<p class="MsoNormal"><span>The 19th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in
Geographic Information Systems (</span><a href="http://acmgis2011.cs.umn.edu/"><span>http://acmgis2011.cs.umn.edu</span></a><span>) will be
held in Chicago, on November 1-4, 2011.<span> </span>Online
registration is open at </span><a href="http://acmgis2011.cs.umn.edu/registration.html"><span>http://acmgis2011.cs.umn.edu/registration.html</span></a><span> . ACM
SIGSPATIAL GIS is a premier annual conference of the newly established ACM
Special Interest Group on Spatial Information (ACM SIGSPATIAL </span><a href="http://www.sigspatial.org/"><span>http://www.sigspatial.org/</span></a><span>). We hope
that you will be able to attend and we look forward to your participation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>The invited speakers include:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span> </span>- Harry Shum, Corporate
Vice President for Search, Microsoft</span><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span> </span>- Ben Shneiderman,
Professor of Computer Science, University of Maryland</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>General Chairs: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><a href="http://www.cs.uic.edu/Cruz/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none; ">Isabel Cruz</span></a><span>, University of Illinois</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><a href="http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~agrawal/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none; ">Divyakant Agrawal</span></a><span>, University of California at Santa
Barbara</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Program Committee Chairs: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><a href="http://cs.au.dk/~csj/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none; ">Christian
S. Jensen</span></a><span>, Aarhus University </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/eyalofek/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none; ">Eyal Ofek</span></a><span>, Microsoft
Research </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><a href="http://ww2.cs.mu.oz.au/~egemen" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none; ">Egemen Tanin</span></a><span>, </span><a href="http://www.unimelb.edu.au/"><span style="text-decoration: none; ">University of Melbourne</span></a><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>It is a pleasure to announce the list of accepted papers (Poster
papers: to be announced):</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span>Full papers</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>1 (3): Finding the Most Accessible Locations - Reverse Path
Nearest Neighbor Query in Road Networks</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Shuo Shang (University of Queensland) <br>
Bo Yuan (Tsinghua University) <br>
Ke Deng (University of Queensland) <br>
kexin Xie (University of Queensland) <br>
Xiaofang Zhou (University of Queensland) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>2 (25): Discovering Interesting Sub-paths in Spatiotemporal
Datasets: A Summary of Results</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Xun Zhou (University of Minnesota) <br>
Shashi Shekhar (University of Minnesota) <br>
Stefan Liess (University of Minnesota) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>3 (30): Fast GPU-based Locality Sensitive Hashing for K-Nearest
Neighbor Computation</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Jia Pan (UNC Chapel Hill) <br>
Dinesh Manocha (UNC Chapel Hill) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>4 (46): A spatial neighborhood graph approach to regional
co-location pattern discovery: A summary of results</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Pradeep Mohan (University of Minnesota) <br>
Shashi Shekhar (University of Minnesota) <br>
James Shine (Engineer Research and Development Center) <br>
James Rogers (Engineer Research and Development Center) <br>
Zhe Jiang (University of Minnesota) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>5 (48): Similarity Search on a Large Collection of Point Sets</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Marco Adelfio (University of Maryland) <br>
Sarana Nutanong (University of Maryland) <br>
Hanan Samet (University of Maryland) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>6 (56): Pedestrian-movement Prediction based on Mixed Markov-chain
Model</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Akinori Asahara (Hitachi Ltd.) <br>
Akiko Sato (Hitachi Ltd.) <br>
Kishiko Maruyama (Hitachi Ltd.) <br>
Koichi Seto (Hitachi Ltd.) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>7 (59): Learning Location Naming from User Check-In Histories</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Defu Lian (University of Science and Technology of China) <br>
Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>8 (60): Natural Neighbor Interpolation on a 3D Grid using a GPU</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Alex Beutel (Duke University) <br>
Thomas Mølhave (Duke University) <br>
Pankaj Agarwal (Duke University) <br>
Arnold Boedihardjo (Army Research Office) <br>
James Shine (Engineer Research and Development Center) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>9 (64): Planar Segments of Building Roofs from Aerial
Photogrammetry</span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:
minor-latin">Philipp Meixner (Graz University of Technology)<span> </span><br>
Franz Leberl (Graz University of Technology)<span>
</span><br>
Mathieu Brédif (Institute Géographique Nationale, France)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>10 (65): Path Shapes - An Alternative Method for Map Matching and
Fully Autonomous Self-Localization</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Stefan Funke (University of Stuttgart) <br>
Sabine Storandt (University of Stuttgart) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>11 (69): Semantic Trajectory Mining for Next Location Prediction</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Jia-Ching Ying (National Cheng Kung University) <br>
Tz-Chiao Weng (</span><span>National Cheng Kung University)</span><span><br>
Wang-Chien Lee (Pennsylvania State University) <br>
Vincent Tseng (</span><span>National Cheng Kung University</span><span>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>12 (82): Median trajectories using well-visited regions and
shortest paths</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Marc Van Kreveld (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) <br>
Lionov Wiratma (</span><span>Parahyangan Catholic University)</span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>13 (83): On Efficient Obstructed Reverse Nearest Neighbor Query
Processing</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Yunjun Gao (Zhejiang University) <br>
Jiacheng Yang (Zhejiang University) <br>
Gang Chen (Zhejiang University) <br>
Baihua Zheng (Zhejiang University)<br>
Lidan Shou (Zhejiang University) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>14 (84): A splitting line model for directional relations</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Kevin Buchin (TU Eindhoven)<br>
Vincent Kusters (TU Eindhoven)<br>
Bettina Speckmann (TU Eindhoven) <br>
Frank Staals (TU Eindhoven)<br>
Bogdan Vasilescu (TU Eindhoven)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>15 (86): Conflation of Road Network and Geo-referenced Image Using
Sparse Matching</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Jiantong Zhang (TUM) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>16 (89): Transportation Mode Detection using Mobile Devices and
GIS Information</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Leon Stenneth (University of Illinois Chicago) <br>
Philip Yu (University of Illinois Chicago) <br>
Bo Xu (University of Illinois Chicago) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>17 (95): Constructing Geo-Ontologies by Reification of Observation
Data</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Benjamin Adams (University of California at Santa Barbara) <br>
Krzysztof Janowicz (University of California at Santa Barbara) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>18 (107): Multi-Approximate-Keyword Routing in GIS Data</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Bin Yao (</span><span>Florida State University</span><span>) <br>
Mingwang Tang (</span><span>Florida State University</span><span>) <br>
Feifei Li (</span><span>Florida State University</span><span>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>19 (125): What You Are is When You Are - The Temporal Dimension of
Feature Types in Location-based Social Networks</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Mao Ye (Pennsylvania State University) <br>
Krzysztof Janowicz (University of California at Santa Barbara) <br>
Wang-Chien Lee (Pennsylvania State University)<span>
</span><br>
Christoph Mulligann (</span><span>University of Münster</span><span>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>20 (126): EnAcq: Energy-efficient Trajectory Data Acquisition
Based on Improved Map Matching</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Shunkai Fang (National University of Singapore) <br>
Roger Zimmermann (National University of Singapore) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>21 (133): Data-Driven Trajectory Smoothing</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Frederic Chazal (INRIA Saclay – Île-de-France) <br>
Daniel Chen (Stanford University) <br>
Leo Guibas (Stanford University) <br>
Xiaoye Jiang (Stanford University) <br>
Christian Sommer (MIT) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>22 (140): Privacy-Preserving Assessment of Location Data
Trustworthiness</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Fang-Yu Rao (Purdue University) <br>
Gabriel Ghinita (Purdue University) <br>
Elisa Bertino (Purdue University) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>23 (146): Kinetic space-time prisms</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Walied Othman (IFGI) <br>
Harvey Miller (University of Utah)<br>
Bart Kuijpers (Hasselt University) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>24 (147): Exact and Approximate Computations of Watersheds on
Triangulated Terrains</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Constantinos Tsirogiannis (TU Eindhoven) <br>
Mark de Berg (TU Eindhoven) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>25 (148): Flow on Noisy Terrains: An Experimental Evaluation</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Constantinos Tsirogiannis (TU Eindhoven) <br>
Herman Haverkort (TU Eindhoven) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>26 (158): Evaluating and Minimizing Ambiguities in Qualitative
Route Instructions</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Matthias Westphal (University of Freiburg) <br>
Jochen Renz (Australian National University) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>27 (162): Boundary-Labeling Algorithms for Panorama Images</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Andreas Gemsa (KIT)<span> </span><br>
Jan-Henrik Haunert (University of Würzburg) <br>
Martin Noellenburg (KIT) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>28 (183): The PR-star octree: A spatio-topological data structure
for tetrahedral meshes</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Kenneth Weiss (University of Maryland) <br>
Riccardo Fellegara (University of Genova) <br>
Leila De Floriani (University of Genova) <br>
Marcello Velloso (University of Maryland) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>29 (228): A New Method for Subdivision Simplification with
Applications to Urban-Area Generalization</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Kevin Buchin (TU Eindhoven)<br>
Wouter Meulemans (TU Eindhoven)<br>
Bettina Speckmann (TU Eindhoven) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>30 (234): Delineating Imprecise Regions via Shortest-Path Graphs</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL">Mark de Berg (TU
Eindhoven)<br>
Wouter Meulemans (TU Eindhoven)<br>
Bettina Speckmann (TU Eindhoven) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>31 (243): Exploration and Comparison of Geographic Information
Sources using Distance Statistics</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Christian Sengstock (University of Heidelberg) <br>
Michael Gertz (University of Heidelberg) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>32 (268): Parking Slot Assignment Games</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Daniel Ayala (University of Illinois at Chicago) <br>
Ouri Wolfson (University of Illinois at Chicago) <br>
Jane Lin (University of Illinois at Chicago) <br>
Bo Xu (University of Illinois at Chicago ) <br>
Bhaskar Dasgupta (University of Illinois at Chicago) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>33 (271): 3D Building Roof Reconstruction from Point Clouds via
Generative Models</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Hai Huang (Leibniz University Hannover) <br>
Claus Brenner (Leibniz University Hannover) <br>
Monika Sester (</span><span>Leibniz University Hannover</span><span>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>34 (281): A Kinematics-based GIS Methodology to Represent and
Analyze Spatiotemporal Patterns of Precipitation Change</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>James Bothwell (Univeristy of Oklahoma) <br>
May Yuan (University of Oklahoma) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>35 (282): Prox-RBAC: A Proximity-based Spatially Aware RBAC</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Michael Kirkpatrick (Purdue University) <br>
Maria Luisa Damiani (Univeristy of Milan) <br>
Elisa Bertino (Purdue University) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span>Full industrial papers:</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>36 (22):<span> </span>Automatic
Registration of Mobile LiDAR and Spherical Panoramas</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Ruisheng Wang (NAVTEQ) <br>
Jeff Bach (NAVTEQ)<br>
Frank Ferrie (McGill) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>37 (97): Geometric Overpass Extraction from Vector Road Data and
DSMs (Industrial Paper)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Joshua Schpok (Google) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span>Ph.D. Showcase papers:</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>1 (150): Construction of an Analytical Framework for Polygon-based
Land Use Transition</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Chiaki Mizutani (University of Tsukuba) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>2 (188): Very High Resolution Digital Elevation Models (VHR DEMs)
and multiscale landscape genomics analysis applied to an alpine plant species</span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:
minor-latin">Kevin Leempoel (EPFL-LASIG) <br>
Sylvie Stucki (EPFL) <br>
Christian Parisod (University of Neuchâtel) <br>
Stephane Joost (EPFL) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>3 (202): Measuring Terrain Distances Through Extracted Channel
Networks</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Christopher Stuetzle (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) <br>
Zhongxian Chen (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)<br>
Barbara Cutler (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)<br>
Randolph Franklin (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) <br>
Mehrad Kamalzare (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)<br>
Thomas Zimmie (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>4 (203): A Geostatistical Framework for Categorical Spatial Data
Modeling</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Guofeng Cao (University of California, Santa Barbara)<br>
Phaedon Kyriakidis (University of California, Santa Barbara)<br>
Michael Goodchild (University of California, Santa Barbara)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span>Demos</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>1 (34): SpSJoin: Parallel Spatial Similarity Joins</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Jaime Ballesteros (FIU) <br>
Ariel Cary (FIU) <br>
Naphtali Rishe (FIU) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>2 (45): ASSIST: Access Controlled Ship Identification Streams</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Baljeet Malhotra (National University of Singapore) <br>
Jianneng Cao (National University of Singapore) <br>
Stephane Bressan (National University of Singapore) <br>
Wee-Juan Tan (National University of Singapore) <br>
Thomas Kister (National University of Singapore) <br>
Kian-Lee Tan (National University of Singapore) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>3 (51): Searching Web Documents as Location Sets</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Marco Adelfio (University of Maryland) <br>
Sarana Nutanong (University of Maryland) <br>
Hanan Samet (University of Maryland) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>4 (112): Overlapping and Synchronizing Two Worlds</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Daesung Jang (Pusan National University) <br>
Joon-Seok Kim (Pusan National University)<br>
Chi-Hyun Joo (Pusan National University) <br>
Ki-Joune Li (Pusan National University) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>5 (114): An experimental virtual museum based on augmented reality
and navigation</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span>Miguel Felix Mata
(IPN) <br>
Christophe Claramunt (Naval Academy Research Institute, France) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span>Alberto Juarez
(IPN) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>6 (134): Exploring Spatiotemporal Patterns By Integrating Visual
Analytics With A Moving Objects Database System</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Mahmoud Sakr (FernUniversität Hagen) <br>
Ralf Guting (Fernuniversität Hagen) <br>
Thomas Behr (FernUniversität Hagen ) <br>
Gennady Adrienko (Fraunhofer Institute IAIS) <br>
Natalia Andrienko (Fraunhofer Institute IAIS) <br>
Christophe Hurter (ENAC, Toulouse, France) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>7 (141): Jeocrowd - Collaborative Searching of User-Generated
Point Datasets</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>George Lamprianidis (IMIS-R.C. Athena) <br>
Dieter Pfoser (IMIS-R.C. Athena) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>8 (173): Real-Time Routing with OpenStreetMap data</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Dennis Luxen (KIT)<br>
Christian Vetter (Nokia Germany) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>9 (190): TARSIUS: A System for Traffic-Aware Route Search under
Conditions of Uncertainty</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Itsik Hefez (Technion) <br>
Yaron Kanza (Technion) <br>
Roy Levin (Technion) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>10 (239): CROWDSAFE : Crowd Sourcing of Crime Incidents and Safe
Routing on Mobile Devices</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Sumit Shah (Virginia Tech) <br>
Fenye Bao (Virginia Tech) <br>
Chang-Tien Lu (Virginia Tech) <br>
Ing-Ray Chen (Virginia Tech) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>11 (244): Porting a Web-Based Mapping Application to a Smartphone
App</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Hanan Samet (University of Maryland) <br>
Marco Adelfio (University of Maryland) <br>
Brendan Fruin (University of Maryland) <br>
Michael Lieberman (University of Maryland) <br>
Benjamin Teitler (University of Maryland) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>12 (250): mTrend: Discovery of Topic Movements on
Geo-Microblogging Messages</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Kyoung-Sook Kim (NICT) <br>
Ryong Lee (NICT) <br>
Koji Zettsu (NICT) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>13 (261): PedSeg: GPS Tracks as Priors for Overhead Image
Segmentation</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Shawn Newsam (University of California, Merced) <br>
Andrew Pierce (University of California, Merced) <br>
Brent Edmunds (University of California, Merced) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>14 (276): Trip Analyzer through Smartphone Apps</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Ming Li (IBM Watson) <br>
Jing Dai (IBM Watson) <br>
Sambit Sahu (IBM Watson) <br>
Milind Naphade (IBM Watson)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div><br></div><div>Thanks and Best Regards, </div><div><br></div>Wei Ding <br>Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department<br>University of Massachusetts Boston<br>
100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125<br>(Ph) 617-287-6428 (Fax) 617-287-6433<br><a href="http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ding" target="_blank">http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ding</a><br><br>