[Qgis-community-team] Re: ACM GIS08 (Irvine, CA, Nov 5-7) Call for Participation

Tim Sutton tim at linfiniti.com
Sun Oct 12 13:21:57 EDT 2008


Hi

Ok I've sent it to dev and users lists.

Regards

Tim

2008/10/12 Chang-Tien Lu <ctlu at vt.edu>:
> Tim,
>
> Appreciate your prompt response and kindly help!
>
> Warm regards,
> Chang-Tien
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tim Sutton [mailto:tim at linfiniti.com]
>> Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 4:43 PM
>> To: ctlu at vt.edu
>> Cc: qgis-community-team-owner at lists.osgeo.org
>> Subject: Re: ACM GIS08 (Irvine, CA, Nov 5-7) Call for Participation
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Is anyone following this up? If not I can do so...
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>> 2008/10/8 Chang-Tien Lu <ctlu at vt.edu>:
>> > Dear QGIS Community Team Owner,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Could you kindly forward the following publicity message
>> >
>> > (and the attached conference program) to your mailing list
>> >
>> > members (qgis-community-team at lists.osgeo.org) who might
>> > be interested in attending ACM GIS 08 in Irvine, CA, in
>> >
>> > Nov. 5-7, 08? The invited speakers include Jack Dangermond,
>> >
>> > Founder and President of ESRI, and Vinton Cerf,
>> >
>> > VP of Google and 2004 ACM Turing Award Winner.
>> >
>> > http://acmgis08.cs.umn.edu
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks a lot!
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Warm regards,
>> >
>> > Chang-Tien Lu, Associate Professor
>> >
>> > Dept. of CS, Virginia Tech
>> >
>> > ACM GIS-08 Publicity Chair
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> ----------------
>> >
>> > We would like to bring the upcoming 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL
>> >
>> > International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information
>> >
>> > Systems (ACM GIS 2008). It will be held in Irvine, CA, in
>> >
>> > November 5-7, 2008.  This year's Conference builds on the great
>> >
>> > success of last year's Symposium where more than 180 people
>> >
>> > attended, and on being the premier annual conference of the newly
>> >
>> > established ACM Special Interest Group on Spatial Information
>> >
>> > (ACM SIGSPATIAL http://www.sigspatial.org/).  The invited
>> >
>> > speakers include Jack Dangermond, Founder and President of ESRI,
>> >
>> > and Vinton Cerf, VP of Google and 2004 ACM Turing Award Winner.
>> >
>> > This year we will also have for the first time a Ph.D. showcase track
>> >
>> > and a demo track. The information can be found at
>> >
>> > http://acmgis08.cs.umn.edu/ and the program is there as well. The
>> >
>> > program is also repeated below. There is also a pre conference
>> >
>> > workshop on November 4, 2008 called SPRINGL2008 on Security
>> >
>> > and Privacy in GIS and LBS. We hope that you are able to come
>> >
>> > and look forward to seeing you there.
>> >
>> > (Registration site: http://www.cse.unt.edu/~huangyan/acmgis08/)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Hanan Samet         Cyrus Shahabi          Ouri Wolfson
>> >
>> > Co-general Chair   Co-general Chair      Co-general Chair
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Walid Aref           Mohamed Mokbel     Markus Schneider
>> >
>> > Program Chair      Co-program Chair     Co-program Chair
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> -----
>> >
>> >           16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on
>> >
>> >              Advances in Geographic Information Systems
>> >
>> >                             (ACM GIS 2008)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >                       Call for Participation
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> ----
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >                             November 5-7, 2008
>> >
>> >                          Irvine, California, USA
>> >
>> >                        http://acmgis08.cs.umn.edu
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >                        Corporate Sponsorship by
>> >
>> >                                  ESRI
>> >
>> >                                 Google
>> >
>> >                               Microsoft
>> >
>> >                       Oak Ridge National Laboratory
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > The ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic
>> >
>> > Information Systems 2008 (ACM GIS 2008) is the sixteenth event of a
>> >
>> > series of symposia and workshops that began in 1993 with the aim of
>> >
>> > bringing together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners
>> >
>> > carrying out research and development in novel systems based on
>> >
>> > geo-spatial data and knowledge, and fostering interdisciplinary
>> >
>> > discussions and research in all aspects of geographicinformation
>> >
>> > systems. The conference provides a forum for original research
>> >
>> > contributions covering all conceptual, design, and implementation
>> >
>> > aspects of GIS ranging from applications, user interface
>> considerations,
>> >
>> > and visualization down to storage management and indexing issues.
>> >
>> > This year's conference builds on last year's conference great success
>> >
>> > and on being the premier annual conference of the newly formed ACM
>> >
>> > Special Interest Group on Spatial Information (ACM SIGSPATIAL). ACM
>> >
>> > GIS will have two invited speakers, 38 full papers, 37 poster papers,
>> >
>> > 8 Ph.D. showcases, and 12 demos. (see below)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ================
>> >
>> > Invited Lectures
>> >
>> > ================
>> >
>> >      * Vinton Cerf, VP of Google, USA and 2004 ACM Turing Award
>> Winner
>> >
>> >      * Jack Dangermond, Founder and President of ESRI, USA
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ACM GIS 2008: Program Schedule
>> >
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> -------
>> >
>> > Day 1: Wednesday, Nov 5, 2008
>> >
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> -------
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 7:00-8:00 Breakfast and Registration
>> >
>> > 8:00-8:10 Welcome
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 8:10-9:25 Paper Session 1: Geo Sensing
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    SenseWeb: Sharing and Exploring Sensor Streams over Geocentric
>> Interfaces
>> >
>> >      Aman Kansal (Microsoft Research, USA), Liqian Luo (Microsoft
>> Research,
>> >
>> >      USA), Suman Nath (Microsoft Research, USA), Feng Zhao (Microsoft
>> >
>> >         Research, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    Detecting Basic Topological Changes in Sensor Networks by Local
>> >
>> >    Aggregation
>> >
>> >      Jixiang Jiang (University of Maine, USA), Michael Worboys
>> (University
>> >
>> >      of Maine, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    Using Tomography for Ubiquitous Sensing
>> >
>> >      Stacy Patterson (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA),
>> >
>> >      Bassam Bamieh (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA),
>> Amr El
>> >
>> >      Abbadi (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 9:25-10:25 Invited Lecture:
>> >
>> >        GIS: Geography in Action
>> >
>> >           Jack Dangermond, Founder and President of ESRI, USA
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 10:25-10:50 Coffee Break
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 10:50-12:30 Paper Session 2: Modeling
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    A Topology-based Semantic Location Model for Indoor Application
>> >
>> >      Dandan Li (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong
>> Kong),
>> >
>> >      Dik Lun Lee (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
>> Hong Kong)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    Fast and Extensible Building Modeling from Airborne LiDAR Data
>> >
>> >      Qian-Yi Zhou (University of Southern California, USA), Ulrich
>> Neumann
>> >
>> >      (University of Southern California, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    An Operation-Independent Approach to Extend 2D Spatial
>> >
>> >     Operations to 3D and Moving Objects
>> >
>> >      Farid Karimipour (Technical University of Vienna, Austria),
>> Andrew
>> >
>> >      Frank (Technical  University  of  Vienna, Austria), Mahmoud Reza
>> >
>> >      Delavar (University of Tehran, Iran)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    A Conceptual Spatial Model Supporting Topologically-consistent
>> Multiple
>> >
>> >      Representations
>> >
>> >      Donatella  Gubiani  (University of Udine, Italy), Angelo
>> Montanari
>> >
>> >      (University of Udine, Italy)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 12:30-14:00 Lunch (On your own)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 14:00-15:30 Fast Forward Preview Session (37 Posters, 8 Ph.D.
>> Showcases)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 16:00-18:05 Paper Session 3: Route Finding and Road Networks
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    The Multi-Rule Partial Sequenced Route Query
>> >
>> >      Haiquan Chen (Auburn University, USA), Wei-Shinn Ku (Auburn
>> University,
>> >
>> >      USA), Min-Te Sun (National Central University, Taiwan), Roger
>> >
>> >      Zimmermann (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    Heuristic Algorithms for Route-Search Queries over Geographical
>> Data
>> >
>> >      Yaron Kanza (Technion, Israel), Eliyahu Safra (ESRI, USA),
>> Yehoshua
>> >
>> >      Sagiv (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel), Yerach
>> Doytsher
>> >
>> >      (Technion, Israel)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    Continuous Proximity Monitoring in Road Networks
>> >
>> >      Hans-Peter Kriegel (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich,
>> Germany),
>> >
>> >      Peer Kr?ger (Ludwig--Maximlians-University Munich, Germany),
>> Matthias
>> >
>> >      Renz (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    An ACS Cooperative  Learning  Approach  for Route Finding in
>> Natural
>> >
>> >      Environment
>> >
>> >      David  Brosset (Naval Academy Research Institute, USA),
>> Christophe
>> >
>> >      Claramunt (Naval Academy Research Institute, USA), Eric Saux
>> (Naval
>> >
>> >      Academy Research Institute, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    Similarity-Based Prediction of Travel Times for Vehicles
>> >
>> >    Traveling on Known Routes
>> >
>> >      Dalia  Tiesyte  (Aalborg University, Denmark), Christian S.
>> Jensen
>> >
>> >      (Aalborg University, Denmark)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 18:30-23:00 Poster Reception, Demo Session, Ph.D. Showcase
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> -------
>> >
>> > Day 2: Thursday, Nov 6, 2008
>> >
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> -------
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 7:00-8:00 Breakfast
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 8:00-9:15 Paper Session 4: Terrain and Road Network Algorithms
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    Sparse Terrain Pyramids
>> >
>> >      Leila  De  Floriani  (University  of Genova, Italy), Kenneth
>> Weiss
>> >
>> >      (University of Maryland at College Park, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    Studying (Non-Planar) Road Networks Through an Algorithmic Lens
>> >
>> >      David  Eppstein (University of Californi, at Irvine, USA),
>> Michael
>> >
>> >      Goodrich (University of California at Irvine, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    Parallel ODETLAP for Terrain Compression and Reconstruction
>> >
>> >      Jared Stookey (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), Zhongyi
>> Xie
>> >
>> >      (Rensselaer  Polytechnic  Institute,  USA),  W.  Randolph
>> Franklin
>> >
>> >      (Rensselaer  Polytechnic  Institute,  USA),  Dan Tracy
>> (Rensselaer
>> >
>> >      Polytechnic  Institute,  USA), Barb Cutler (Rensselaer
>> Polytechnic
>> >
>> >      Institute, USA), Marcus V. A. Andrade (Universidade Federal de
>> Vi?osa,
>> >
>> >      Brazil)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 9:15-10:15 Invited Lecture: The Geo-Internet and How We May Use it
>> >
>> >    Vinton Cerf, VP of Google, USA and 2004 ACM Turing Award Winner
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 10:15-10:40 Coffee Break
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 10:40-12:20 Paper Session 5: Geo Web
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    NewsStand: A New View on News
>> >
>> >      Benjamin Teitler (University of Maryland at College Park, USA),
>> Michael
>> >
>> >      Lieberman (University of Maryland at College Park, USA), Daniele
>> >
>> >      Panozzo (University of Maryland at College Park, USA), Jagan
>> >
>> >      Sankaranarayanan (University of Maryland at College Park, USA),
>> Hanan
>> >
>> >      Samet (University of Maryland at College Park, USA), Jon
>> Sperling
>> >
>> >      (Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy
>> >
>> >      Development and Research, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    Measuring Geographic Information on the Web
>> >
>> >      Robert Pasley (University of Sheffield, UK), Paul Clough
>> (University of
>> >
>> >      Sheffield, UK), Florian Twaroch (Cardiff University, UK), Ross
>> Purves
>> >
>> >      (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    Qualitative Geocoding of Persistent Web Page
>> >
>> >      Albert Angel (University of Toronto, Canada), Alexandros
>> Efentakis (RA
>> >
>> >      Computer  Technology  Institute,  Greece),  Chara Lontou
>> (National
>> >
>> >      Technical  University  of Athens, Greece), Dieter Pfoser
>> (Research
>> >
>> >      Academic Computer Technology Institute, Greece)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    Autonomous Navigation of Mobile Agents Using RFID-Enabled Space
>> >
>> >    Partitions
>> >
>> >      Muhammad Atif Mehmood (University of Melbourne, Australia), Lars
>> Kulik
>> >
>> >      (University  of Melbourne, Australia), Egemen Tanin (University
>> of
>> >
>> >      Melbourne, Australia)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 12:20-13:45 Lunch (On your own)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 13:45-15:50 Paper Session 6: Imagery and Geovisualization
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    Automatic  Extraction of Road Intersection Position, Connectivity,
>> and
>> >
>> >      Orientation from Raster Maps
>> >
>> >      Yao-Yi Chiang (University of Southern California, USA), Craig
>> Knoblock
>> >
>> >      (University of Southern California, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    Validation of Vector Data using Oblique Images
>> >
>> >      Pragyana Mishra (Microsoft Corporation, USA), Eyal Ofek
>> (Microsoft
>> >
>> >      Corporation, USA), Gur Kimchi (Microsoft Corporation, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    Low-Cost Orthographic Imagery
>> >
>> >      Peter Pesti (Georgia Tech, USA), Jeremy Elson (Microsoft
>> Research,
>> >
>> >      USA), Jon Howell (Microsoft Research, USA), Drew Steedly
>> (Microsoft
>> > Research,
>> >
>> >      USA), Matt Uyttendaele (Microsoft Research, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    Combining 3-D Geovisualization with Force Feedback Driven User
>> >
>> >    Interaction
>> >
>> >      Adam  Faeth  (Iowa  State  University, USA), Mike Oren (Iowa
>> State
>> >
>> >      University, USA), Chris Harding (Iowa State University, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    Integrating Gazetteers and Remote Sensed Imagery
>> >
>> >      Shawn  Newsam  (University  of California at Merced, USA), Yi
>> Yang
>> >
>> >      (University of California at Merced, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 15:50-16:15 Coffee Break
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 16:15-17:55 Paper Session 7: OLAP and Co-location Mining
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    Piet-QL: a Query Language for GIS-OLAP Integration
>> >
>> >      Leticia  Gomez (Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires,
>> Argentina),
>> >
>> >      Alejandro  Vaisman  (Universidad  de  Buenos  Aires, Argentina
>> and
>> >
>> >      University of Hasselt, Belgium), Sebastian Zich (Universidad de
>> Buenos
>> >
>> >      Aires, Argentina)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    Embedding and Extending GIS for Exploratory Analysis of
>> >
>> >     Large-Scale Species Distribution Data
>> >
>> >      Jianting Zhang (The City College of the City University of New
>> York,
>> >
>> >      USA), Le Gruenwald (University of Oklahoma, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    Density based Co-Location Pattern Discovery
>> >
>> >      Xiangye Xiao (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
>> Hong
>> >
>> >      Kong), Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia, China), Qiong Luo
>> (Hong Kong
>> >
>> >      University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong), Wei-Ying Ma
>> >
>> >      (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    Finding Regional Co-Location Patterns for Sets of Continuous
>> Variables in
>> >
>> >      Spatial Datasets
>> >
>> >      Christoph Eick (University of Houston, USA), Rachana Parmar
>> (University
>> >
>> >      of  Houston,  USA),  Wei Ding (University of Houston, USA),
>> Tomasz
>> >
>> >      Stepinski (Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, USA), Jean-
>> Phillippe
>> >
>> >      Nicot (Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas, Austin,
>> USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 18:00-19:00 Sponsor Demo Session
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 19:30-23:30 Banquet
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> -------
>> >
>> > Day 3: Friday, Nov 7, 2008
>> >
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> -------
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 7:00-8:00 Breakfast
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 8:00-10:05 Paper Session 8: Trajectories
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    Scalable Processing of Trajectory-Based Queries in
>> >
>> >     Space-Partitioned Moving Objects Databases
>> >
>> >      Ralph Lange (Universit?t Stuttgart, Germany), Frank D?rr
>> (Universit?t
>> >
>> >      Stuttgart, Germany), Kurt Rothermel (Universit?t Stuttgart,
>> Germany)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    Towards a Geometric Interpretation of Double-Cross Matrix-based
>> >
>> >    Similarity of Polylines
>> >
>> >      Bart Kuijpers (Hasselt University & Transnational University of
>> >
>> >      Limburg, Belgium), Bart Moelans (Hasselt University &
>> Transnational
>> >
>> >      University of Limburg, Belgium)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    Detecting Single File Movement
>> >
>> >      Kevin  Buchin  (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Maike
>> Buchin
>> >
>> >      (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Joachim Gudmundsson
>> (NICTA,
>> >
>> >      Sydney, Australia)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    Mining User Similarity Based on Location History
>> >
>> >      Quannan  Li  (Microsoft Research Asia, China), Yu Zheng
>> (Microsoft
>> >
>> >      Research Asia, China), Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia, China),
>> Yukun
>> >
>> >      Chen (Microsoft Research Asia, China), Wenyu Liu (Huazhong
>> University
>> >
>> >      of Science and Technology, China)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    Feed-links for Network Extensions
>> >
>> >      Boris Aronov (Polytechnic University, New York, USA), Kevin
>> Buchin
>> >
>> >      (Utrecht  University,  The  Netherlands),  Maike  Buchin
>> (Utrecht
>> >
>> >      University, The Netherlands), Bart Jansen (Utrecht University,
>> The
>> >
>> >      Netherlands), Tom de Jong (Utrecht University, The Netherlands),
>> Marc
>> >
>> >      van Kreveld (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Maarten
>> L?ffler
>> >
>> >      (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Jun Luo (Utrecht
>> University, The
>> >
>> >      Netherlands), Rodrigo I. Silveira (Utrecht University, The
>> >
>> >      Netherlands), Bettina Speckmann (TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 10:05-10:35 Coffee Break
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 10:35-12:40 Paper Session 9: Systems and Algorithms
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    An Inconsistency Tolerant Approach to Querying Spatial Databases
>> >
>> >      M.  Andrea  Rodr?guez (Universidad de Concepci?n, Chile),
>> Leopoldo
>> >
>> >      Bertossi (University of Carleton, Canada), M?nica Caniupan
>> (Universidad
>> >
>> >      del Biobio, Chile)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    Should SDBMS Support the Join Index?: A Case Study from Spatial
>> >
>> >     Statistical Analysis
>> >
>> >      Pradeep Mohan (University of Minnesota at Twin Cities, USA),
>> Shashi
>> >
>> >      Shekhar (University of Minnesota at Twin Cities, USA), Ned
>> Levine (Ned
>> >
>> >      Levine and Associates, Houston, USA), Ronald Wilson (National
>> Institute
>> >
>> >      of Justice, USA), Betsy George (University of Minnesota at Twin
>> Cities,
>> >
>> >      USA), Mete Celik (University of Minnesota at Twin Cities, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    Spatial Queries in Disconnected Mobile Networks
>> >
>> >      Xinjuan Zhu (Xian Polytechnic University, China), Bo Xu
>> (University of
>> >
>> >      Illinois at Chicago, USA), Ouri Wolfson (University of Illinois
>> at
>> >
>> >      Chicago, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    Efficient Algorithms for Reverse Proximity Query Problems
>> >
>> >      Yokesh  Kumar  (University of Minnesota at Twin Cities, USA),
>> Ravi
>> >
>> >      Janardan (University of Minnesota at Twin Cities, USA),
>> Prosenjit Gupta
>> >
>> >      (International Institute of Information Technology, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    Dual-heap kNN: k-Nearest Neighbor Search for Spatial Data
>> Retrieval in
>> >
>> >     Embedded DBMS
>> >
>> >      Hideki Hayashi (Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, Japan),
>> Daisuke
>> >
>> >      Ito (Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, Japan), Masaaki
>> Tanizaki
>> >
>> >      (Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, Japan), Kohji Kimura
>> (Hitachi
>> >
>> >      Software Division, Japan), Hisanori Kajiyama (Hitachi Software
>> >
>> >      Engineering Co, Japan)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 12:40-13:00 Closing Remarks and Adjournment of Symposium
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> -------
>> >
>> > Poster Papers: Program Schedule
>> >
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> -------
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Fast Forward Preview Session: 14:00-15:30, Wednesday, Nov 5, 2008
>> >
>> > Poster Reception: 18:30-23:00, Wednesday, Nov 5, 2008
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   1. Efficient Search of Moving Objects on a Planar Graph
>> >
>> >      Thuy Le (University of New Brunswick, Canada), Bradford
>> Nickerson
>> >
>> >      (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   2. Geometric Algorithms on an Ellipsoid Earth Model
>> >
>> >      Michael Kallay (Microsoft Corporation, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   3. Approaches for Determining the Geographic Footprint of Arbitrary
>> Terms
>> >
>> >      for Retrieval and Visualization
>> >
>> >      Andreas Henrich (University of Bamberg, Germany), Volker L?decke
>> >
>> >      (University of Bamberg, Germany), Daniel Blank (University of
>> Bamberg,
>> >
>> >      Germany)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   4. Bridging the Gap Between Geospatial Resource Providers and Model
>> >
>> >      Developers
>> >
>> >      Gilberto Zonta Pastorello Jr (IC-UNICAMP, Brazil), Rodrigo Dias
>> Arruda
>> >
>> >      Senra (IC-UNICAMP, Brazil), Claudia Bauzer Medeiros (IC-UNICAMP,
>> >
>> >      Brazil)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   5. An Online Approach Based on Localized Weighted Learning for
>> Short-term
>> >
>> >      Traffic Flow Prediction
>> >
>> >      Meng Shuai (Beijing University, China), Wen Pu (Beijing
>> University,
>> >
>> >      China), Kunqing Xie (Beijing University, China), Guojie Song
>> (Beijing
>> >
>> >      University, China), Xiujun Ma (Beijing University, China)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   6. Privacy-Preserving Trajectory Collection
>> >
>> >      Gyozo Gidofalvi (Uppsala University, Sweden), Xuegang Huang
>> (Aalborg
>> >
>> >      University, Denmark), Torben Bach Pedersen (Aalborg University,
>> >
>> >      Denmark)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   7. Discovering Controlling Factors of Geospatial Variables
>> >
>> >      Tomasz Stepinski (Lunar and Planetary Institute, USA), Wei Ding
>> >
>> >      (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA), Christoph Eick
>> >
>> >      (University of Houston, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   8. An Automatic Approach to Integrate Routing-relevant Information
>> from
>> >
>> >      Different Resources
>> >
>> >      Meng Zhang (Technical University of Munich, Germany), Lu Liu
>> (Technical
>> >
>> >      University of Munich, Germany), Hongbo Gong (Technical
>> University of
>> >
>> >      Munich, Germany), Liqiu Meng (Technical University of Munich,
>> Germany)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   9. Geo-ontology Enrichment through Reverse Engineering
>> >
>> >      Guillermo Hess (UFRGS, Brazil), Cirano Iochpe (UFRGS, Brazil)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 10. Snapshot Location-based Query Processing on Moving Objects in
>> Road
>> >
>> >      Networks
>> >
>> >      Haojun Wang (University of Southern California, USA), Roger
>> Zimmermann
>> >
>> >      (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 11. Content-based Ontology Matching for GIS Datasets
>> >
>> >      Jeffrey Partyka (University of Texas at Dallas, USA), Neda
>> Alipanah
>> >
>> >      (University of Texas at Dallas, USA), Latifur Khan (University
>> of Texas
>> >
>> >      at Dallas, USA), Bhavani Thuraisingham (University of Texas at
>> Dallas,
>> >
>> >      USA), Shashi Shekhar (University of Minnesota at Twin Cities,
>> USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 12. The DAEDALUS Framework: Progressive Querying and Mining of
>> Movement Data
>> >
>> >      Riccardo Ortale (ICAR-CNR, Italy), Ettore Ritacco (ICAR-CNR,
>> Italy),
>> >
>> >      Nikos Pelekis (University of Piraeus, Italy), Roberto Trasarti
>> >
>> >      (ISTI-CNR, Italy), Gianni Costa (ICAR-CNR, Italy), Fosca
>> Giannotti
>> >
>> >      (ISTI-CNR, Italy), Giuseppe Manco (ICAR-CNR, Italy), Chiara
>> Renso
>> >
>> >      (ISTI-CNR, Italy), Yannis Theodoridis (University of Piraeus,
>> Greece)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 13. Morphological Analysis of Terrains Based on Discrete Curvature
>> and
>> >
>> >      Distortion
>> >
>> >      Mohammed Mostefa Mesmoudi (University of Paris, France), Leila
>> De
>> >
>> >      Floriani (University of Genova, Italy), Paola Magillo
>> (University of
>> >
>> >      Genova, Italy)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 14. Applying Hierarchical Graphs to Pedestrian Indoor Navigation
>> >
>> >      Edgar-Philipp Stoffel (Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich,
>> >
>> >      Germany), Korbinian Schoder (Ludwig-Maximilians University of
>> Munich,
>> >
>> >      Germany), Hans J?rgen Ohlbach (Ludwig--Maximilians University of
>> > Munich,
>> >
>> >      Germany)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 15. Composing Geoinformatics Workflows with User Preferences
>> >
>> >      David Chiu (Ohio State University, USA), Sagar Deshpande (Ohio
>> State
>> >
>> >      University, USA), Gagan Agrawal (Ohio State University, USA),
>> Rongxing
>> >
>> >      Li (Ohio State University, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 16. Path Planning on a Compressed Terrain
>> >
>> >      Daniel Tracy (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), W.
>> Randolph
>> >
>> >      Franklin (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), Barbara Cutler
>> >
>> >      (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), Franklin Luk
>> (Rensselaer
>> >
>> >      Polytechnic Institute, USA), Marcus Andrade (Federal University
>> of
>> >
>> >      Vicosa, USA), Metin Inanc (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
>> USA),
>> >
>> >      Zhongyi Xie (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), Jake
>> Stookey
>> >
>> >      (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 17. Computing Information Gain for Spatial Data Support
>> >
>> >      Tao Hong (University of Nebraska at Lincoln, USA), Ashok Samal
>> >
>> >      (University of Nebraska at Lincoln, USA), Leen-Kiat Soh
>> (University of
>> >
>> >      Nebraska at Lincoln, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 18. Efficient Data Modeling and Querying System for Multi-Dimensional
>> >
>> >      Spatial Data
>> >
>> >      Wei Li (University of Massachusetts at Lowell, USA), Cindy Chen
>> >
>> >      (University of Massachusetts at Lowell, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 19. Two-Site Voronoi Diagrams in Geographic Networks
>> >
>> >      Matthew Dickerson (Middlebury College, USA), Michael Goodrich
>> >
>> >      (University of California at Irvine, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 20. Data Mining for Visual Exploration and Detection of Ecosystem
>> >
>> >      Disturbances
>> >
>> >      Haibin Cheng (Michigan State University, USA), Pang-Ning Tan
>> (Michigan
>> >
>> >      State University, USA), Christopher Potter (NASA Ames Research
>> Center,
>> >
>> >      USA), Steven Klooster (California State University at Monterey
>> Bay,
>> >
>> >      USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 21. Charting New Ground: Modeling User Behavior in Interactive
>> >
>> >      Geovisualization
>> >
>> >      David Wilson (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA),
>> Heather
>> >
>> >      Richter Lipford (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA),
>> Erin
>> >
>> >      Carroll (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) , USA,
>> Pamela Karr
>> >
>> >      (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA), Nadia Najjar
>> >
>> >      (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 22. Quantifying Spatial Prepositions: An Experimental Study
>> >
>> >      Mark M. Hall (Cardiff University, UK), Christopher B. Jones
>> (Cardiff
>> >
>> >      University, UK)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 23. Multigranular Spatio-temporal Models: Implementation Challenges
>> >
>> >      Elena Camossi (University College Dublin, Ireland), Michela
>> Bertolotto
>> >
>> >      (University College Dublin, Ireland), Elisa Bertino (Purdue
>> University,
>> >
>> >      USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 24. An Ontology Framework for Quality of Geographic Information
>> >
>> >      Richard Onchaga (Internation Institute for Geo-Information and
>> Earth
>> >
>> >      Observation (ITC), The Netherlands), Ing Widya (University of
>> Twente,
>> >
>> >      The Netherlands), Javier Morales (Internation Institute for
>> >
>> >      Geo-Information and Earth Observation (ITC) , The Netherlands),
>> L.J.M.
>> >
>> >      Nieuwenhuis (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 25. Mobile Continuous Nearest-neighbor Queries on Air
>> >
>> >      KwangJin Park (Wonkwang University, Korea), Patrick Valduriez
>> (INRIA
>> >
>> >      and LINA, France), Hyunseung Choo (Sungkyunkwan University,
>> Korea)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 26. A Situation-centric Approach to Meteorological Services in the
>> SITUMET
>> >
>> >      Platform
>> >
>> >      Stefan Pfennigschmidt (Fraunhofer Institute for Software and
>> Systems
>> >
>> >      Engineering, Germany), Agn?s Voisard (Fraunhofer Institute for
>> Software
>> >
>> >      and Systems Engineering and Free University Berlin, Germany)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 27. Pedestrian Flow Prediction in Extensive Road Networks using
>> Biased
>> >
>> >      Observational Data
>> >
>> >      Simon Scheider (University of M?nster, Germany), Michael May
>> >
>> >      (Fraunhofer IAIS Schloss Birlinghoven, Germany), Roberto R?sler
>> >
>> >      (Fraunhofer IAIS Schloss Birlinghoven, Germany), Daniel Schulz
>> >
>> >      (Fraunhofer IAIS Schloss Birlinghoven, Germany), Dirk Hecker
>> >
>> >      (Fraunhofer IAIS Schloss Birlinghoven, Germany)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 28. Dynamic Travel Time Provision for Road Networks
>> >
>> >      Dieter Pfoser (Research Academic Computer Technology Institute,
>> >
>> >      Greece), Sotiris Brakatsoulas (Research Academic Computer
>> Technology
>> >
>> >      Institute, Greece), Petra Brosch (Technical University of Vienna,
>> > Austria),
>> >
>> >      Martina Umlauft (Technical University of Vienna, Austria),
>> Nektaria
>> >
>> >      Tryfona (TALENT, Greece), Giorgos Tsironis (TALENT, Greece)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 29. Clustering of German Municipalities Based on Mobility
>> Characteristics
>> >
>> >      Andrea Zanda (Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain),
>> Christine
>> >
>> >      K?rner (Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany), Fosca Giannotti (ISTI-CNR,
>> Italy),
>> >
>> >      Daniel Schulz (Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany), Michael May
>> (Fraunhofer IAIS,
>> >
>> >      Germany)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 30. Towards Provenance-Aware Geographic Information Systems
>> >
>> >      Shaowen Wang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA),
>> Anand
>> >
>> >      Padmanabhan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA),
>> James
>> >
>> >      Myers (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Wenwu
>> Tang
>> >
>> >      (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Yong Liu
>> (University
>> >
>> >      of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 31. Indexing Planar Point Quartets via Geometric Attributes
>> >
>> >      Charles B. Cranston (University of Maryland at College Park,
>> USA),
>> >
>> >      Hanan Samet (University of Maryland at College Park, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 32. Tracking Deformable 2D Objects in Wireless Sensor Networks
>> >
>> >      Guang Jin (University of Maine, USA), Silvia Nittel (University
>> of
>> >
>> >      Maine, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 33. Geospatial Information Integration Based on the Conceptualization
>> of
>> >
>> >      Geographic Domain
>> >
>> >      Miguel Torres (IPN, Mexico), Rolando Quintero (IPN, Mexico),
>> Serguei
>> >
>> >      Levachkine (IPN, Mexico), Marco Moreno (IPN, Mexico), Giovanni
>> Guzman
>> >
>> >      (IPN, Mexico)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 34. GEDMWA: Geospatial Exploratory Data Mining Web Agent
>> >
>> >      Edward Pultar (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA),
>> Martin
>> >
>> >      Raubal (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA), Michael
>> >
>> >      Goodchild (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 35. Optimal Incremental Multi-step Nearest-Neighbor Search
>> >
>> >      Ming Zhang (University of Calgary, Canada), Reda Alhajj
>> (University of
>> >
>> >      Calgary, Canada), Jon Rokne (University of Calgary, Canada)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 36. Selective Data Replication for Distributed Geographical Data Sets
>> >
>> >      Xuan Gu (University of Canterbury, New Zealand), Richard Pascoe
>> >
>> >      (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 37. Geographical Analysis of Hierarchical Business Structures by
>> Interactive
>> >
>> >      Drill Down
>> >
>> >      Klaus Boehm (University of Applied Sciences at Mainz, Germany),
>> Eva
>> >
>> >      Daub (University of Applied Sciences at Mainz, Germany)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> -------
>> >
>> > Ph.D. Showcase Papers: Program Schedule
>> >
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> -------
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Fast Forward Preview Session: 14:00-15:30, Wednesday, Nov 5, 2008
>> >
>> > Ph.D. Showcase: 18:30-23:00, Wednesday, Nov 5, 2008
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   1. Enriching the Spatial Reasoning System RCC8
>> >
>> >      Ahed Alboody (Universit? Paul Sabatier, France) (Ph.D. Student),
>> Jordi
>> >
>> >      Inglada (Centre National d?Etudes Spatiales, France) (Advisor),
>> >
>> >      Florence Sedes (Universit? Paul Sabatier, France) (Advisor)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   2. Query Optimization for Spatio-temporal Data Stream Management
>> Systems
>> >
>> >      Hicham G. Elmongui (Purdue University, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   3. Specification of a Framework for Semantic Annotation of
>> Geospatial Data
>> >
>> >      on the Web
>> >
>> >      Carla Macario (IC-UNICAMP, Brazil) (Ph.D. Student), Claudia
>> Medeiros
>> >
>> >      (IC-UNICAMP, Brazil) (Advisor)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   4. Change Analysis in Spatial Datasets by Interestingness
>> Comparison
>> >
>> >      Vadeerat Rinsurongkawong (University of Houston, USA) (Ph.D.
>> Student),
>> >
>> >      Christoph Eick (University of Houston, USA) (Advisor)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   5. Data Mining of Maps and their Automatic Region/Time/Theme
>> >
>> >      Classification
>> >
>> >      Judith Gelernter (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   6. Mapping of Large Magnitude Discontinuous Sea Ice Motion
>> >
>> >      Mani Thomas (University of Delaware, USA) (Ph.D. Student),
>> Chandra
>> >
>> >      Kambhamettu (University of Delaware, USA) (Primary Advisor),
>> Cathleen
>> >
>> >      Geiger (University of Delaware, USA) (Secondary Advisor)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   7. Evaluating Hydrology Preservation of Simplified Terrain
>> Representations
>> >
>> >      Christopher Stuetzle (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
>> (Ph.D.
>> >
>> >      Student), W. Randolph Franklin (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
>> USA)
>> >
>> >      (Advisor), Barbara Cutler (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
>> >
>> >      (Advisor), Jonathan Muckell (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
>> USA)
>> >
>> >      (Collaborator), Marcus Andrade (Univ. Fed. Vicosa, Brazil, and
>> >
>> >      Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) (Collaborator), Jared
>> Stookey
>> >
>> >      (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) (Collaborator), Metin
>> Inanc
>> >
>> >      (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) (Collaborator), Zhongyi
>> Xie
>> >
>> >      (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) (Collaborator)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   8. pRPL: An Open-source General-purpose Parallel Raster Processing
>> >
>> >      Programming Library
>> >
>> >         Qingfeng Guan (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> -------
>> >
>> > Demo Papers: Program Schedule
>> >
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> -------
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Demo Session: 18:30-23:00, Wednesday, Nov 5, 2008
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   1. Computing Isocrones in Multimodal, Schedule-Based Transport
>> Networks
>> >
>> >      Veronika Bauer (Free University of Bolzano, Italy), Johann
>> Gamper (Free
>> >
>> >      University of Bolzano, Italy), Roberto Loperfido (Municipality
>> of
>> >
>> >      Bolzano, Italy), Sylvia Profanter (Municipality of Bolzano,
>> Italy),
>> >
>> >      Stefan Putzer (Creaform, Italy), Igor Timko (Free University of
>> >
>> >      Bolzano, Italy)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   2. Efficient Generation of Area Thematic Maps in KML
>> >
>> >      Bruce Ralston (University of Tennessee, USA), Josh Streufert
>> >
>> >      (University of Tennessee, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   3. Web-in-Car: A Web Search Method Not Requiring Keyword Input for
>> Car
>> >
>> >      Navigation Systems
>> >
>> >      Kazutoshi Sumiya (University of Hyogo, Japan), Takuma Segawa
>> (Micware,
>> >
>> >      Japan), Kazuya Sugihara (Micware, Japan), Kenji Narushima
>> (Micware,
>> >
>> >      Japan)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   4. Monitoring Continuous Queries over Streaming Locations
>> >
>> >      Kostas Patroumpas (National Technical University of Athens,
>> Greece),
>> >
>> >      Evi Kefallinou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece),
>> Timos
>> >
>> >      Sellis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   5. Near-Real-Time Spatiotemporal Precipitation Virtual Sensor
>> Creation
>> >
>> >      based on NEXRAD Level II Data in a Semantically-enhanced Digital
>> >
>> >      Watershed
>> >
>> >      Yong Liu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA),
>> David Hill
>> >
>> >      (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Alejandro
>> Rodriguez
>> >
>> >      (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Luigi Marini
>> >
>> >      (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Rob Kooper
>> >
>> >      (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Joe Futrelle
>> >
>> >      (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Barbara
>> Minsker
>> >
>> >      (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), James Myers
>> >
>> >      (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   6. GISolve Toolkit: Advancing GIS through Cyberinfrastructure
>> >
>> >      Shaowen Wang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   7. A Location Aware Role and Attribute Based Access Control System
>> >
>> >      Isabel Cruz (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA), Pohsiu Lin
>> >
>> >      (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA), Mirko Orsini
>> (University of
>> >
>> >      Illinois at Chicago, USA), Rigel Gjomemo (University of Illinois
>> at
>> >
>> >      Chicago, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   8. Highway Operation Monitoring and Evaluation System
>> >
>> >      Chang-Tien Lu (Virginia Polytechnic Institure and State
>> University,
>> >
>> >      USA), Arnold Boedihardjo (Virginia Polytechnic Institure and
>> State
>> >
>> >      University, USA), Jing Dai (Virginia Polytechnic Institure and
>> State
>> >
>> >      University, USA), Feng Chen (Virginia Polytechnic Institure and
>> State
>> >
>> >      University, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   9. *Miner: A Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Mining System
>> >
>> >      Ranga Raju Vatsavai (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA), Shashi
>> >
>> >      Shekhar (University of Minnesota at Twin Cities, USA), Thomas
>> Burk
>> > (University
>> >
>> >      of Minnesota at Twin Cities, USA), Budhendra Bhaduri (Oak Ridge
>> >
>> >      National Laboratory, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 10. Development of Trail Network Model and a Web-based Bikeway
>> Routing
>> >
>> >      Service System
>> >
>> >      Qifeng Lu(Virginia Polytechnic Institure and State University,
>> USA),
>> >
>> >      Stephen Sedlock (Virginia Polytechnic Institure and State
>> University,
>> >
>> >      USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 11. MAEviz - An Earthquake Risk Assessment System
>> >
>> >      Terrence M. McLaren (National Center for Supercomputing
>> Applications,
>> >
>> >      USA), James D. Myers (National Center for Supercomputing
>> Applications,
>> >
>> >      USA), Jong Sung Lee, (National Center for Supercomputing
>> Applications,
>> >
>> >      USA)Nathan Tolbert (National Center for Supercomputing
>> Applications,
>> >
>> >      USA), Shawn Hampton (National Center for Supercomputing
>> Applications,
>> >
>> >      USA), Chris Navarro (National Center for Supercomputing
>> Applications,
>> >
>> >      USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 12. Biography as Events in Time and Space
>> >
>> >      Fredric Gey (University of California at Berkeley, USA), Ryan
>> Shaw
>> >
>> >      (University of California at Berkeley, USA), Ray Larson
>> (University of
>> >
>> >      California at Berkeley, USA), Michael Buckland (University of
>> >
>> >      California at Berkeley, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> -------
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> =======================================================================
>> =====
>> >
>> >                                                 SPRINGL PROGRAM
>> >
>> >                                   NOV. 4, 2008
>> >
>> >
>> =======================================================================
>> =====
>> >
>> >   8:15am-8:30am  Opening Remarks
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   8:30am-10:30am Inaugural Session for the SPRINGL 2008 Workshop
>> Series
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >       Key note presentation
>> >
>> >       Understanding the Privacy- Efficiency Trade-off in Location-
>> Based
>> >
>> >             Queries
>> >
>> >                 Gabriel Ghinita (Purdue University, USA)
>> >
>> >                 Abstract: Mobile devices with global positioning
>> > capabilities
>> >
>> >                         (e.g., GPS) allow users to ask queries
>> relative to
>> > their
>> >
>> >                         present location. Since certain queries may
>> be
>> >
>> >                         privacy-sensitive, it is important to protect
>> the
>> > identity
>> >
>> >                         of the users who send requests for Location-
>> based
>> > Services
>> >
>> >                         (LBS). Instead of reporting the exact user
>> location
>> > to the
>> >
>> >                         LBS provider, existing privacy-preserving
>> techniques
>> > either
>> >
>> >                         perturb or encrypt the location data.
>> >
>> >                         Current LBS privacy solutions fall into
>> several
>> > categories,
>> >
>> >                         based on the type of location transformation
>> they
>> > employ,
>> >
>> >                         and the system architecture they rely on. In
>> this
>> > position
>> >
>> >                         paper, we introduce a taxonomy of LBS privacy
>> > solutions, and
>> >
>> >                         discuss the privacy-efficiency trade-offs
>> achieved
>> > by
>> >
>> >                         various techniques. We also identify several
>> open
>> > problems,
>> >
>> >                         and propose some interesting directions for
>> future
>> > research.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >       Security and Privacy for Geospatial Data ?Concepts and Research
>> >
>> >             Directions (Inaugural Paper for the ACM SPRINGL
>> > Workshop)
>> >
>> >                         Elisa Bertino (Purdue University, USA)
>> >
>> >                 Michael Gertz (University of California at Davis, USA)
>> >
>> >                 Bhavani Thuraisingham (University of Texas at Dallas,
>> USA)
>> >
>> >                 Maria L. Damiani (University of Milano, Italy)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   10:30am-11:00am  Coffee Break
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   11:00am-12:15am  Session: Access Control Model for GIS and
>> Pervasive
>> >
>> >                                     Environments
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >     Towards an ODRL Web Map Service Profile
>> >
>> >          A. Gabillon (Universit?de la Polyn?sie Fran?aise, French
>> Polynesia)
>> >
>> >          P. Capolsini (Universit?de la Polyn?sie Fran?aise, French
>> > Polynesia)
>> >
>> >     QACBAC: An owner-centric QoC-Aware Context-Based Access Control
>> Model
>> > for
>> >
>> >             Pervasive Environments
>> >
>> >          J. Bringel Filho (Grenoble University, France)
>> >
>> >          H. Martin (Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France)
>> >
>> >     Towards movement-aware access control
>> >
>> >          Maria L. Damiani (University of Milano, Italy)
>> >
>> >          Claudio Silvestri (University of Milano, Italy)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   12:15am-1:00pm Lunch
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   1:00pm-2:30pm Session: Location Privacy
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >     Towards a Scalable Model for Location Privacy
>> >
>> >           N. Poolsappasit (Colorado State University, USA)
>> >
>> >           I. Ray (Colorado State University, USA)
>> >
>> >     Towards Trajectory Anonymization: a Generalization-Based Approach
>> >
>> >           Y. Saygin (Sabanci University, Turkey)
>> >
>> >           E. Nergiz (Purdue University, USA)
>> >
>> >           M. Atzori (ISTI-CNR, Italy)
>> >
>> >     Position Transformation: A Location Privacy Protection Method for
>> Moving
>> >
>> >             Objects
>> >
>> >           Dan Lin (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)
>> >
>> >           Elisa Bertino (Purdue University, USA)
>> >
>> >           Reynold Cheng (University of Hong Kong, China)
>> >
>> >           Sunil Prabhakar (Purdue University, USA)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   2:30pm-3:00pm Coffee Break
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   3:00pm-4:00pm Session: Policies
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >     Privacy Policies Compliance Across Digital Identity Management
>> Systems
>> >
>> >           A. C. Squicciarini (Penn State University, USA)
>> >
>> >           A. Czeskis (University of Washington, USA)
>> >
>> >           A. Bhargav-Spantzel (Intel Corporation)
>> >
>> >     Consistency Checking Role Assignments in Inter-Organizational
>> >
>> >             Collaboration
>> >
>> >           P. El Khoury (SAP Research and LIRIS University of Lyon1,
>> France)
>> >
>> >           E. Coquery (University Lyon 1, France)
>> >
>> >           M.-S. Hacid (Lyon University ?UCBL, France)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   4:00pm-4:30pm Business Meeting and Closing Remarks
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> -------
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release  Manager)
>> ==============================================
>> Visit http://linfiniti.com to find out about:
>>  * QGIS programming services
>>  * Mapserver and PostGIS based hosting plans
>>  * FOSS Consulting Services
>> Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net
>> ==============================================
>
>



-- 
Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release  Manager)
==============================================
Visit http://linfiniti.com to find out about:
 * QGIS programming services
 * Mapserver and PostGIS based hosting plans
 * FOSS Consulting Services
Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net
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