Introduction to
Spatial and Moving Objects Databases

  (CIS 4930, CIS 6930)

Fall  2012

Instructor: Dr. Markus Schneider

Course Information

Time and Location of Lectures

Tuesdays:     8th & 9th period (3:00 pm - 3:50 pm, 4:05 pm - 4:55 pm)
Thursdays:    9th period (4:05 pm - 4:55 pm)

Lectures are held  in room CSE E222.

Office Hours

Tuesdays:      2:00 pm - 2:45 pm
Thursdays:     3:00 pm - 3:45 pm
and by appointment

TA Information

No TA has been assigned to this class.

Course Syllabus

Syllabus.pdf (last update: August 10th, 2012)

Basic Readings

[BCKO10] M. de Berg, O. Cheong, M. van Krefeld, and M. Overmars. Computational Geometry: Algorithms and Applications. Springer-Verlag, 3rd Edition, 2010.
[GS05] R.H. Güting and M. Schneider. Moving Objects Databases. Morgan Kaufmann Publisher, 2005.
[Güt94] R.H. Güting. An Introduction to Spatial Databases. VLDB Journal (Special Issue on Spatial Databases), 3(4):357-399, 1994.
[RSV02] P. Rigaux, M. Scholl, and A. Voisard. Spatial Databases - with Applications to GIS. Morgan Kaufmann Publisher, 2002.
[SC03] S. Shekar and S. Chawla. Spatial Databases: A Tour. Prentice Hall, 2003.

Lecture and Presentation Schedule

Date

Lecture Topic

Presenter

Slides

Readings

Comments
Th
08/23		 Introduction (I) Instructor Lecture 01  [Güt94]: Section 1
[RSV02]: Chapter 1
[SC03]: Chapter 1		 Read the syllabus
Tu
08/28		 Introduction (II) Instructor Lecture 02    
Th
08/30		 Introduction (III), Principles of Performing a Literature Study (I) Instructor Lecture 03  
  
Tu
09/04		 Principles of Performing a Literature Study (II), Spatial Data Types (I) Instructor Lecture 04 [Güt94]: Sections 2.1-2.3,
[RSV02]: Sections 2.1-2.2,
[SC03]: Section 2.1		 Read the list of presentation topics and determine your topic priority list
Th
09/06		 Preparing and Holding a Presentation Instructor Lecture 05    
Tu
09/11		 Spatial Data Types (II) Instructor Lecture 06    
Th
09/13		 Spatial Data Types (III), Integration into Databases, Spatial Operations and Predicates (I) Instructor Lecture 07    
Tu
09/18		 Spatial Operations and Predicates (II) Instructor Lecture 08   11th Biannual CISE Career Development Workshop (CDW) on October 1, 2012 with 18 companies attending
Th
09/20		 Spatial Operations and Predicates (III), Writing a Research Document Instructor Lecture 09    
Tu
09/25		 Moving Objects
Topic 01 (1 lecture) 		Instructor
Devesh Kishor Gade		 Lecture 10
Lecture 11		    
Th
09/27		 Topic 01 (1 lecture) Devesh Kishor Gade Lecture 12    
Tu
10/02		 Topic 02 (2 lectures)
 Yan Mi Lecture 13    
Th
10/04		 Topic 01 (0.5 lecture) + Topic 02 (0.5 lecture) Devesh Kishor Gade +
Yan Mi		 Lecture 14-1
Lecture 14-2		    
Tu
10/09		 Topic 03 (2 lectures) Subhankar Mishra
Lecture 15
    
Th
10/11		 Topic 04 (2 lectures)
Topic 03 (0.5 lecture) + Topic 04 (0.5 lecture)
 Ashok Raj Rajendran
Subhankar Mishra +
Ashok Raj Rajendran		 Lectures
canceled		   Both lectures from 10/16 are moved here to the 10th and 11th period in room CSE E404
Tu
10/16		 No lectures (Lectures moved to 10/16)
Th
10/18		 No lecture (Lecture moved to 10/25)
Tu
10/23		 Topic 05 (2 lectures)
 Divya Ranjit Lecture 18    
Th
10/25		 Topic 06 (2 lectures)
Topic 05 (0.5 lecture) + Topic 06 (0.5 lecture)
 Lin Qi
Divya Ranjit + Lin Qi		 Lecture 19
Lecture 20-1
Lecture 20-2		   One lecture moved from 10/18 to the 10th period in room CSE E305
Tu
10/30		 Topic 04 (2 lectures)
Topic 07 (1 lecture)		 Ashok Raj Rajendran
Arjun Kantamneni		 Lecture 16
Lecture 21		    
Th
11/01		 Topic 07 (1 lecture)
Topic 08 (2 lectures)
 Arjun Kantamneni
Chandrasekaran Ramanathan		 Lecture 22
Lecture 23		   Both lectures from 11/06 are moved here to the 10th and 11th period in room CSE E404
Tu
11/06		 No lectures (Lectures moved to 11/01)
Th
11/08		 No lecture (Lecture moved to 11/15)
Tu
11/13		 Topic 07 (0.5 lecture) + Topic 08 (0.5 lecture)

Topic 09 (1 lecture)
 Arjun Kantamneni +
Chandrasekaran Ramanathan
Kaarthikshankar Palraj		 Lecture 24-1
Lecture 24-2
Lecture 25		    
Th
11/15		 Topic 09 (1 lecture)
Topic 10 (1 lecture)		 Kaarthikshankar Palraj
Rohit Pal Singh		 Lecture 26
Lecture 27		   One lecture moved from 11/08 to the 10th period in room CSE E404
Tu
11/20		 Topic 10 (1 lecture)
Topic 09 (0.5 lecture) + Topic 10 (0.5 lecture)

Topic 11 (1 lecture)		 Rohit Pal Singh
Kaarthikshankar Palraj + Rohit Pal Singh
William John McCombie		 Lecture 28
Lecture 29-1
Lecture 29-2
Lecture 30		   One lecture moved from 11/27 to the 10th period in room CSE E404
Th
11/22		 Thanksgiving Day (no class)
Tu
11/27		 No lectures (Lectures moved to 11/20 and 11/29)
Th
11/29		 Topic 11 (1 lecture)
Topic 12 (1 lecture)
 William John McCombie
Srinivas Bhaskar		 Lecture 31
Lecture 32		   One lecture moved from 11/27 to the 10th period in room CSE E404
Tu
12/04		 Topic 12 (1 lecture)
Topic 11 (0.5 lecture) + Topic 12 (0.5 lecture) 		Srinivas Bhaskar
William John McCombie + Srinivas Bhaskar 		Lecture 33
Lecture 34-1
Lecture 34-2		    

1 Readings should be completed before the lecture to which they correspond. The references in the Required Readings section relate to the basic readings.

Last update: November 20, 2012.
Markus Schneider (mschneid@cise.ufl.edu)