[Qgis-developer] ACM GIS08 (Irvine, CA, Nov 5-7) Call for Participation

Tim Sutton tim at linfiniti.com
Sun Oct 12 13:19:57 EDT 2008


Hi All

For those who may be interested in attending, there will be a
conference in Irvine CA, US on advances in GIS. Please see below for
full details.

Regards

Tim


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





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          16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on

             Advances in Geographic Information Systems

                            (ACM GIS 2008)



                      Call for Participation



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                            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)



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Invited Lectures

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     * 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

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Day 1: Wednesday, Nov 5, 2008

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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



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Day 2: Thursday, Nov 6, 2008

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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



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Day 3: Friday, Nov 7, 2008

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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



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Poster Papers: Program Schedule

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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)



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Ph.D. Showcase Papers: Program Schedule

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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)



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Demo Papers: Program Schedule

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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)



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                                                SPRINGL PROGRAM

                                  NOV. 4, 2008

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  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



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						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
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              16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on
                 Advances in Geographic Information Systems
                               (ACM GIS 2008)
			       Irvine, CA, USA
			      November 5-7, 2008

  General Chairs
         * Hanan Samet * Cyrus Shahabi * Ouri Wolfson
  Program Chair
         * Walid G. Aref
  Program Co-chairs
         * Mohamed Mokbel * Markus Schneider

  Corporate Sponsors
  * ESRI * Google * Microsoft * Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  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
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Day 1: Wednesday, Nov 5, 2008
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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)i

  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, France), Christophe
    Claramunt (Naval Academy Research Institute, France), Eric Saux (Naval
    Academy Research Institute, France)

  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

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Day 2: Thursday, Nov 6, 2008
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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

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Day 3: Friday, Nov 7, 2008
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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

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Poster Papers: Program Schedule
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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)

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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)

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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)

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