Important Dates

  • Workshop
    Sunday, 31.05.2015
  • Submission Deadlines
    Abstract: 02.03.2015 23.03.2015
    Submission: 09.03.2015 23.03.2015
    Notification: 14.04.2015 12.05.2015
    Camera-Ready: 26.04.2015 04.05.2015
  • All Deadlines 11:59pm PST

Workshop Program



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8:308:45Welcome and Introduction
8:4510:00Keynote by Matt Duckham
10:0010:30Coffee Break
10:3012:10Research Session 1
12:1013:30Lunch (on your own)
13:3015:10Research Session 2
15:1015:40Coffee Break
15:4017:20Poster Session
18:00 PODS Reception


Welcome

Matthias Renz and Kyriakos Mouratidis

Keynote

Matt Duckham
Enriching imperfect geoinformation

"Imperfection is an endemic feature of geoinformation. User-generated geospatial content (UGGC) in particular has special characteristics that present special challenges, some old and some new, to its enrichment and use. Using a variety of examples from emergency response, place-based search, and environmental monitoring, this talk will focus on specific challenges in four related areas: 1. Understanding imperfection in UGGC, including bias and vagueness; 2. Evaluating the results of enrichment; 3. Identifying not only patterns but the causes of patterns; and 4. Changing attitudes to privacy considerations in UGGC."

Matt Duckham

Matt is Professor in the Department of Infrastructure Engineering, Melbourne School of Engineering, and from July 2015 will be Professor and Deputy Head of the School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences at RMIT University, Melbourne. Before moving to Melbourne in 2004, Matt worked at the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) at the University of Maine, USA. His research centers on spatial computing with uncertain geographic information, in particular with applications to sensor networks. His is coauthor of the textbook "GIScience: A computing perspective" and author of the book "Decentralized Spatial Computing: Foundations of Geosensor Networks".


Research Session 1

Michael Weiler, Klaus Arthur Schmid, Matthias Renz and Nikos Mamoulis
Geo-Social Co-location Mining

Tanzima Hashem, Shudip Datta, Tanzir Ul Islam, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Lars Kulik and Egemen Tanin
A Uniform Framework for Authenticating Privacy Preserving Location Based Services

Farhana Murtaza Choudhury, J. Shane Culpepper and Timos Sellis
Batch processing of Top-k Spatial-textual Queries

Research Session 2

Shenlu Wang, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Ying Zhang, Xuemin Lin
Invited Talk: Selecting Representative Objects Considering Coverage and Diversity

Novia Nurain, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Tanzima Hashem and Egemen Tanin
Group Nearest Neighbor Queries for Fuzzy Geo-Spatial Objects

Sattam Alsubaiee, Michael J. Carey and Chen Li
LSM Based Storage and Indexing: An Old Idea with Timely Benefits