Monographs
1. Guide of the Urban-GIS Standardization (one of the co-author, the Portion of Data Structure), 1997,
Beijing: Science Press. 237 Pages.
2. Geographical Information Systems and Management Decision (one of the co-author, the portion of
Spatial Data Model and Data Structure). Beijing: Peking University Press, 2000. 281 Pages
3. Geographical Information System: Principles, Functionaries and Applications (Second author).
Beijing: Science Press, 2000. 470 Pages
Refereed Journal Papers (in English)
1. Li Gong, Xi Liu, Lun Wu, Yu Liu*, Inferring trip purposes and uncovering travel patterns from taxi
trajectory data. Cartography and Geographic Information Science. In press (doi: 10.1080/15230406.
2015.1014424)
2. Xi Liu, Li Gong, Yongxi Gong, Yu Liu*, Revealing travel patterns and city structure with taxi trip data.
Journal of Transport Geography, 2015, 43, 78-90. (doi: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2015.01.016)
3. Li Shi, Guanghua Chi, Xi Liu, Yu Liu*, Human mobility patterns in different communities: a mobile
phone data based social network approach. Annals of GIS, 2015, 21(1), 15-26. (doi: 10.1080/19475683.
2014.992372)
4. Guanghua Chi, Jean-Claude Thill, Daoqin Tong, Li Shi, Yu Liu*, Uncovering regional characteristics
from mobile phone data: a network science approach. Papers in Regional Science. In press. (doi:
10.1111/pirs.12149)
5. Yu Liu, Daoqin Tong, Xi Liu, Measuring spatial autocorrelation of vectors. Geographical Analysis. In
press. (doi: 10.1111/gean.12069)
6. Yu Liu, Xi Liu, Song Gao, Li Gong, Chaogui Kang, Ye Zhi, Guanghua Chi, Li Shi, Social sensing: A
new approach to understanding our socio-economic environments. Annals of the Association of
American Geographers. In press. (doi: 10.1080/00045608.2015.1018773)
7. Lingxiao Ying , Zehao Shen , Shilong Piao , Yu Liu, George P. Malanson, Terrestrial surface-area
increment: The effects of topography, DEM resolution, and algorithm. Physical Geography. 2014, 35
(4), 297-312. (doi: 10.1080/02723646.2014.886923)
8. Lun Wu, Yu Zhi, Zhengwei Sui, Yu Liu*, Intra-urban human mobility and activity transition: Evidence
from social media check-in data. PLOS ONE, 2014, 9(5): e97010. (doi: 10.1371/journal.
pone.0097010)
9. Yu Liu, Zhengwei Sui, Chaogui Kang, Yong Gao, Uncovering patterns of inter-urban trip and spatial
interaction from social media check-in data. PLOS ONE, 2014, 9(1), e86026. (doi: 10.1371/journal.
pone.0086026)10. Yu Liu, Fahui Wang, Chaogui Kang, Yong Gao, Yongmei Lu, Analyzing relatedness by toponym
co-occurrences on web pages. Transactions in GIS. 2014, 18(1), 89-107 (doi: 10.1111/tgis.12023)
11. Song Gao, Yu Liu, Yaoli Wang, Xiujun Ma, Discovering spatial interaction communities from mobile
phone data, Transactions in GIS. 2013, 17(3), 463-481. (doi: 10.1111/tgis.12042)
12. Chaogui Kang, Yi Zhang, Xiujun Ma, Yu Liu*, Inferring properties and revealing geographical impacts
of intercity mobile communication network of China using a subnet data set, International Journal of
Geographical Information Science. 2013, 27(3), 431-448. (doi: 10.1080/13658816.2012.689838)
13. Yu Xiao, Fahui Wang, Yu Liu, Jiaoe Wang, Reconstructing gravitational attractions of major cities in
China from air passenger flow data 2001-2008: A particle swarm optimization approach. The
Professional Geographer. 2013, 65(2), 265-282. (doi: 10.1080/00330124.2012.679445)
14. Song Gao, Yaoli Wang, Yong Gao, Yu Liu*, Understanding urban traffic flow characteristics: A
rethinking of betweenness centrality. Environment & Planning B, Planning and Design. 2013, 40(1),
135-153. (doi:10.1068/b38141)
15. Chaogui Kang, Yu Liu*, Xiujun Ma, Lun Wu, Towards estimating urban population distributions from
mobile call data, Journal of Urban Technology. 2012, 19(4), 3-21. (doi: 10.1080/10630732.
2012.715479)
16. Yongxi Gong, Lun Wu, Yaoyu Lin, Yu Liu*, Probability issues in locality descriptions based on
Voronoi neighbor relationship, Journal of Visual Languages and Computing. 2012, 23(4), 213-222.
(doi: 10.1016/j.jvlc. 2012.04.002)
17. Menglong Yan, Thomas Blaschke, Yu Liu, Lun Wu, An object based analysis filtering algorithm for
Airborne Laser Scanning, International Journal of Remote Sensing. 2012, 33(22), 7099-7116. (doi:
10.1080/01431161.2012. 699694)
18. Yu Liu, Chaogui Kang, Song Gao, Yu Xiao, Yuan Tian, Understanding intra-urban trip patterns from
taxi trajectory data. Journal of Geographical Systems. 2012, 14(4), 463-483. (doi:10.1007/s10109
-012-0166-z)
19. Yu Liu, Fahui Wang, Yu Xiao, Song Gao, Urban land uses and traffic 'source-sink areas': Evidence
from GPS-enabled taxi data in Shanghai. Landscape and Urban Planning. 2012, 106(1), 73-87. (doi:
10.1016/j.landurbplan.2012.02.012).
20. Yongxi Gong, Guicai Li, Yuan Tian, Yaoyu Lin, Yu Liu*, A vector-based algorithm to generate and
update multiplicatively weighted Voronoi diagrams for points, polylines, and polygons. Computers &
Geosciences. 2012, 42, 118-125. (doi: 10.1016/j.cageo.2011.09.003).
21. Yu Liu, Qinghua Guo, Yuan Tian, A software framework for classification models of geographical data,
Computers & Geosciences. 2012, 42, 47-56. (doi: 10.1016/j.cageo.2012.02.006).
22. Yihong Yuan, Martin Raubal, Yu Liu, Correlating mobile phone usage and travel behavior - A case
study of Harbin, China. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 2012, 36(2), 118-130. (doi:
10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2011.07.003).23. Chaogui Kang, Xiujun Ma, Daoqin Tong, Yu Liu*, Intra-urban human mobility patterns: an urban
morphology perspective. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 2012, 391(4),
1702-1717. (doi: 10.1016/j.physa.2011.11.005).
24. Qinghua Guo, Wenkai Li, Yu Liu, Daoqin Tong, Predicting potential distributions of geographic events
using one-class data: concepts and methods. International Journal of Geographical Information
Science, 2011, 25(10), 1697-1715. (doi: 10.1080/13658816. 2010.546360).
25. Paul J. Doherty, Qinghua Guo, Yu Liu, John Wieczorek, Doke Jared, Georeferencing incidents from
locality descriptions and its applications: a case study from Yosemite National Park search and rescue.
Transaction in GIS, 2011, 15(6), 775-793. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467- 9671.2011.01290.x).
26. Qinghua Guo, Yu Liu, ModEco: An integrated software package for ecological niche modeling,
Ecography. 2010, 33(4), 637-642. (doi: 10.1111/ j.1600-0587.2010. 06416.x).
27. Yongxi Gong, Guicai Li, Yu Liu, Jian Yang, Positioning Localities from Spatial Assertions based on
Voronoi Neighboring, Science China: Technological Sciences, 2010, 53(S1), 143-149.
28. Yong Gao, Song Gao, Runqiang Li, Yu Liu*, A semantic geographical knowledge wiki system mashed
up with Google Maps, Science China: Technological Sciences, 2010, 53(S1), 52-60.
(doi:10.1007/s11431-010-3208-0).
29. Daming Wang, Shawn Laffan, Yu Liu, Lun Wu, Morphometric characterisation of landform from
DEMs, International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 2010, 24(2), 305-326. (doi:
0.1080/13658810802467969).
30. Yu Liu, Yihong Yuan, Danqing Xiao, Yi Zhang, Jiangquan Hu, A point-set-based approximation for
areal objects: A case study of representing localities, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems,
2010, 34(1), 28-39. (doi: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys. 2009.05.001).
31. Yongxi Gong, Yu Liu*, Lun Wu, Yubo Xie, Boolean operations on conic polygons, Journal of
Computer Science and Technology, 2009, 24(3), 568-577. (doi:10.1007/ s11390-009-9246-z).
32. Yu Liu, Qinghua Guo, John Wieczorek, Michael F. Goodchild, Positioning localities based on spatial
assertions. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 2009, 23(11), 1471-1051. (doi:
10.1080/136588108022 47114).
33. Guiyun Jia, Yuan Tian, Yu Liu, Yi Zhang, A static and dynamic factors-coupled forecasting model of
regional rainfall-induced landslides: A case study of Shenzhen. Science in China, Series E:
Technological Sciences, 2008, 51(S2), 164-175. (doi: 10.1007/s11431-008-6013-2).
34. Yuan Tian, Chenchao Xiao, Yu Liu, Wu Lun, Effects of raster resolution on landslide susceptibility
mapping: A case study of Shenzhen. Science in China, Series E: Technological Sciences, 2008, 51(S2),
188-198. (doi: 10.1007/s11431-008-6009-y).
35. Qinghua Guo, Yu Liu, John Wieczorek, Georeferencing locality descriptions and computing associated
uncertainty in a probabilistic approach, International Journal of Geographical Information Science,
2008, 22(10), 1067-1090. (doi: 10.1080/13658810701851420)36. Yu Liu, Qinghua Guo, Maggi Kelly, A framework of region-based spatial relations for non-overlapping
features and its application in object based image analysis, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry &
Remote Sensing, 2008, 63(4), 461-475. (doi: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2008.01.007)
37. Junhua Teng, Fahui Wang, Yu Liu, An efficient algorithm for raster-to-vector data conversion,
Geographic Information Sciences, 2008, 14(1), 54-62. (doi: 10.1080/10824000809480639)
38. Yu Liu, Yuan Tian, Jingnong Weng, Probabilistic composition of cone-based cardinal direction
relations, Science in China, Series E: Technological Sciences, 2008, 51(S),81-90.
39. Xiaohang Liu, Yu Liu, The accuracy assessment in areal interpolation: an empirical investigation,
Science in China, Series E: Technological Sciences, 2008, 51(S), 62-71.
40. Yu Liu, Michael F. Goodchild, Qinghua Guo, Yuan Tian, Lun Wu, Towards a General Field model and
its order in GIS, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2008, 22(6), 623-643.
(doi: 10.1080/13658810701587727)
41. Yu Liu, Yi Zhang, Yong Gao, GNet: A generalized network and its applications in qualitative spatial
reasoning, Information Sciences, 2008, 178(9), 2163-2175. (doi: 10.1016/j.ins.2008.01.002)
42. Yu Liu, Yong Gao, Yinghui Wang, Lun Wu, Lifu Wang, A component-based geo-workflow framework:
A discussion on methodological issues, Journal of software, 2005, 16(8), 1395-1406.
43. Yinghui Wang, Yu Liu, Shikun Zhang, Study on multi agent-based large scope distributed software
architecture, Chinese Journal of Electronics, 2004, 13(2), 268-271.
44. Kunqing Xie, Yongqiu Wu, Xiujun Ma, Yu Liu, Baoyuan Liu, R. Hessel, Using contour lines to
generate digital elevation models for steep slope areas: A case study of the Loess Plateau in north
China, CATENA, 2003, 54, 161-171. (doi: 10.1016/S0341- 8162(03)00063-8)