Spatial Databases

  (CIS 6930)

Fall 2009

Instructor: Dr. Markus Schneider

Course Information


Time and Location of Lectures

Tuesdays:     3rd & 4th period (9:35 am - 10:25 am, 10:40 am  - 11:30 am)
Thursdays:    4th period (10:40 am  - 11:30 am)

Lectures are held  in room CSE E118.


Office Hours

Tuesdays:      11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Thursdays:     10:00 am - 10:35 am
and by appointment


TA Information

No TA has been assigned to this class.

Course Syllabus

Syllabus (last update: August 17, 2009)


Basic Readings

[BKOS00] Mark de Berg, Marc van Krefeld, Mark Overmars, and Otfried Schwarzkopf. Computational Geometry. Springer-Verlag, Second Edition, 2000.
[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
Tu
08/25
Introduction to Spatial Databases (I) Instructor Lecture 01  [Güt94]: Section 1
[RSV02]: Section 1
[SC03]: Section 1
 
Th
08/27
Introduction to Spatial Databases (II) Instructor  Lecture 02    
Tu
09/01

Introduction to Spatial Databases (III),
Spatial Data Types (I)

Instructor

Lecture 03 [Güt94]: Section 2.1-2.3
[RSV02]: Section 2.1, 2.2.2
[SC03]: Section 2.1.3
 
Th
09/03
Spatial Data Types (II)

Instructor

Lecture 04  
 
Tu
09/08
Spatial Data Types (III)

Instructor

Lecture 05  
 
Th
09/10
Spatial Data Types (IV)

Instructor

Lecture 06    
Tu
09/15
Spatial Data Types (V)

Instructor

Lecture 07    
Th
09/17
Introduction into the presentation topics, principles of performing a literature study (I) Instructor Lecture 08    
Tu
09/22
Principles of performing a literature study (II), spatial operations and predicates (I) Instructor Lecture 09    
Th
09/24
Spatial operations and predicates (II) Instructor Lecture 10    
Tu
10/06
Preparing and holding a presentation, example presentation Instructor Lecture 11 Example Presentation  
Tu
10/06
Spatial operations and predicates (III) Instructor Lecture 12    
Th
10/08
Spatial operations and predicates (IV) Instructor Lecture 13    
Th
10/08
Spatial operations and predicates (V), writing a research document Instructor Lecture 14    
Tu
10/13
Topic 1
Topic 2 
Sreekumar Janardhanan
Kun Li
Presentation 01
Presentation 02
   
Th
10/15
Topic 3
Etan Shaul  Presentation 03    
Tu
10/20
Topic 4
Discussion of Topics 1+2+3+4
Jae Jeong
 
Presentation 04
   
   
Th
10/22
Topic 5 Pradeep Ramamoorthy Presentation 05    
Tu
10/27
Topic 6
Topic 7 
Ganesh Viswanathan
Arif Khan
Presentation 06
Presentation 07
   
Th
10/29
Discussion of Topics 5+6+7        
Tu
11/03
Topic 9
Topic 10
Karan Dadlani
Suresh Naveen
Presentation 09
Presentation 10
   
Th
11/05
no class (instructor out of town)
Tu
11/10
Topics 8
Discussion of Topics 8+9+10
Topic 11
Abishek Surana

Yogesh Veeraraghavan
Presentation 08

Presentation 11
  Topic 8 is presented from 8:30 am to 9:20 am in CSE 404
Th
11/12
Topic 12

Ethan Blackwelder

Presentation 12    
Tu
11/17
Topic 13
Discussion of Topics 11+12+13

Srikanth Kannan

Presentation 13
   
Th
11/19
Topic 14 Tao Chen Presentation 14    
Tu
11/24

Topic 15
Topic 16

Girish Khadke
Sadish Ravi
Presentation 15
Presentation 16
  Submission of the reports for all topics before class
Th
11/26
no class  (Thanksgiving)
Tu
12/01
Discussion of Topics 14+15+16
Topic 17
 
     
Th
12/03
Topic 18
       
Tu
12/08
Topic 19
Discussion of Topics 17+18+19
       

Last update: November 20, 2009.
Markus Schneider ( mschneid@cise.ufl.edu
)