Results
This year's challenge received 11 very good submissions and the teams totaled 35 members from all over the world. Four entries were selected as winners.
Winning Teams
- First Place: Joon-Seok Kim (George Mason University), Dieter Pfoser (George Mason University), Andreas Züfle (George Mason University) [won $500 in cash]
- Second Place: Kevin Buchin (TU Eindhoven), Bram Custers (TU Eindhoven), Irina Kostitsyna (TU Eindhoven), Martijn Struijs (TU Eindhoven) [won $300 cash]
- Third Place: Felix Borutta (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität), Sebastian Schmoll (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität), Sabrina Friedl (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität) [won $200 cash]
- Honorable Mention for Customer Experience: Qi Hu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Lingfeng Ming (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Chengdong Tong (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Bolong Zheng (Huazhong University of Science and Technology) [won $100 cash]
Paper of the Winning Teams
All winning teams were invited to publish a paper describing their approach in the proceedings of SIGSPATIAL GIS.
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Distance-Aware Competitive Spatiotemporal Searching Using Spatiotemporal Resource Matrix Factorization
Joon-Seok Kim (George Mason University), Dieter Pfoser (George Mason University), Andreas Züfle (George Mason University) -
A Sampling-based Strategy for Distributing Taxis in a Road Network for Occupancy Maximization
Kevin Buchin (TU Eindhoven), Bram Custers (TU Eindhoven), Irina Kostitsyna (TU Eindhoven), Martijn Struijs (TU Eindhoven) -
Optimizing the Spatio-Temporal Resource Search Problem with Reinforcement Learning
Felix Borutta (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität), Sebastian Schmoll (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität), Sabrina Friedl (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität) -
An Effective Partitioning Approach for Competitive Spatial-Temporal Searching
Qi Hu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Lingfeng Ming (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Chengdong Tong (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Bolong Zheng (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)