ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2009 Call for Participation

Dear all, We would like to bring to your attention the upcoming 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2009) that will be held in Seattle, WA, on November 4-6, 2009. This year's conference builds on the great success of last year's conference where almost 200 people attended, the first one under the auspices of the newly established ACM Special Interest Group on Spatial Information (ACM SIGSPATIAL http://www.sigspatial.org/). The invited speakers include: - Pat Hanrahan, Stanford University, and - Gur Kimchi, Microsoft Virtual Earth. This year we will also feature a Ph.D. showcase track and two demo tracks. The technical program is included below. Complete information about the conference can be found at http://acmgis09.cs.umn.edu/. Note that four pre-conference workshops affiliated with the conference will take place on November 3, 2009. We hope that you will be able to attend and we look forward to your participation. (Registration site: http://www.cse.unt.edu/~huangyan/acmgis09/ Ouri Wolfson Divyakant Agrawal Chang-Tien Lu Cyrus Shahabi General Chair General Co-Chair General Co-Chair General Vice Chair Mohamed Mokbel Peter Scheuermann Walid Aref Program Co-Chair Program Co-Chair Program Vice Chair 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2009) Call for Participation November 4-6, 2009 Seattle, Washington, USA http://acmgis09.cs.umn.edu Corporate Sponsorship by Google Oak Ridge National Laboratory ESRI National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Microsoft The ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems 2009 (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2009) is the seventeenth 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 geographic information 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 SIGSPATIAL GIS will have two invited speakers, 38 research papers, 40 poster papers, 1 industry paper, 3 Ph.D. showcases, and 11 demos. Invited Lectures * Pat Hanrahan, Stanford University * Gur Kimchi, Microsoft Virtual Earth Day 1: Wednesday, Nov 4, 2009: 7:00-8:00 Breakfast and Registration 8:00-8:10 Welcome 8:10-9:25 Paper Session 1. Title: Road Networks >From GPS Traces to a Routable Road Map Lili Cao (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA), John Krumm (Microsoft Research, USA) Augmenting Cartographic Resources for Autonomous Driving Young-Woo Seo (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Chris Urmson (Google, USA), David Wettergreen (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Jin-Woo Lee (General Motors, USA) Going Off-road: Transversal Complexity in Road Networks David Eppstein (University of California at Irvine, USA), Michael Goodrich (University of California at Irvine, USA), Lowell Trott (University of California at Irvine, USA) 9:25-10:25 Invited Lecture. Speaker: Pat Hanrahan, Stanford University 10:25-10:50 Coffee Break 10:50-12:30 Paper Session 2. Title: Social GIS Efficient Viewpoint Assignment for Urban Texture Documentation Houtan Shirani-Mehr (University of Southern California, USA), Farnoush Banaei-Kashani (University of Southern California, USA), Cyrus Shahabi (University of Southern California, USA) TwitterStand: News in Twitter Jagan Sankaranarayanan (University of Maryland at College Park, USA), Hanan Samet (University of Maryland at College Park, USA), Benjamin Teitler (University of Maryland at College Park, USA), Michael Lieberman (University of Maryland at College Park, USA), Jon Sperling (Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, USA) Towards the SocioScope: an Information System for the Study of Social Dynamics through Digital Traces Andrea Vaccari (MIT, USA), Fracesco Calabrese (MIT, USA), Bing Liu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA), Carlo Ratti (MIT, USA) A Case Study of Using Geographic Cues to Predict Query News Intent Ahmed Hassan (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA), Rosie Jones (Yahoo! Labs, USA), Fernando Diaz (Yahoo! Labs, USA) 12:30-14:00 Lunch (On your own) 14:00-15:30 Fast Forward Preview Session Session Chair: Jagan Sankaranarayanan (University of Maryland at College Park, USA) 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break 16:00-18:05 Paper Session 3. Title: GeoWeb Manipulation of Spatial Weights Using Web Services Sergio Rey (Arizona State University, USA), Luc Anselin (Arizona State University, USA), Myunghwa Hwang (Arizona State University, USA) Annotating Geospatial Data Based on its Semantics Carla Macario (IC-UNICAMP, Brazil), Sidney Sousa (IC-UNICAMP, Brazil), Claudia Bauzer Medeiros (IC-UNICAMP, Brazil) An Agenda for the Next Generation Gazetteer: Geographic Information Contribution & Retrieval Carsten Kebler (University of Munster, Germany), Krzysztof Janowicz (University of Munster, Germany), Mohamed Bishr (University of Munster, Germany) Focus+Glue+Context: An Improved Fisheye Approach for Web Map Services Daisuke Yamamoto (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan), Shotaro Ozeki (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan), Naohisa Takahashi (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan) The Global Network of Outdoor Webcams: Properties and Applications Nathan Jacobs (Washington University in St. Louis, USA), Walker Burgin (Washington University in St. Louis, USA), Nick Fridrich (Washington University in St. Louis, USA), Austin Abrams (Washington University in St. Louis, USA), Kylia Miskell (Washington University in St. Louis, USA), Bobby Braswell (University of New Hampshire, USA), Andrew Richardson (University of New Hampshire, USA), Robert Pless (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) 18:30-19:15 ACM SIGSPATIAL Business Meeting (Open, Everyone Welcome) 19:30-23:00 Poster Reception, Demo Session, Ph.D. Showcase Day 2: Thursday, Nov 5, 2009 7:00 8:00 Breakfast and Registration 8:00 9:15 Paper Session 4. Title: Visualization Improved Visibility Computation on Massive Grid Terrains Jeremy Fishman (Bowdoin College, USA) Herman Haverkort (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands), Laura Toma (Bowdoin College, USA) Tree detection from aerial imagery Lin Yang (Univ of Alabama at Birmingham, USA), Xiaqing Wu (Google, USA), Emil Praun (Google, USA), Xiaoxu Ma (Google, USA) Classification of Raster Maps for Automatic Feature Extraction Yao-Yi Chiang (University of Southern California, USA), Craig Knoblock (University of Southern California, USA) 9:15-10:15 Invited Lecture. Speaker: Gur Kimchi, Microsoft Virtual Earth 10:15-10:40 Coffee Break 10:40-12:45 Paper Session 5. Title: Modeling Data Structures and Implementation Algorithms for 3D Spatial Data Types Tao Chen (University of Florida, USA) Markus Schneider (University of Florida, USA) Topological Relations from Metric Refinements Max Egenhofer (University of Maine, USA), Matthew Dube (University of Maine) A Multidimensional Model Representing Continuous Fields in Spatial Data Warehouses Alejandro Vaisman (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Brazil), Esteban Zimanyi (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) Contextual Encoding of Geospatial Data Pragyana Mishra (Microsoft Corporation, USA), Nagendra Kolluru (Microsoft Corporation, USA) Morphology Analysis of 3D Scalar Fields Based on Morse Theory and Discrete Distortion Mohammed Mesmoudi (University of Genova, Italy), Leila De Floriani (University of Genova, Italy), Paola Magillo (University of Genova, Italy) 12:45-14:00 Lunch (On your own) 14:00-16:05 Paper Session 6. Title: Spatial Query Processing Constrained Reverse Nearest Neighbor Queries on Moving Objects Tobias Emrich (Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany), Hans-Peter Kriegel (Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany), Peer Kroger (Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany), Matthias Renz (Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany), Andreas Zufle (Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany) In-network Query Processing in Mobile P2P Databases Bo Xu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA), Fatemeh Vafaee (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA), Ouri Wolfson (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Monitoring Minimum Cost Paths in Dynamic Road Networks Yuan Tian (Pennsylvania State Univiversity, USA), Ken C.K. Lee (Pennsylvania State Univiversity, USA), Wang-Chien Lee (Pennsylvania State Univiversity, USA) Reducing the memory required to find a geodesic shortest path on a large mesh Vishal Verma (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA), Jack Snoeyink (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) Trees or Grids? Indexing Moving Objects in Main Memory Darius Sidlauskas (Aalborg University, Denmark), Simonas Saltenis (Aalborg University, Denmark), Christian Winther Christiansen (Aalborg University, Denmark), Jan Maffert Johansen (Aalborg University, Denmark), Donatas Saulys (Aalborg University, Denmark) 16:05-16:30 Coffee Break 16:30-18:10 Paper Session 7. Title: GIS Privacy Preventing Velocity-based Linkage Attacks in Location-Aware Applications Gabriel Ghinita (Purdue University, USA), Maria Luisa Damiani (University of Milan, Italy), Claudio Silvestri (University of Venezia, Italy), Elisa Bertino (Purdue University, USA) Distortion-based Anonymity for Continuous Query in Location-Based Mobile Services Xiao Pan (Renmin University, China), Xiaofeng Meng (Renmin University, China), Jianliang Xu (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong) Trajectory Joins and Their Application in Privacy Preservation Yun Chen (University of Michigan, USA), Jignesh Patel (University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA) Assessing The Trustworthiness of Location Data Based on Provenance Chenyun Dai (Purdue University, USA), Hyo-Sang Lim (Purdue University, USA), Elisa Bertino (Purdue University, USA), Yang-Sae Moon (Kangwon National University, South Korea) 18:30-19:30 Sponsor Demo Session 19:30-23:30 Banquet Day 3: Friday, Nov 6, 2009 7:00 8:00 Breakfast and Registration 8:00-10:05 Paper Session 8. Title: Data Mining On-Line Discovery of Flock Patterns in Spatio-Temporal Data Marcos Vieira (University of California at Riverside, USA), Petko Bakalo (ESRI, USA), Vassilis Tsotras (University of California at Riverside, USA) Finding Long and Similar Parts of Trajectories Kevin Buchin (TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands), Maike Buchin (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Marc Van Kreveld (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Jun Luo (Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, China) A Hybrid Evolutionary-Graph Approach for Finding Functional Network Paths Steven Prager (University of Wyoming, USA), William Spears (Swarmotics, LLC, USA) Efficiently Managing Large-Scale Raster Species Distribution Data in PostgreSQL Jianting Zhang (City College of New York, USA), Michael Gertz (University of Heidelberg, Germany), Le Gruenwald (University of Oklahoma, USA) REG2: A Regional Regression Framework for Geo-Referenced Datasets Oner Celepcikay (University of Houston, USA), Christoph Eick (University of Houston, USA) 10:05-10:35 Coffee Break 10:35-12:40 Paper Session 9. Title: Traffic on Road Networks Hidden Markov Map Matching Through Noise and Gaps Paul Newson (Microsoft Research, USA), John Krumm (Microsoft Research, USA) Vehicle Localization by Matching Triangulated Point Patterns Jan-Henrik Haunert (Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany), Claus Brenner (Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany) Map-Matching for Low-Sampling-Rate GPS Trajectories Yin Lou (Microsoft Research Asia, China), Chengyang Zhang (University of North Texas, USA), Yu Zheng (Microsoft Research Asia, China), Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia, China), Wei Wang (Fudan University, China), Yan Huang (University of North Texas, USA) Robust Traffic Merging Strategies for Sensor-Enabled Cars Using Time Geography Ziyuan Wang (University of Melbourne, Australia), Lars Kulik (University of Melbourne, Australia), Kotagiri Ramamohanarao (University of Melbourne, Australia) Dynamic network data exploration through semi-supervised functional embedding Alexei Pozdnoukhov (National Centre for Geocomputation, Ireland) 12:40-13:00 Closing Remarks and Adjournment of Conference