[Geoserver-users] ACM GIS 08 Call for Participation (Early Rsgistration due 9/30, 08)

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

     * 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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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 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

  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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