Held in conjunction with the 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

Important Dates

• Paper Submission Due:
• September 4, 2009
• Notification to the authors:
• September 28, 2009
• Camera ready papers due:
• October 8, 2009
• ACM GIS 2009 Conference:
• November 4-6, 2009
• QUeST Workshop:
• November 3, 2009

Organization

• General Chairs
• Matthias Renz
• Peer Kröger
• Web Site Chair
• Thomas Bernecker

Full Papers (8 pages, 25 min.):

• Christian Böhm, Frank Fiedler and Martin Pfeifle.
  Skyline Operators for Existentially Uncertain Data
• Claudia Dittrich, Mathias Baur, Florian Schimandl and Fritz Busch.
  Coping with Less Reliable Data in Traffic Modelling
• Nate Blaylock, Bradley Swain and James Allen.
  Mining Geospatial Path Data from Natural Language Descriptions
• Raymond Wu.
  Semantic analysis of SQL vulnerability in Web Security

Short Papers (4 pages, 10 min.):

• Perihan Kilimci and Oya Kalipsiz.
  Efficient Velocity-Based Indexing Techniques for Range Queries over Historical Spatio-temporal Point Data
• Satyen Abrol, Latifur Khan and Tahseen Al-khateeb.
  MapIt: Smarter Searches using Location Driven Knowledge Discovery and Mining
• Amel Bénabbou, Safia Nait Bahloul, Youssef Amghar and Kamel Rahmouni.
  Semantic expression of incomplete information in the object / relational model

Camera Ready Instructions:

Authors are requested to read all these instructions carefully and prepare the submission according to the instructions. The deadline for submitting the camera-ready version of the papers is October 8, 2009, 11:59 pm Pacific Standard Time (PST). This is a firm deadline! All questions regarding preparing the camera ready version of the paper must be directed to Peer Kroeger at kroegerp@dbs.ifi.lmu.de.

1. To ensure adherence to ACM's format requirements, please use one of the templates available at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates.

2. Note that the page must be lettersize (8.5 x 11 inches). Also, please pay special attention to margins and the requirements for specifying categories and subject descriptors, general terms, and keywords.

3. The maximum page limit for full papers is 8 pages and for short papers is 4 pages.

4. All papers must include the appropriate copyright paragraph and copyright strip at the bottom of the first column of the first page. Below are the instructions from ACM:
The following is the standard ACM copyright paragraph and copyright strip that must appear on the first page of each paper:
"Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage, and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. ACM QUeST'09 , November 3, 2009. Seattle, WA, USA (c) 2009 ACM ISBN 978-1-60558-853-7...$10.00".

5. Finally, a copyright form signed by the lead author of each paper http://www.acm.org/publications/CopyReleaseProcFinal-6.2.09.pdf is required to be submitted. The authors must print out the form, sign, and fax it to +49 89 2180 9192 (Please mention To: Peer Kroeger in the cover page). The signed forms can also be scanned and e-mailed to Peer Kroeger at kroegerp@dbs.ifi.lmu.de.