8th International Symposium on

Spatial and Temporal Databases

July 24-27, 2003

Santorini island, Greece

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SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM

• At a glance

• Complete Technical Program

THURSDAY, JULY 24

10.00-13.00: tutorial 1
Location Management and Moving Objects Databases, Ouri Wolfson

15.00-18.00: tutorial 2
An Invitation to Spatio-Temporal Data Mining, Sanjay Chawla

FRIDAY, JULY 25

09.30-10.00: opening - welcome

10.00-11.00: invited talk 1
John Herring (title TBA)

11.00-11.30: coffee break

11.30-13.00: research session 1 (systems and implementation issues)

• Location- and Time-based Information Delivery
  Annika Hinze and Agnes Voisard
• Building a Robust Relational Implementation of Topology
  Erik Hoel, Sudhakar Menon, Scott Morehouse
• Automatically Annotating and Integrating Spatial Datasets
  Ching-Chien Chen, Snehal Thakkar, Craig Knoblock, Cyrus Shahabi
   

13.00-14.30: break for lunch (on your own)
 

14.30-16.00: research session 2 (advanced query processing I)

• Categorical Range Queries in Large Databases
  Alexandros Nanopoulos, Panayiotis Bozanis
• Validity Information Retrieval for Spatio-temporal Queries: Theoretical Analysis and Performance Bounds
  Yufei Tao, Nikos Mamoulis, Dimitris Papadias
• Efficient Object-Relational Interval Management and Beyond
  Lars Arge and Andrew Chatham
   

16.00-16.30: coffee break
 

16.30-18.00: research session 3 (similarity processing)

• Exploiting Spatial Autocorrelation to Efficiently Process Correlation-Based Similarity Queries
  Pusheng Zhang, Yan Huang, Shashi Shekhar, and Vipin Kumar
• Learning Similarity with Fuzzy Functions of Adaptable Complexity
  Giorgos Mountrakis and Peggy Agouris
• Spatial Similarity Queries with Logical Operators
  Konstantinos A. Nedas, Max J. Egenhofer
   

SATURDAY, JULY 26

09.30-10.30: invited talk 2
Christian S. Jensen, Data Modeling for Mobile Services in the Real World
 

10.30-11.00: coffee break
 

11.00-13.00: research session 4 (modeling and languages)

• A Multi-Representation Spatial Data Model and Database
  Sheng Zhou and Christopher B. Jones
• Region-based Query Languages for Spatial Databases in the Topological Data Model
  Luca Forlizzi, Bart Kuijpers and Enrico Nardelli
• Query Pre-Processing of Topological Constraints: Comparing a Composition-Based with a Neighborhood-Based Approach
  M. Andrea Rodriguez, Max J. Egenhofer, Andreas D. Blaser
• Data Expiration for Fixpoint Extensions of Temporal Logics
  David Toman
   

13.00-14.30: break for lunch (on your own)
 

14.30-16.00: research session 5 (mobility and moving objects management)

• On-Line Discovery of Dense Areas in Spatio-temporal Databases
  Marios Hadjieleftheriou, George Kollios, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Vassilis J. Tsotras
• Indexing Objects Moving on Fixed Networks
  Elias Frentzos
• Accuracy and Resource Consumption in Tracking Moving Objects
  Huabei Yin, Ouri Wolfson
   

16.00-16.30: coffee break
 

16.30-18.00: research session 6a (data mining and warehousing)

• Cross-Outlier Detection
  Spiros Papadimitriou, Christos Faloutsos
• Accessing Scientific Data: Simpler is Better
  Mirek Riedewald, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi, Flip Korn
• Exploiting the Multi-Append-Only-Trend Property of Historical Data in Data Warehouses
  Hua-Gang Li, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi, Mirek Riedewald
   

16.30-18.00: research session 6b (access methods)

• Bkd-tree: a Dynamic Scalable kd-tree
  Octavian Procopiuc, Pankaj K. Agarwal, Lars Arge, Jeffrey Scott Vitter
• The BTR-Tree: Path-Defined Version-Range Splitting in a Branched and Temporal Structure
  Linan Jiang, Betty Salzberg, David Lomet, Manuel Barrena
• Performance Evaluation of Main-Memory R-tree Variants
  Sangyong Hwang, Keunjoo Kwon, Sang K. Cha, Byung S. Lee

SUNDAY, JULY 27

14.30-16.00: research session 7a (advanced query processing II)

• On Query Processing and Optimality Using Spectral Locality-Preserving Mappings
  Mohamed F. Mokbel and Walid G. Aref
• Efficient k-NN Search on Streaming Data Series
  Xiaoyan Liu, Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu
• Probabilistic Spatial Database Operations
  Jinfeng Ni and Chinya V. Ravishankar
   

14.30-16.00: research session 7b (distance-based queries)

• A Framework for Mobile Hooking on Distributed Services and its Application to Spatial Join Processing
  Nikos Mamoulis, Panos Kalnis, Spiridon Bakiras, Xiaochen Li
• Evaluation of Iceberg Distance Joins
  Sindy Shou, Nikos Mamoulis, Huiping Cao, Dimitris Papadias, David W. Cheung
• On Spatial-Range Closest-Pair Query
  Jing Shan, Donghui Zhang, Betty Salzberg
   

16.00-16.30: coffee break

16.30-18.00: panel - closing session

 

• Social Program

THURSDAY, JULY 24
21.00-24.00: welcome reception (details under construction)
 

SATURDAY, JULY 26
21.00-24.00: banquet (details under construction)
 

SUNDAY, JULY 27
09.30-14.00: excursion (details)