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Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL international conference on Advances in geographic information systems
2008,  Irvine, California    November 05 - 07, 2008
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Paper Acceptance Rate:38.00 of 193.00 submissions, 20%  view statistics
Program Chairs  
Walid G. Aref Purdue University
Mohamed F. Mokbel University of Minnesota
Markus Schneider University of Florida
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Table of Contents
 
SESSION: Invited lecture
    GIS: geography in action
Jack Dangermond
Article No. 1
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    The geo-internet and how we may use it
Vinton G. Cerf
Article No. 2
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SESSION: Geo sensing
    Sharing and exploring sensor streams over geocentric interfaces
Liqian Luo, Aman Kansal, Suman Nath, Feng Zhao
Article No. 3
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    Detecting basic topological changes in sensor networks by local aggregation
Jixiang Jiang, Michael Worboys
Article No. 4
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    Using tomography for ubiquitous sensing
Stacy Patterson, Bassam Bamieh, Amr El Abbadi
Article No. 5
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SESSION: Modeling
    A topology-based semantic location model for indoor applications
Dandan Li, Dik Lun Lee
Article No. 6
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    Fast and extensible building modeling from airborne LiDAR data
Qian-Yi Zhou, Ulrich Neumann
Article No. 7
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    An operation-independent approach to extend 2D spatial operations to 3D and moving objects
Farid Karimipour, Andrew U. Frank, Mahmoud R. Delavar
Article No. 8
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    A conceptual spatial model supporting topologically-consistent multiple representations
Donatella Gubiani, Angelo Montanari
Article No. 9
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SESSION: Route finding and road networks
    The multi-rule partial sequenced route query
Haiquan Chen, Wei-Shinn Ku, Min-Te Sun, Roger Zimmermann
Article No. 10
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    Heuristic algorithms for route-search queries over geographical data
Yaron Kanza, Eliyahu Safra, Yehoshua Sagiv, Yerach Doytsher
Article No. 11
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    Continuous proximity monitoring in road networks
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peer Kröger, Matthias Renz
Article No. 12
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    An ACS cooperative learning approach for route finding in natural environment
David Brosset, Christophe Claramunt, Eric Saux
Article No. 13
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    Similarity-based prediction of travel times for vehicles traveling on known routes
Dalia Tiesyte, Christian S. Jensen
Article No. 14
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SESSION: Terrain and road network algorithms
    Sparse terrain pyramids
Kenneth Weiss, Leila De Floriani
Article No. 15
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    Studying (non-planar) road networks through an algorithmic lens
David Eppstein, Michael T. Goodrich
Article No. 16
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    Parallel ODETLAP for terrain compression and reconstruction
Jared Stookey, Zhongyi Xie, Barbara Cutler, W. Randolph Franklin, Dan Tracy, Marcus V. A. Andrade
Article No. 17
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SESSION: Geo web
    NewsStand: a new view on news
Benjamin E. Teitler, Michael D. Lieberman, Daniele Panozzo, Jagan Sankaranarayanan, Hanan Samet, Jon Sperling
Article No. 18
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    Mapping geographic coverage of the web
Robert Pasley, Paul Clough, Ross S. Purves, Florian A. Twaroch
Article No. 19
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    Qualitative geocoding of persistent web pages
Albert Angel, Chara Lontou, Dieter Pfoser, Alexandros Efentakis
Article No. 20
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    Autonomous navigation of mobile agents using RFID-enabled space partitions
Muhammad Atif Mehmood, Lars Kulik, Egemen Tanin
Article No. 21
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SESSION: Imagery and geovisualization
    Automatic extraction of road intersection position, connectivity, and orientations from raster maps
Yao-Yi Chiang, Craig A. Knoblock
Article No. 22
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    Validation of vector data using oblique images
Pragyana Mishra, Eyal Ofek, Gur Kimchi
Article No. 23
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    Low-cost orthographic imagery
Peter Pesti, Jeremy Elson, Jon Howell, Drew Steedly, Matt Uyttendaele
Article No. 24
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    Combining 3-D geovisualization with force feedback driven user interaction
Adam Faeth, Michael Oren, Chris Harding
Article No. 25
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    Integrating gazetteers and remote sensed imagery
Shawn Newsam, Yi Yang
Article No. 26
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SESSION: OLAP and co-location mining
    Piet-QL: a query language for GIS-OLAP integration
Leticia I. Gomez, Alejandro A. Vaisman, Sebastián Zich
Article No. 27
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    Embedding and extending GIS for exploratory analysis of large-scale species distribution data
Jianting Zhang, Le Gruenwald
Article No. 28
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    Density based co-location pattern discovery
Xiangye Xiao, Xing Xie, Qiong Luo, Wei-Ying Ma
Article No. 29
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    Finding regional co-location patterns for sets of continuous variables in spatial datasets
Christoph F. Eick, Rachana Parmar, Wei Ding, Tomasz F. Stepinski, Jean-Philippe Nicot
Article No. 30
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SESSION: Trajectories
    Scalable processing of trajectory-based queries in space-partitioned moving objects databases
Ralph Lange, Frank Dürr, Kurt Rothermel
Article No. 31
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    Towards a geometric interpretation of double-cross matrix-based similarity of polylines
Bart Kuijpers, Bart Moelans
Article No. 32
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    Detecting single file movement
K. Buchin, M. Buchin, J. Gudmundsson
Article No. 33
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    Mining user similarity based on location history
Quannan Li, Yu Zheng, Xing Xie, Yukun Chen, Wenyu Liu, Wei-Ying Ma
Article No. 34
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    Feed-links for network extensions
B. Aronov, K. Buchin, M. Buchin, B. Jansen, T. de Jong, M. van Kreveld, M. Löffler, J. Luo, R. I. Silveira, B. Speckmann
Article No. 35
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SESSION: Systems and algorithms
    An inconsistency tolerant approach to querying spatial databases
M. Andrea Rodríguez, Leopoldo Bertossi, Monica Caniupán
Article No. 36
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    Should SDBMS support a join index?: a case study from CrimeStat
Pradeep Mohan, Ronald E. Wilson, Shashi Shekhar, Betsy George, Ned Levine, Mete Celik
Article No. 37
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    Spatial queries in disconnected mobile networks
Xinjuan Zhu, Bo Xu, Ouri Wolfson
Article No. 38
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    Efficient algorithms for reverse proximity query problems
Yokesh Kumar, Ravi Janardan, Prosenjit Gupta
Article No. 39
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    Dual-heap kNN: k-nearest neighbor search for spatial data retrieval in embedded DBMS
Hideki Hayashi, Daisuke Ito, Masaaki Tanizaki, Kohji Kimura, Hisanori Kajiyama
Article No. 40
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POSTER SESSION: Poster session
    Efficient search of moving objects on a planar graph
Thuy Thi Thu Le, Bradford G. Nickerson
Article No. 41
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    Geometric algorithms on an ellipsoid earth model
Michael Kallay
Article No. 42
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    Approaches for determining the geographic footprint of arbitrary terms for retrieval and visualization
Andreas Henrich, Volker Lüdecke, Daniel Blank
Article No. 43
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    Bridging the gap between geospatial resource providers and model developers
Gilberto Z. Pastorello, Jr, Rodrigo D. A. Senra, Claudia B. Medeiros
Article No. 44
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    An online approach based on locally weighted learning for short-term traffic flow prediction
Meng Shuai, Kunqing Xie, Wen Pu, Guojie Song, Xiujun Ma
Article No. 45
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    Privacy: preserving trajectory collection
Győző Gidófalvi, Xuegang Huang, Torben Bach Pedersen
Article No. 46
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    Discovering controlling factors of geospatial variables
Tomasz Stepinski, Wei Ding, Christoph F. Eick
Article No. 47
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    An automatic approach to integrate routing-relevant information from different resources
Meng Zhang, Lu Liu, Hongbo Gong, Liqiu Meng
Article No. 48
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    Geo-ontology enrichment through reverse engineering
Guillermo Nudelman Hess, Cirano Iochpe
Article No. 49
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    Snapshot location-based query processing on moving objects in road networks
Haojun Wang, Roger Zimmermann
Article No. 50
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    Content-based ontology matching for GIS datasets
Jeffrey Partyka, Neda Alipanah, Latifur Khan, Bhavani Thuraisingham, Shashi Shekhar
Article No. 51
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    The DAEDALUS framework: progressive querying and mining of movement data
Riccardo Ortale, Ettore Ritacco, Nikos Pelekis, Roberto Trasarti, G. Costa, F. Giannotti, G. Manco, C. Renso, Y. Theodoridis
Article No. 52
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    Morphological analysis of terrains based on discrete curvature and distortion
Mohammed Mostefa Mesmoudi, Leila De Floriani, Paola Magillo
Article No. 53
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    Applying hierarchical graphs to pedestrian indoor navigation
Edgar-Philipp Stoffel, Korbinian Schoder, Hans Jürgen Ohlbach
Article No. 54
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    Composing geoinformatics workflows with user preferences
David Chiu, Sagar Deshpande, Gagan Agrawal, Rongxing Li
Article No. 55
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    Path planning on a compressed terrain
Daniel M. Tracy, W. Randolph Franklin, Barbara Cutler, Franklin T. Luk, Marcus Andrade
Article No. 56
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    Computing information gain for spatial data support
Tao Hong, Ashok Samal, Leen-Kiat Soh
Article No. 57
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    Efficient data modeling and querying system for multi-dimensional spatial data
Wei Li, Cindy X. Chen
Article No. 58
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    Two-site Voronoi diagrams in geographic networks
Matthew T. Dickerson, Michael T. Goodrich
Article No. 59
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    Data mining for visual exploration and detection of ecosystem disturbances
Haibin Cheng, Pang-Ning Tan, Christopher Potter, Steven Klooster
Article No. 60
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    Charting new ground: modeling user behavior in interactive geovisualization
David C. Wilson, Heather Richter Lipford, Erin Carroll, Pamela Karr, Nadia Najjar
Article No. 61
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    Quantifying spatial prepositions: an experimental study
Mark M. Hall, Christopher B. Jones
Article No. 62
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    Multigranular spatio-temporal models: implementation challenges
Elena Camossi, Michela Bertolotto, Elisa Bertino
Article No. 63
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    An ontology framework for quality of geographical information services
Richard Onchaga, Ing Widya, Javier Morales, J. M. Lambert
Article No. 64
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    Mobile continuous nearest neighbor queries on air
KwangJin Park, Patrick Valduriez, Hyunseung Choo
Article No. 65
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    A situation-centric approach to meteorological services in the SITUMET platform
Stefan Pfennigschmidt, Agnès Voisard
Article No. 66
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    Pedestrian flow prediction in extensive road networks using biased observational data
Michael May, Simon Scheider, Roberto Rösler, Daniel Schulz, Dirk Hecker
Article No. 67
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    Dynamic travel time provision for road networks
Dieter Pfoser, Sotiris Brakatsoulas, Petra Brosch, Martina Umlauft, Nektaria Tryfona, Giorgos Tsironis
Article No. 68
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    Clustering of German municipalities based on mobility characteristics: an overview of results
Andrea Zanda, Christine Körner, Fosca Giannotti, Daniel Schulz, Michael May
Article No. 69
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    Towards provenance-aware geographic information systems
Shaowen Wang, Anand Padmanabhan, James D. Myers, Wenwu Tang, Yong Liu
Article No. 70
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    Indexing planar point quartets via geometric attributes
Charles B. Cranston, Hanan Samet
Article No. 71
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    Tracking deformable 2D objects in wireless sensor networks
Guang Jin, Silvia Nittel
Article No. 72
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    Geospatial information integration based on the conceptualization of geographic domain
Miguel Torres, Serguei Levachkine, Rolando Quintero, Giovanni Guzmán, Marco Moreno
Article No. 73
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    GEDMWA: geospatial exploratory data mining web agent
Edward Pultar, Martin Raubal, Michael F. Goodchild
Article No. 74
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    Optimal incremental multi-step nearest-neighbor search
Ming Zhang, Reda Alhajj, Jon Rokne
Article No. 75
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    Selective data replication for distributed geographical data sets
Xuan Gu, Richard T. Pascoe
Article No. 76
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    Geographical analysis of hierarchical business structures by interactive drill down
Klaus Böhm, Eva Daub
Article No. 77
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DEMONSTRATION SESSION: Demo session
    Computing isochrones in multi-modal, schedule-based transport networks
Veronika Bauer, Johann Gamper, Roberto Loperfido, Sylvia Profanter, Stefan Putzer, Igor Timko
Article No. 78
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    Efficient generation of area thematic maps in KML
Bruce A. Ralston, Joshua A. Streufert
Article No. 79
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    Web-in-car: a web search method not requiring keyword input for car navigation systems
Kazutoshi Sumiya, Takuma Segawa, Kazuya Sugihara, Kenji Narushima
Article No. 80
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    Monitoring continuous queries over streaming locations
Kostas Patroumpas, Evi Kefallinou, Timos Sellis
Article No. 81
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    Near-real-time precipitation virtual sensor using NEXRAD data
Yong Liu, David J. Hill, Alejandro Rodriguez, Luigi Marini, Rob Kooper, Joe Futrelle, Barbara Minsker, James D. Myers
Article No. 82
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    GISolve toolkit: advancing GIS through cyberinfrastructure
Shaowen Wang
Article No. 83
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    A location aware role and attribute based access control system
Isabel F. Cruz, Rigel Gjomemo, Benjamin Lin, Mirko Orsini
Article No. 84
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    HOMES: highway operation monitoring and evaluation system
Chang-Tien Lu, Arnold P. Boedihardjo, Jing Dai, Feng Chen
Article No. 85
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    *Miner: a spatial and spatiotemporal data mining system
Ranga Raju Vatsavai, Shashi Shekhar, Thomas E. Burk, Budhendra Bhaduri
Article No. 86
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    Development of trail network model and web-based bikeway routing service system
Qifeng Lu, Stephen Sedlock
Article No. 87
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    MAEviz: an earthquake risk assessment system
Terrence M. McLaren, James D. Myers, Jong S. Lee, Nathan L. Tolbert, Shawn D. Hampton, Christopher M. Navarro
Article No. 88
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    Biography as events in time and space
Fredric Gey, Ryan Shaw, Ray Larson, Barry Pateman
Article No. 89
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    Editing and versioning dynamic network models
Petko Bakalov, Erik Hoel, Wee-Liang Heng, Vassilis J. Tsotras
Article No. 90
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