Prof. Dr. Nico Van de Weghe

Nico Van de Weghe is full-time professor in the rank of senior lecturer in Geomatics. He is mainly teaching courses in Geographical Information Science and Geographical Information Technology. Besides this, he is responsible for the Academic Teacher Training Programme for Secondary Education: Geography.

On the one hand, he specialises in Geographical Information Science, with a specific focus on research into moving objects (more specifically representing, analysing and reasoning about moving objects). On the other hand, he has a broad experience in setting up practical experiments in the area of Geographical Information Technology, more specifically with respect to the research of the movement behaviour of persons at crowded places.

Especially in Geographical Information Science, he published several papers in leading journals (e.g. International Journal of Geographical Information Science) and on major conferences (e.g. International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience)).

Short CV

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Selected publications

• Van de Weghe, N., Cohn, A.G., De Maeyer, P., & Witlox, F. (2005). Representing moving objects in computer based expert systems: The overtake event example. Expert Systems with Applications, 29(4), 977-983.
• Neutens, T., Witlox, F., Van de Weghe, N., & De Maeyer, P. (2007). Space-time opportunities for multiple agents: A constraint-based approach. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 21(10), 1061-1076.
• Delafontaine, M, Neutens, T, & Van de Weghe, N. (2011). Modelling potential movement in constrained travel environments using roughspace-time prisms. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 25(9), 1389-1411.
• Versichele, M., Neutens, T., Delafontaine, M., & Van de Weghe, N. (2012). The use of Bluetooth for analysing spatiotemporal dynamics of human movement at mass events: a case study of the Ghent Festivities. Applied Geography. (In Press)
• Qiang, Y., Delafontaine, M., Versichele, M., De Maeyer, P., & Van de Weghe, N. (2012). Interactive analysis of time intervals in a two-dimensional space, Information Visualization. (Accepted for Publication)

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Selected presentations

• 2011, As long as it moves.
• 2011, (Bluetooth) tracking to register movements at 'crowded events'.

Projects

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