subject: ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010 Call for Participation (Early Registration ends on October 14, 2010)

Dear all,

We would like to bring to your attention the upcoming 18th ACM SIGSPATIAL
International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
(ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010) that will be held in San Jose, CA, on November
2-5, 2010. This year's Conference builds on the great success of last year's
Conference where more than 200 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:
- Prof. Maneesh Agrawala, University of California at Berkeley
- Prof. Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University

This year we will also feature a Ph.D. showcase track and a demo track.
The information can be found at http://acmgis2010.cs.ucsb.edu/ and the
program is there as well. The program is also repeated below. There are
also seven pre conference workshops on November 2, 2010. We hope that
you will be able to attend and we look forward to your participation.
Registration site: http://acmgis2010.cs.ucsb.edu/registration.html
(Early registration ends on midnight October 14, 2010.)

Divyakant Agrawal Pusheng Zhang Amr El Abbadi Mohamed Mokbel
General Chair General Chair Program Chair Program Chair

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18th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on
Advances in Geographic Information Systems
(ACM GIS 2010)
Call for Participation
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November 2-5, 2010
San Jose, California, USA
http://acmgis2010.cs.ucsb.edu

Corporate Sponsorship by
Google
National Science Foundation
ESRI
Microsoft

The ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic
Information Systems 2010 (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010) is the eighteenth
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, 36
research papers, 37 poster papers, 4 industry papers, 5 Ph.D. showcases, and 12 demos.

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Invited Lectures
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Designing Maps to Help People
Maneesh Agrawala (University of California at Berkeley)

Invited Lecture
Photographing the World Ground Up
Sebastian Thrun (Stanford University)

Session 1: GIS Privacy
----------------------

Privacy-Preserving Matching of Spatial Datasets with Protection against Background Knowledge
Gabriel Ghinita (Purdue University);Carmen Ruiz Vicente (Aalborg University);Ning Shang (Purdue
University);Elisa Bertino (Purdue University)

Privacy-Preserving Data-Oblivious Geometric Algorithms for Geographic Data
David Eppstein (University of California, Irvine);Michael T. Goodrich (University of California,
Irvine);Roberto Tamassia (Brown University)

VeriPlace: A Privacy-Aware Location Proof Architecture
Wanying Luo (University of Waterloo);Urs Hengartner (University of Waterloo)

Session 2: GeoWeb
-----------------

Deep integration of spatial query processing into native RDF triple stores
Andreas Brodt (Universit?t Stuttgart);Daniela Nicklas (Carl von Ossietzky Universit?t
Oldenburg);Bernhard Mitschang (Universit?t Stuttgart)

Determining the Spatial Reader Scopes of News Sources Using Local Lexicons
Gianluca Quercini (University of Maryland);Hanan Samet (University of Maryland);Jagan
Sankaranarayanan (University of Maryland);Michael D. Lieberman (University of Maryland)

An Efficient Location Extraction Algorithm by Leveraging Web Contextual Information
Teng Qin (Peking University);Rong Xiao (Microsoft Research Asia);Lei Fang (Tsinghua University);Xing
Xie (Microsoft Research Asia);Lei Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia)

Supporting Location-Based Approximate-Keyword Queries
Sattam Alsubaiee (University of California, Irvine);Alexander Behm (University of California,
Irvine);Chen Li (University of California, Irvine)

Session 3: Road Networks
------------------------

Best Point Detour Query in Road Networks
Shuo Shang (The University of Queensland);Ke Deng (The University of Queensland);Kexin Xie (The
University of Queensland)

Probabilistic Modeling of Traffic Lanes from GPS Traces
Yihua Chen (University of Washington);John Krumm (Microsoft Research)

Scalable Shortest Paths Browsing on Land Surface
Songhua Xing (University of Southern California);Cyrus Shahabi (University of Southern California)

T-Drive: Driving Directions Based on Taxi Trajectories
Jing Yuan (University of Science and Technology of China);Yu Zheng (Microsoft Research
Asia);Chengyang Zhang;Wenlei Xie (Microsoft Research Asia);Xing Xie (Microsoft Research
Asia);Guangzhong Sun (University of Science and Technology of China);Yan Huang (University of North
Texas)

Local Network Voronoi Diagram
Sarana Nutanong (University of Melbourne);Egemen Tanin (University of Melbourne);Mohammed Eunus Ali
(University of Melbourne);Lars Kulik (University of Melbourne)

Session 4: Industrial Session
-----------------------------

Efficiently Locating Photographs in Many Panoramas
Michael Kroepfl (Microsoft);Yonatan Wexler (Microsoft);Eyal Ofek (Microsoft Research)

Location Disambiguation in Local Searches Using Gradient Boosted Decision Trees
Ritesh J. Agrawal (AT&T Interactive);James G. Shanahan (AT&T Interactive Research)

Detecting Nearly Duplicated Records in Location Datasets
Yu Zheng (Microsoft Research Asia);Xixuan Feng (Microsoft Research Asia));Shuang Peng (Search
Technology Center, Microsoft);James Fu (Search Technology Center, Microsoft);Xing Xie (Microsoft
Research Asia)

Geospatial Editing Over a Federated Cloud Geodatabase for the State of NSW
Kalyan K. Janakiraman (Land and Property Management Authority & Macquarie University);Mehmet A.
Orgun (Macquarie University);Abhaya Nayak (Macquarie University)

Session 5: Computational Geometry
---------------------------------

Cleaning Massive Sonar Point Clouds
Lars Arge (Aarhus University);Kasper Green Larsen;Thomas M?lhave (Duke University);Freek van
Walderveen (Aarhus University)

Tolerance Geometry - Euclid's First Postulate for Points and Lines with Extension
Gwen Wilke (Vienna University of Techology);Andrew U. Frank (Vienna University of Technology)

Natural Neighbor Interpolation Based Grid DEM Construction Using a GPU
Alex Beutel (Duke University);Thomas M?lhave (Duke University);Pankaj K. Agarwal (Duke University)

Measuring Consistency with Respect to Topological Dependency Constraints
M. Andrea Rodriguez (Universidad de Concepcion);Nieves Brisaboa (Universidade da Coru?a);Yasna Meza
(Universidad de Concepcion);Miguel R. Luaces (Universidade da Coru?a)

Optimal and Topologically Safe Simplification of Building Footprints
Jan-Henrik Haunert (Universit?t W?rzburg);Alexander Wolff (Universit?t W?rzburg)

Session 6: Spatio-temporal Data
-------------------------------

An Algorithmic Framework for Segmenting Trajectories based on Spatio-Temporal Criteria
Maike Buchin (TU Eindhoven);Anne Driemel (Utrecht University);Marc van Kreveld (Utrecht
University);Vera Sacrist?n (Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya)

A Lagrangian Approach for Storage of Spatio-Temporal Network Datasets: A Summary of Results
Michael R. Evans (University of Minnesota);KwangSoo Yang (University of Minnesota);James M. Kang
(University of Minnesota);Shashi Shekhar (University of Minnesota)

Selecting Tracking Principals with Epoch Awareness
Oliviu Ghica (Northwestern University);Goce Trajcevski (Northwestern University);Fan Zhou
(University of Electronic Science and Technology of China);Roberto Tamassia (Brown University);Peter
Scheuermann (Northwestern University)

A Variant of Particle Filtering Using Historic Datasets for Tracking Complex Geospatial Phenomena
Anand Panangadan (Jet Propulsion Laboratory);Ashit Talukder (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

Usability Analysis of Compression Algorithms for Position Data Streams
Nicola H?nle (Universit?t Stuttgart);Matthias Grossmann (Universit?t Stuttgart);Steffen Reimann
(Universit?t Stuttgart);Bernhard Mitschang (Universit?t Stuttgart)

Session 7: Visualization
------------------------

Bridge Detection in Grid Terrains and Improved Drainage Enforcement
Ryan Carlson (Swarthmore College);Andrew Danner (Swarthmore College)

Annotating and Navigating Tourist Videos
Bo Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia);Qinlin Li (Sun-Yatsen University);Hongyang Chao (Sun-Yatsen
University);Bill Chen (Microsoft Corporation);Eyal Ofek (Microsoft Corporation);Ying-Qing Xu
(Microsoft Research Asia)

Bag-Of-Visual-Words and Spatial Extensions for Land-Use Classification
Shawn Newsam (University of California at Merced);Yi Yang (University of California at Merced)

Generating Synthetic Meta-data for Georeferenced Video Management
Sakire Arslan Ay (University of Southern California);Seon Ho Kim (University of Southern
California);Roger Zimmermann (National University of Singapore)

Session 8: Map Matching and Labeling
------------------------------------

On Map Matching of Wireless Positioning Data: A Selective Look-ahead Approach
Matt Weber (Georgia Institute of Technology);Ling Liu (Georgia Institute of Technology);Kipp Jones
(Skyhook Wireless);Michael J. Covington (Georgia Institute of Technology);Lama Nachman (Intel
Corporation);Peter Pesti (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Qualitative Matching of Spatial Information
Jan Oliver Wallgr?n (University of Bremen);Diedrich Wolter (University of Bremen);Kai-Florian
Richter (University of Bremen)

Dynamic One-Sided Boundary Labeling
Martin N?llenburg (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and University of California, Irvine);Valentin
Polishchuk (University of Helsinki);Mikko Sysikaski (University of Helsinki)

Beyond Rasters: Introducing The New OGC Web Coverage Service 2.0
Peter Baumann (Jacobs University)

Semi-Automatic Interpretation of Buildings and Settlement Areas in User-Generated Spatial Data
Stefan Werder (Leibniz Universit?t Hannover);Birgit Kieler (Leibniz Universit?t Hannover);Monika
Sester (Leibniz Universit?t Hannover)

Session 9: Spatial Queries
--------------------------

Energy-Efficient Processing of Spatio-Temporal Queries in Wireless Sensor Networks
Markus Bestehorn (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology);Klemens B?hm (Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology);Erik Buchmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology);Stephan Kessler (Karlsruhe Institute
of Technology)

Verifying Spatial Queries Using Voronoi Neighbors
Ling Hu (University of Southern California);Wei-Shinn Ku (Auburn University);Spiridon Bakiras (City
University of New York);Cyrus Shahabi (University of Southern California)

Easiest-to-Reach Neighbor Search
Jie Shao (University of Melbourne);Lars Kulik (University of Melbourne);Egemen Tanin (University of
Melbourne)

Spatial Outlier Detection: Random Walk Based Approaches
Xutong Liu (Virginia Tech);Chang-Tien Lu (Virginia Tech);Feng Chen (Virginia Tech)

Topological Reasoning Between Complex Regions in Databases with Frequent Updates
Arif Khan (Unversity of Florida);Markus Schneider (University of Florida)

Poster Session
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9+-Intersection Calculi for Spatial Reasoning on the Topological Relations between Heterogeneous
Objects
Yohei Kurata (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

A Managed Object Based Method for Representing Interactive and Dynamic Features
Wan Wen (Aalborg University);Xing Lin (Peking University)

A User Location Anonymization Method for Location Based Services in a Real Environment
Akiyoshi Suzuki (Osaka University);Mayu Iwata (Osaka University);Yuki Arase (Microsoft Research
Asia);Takahiro Hara (Osaka University);Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia);Shojiro Nishio (Osaka
University)

Algorithms for Compressing GPS Trajectory Data: An Empirical Evaluation
Jonathan Muckell (University at Albany -- SUNY);Jeong-Hyon Hwang (University at Albany --
SUNY);Catherine T. Lawson (University at Albany -- SUNY);S. S. Ravi (University at Albany -- SUNY)

Augmented Internet Maps with Property Information from Aerial Imagery
Philipp Meixner (Graz University of Technology);Franz Leberl (Graz University of Technology)

On Continuous Monitoring Top-k Unsafe Moving Objects
Jian Wen (University of California, Riverside);Vassilis J. Tsotras (University of California,
Riverside)

Decentralized Querying of Topological Relations Between Regions without Using Localization
Matt Duckham (University of Melbourne);Myeong Hun Jeong (University of Melbourne);Sanjiang Li
(University of Technology Sydney);Jochen Renz (Australian National University)

Derivation of Road Network from Land Parcels
Jiantong Zhang (Technische Universit?t M?nchen);Yueqin Zhu (Technische Universit?t M?nchen and China
University of Mining and Technology);Jukka Krisp (Technische Universit?t M?nchen);Liqiu Meng
(Technische Universit?t M?nchen)

DualgridFF: a Robust, Consistent and Efficient Physical Data Model for Spatial Databases
Jose Antonio Cotelo-Lema (Universidade da Coru?a);Miguel Rodr?guez Luaces (Universidade da Coru?a)

Efficient Indexing Structure for Scalable Processing of Spatial Alarms
Myungcheol Doo (Georgia Institute of Technology);Ling Liu (Georgia Institute of Technology);Nitya
Narasimhan (Motorola Applied Research Center);Venu Vasudevan (Motorola Applied Research Center)

Evaluation of Cardinal Direction Developments between Moving Points
Tao Chen (University of Florida);Hechen Liu (University of Florida);Markus Schneider (University of
Florida)

Exploiting Local Node Cache in Top-k Queries within Wireless Sensor Networks
Johannes Niedermayer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen);Marioi A. Nascimento (University of
Alberta);Matthias Renz (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen);Peer Kr?ger
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen);Hans-Peter Kriegel (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen)

Extracting Moving Regions from Spatial Data
Mark McKenney (Texas State University);James Webb (Texas State University)

Finding Similar Users Using Category-Based Location Histories
Xiangye Xiao (Microsoft Research Asia and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology);Yu Zheng
(Microsoft Research Asia);Qiong Luo (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology);Xing Xie
(Microsoft Research Asia)

GeoLinked Data and INSPIRE through an Application Case
Luis M. Vilches-Bl?zquez (Ontology Engineering Group);Boris Villaz?n-Terrazas (Ontology Engineering
Group);Victor Saquicela (Ontology Engineering Group);Alexander de Le?n (Ontology Engineering
Group);Oscar Corcho (Ontology Engineering Group);Asunci?n G?mez-P?rez (Ontology Engineering Group)

Indexing Large-Scale Raster Geospatial Data Using Massively Parallel GPGPU Computing
Jianting Zhang (City College of New York);Simin You (City University of New York Graduate Center);Le
Gruenwald (University of Oklahoma)

Kernelized Map Matching
Ahmed Jawad (Fraunhofer IAIS);Kristian Kersting (Fraunhofer IAIS)

Location Recommendation for Location-based Social Networks
Mao Ye (The Pennsylvania State University);Peifeng Yin;Wang-Chien Lee (The Pennsylvania State
University)

Memory-Efficient A*-Search Using Sparse Embeddings
Franz Graf (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen);Hans-Peter Kriegel
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen);Matthias Renz (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t
M?nchen);Matthias Schubert (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen)

Spatial Probabilistic Modeling of Calls to Businesses
Ramaswamy Hariharan (AT&T Interactive Research);Ji Meng Loh (AT&T Labs - Research);James G. Shanahan
(AT&T Interactive Research);Kenji Yamada (AT&T Interactive Research)

Modelling Spatial Video as part of a GIS Video Analysis Framework
Paul Lewis (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)

A Case for Time-Dependent Shortest Path Computation in Spatial Networks
Ugur Demiryurek (University of Southern California);Farnoush Banaei-Kashani (University of Southern
California);Cyrus Shahabi (University of Southern California)

Optimal Network Location Queries
Parisa Ghaemi (University of Southern California);Kaveh Shahabi (University of Southern
California);John P. Wilson (University of Southern California);Farnoush Banaei-Kashani (University
of Southern California)

Quantitative Analysis of Simulated Erosion for Different Soils
Zhongxian Chen (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute);Christopher Stuetzle (Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute);Barbara Cutler (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute);Jared Gross;Randolph Franklin
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute);Thomas Zimmie (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

Querying the Future of Spatio-Temporal Objects
Philip Schmiegelt (Philipps-Universit?t Marburg);Bernhard Seeger (Philipps-Universit?t Marburg)

Regional Behavior Change Detection via Local Spatial Scan
Jing Dai (IBM T.J. Watson Research);Feng Chen (Virginia Tech);Sambit Sahu (IBM T.J. Watson
Research);Milind Naphade (IBM T.J. Watson Research)

Reverse k-Nearest Neighbor Monitoring on Mobile Objects
Tobias Emrich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen);Hans-Peter Kriegel
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen);Peer Kr?ger (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t
M?nchen);Matthias Renz (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen);Naixin Xu
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen);Andreas Z?fle (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen)

Spatial Extensions to Kernel Methods
Alexei Pozdnoukhov (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)

sTrack: Tracking in Indoor Symbolic Space with RFID Sensors
Hye-Young Kang (Pusan National University);Joon-Seok Kim (Pusan National University);Ki-Joune Li
(Pusan National University)

Spatial Indexing on Tetrahedral Meshes
Leila De Floriani (University of Genova);Riccardo Fellegara (University of Genova);Paola Magillo
(University of Genova)

Time Geography Inverted: Recognizing Intentions in Space and Time
Peter Kiefer (Universit?t Bamberg);Martin Raubal (University of California, Santa Barbara);Christoph
Schlieder (University of Bamberg)

Towards Quality Metrics for OpenStreetMap
Peter Mooney (National University of Ireland, Maynooth);Padraig Corcoran (National University of
Ireland, Maynooth);Adam C. Winstanley (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)

Voronoi-Based Aggregate Nearest Neighbor Query Processing in Road Networks
Liang Zhu (Fudan University);Yinan Jing (Fudan University);Weiwei Sun (Fudan University);Dingding
Mao (Fudan University);Peng Liu (Fudan University)

Ph.D. Showcase
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3D Oceanographic Data Compression Using 3D-ODETLAP
You Li (RPI), Tsz-Yam Lau (RPI), Christopher S. Stuetzle (RPI), Peter Fox (RPI), and W. Randolph
Franklin (RPI)

A Model for Progressive Transmission of Spatial Data based on Shape Complexity
Fangli Ying (NUI Maynooth, Ireland), Peter Mooney (Environmental Protection Agency, Ireland),
Padraig Corcoran (NUI Maynooth, Ireland), and Adam C. Winstanley (NUI Maynooth, Ireland)

Applications of Graph Algorithms in GIS
St?phanie Vanhove (Ghent University) and Veerle Fack (Ghent University)

Haptic-GIS: Exploring the possibilities
Ricky Jacob (NUI Maynooth, Ireland), Peter Mooney (Environmental Protection Agency, Ireland),
Padraig Corcoran (NUI Maynooth, Ireland), and Adam C. Winstanley (NUI Maynooth, Ireland)

Slope Preserving Lossy Terrain Compression
Zhongyi Xie (RPI), W. Randolph Franklin (RPI), and Daniel M. Tracy (RPI)


Demo Session
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Analyzing Semantic Location Cloaking Techniques in a Probabilistic Grid-Based Map
Maria Luisa Damiani (University of Milan);Claudio Silvestri (University of Venice);Elisa Bertino
(Purdue University)

Automatic Construction and Multi-level Visualization of Semantic Trajectories
Zhixian Yan (EPFL);Lazar Spremic (EPFL);Dipanjan Chakraborty (IBM Research, India);Christine Parent
(University of Lausanne);Stefano Spaccapietra (EPFL);Karl Aberer (EPFL)

CBGIR: Content-Based Geographic Image Retrieval
Shawn Newsam (University of California at Merced);Daniel Leung (University of California at
Merced);Oscar Caballero (University of California at Merced);Justin Floreza (University of
California at Merced);Jesus Pulido (University of California at Merced)

A Spatio-Temporal-Textual Crime Search Engine
Xutong Liu (Virginia Tech);Changshu Jian (Virginia Tech);Chang-Tien Lu (Virginia Tech)

Exploring Labeled Spatial Datasets Using Association Analysis
Tomasz F. Stepinski (Lunar and Planetary Institute);Josue Salazar (Lunar and Planetary
Institute);Wei Ding (University of Massachusetts Boston)

Geoblogging - User-Contributed Geospatial Data Collection and Fusion
Dieter Pfoser (Institute for the Management of Information Systems, Athena);Charikleia Lontou
(Institute for the Management of Information Systems, Athena);Euthymios Drymonas (Institute for the
Management of Information Systems, Athena);Savvas Georgiou (National Technical University of Athens)

GQBox: Geospatial Data Quality Assessment
Yassine Lassoued (CMRC, University College);Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek (Alactel-Lucent Bell Labs);Omar
Boucelma (LSIS - Aix-Marseille Universit?);Feranando Lemos (PRiSM, University of Versailles);Mokrane
Bouzeghoub (PRiSM, University of Versailles)

INTACT: A Spatial Query Integrity Assurance Framework for Location-based Services
Chih-Jye Wang (Auburn University);Wei-Shinn Ku (Auburn University);Ling Hu (University of Southern
California);Cyrus Shahabi (University of Southern California)

Keyword Search in Geospatial Database
Kavita V. V Ganeshan (International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore);N. L. Sarda
(Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay);Sanchit Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)

Ontuition: Intuitive Data Exploration via Ontology Navigation
Marco D. Adelfio (University of Maryland);Michael D. Lieberman (University of Maryland);Hanan Samet
(University of Maryland);Kashif A. Firozvi (Georgetown University)

Real-Time Spatio-Temporal Analytics using Microsoft StreamInsight
Mohamed Ali (Microsoft SQL Server);Badrish Chandramouli (Microsoft Research);Balan S. Raman
(Microsoft SQL Server);Ed Katibah (Microsoft SQL Server)

Strabo: A System for Extracting Road Vector Data from Raster Maps
Yao-Yi Chiang (University of Southern California);Craig A. Knoblock (University of Southern
California)