li Gong, Chaogui Kang, Ye Zhi, Guanghua Chi, and Li Shi. (2015). Social sensing: A new approach to understanding our socioeconomic environments. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 105(3), 512-530. [10.1080/00045608.2015.1018773]
Yu Liu, Daoqin Tong, and Xi Liu. (2015). Measuring spatial autocorrelation of vectors. Geographical Analysis, 47(3), 300-319. [10.1111/gean.12069]
Li Shi, Guanghua Chi, Xi Liu, and Yu Liu. (2015). Human mobility patterns in different communities: a mobile phone data-based social network approach. Annals of GIS, 21(1), 15-26. [10.1080/19475683.2014.992372]

Refereed Short Conference Papers and Presentations

Xi Liu and Clio Andris. Migrant routing the U.S. urban system. Proceedings of GIScience 2016 Workshop on Rethinking the ABCs: Agent-Based Models and Complexity Science in the age of Big Data, CyberGIS, and Sensor Networks. Sep. 27, 2016. Montreal, Canada.
Yanan Xin, Mark Simpson, Ying Xu, Feng Sun, Fridolin Linder, Xi Liu, Alexander Savelyev, and Alan MacEachren. Movers: Exploring refugee movement with social media data. Proceedings of GIScience 2016 Workshop on Understanding Spatial Data (Big and Small) with Visual Analytics. Sep. 27, 2016. Montreal, Canada.
Xi Liu and Clio Andris. Integrating social flows to measure social distance. AAG Annual Meeting. Mar. 29-Apr. 2, 2016. San Francisco, CA.
Xi Liu, Li Gong, Chaogui Kang, and Yu Liu. A land use classification method based on temporal spatial interactions with a case study using Shanghai taxi trip data. Eighth International Conference on Geographic Information Science. Sep. 23-26, 2014. Vienna, Austria.
Li Gong, Xi Liu, and Yu Liu. Feature selection for land use classification based on temporal activity patterns. Eighth International Conference on Geographic Information Science. Sep. 23-26, 2014. Vienna, Austria.
Xi Liu and Yu Liu. A network view of urban mobility and city structure with taxi trips. The 21st International Conference on Geoinformatics. Jun. 20-22, 2013. Kaifeng, China.
Xi Liu and Yu Liu. Spatiotemporal traffic-accident black-spot: a case study in Shanghai (In Chinese). 2012 Chinese Geographic Information Industry Annual Meeting and the Seventh Cross-strait GIS Seminar. Nov.28 - Dec.1, 2012. Guangzhou, China.