ACM GIS 2007: Program Schedule Printable Version: Main Program:(Color) (BW) Poster Session: (Color) (BW)
Day 1: Wednesday, Nov 7, 2007
7:00-8:15	Breakfast and Registration
8:30-8:40	Welcome
8:40-10:20	Paper Session 1: Spatial Databases (Session Chair: Isabel Cruz)
	Handling Spatial Data in Distributed Environment Verena Kantere, National Technical University of Athens; Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens
	An Interactive Framework for Raster Data Spatial Joins Wan D. Bae, University of Denver; Petr Vojtechovsky, University of Denver; Shayma Alkobaisi, University of Denver; Scott T. Leutenegger, University of Denver; Seon Ho Kim, University of Denver
	Dynamic Storage Balancing in a Distributed Spatial Index Cedric du Mouza, CNAM; Witold Litwin, University of Paris-Dauphine; Philippe Rigaux, University of Paris-Dauphine
	Randomization in Traffic Information Sharing Systems Masaaki Tanizaki, Hitachi Ltd; Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago
10:20-10:50	Coffee Break
10:50-12:30	Paper Session 2: GIS Imagery (Session Chair: Duane Marble)
	Exploiting Automatically Inferred Constraint-Models for Building Identification in Satellite Imagery Martin Michalowski, University of Southern California; Craig A. Knoblock, University of Southern California; Kenneth Bayer, University of Nebraska at Lincoln; Berthe Y. Choueiry, University of Nebrask at Lincoln
	Modeling Satellite Image Streams for Change Analysis Carlos Rueda, University of California at Davis; Michael Gertz, University of California at Davis
	High-Level Web Service for Building Information Visualization and Analysis Benjamin Hagedorn, University of Potsdam; Jürgen Döllner, University of Potsdam
	Comparing Global and Interest Point Descriptors for Similarity Retrieval in Remote Sensed Imagery Shawn Newsam, University of California at Merced; Yang Yang, University of California at Merced
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-14:50	Paper Session 3: Trajectories (Session Chair: Mohamed Mokbel)
	Where We Were: Communities for Sharing Space-Time Trails Scott Counts, Microsoft Research; Marc Smith, Microsoft Research
	Dynamic-Aware Similarity of Moving Objects Trajectories Goce Trajcevski, Northwestern University; Hui Ding, Northwestern University; Roberto Tamassia, Brown University; Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern University; Dennis Vaccaro, Northrop Grumman Corp
14:50-15:50	Fast Forward Poster Preview Session
15:50-16:20	Coffee Break
16:20-18:00	Paper Session 4: GIS Modeling (Session Chair: Budhendra Bhaduri)
	Multilevel Object-Oriented Classification of Quickbird Images for Urban Population Estimates Claudia Almeida, DSR-INPE; Iris Souza, DSR-INPE; Claudia Durand, DSR-INPE; Carolina Pinho, DPI-INPE; Madalena Pereira, DSR-INPE; Gilberto Ribeiro, DSR-INPE; Raul Feitosa, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
	The Road Extension Model in the Land Change Modeler for Ecological Sustainability of IDRISI Ziying Jiang, Clark University
	Using Fuzzy Clustering Methods for Delineating Urban Housing Submarkets Sungsoon Hwang, DePaul University; Jean-Claude Thill, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
	Near-real time motion analysis for APLIS 2007: A systems modeling perspective Mani Thomas, University of Delaware; Chandra Kambhamettu, University of Delaware; Cathleen Geiger, University of Delaware; Jennifer Hutchings, University of Alaska; Melanie Engram, University of Alaska
19:00-21:30	Poster Reception
Day 2: Thursday, Nov 8, 2007
7:00-8:00	Breakfast
8:00-9:15	Paper Session 5: Conflation (Session Chair: Erik Hoel)
	Quality-driven Geospatial Data Integration Snehal Thakkar, University of Southern California; Craig Knoblock, University of Southern California; Jose Luis Ambite; University of Southern California
	Automatic Alignment of Large-scale Aerial Rasters to Road-maps Xiaqing Wu, Google Inc; Rodrigo Carceroni, Google Inc; Hui Fang, Google Inc; Steve Zelinka, Google Inc; Andrew Kirmse, Google Inc
	Hierarchical Photo Organization using Geometric Relevance Boris Epshtien, Microsoft Corporation; Eyal Ofek, Microsoft Corporation; Yonathan Wexler, Microsoft Corporation; Pusheng Zhang, Microsoft Corporation
9:15-10:15	Invited Lecture by Michael Jones of Google Earth
10:15-10:45	Coffee Break
10:45-12:25	Paper Session 6: Road Networks (Session Chair: Robert Laurini)
	Optimal Traversal Planning in Road Networks with Navigational Constraints Leyla Kazemi, University of Southern California; Cyrus Shahabi, University of Southern California; Mehdi Sharifzadeh, Google Inc; Luc Vincent, Google Inc
	Evacuation Route Planning: Scalable Heuristics Sangho Kim, University of Minnesota; Betsy George, University of Minnesota; Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota
	Proximity Queries in Large Traffic Networks Hans-Peter Kriegel, Ludwig-Maximilians-University; Peer Kröger, Ludwig-Maximilians-University; Peter Kunath, Ludwig-Maximilians-University; Matthias Renz, Ludwig-Maximilians-University; Tim Schmidt, Ludwig-Maximilians-University
	A Model for Enriching Trajectories with Semantic Geographical Information Luis Otavio Alvares, UFRGS; Vania Bogorny, Hasselt University; Bart Kuijpers, Hasselt University; Jose Antonio Fernandes de Macedo, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne; Bart Moelans, Hasselt University; Alejandro Vaisman, Universidad de Buenos Aires
12:25-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:40	Paper Session 7: Search Engines and Semantics (Session Chair: Michael Jones)
	Robust Location Search from Text Queries Vibhuti Sengar, Microsoft Research India; Tanuja Joshi, Microsoft Research India; Joseph Joy, Microsoft Research India; Samarth Prakash, Microsoft Research India; Kentaro Toyama, Microsoft Research India
	STEWARD: Architecture of a Spatio-Textual Search Engine Michael D. Lieberman, University of Maryland; Hanan Samet, University of Maryland; Jagan Sankaranarayanan, University of Maryland; Jon Sperling, HUD PD&R
	Semantically-Assisted Geospatial Workflow Design Gobe Hobona, Newcastle University; David Fairbairn, Newcastle University; Philip James, Newcastle University
	Environmental Scenario Search and Visualization Mikhail Zhizhin, Geophysical Center RAS;, Eric Kihn, NOAA; Vassily Lyutsarev, Microsoft Research; Sergei Berezin, Moscow State University; Alexey Poyda, Geophysical Center RAS; Dmitry Mishin, Geophysical Center RAS; Dmitry Medvedev, Geophysical Center RAS; Dmitry Voitsekhovsky, Moscow State University
15:40-16:10	Coffee Break
16:10-17:50	Paper Session 8: Terrain Modeling (Session Chair: Philippe Rigaux)
	TerraStream: From Elevation Data to Watershed Hierarchies Andrew Danner, Swarthmore College; Thomas Mølhave, University of Aarhus; Ke Yi, Hong Kong U.S.T., Pankaj K. Agarwal, Duke University; Lars Arge, University of Aarhus; Helena Mitasova, North Carolina State University
	Multi-Scale Dual Morse Complexes for Representing Terrain Morphology Emanuele Danovaro, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano; Leila De Floriani, University of Genova; Maria Vitali, University of Genova; Paola Magillo, University of Genova
	Smugglers and Border Guards - The GeoStar Project at RPI W Randolph Franklin, RPI; Metin Inanc, RPI; Zhongyi Xie, RPI; Daniel M Tracy, RPI; Barbara Cutler, RPI; Marcus V.A. Andrade, RPI
	Distributed Computation of Drainage Basin Delineations from Uncertain Digital Elevation Models Tomas Ukkonen, Finnish Geodetic Institute; Tapani Sarjakoski, Finnish Geodetic Institute; Juha Oksanen, Finnish Geodetic Institute
18:00-19:00	Sponsor Demo Session
20:00-23:30	Banquet
Day 3: Friday, Nov 9, 2007
7:00-8:00	Breakfast
8:00-9:15	Paper Session 9: Visualization (Session Chair: Peter Widmayer)
	GeoModeler: Tightly linking spatially-explicit models and data with a GIS for analysis and geovisualization Tiffany Vance, NOAA; Nazila Merati, NOAA; Sharon Mesick, NOAA; Christopher Moore, NOAA; Dawn Wright, Oregon State University
	GeoAnalytics Visual Inquiry and Filtering Tools in Parallel Coordinates Plot Sara Johansson, Linkoping University; Mikael Jern, Linkoping University
	A Web-Enabled Extension of a Spatio-Temporal DBMS Markus Innerebner, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano; Michael Boehlen, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano; Igor Timko, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
9:15-10:15	Invited Lecture by Franz Leberl of Microsoft 3DI (Vexcel)
10:15-10:45	Coffee Break
10:45-12:50	Paper Session 10: Spatiotemporal Databases and Moving Objects (Session Chair: Franz Leberl)
	An Object-Oriented Approach to the Representation of Spatiotemporal Geographic Features Alex Lohfink, University of Glamorgan; Tom Carnduff, University of Glamorgan; Nathan Thomas, University of Glamorgan; Mark Ware, University of Glamorgan
	Approximate Order-k Voronoi Cells over Positional Streams Kostas Patroumpas, National Technical University of Athens; Theofanis Minogiannis, National Technical University of Athens; Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens
	Partition-Based Lazy Updates for Continuous Queries over Moving Objects Yuling Hsueh, University of Southern California;, Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore; Haojun Wang, University of Southern California; Wei-Shinn Ku, Auburn University
	CLAM: Concurrent Location Management for Moving Objects Jing Dai, Virginia Polytechnic and State University; Chang-Tien Lu, Virginia Polytechnic and State University
	Location Anonymity in Continuous Location-based Services Toby Xu, Iowa State University; Ying Cai, Iowa State University
12:50-13:00	Closing Remarks and Adjournment of Symposium

Poster Papers: Program Schedule
Fast Forward Poster Preview Session: 14:50-15:50, Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Poster Reception: 19:00-21:30, Wednesday, November. 7, 2007
	Geometric Algorithms for Clearance Based Optimal Path Computation Priyadarshi Bhattacharya, University of Calgary; Marina Gavrilova, University of Calgary Optimal Route Selection with Route Planners: Results of a Desktop Usability Study Hartwig Hochmair, University of Florida Visual Analytic Services for Geomarketing in Spatial Data Infrastructures Vera Hernández Ernst, Fraunhofer IAIS; Angi Voss, Fraunhofer IAIS; Felix Berghoff, Kurier-Verlag Lennestadt Using Object Deputy Database to Realize Multi-Representation Geographic Information System Zhiyong Peng, Wuhan University; Yuwei Peng, Wuhan University; Boxuan Zhai, Wuhan University The Definition and Computation of Trajectory and Subtrajectory Similarity Marc van Kreveld, Utrecht University; Jun Luo, Utrecht University A Middle-Insertion Algorithm for Markov Chain Simulation of Soil Layering Weidong Li, Kent State University; Chuanrong Zhang, Kent State University Efficient AKNN Spatial Network Queries Using the M-Tree Elias Ioup, Naval Research Laboratory; Kevin Shaw, Naval Research Laboratory; John Sample, Naval Research Laboratory; Mahdi Abdelguerfi, University of New Orleans Analysis of Implicit Interest Indicators for Spatial Data Eoin Mac Aoidh, University College Dublin; Michela Bertolotto, University College Dublin; David Wilson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Using Geoprocessing Specification as Semantic Metadata with GEOLEM Roland J. Viger, U.S. Geological Survey; Olaf David, U.S. Agricultural Research Service; Charles G. O'Hara, Mississippi State University Pipelined Spatial Join Processing for Quadtree-based Indexes Walid G. Aref, Purdue University Constraints-preserving GML Storage in Object-Relational Databases Fubao Zhu, Wuhan University; Jihong Guan, Tongji University; Shuigeng Zhou, Fudan University A Parallel Multi-scale Region Outlier Mining Algorithm For Meteorological Data Sajib Barua, University of Calgary; Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary Development of Web-based Decision Support System for Field-Based Crop Management Zongyao Sha, Wuhan University; Minghua Zhang, University of California at Davis ClusterBy: A New SQL Extension for Spatial Data Aggregation Chengyang Zhang, University of North Texas; Yan Huang, University of North Texas Cell-Based Generalization of 3D Building Groups with Outlier Management Tassilo Glander, University of Potsdam; Jürgen Döllner, University of Potsdam Predicting Future Locations of Mobile Objects Using Trajectory Clusters Sigal Elnekave, Ben-Gurion University; Mark Last, Ben-Gurion University; Oded Maimon, Tel Aviv University Selective Decompression of Vector Maps Raquel Viana, University of Alcala Towards the Automatic Generation of Web GIS Sergio Di Martino, University of Salerno; Filomena Ferrucci, University of Salerno; Luca Paolino, University of Salerno; Monica Sebillo, University of Salerno; Giuliana Vitiello, University of Salerno; Giuseppe Avagliano, University of Salerno; Genny Tortora, University of Salerno TS2-tree - an Efficient Similarity Based Organization for Trajectory Data. Petko Bakalov, University of California at Riverside; Eamonn Keogh, University of California at Riverside; Vassilis Tsotras, University of California at Riverside Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Pedestrian Egress Behavior and Efficiency Atsushi Nara, Arizona State University; Paul Torrens, Arizona State University Scale; Population; and Spatial Analysis: A Methodological Investigation Darren Ruddell, Arizona State University; Elizabeth Wentz, Arizona State University Topological Maps from Signals Yuri Dabaghian, University of California at San Francisco; Anthony Cohn, University of Leeds; Loren Frank, University of California at San Francisco An Efficient Framework for Similarity Query Optimization Monica R. P. Ferreira, ICMC-University of Sao Paulo; Caetano Traina Jr., ICMC-University of Sao Paulo; Agma J. M. Traina, ICMC-University of Sao Paulo Defining Edges on a Round Earth Michael Kallay, Microsoft Corporation Linear Feature Extraction Using Perceptual Grouping and Graph-Cuts Charalambos Poullis, University of Southern California; Suya You, University of Southern California; Ulrich Neumann, University of Southern California On Supervised Density Estimation Techniques and Their Application to Spatial Data Mining Dan Jiang, University of Houston; Christoph F. Eick, University of Houston; Chunsheng Chen, University of Houston Geospatial Data Qualities as Web Services Performance Metrics Ganesh Subbiah, University of Texas at Dallas; Ashraful Alam, University of Texas at Dallas; Latifur Khan, University of Texas at Dallas; Bhavani Thuraisingham, University of Texas at Dallas A New Simplification Method for Terrain Model using Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization Huijie Zhang, Jilin University; Jigui Sun, Jilin University; Jin Liu, Jilin University; Nan Lv, Jilin University Efficient KNN Processing over Moving Objects with Uncertain Velocity Yuan-Ko Huang,Cheng-Kung University; Chao-Chun Chen, Southern Taiwan University of Technology; Chiang Lee, Cheng-Kung University